Princeton University Athletics
After Waiting A Year, Princeton Hammers Yale
March 29, 2003 | Men's Lacrosse
March 29, 2003
Box Score
New Haven, Conn. - Brad Dumont scored all four of his goals in the first half and Ryan Boyle added a goal and a career-high seven assists as third-ranked Princeton defeated No. 16 Yale 15-5 at the Soccer-Lacrosse Stadium.
Princeton, who led 13-1 in the fourth quarter, won its Ivy League opener and improved to 4-2 overall with its fourth straight win. Yale slipped to 4-2, 0-2 in the league. Princeton has won eight straight Ivy League championships.
The victory came one year after Yale had snapped Princeton's 37-game Ivy League winning streak with a 15-13 win in Princeton. The Tigers' streak ended two games short of the all-time league record.
"We came up fired up," said Dumont. "We wanted to take it to them right away. Last year was a big part of our motivation. We spent a lot of time thinking about last year's game." Princeton never led against Yale a year ago and trailed by as many six on two occasions. The Tigers also trailed 3-0 in their last two games before rallying to defeat Syracuse and Rutgers. There would be no such repeat of either in the Yale game.
After Julian Gould stopped two good Yale shots to start the game, Sean Hartofilis scored the first of his five goals at the 5:16 mark to make it 1-0. It grew to 3-0 when Jason Doneger and Dumont scored in the first quarter.
From there, Princeton broke the game wide open, scoring five more in a row before Yale broke through and then answering that one with another before halftime to make it 9-1 at intermission. Dumont scored three times in the second quarter, and Boyle reached halftime with a goal and four of his assists.
"It was sloppy in the beginning, but we were fortunate to come out on top of the sloppiness," said Princeton coach Bill Tierney. "Then I thought we played a great second quarter. The key for us was the goalies. Julian made some great saves to start the game. I thought all three of our goalies [Gould, Matthew Larkin, Dave Law] were fabulous."
Ahead by eight at the half, Princeton scored the first four goals of the second half for its largest lead of 12 at 13-1 with eight minutes still to play in the third.
"We learned a lot from last year's game against them," Dumont said. "We learned we need to be ready to play every single game. We came out well in this game and didn't want to let up."
Hartofilis, who scored six goals against Rutgers in Princeton's 10-8 win Tuesday night, moved past Josh Sims into sixth place all-time at Princeton with 104 career goals. Boyle's seven assists were one better than his previous career high of two weeks earlier against Hofstra and gave him 89 for his career, tied with Charlie Stillwell for fifth all-time at Princeton.
Josh White added two goals and an assist for Princeton. Mac Bryson scored his second goal of the season, and freshman Erik Kudla scored his first.
Gould made nine saves while allowing one goal. Larkin made six saves while allowing three goals, and Law made four saves while allowing one.
Princeton is at Pennsylvania Tuesday (4) for its fifth straight road game. The Tigers return home Friday night to face Qunnipiac. Yale is at Brown Wednesday.