Princeton University Athletics
Princeton Hosts Harvard In Men's Lacrosse
April 10, 2003 | Men's Lacrosse
April 10, 2003
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Princeton vs. Harvard
The site Class of 1952 Stadium * Princeton, N.J.
The date Saturday, April 12, 2003 * 1:00 p.m.
Radio www.goprincetontigers.com
The records Princeton: 6-2 (2-0 Ivy League); Harvard: 4-5 (1-2 Ivy League)
USILA rankings Princeton: No. 2; Harvard: not ranked
The coaches Princeton: Bill Tierney (19th season, 210-62); Harvard: Scott Anderson (16th season, 118-101)
The series Princeton leads 48-19-1
Last meeting Princeton defeated Harvard 18-4 * April 13, 2002
Seeing crimson - Princeton has defeated Harvard 12 straight times.
More crimson - Princeton has outscored Harvard by a combined 33-5 the last two seasons.
History lesson - After losing his first nine Ivy games as Princeton head coach, Bill Tierney won his first league game with a 12-6 win over Harvard in 1989.
A league of their own - Princeton has won eight straight Ivy League championships and 10 in the last 11 years.
Orange, red and green - Princeton, Cornell and Dartmouth are the last remaining undefeated teams in the Ivy League. Cornell is at Dartmouth at the same time as Princeton-Harvard; Princeton is at Cornell next week.
Boyle update - Ryan Boyle suffered a hamstring injury in the third quarter against Penn. He missed the remainder of that game and the Quinnipiac game last Friday night and will not play against Harvard. His return beyond that is still undecided. More Boyle - Ryan Boyle leads Division I in scoring and assists.
Still more Boyle - Princeton scored three goals in the first 31:48 after Ryan Boyle's injury (two in the fourth quarter against Penn, one in the first 10:24 against Quinnipiac). Princeton then scored 13 goals in the final 46:49 against Quinnipiac.
Hart attack - Sean Hartofilis has 27 goals in eight games. He needs six to tie his best previous full season (each of his first three seasons have been 15 games) of 33 goals his sophomore year.
More Hart - Sean Hartofilis has at least four goals in four of his last six games.
Still more Hart - Sean Hartofilis has 112 career goals, sixth-best all-time at Princeton. He needs two to tie Wick Sollers for fifth, six to tie B.J. Prager for fourth, eight to tie Justin Tortolani for third and 32 to tie Chris Massey for second.
Even more Hart - Sean Hartofilis leads Division I in goals scored per game (3.38) .
Last Hart - Sean Hartofilis is averaging 3.38 goals per game. Should Princeton play the maximum number of games possible (13 regular season, four NCAA tournament), at his current pace Hartofilis would finish the season with 57 goals, four better than Jesse Hubbard's 1996 school single-season record of 53.
More attack - Sean Hartofilis and Jason Doneger have combined for 47 goals, the most by two Ivy League teammates.
Streaking - Princeton has won six straight games after beginning the season with two losses.
Score-boarding - From the time Penn scored its final goal against Princeton last Tuesday until Quinnipiac scored its first goal against Princeton Friday, Princeton held its two opponents scoreless for a 53:21 stretch, during which time it outscored its opponents 13-0.
D plus - Damien Davis has held his last four opponents, including the leading scorer for Syracuse, Rutgers and Penn, without a goal.
More D - Damien Davis has allowed his eight opponents this season to combine for four goals and three assists.
Doing dishes - Jason Doneger has one assist in each of the last two games after not having any career assists prior to that.
Senior citizens - Princeton started eight seniors against Quinnipiac.
Face it - Princeton ranks last in the Ivy League in face-off percentage (.470).
Quarterly report - Princeton and its opponents have each scored 15 first quarter goals. Princeton has outscored its opponents 80-42 in the second, third and fourth quarters.
Old friends - Harvard captain Matt Primm was a high school classmate of Princeton's Owen Daly, Brad Dumont and Joe Rosenbaum at McDonogh School.
Goal oriented - Jason Doneger and Sean Hartofilis have combined for 47 of Princeton's 95 goals (49.5%). Doneger, Hartofilis and Brad Dumont have combined for 60 of Princeton's 81 goals (63%).
Brad to the bone - Brad Dumont has as many games with at least two goals as he does with fewer than two goals.
Casino royale - Drew Casino has three goals in his last two games after having no goals in the first six games.
Net results - Sean Hartofilis and Jason Doneger are the only two Princeton players who have scored at least one goal in every game.
History lesson - Princeton and Syracuse have met in each of the last three NCAA championship games. Only once in the history of Division I team tournaments have two teams met in more than three consecutive championship games (USC-UCLA in men's tennis from 1960-64).
Veterans day - Damien Davis is the only current Tiger who has started every game his career.
All that you can be - Senior midfielder Josh White spent two years in the Army out of high school and still is an active member of the reserves.
Old friends - Seniors Owen Daly, Brad Dumont and Joe Rosenbaum are in their fourth season together at Princeton after playing four years together at McDonogh School in Baltimore.
The write stuff - Longstick midfielder Joe Rosenbaum won the 2002 Ward Prize for Fiction from Princeton's creative writing department.
What's your source? - Defenseman Brian Lieberman is doing his senior psychology thesis on coaching and motivation.
Trophy case - Princeton head coach Bill Tierney has won eight NCAA championships in the last 18 seasons (two as an assistant coach at Johns Hopkins in the 1980s, six as Princeton's head coach).
U-S-A, U-S-A - Ryan Boyle was a member of the U.S. team that finished first at last summer's World Championships in Australia.