Despite not making to the league's title game, the Pittsburgh Riverhounds won three of five individual postseason awards at the annual USL Second Division Championship Brunch Friday in Charleston, SC, where the regular season champion Charleston Battery will host the defending league champion Richmond Kickers Saturday.
Jeremy Deighton was named the league's Rookie of the Year, Shintato Harada won Defender of the Year honors and Hunter Gilstrap was named the Goalkeeper of the Year.
Deighton finished the regular season in a five-way tie for sixth place in goals scored with five in 13 games.
Harada, named to the USL-2 All-League Team for the fourth straight season, won his first DOY award.
Gilstrap had six shutouts in 18 regular season games and a 1.00 goals against average. The Riverhounds tied the Kickers for fewest goals allowed this season at 20.
The Battery claimed the other two awards of the day -- Most Valuable Player to Lamar Neagle and Coach of the Year to Mike Anhaeuser.
Neagle won the league's Goal Scoring (12 in 19 games) and Scoring Championships (25) this season. He is a former member of the USL Premier Development League's Des Moines Menace.
Anhaeuser, in the team's first season back in USL-2 from USL First Division, led the team to an 11-4-5 record with 38 points to win the regular season championship, including a 7-0-3 record at Blackbaud Stadium, home to Saturday's USL-2 Championship Game.
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