Princeton University Athletics
Princeton Opens Men's Lacrosse Season At Johns Hopkins
February 27, 2002 | Men's Lacrosse
Feb. 27, 2002
Complete Release in PDF Format
Download Free Acrobat Reader
Princeton vs. Johns Hopkins
The site Homewood Field * Baltimore, Md.
The date Saturday, March 2, 2002 * 1:00 p.m.
The records Princeton: 0-0, Johns Hopkins: 0-0
The coaches Princeton: Bill Tierney (18th season, 194-55), Johns Hopkins: Dave Pietramala (fifth season, 31-21)
The series Johns Hopkins leads 48-22
Last season Princeton defeated Johns Hopkins 8-4 * March 3, 2001
U-turn - Princeton is 10-3 in its last 13 games against Johns Hopkins. Prior to that, Johns Hopkins had defeated Princeton 24 straight times.
May madness - Princeton plays its first game since winning the last NCAA championship by winning three straight one-goal games, including 10-9 in overtime against Syracuse in the title game.
More madness - Each of the last eight classes at Princeton to graduate has won at least two NCAA championships.
Just win, baby - Princeton has won six NCAA championships in the last 10 years.
More win - Princeton has averaged 11.4 wins per year under Bill Tierney. Prior to his arrival in 1988, Princeton averaged 5.2 wins per year.
Streaking - Princeton enters the 2002 season with an 11-game winning streak.
A league of their own - Princeton has won 37 straight Ivy League games and enters this season two shy of the all-time league record of 39, set by Cornell from 1972-79.
Pomp and circumstance - Princeton graduated the national goalie of the year (Trevor Tierney) and the national defender of the year (Ryan Mollett). More pomp - Princeton graduated its entire starting midfield (Rob Torti, Matt Striebel, Matt Bailer) and four-year shortstick defensive middie Winship Ross.
Welcome back - Princeton returns its entire starting attack of B.J. Prager, Ryan Boyle and Sean Hartofilis, who combined for 85 goals and 131 assists a year ago.
D minus - Princeton started the same defense (goalie Trevor Tierney, longsticks Damien Davis, Scott Farrell, Ryan Mollett) every game for the last two years.
Good as Gould - Junior Julian Gould, who had a .714 save percentage a year ago as a backup, makes his first career start in goal for Princeton.
For starters - Princeton will start an entire new midfield unit (Brad Dumont, Owen Daly, Dan Clark).
More starters - Brian Lieberman, who has been Princeton's top longstick midfielder each of the last two seasons, will be starting on close defense this season.
Boyle-ing point - Ryan Boyle became the first Princeton freshman since Kevin Lowe in 1991 to lead Princeton in scoring last year (16-37-53).
More Boyle-ing - Ryan Boyle had at least one point in every game last season.
Last Boyle-ing - Ryan Boyle had eight assists in three NCAA tournament games, including an assist on the championship-winning goal in overtime against Syracuse.
Traitor - Princeton assistant coach Sean Nadalen was a second-team All-America defenseman a year ago at Johns Hopkins.
Bouncing back - B.J. Prager had a 31-game goal-scoring streak snapped in the NCAA quarterfinals last year, he then scored seven goals, including the champion-winner, in the Final Four.
Century city - B.J. Prager enters the 2002 season with 99 career points (84-15).
Moving up the charts - B.J. Prager enters his senior season in 11th place all-time at Princeton in goals with 84. Should he match last year's total of 36, he would tie Justin Tortolani '92 for third, behind Jesse Hubbard '98 (163) and Chris Massey '98 (146).
Can you spare a dime? - Despite having played one season, Ryan Boyle leads all active Princeton players in career assists (37).
More dimes - Ryan Boyle ranks seventh on Princeton's single-season assists chart with 37 a year ago.
50-something - Ryan Boyle became the second Princeton freshman along with Kevin Lowe in 1991 to reach 50 points in a season.
Ouch - Will MacColl will miss the entire season with a torn ACL suffered in practice in February.
Casino royale - Drew Casino will be Princeton's No. 1 face-off man after going 49 for 90 (54%) on face-offs a year ago.
Face it - Princeton went 152 for 314 (48.4%) on face-offs a year ago.
Mr. May - Brad Dumont has five goals and two assists in six NCAA tournament games (1.2 points per game), he has 10 goals and six assists in 24 career regular season games (0.7 points per game).
Hart-stopping - Sean Hartofilis has nine goals in two career NCAA semifinal games.
More Hart - Sean Hartofilis scored at least three goals in seven of his last nine games a year ago.
Daly news - Owen Daly led Princeton in shooting percentage a year ago, scoring 11 goals on 21 shots (.524).
Veteran's day - Brendan Tierney is third among active Princeton players with 21 career goals, behind B.J. Prager (84) and Sean Hartofilis (53).
More veterans - Damien Davis and Ryan Boyle are the only two Tigers to have started every game of their careers.
Last veterans - Scott Farrell has started 37 straight games for Princeton.
I'd like to thank the academy - Joe Rosenbaum was an extra in the movie "A Beautiful Mind," which was filmed in part on the Princeton campus.
Special K - Kyle Baugher, Princeton's top shortstick defensive middie, returns after missing the NCAA championship game last May after breaking his arm against Towson in the semifinals.
Leader-board - Princeton has three captains: Kyle Baugher, Scott Farrell, B.J. Prager.
Oh Danny boy - Dan Clark had 10 points last year after having six the two seasons prior to that combined.
I'm honored - Ryan Boyle was a unanimous Ivy League Rookie of the Year last season.
Dissed - Princeton did not have any first-team preseason All-Americas in Lacrosse Magazine, despite being ranked No. 1.
U.S.A., U.S.A. - Ryan Boyle will be a member of the United States team at the 2002 World Championships in Australia.
Okay, smart guy - Princeton's Andy Mallozzi missed the fall season to research his senior thesis in Australia.
Change of seasons - Ryan Watson, a No. 2 defensive end on the football team last fall as a freshman, is a longstick on the lacrosse team this spring.
More seasons - Rabah Qadir left the football team to play lacrosse.
Be all that you can be - Midfielder Josh White spent two years between high school and college as an army Ranger and is still a member of the reserves.
More league - Princeton has won seven straight Ivy League championships and eight in the last nine years. Prior to that, Princeton had not won an Ivy League championship in 25 years.