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Princeton Hosts Dartmouth In Key Ivy Men's Lacrosse Game
April 24, 2003 | Men's Lacrosse
April 24, 2003
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Princeton vs. Dartmouth
The site Class of 1952 Stadium * Princeton, N.J.
The date Saturday, April 26, 2003 * 1 p.m.
Radio WBUD 1260 AM/www.goprincetontigers.com
The records Princeton: 9-2 (4-0 Ivy League); Dartmouth: 9-2 (3-1 Ivy League)
USILA rankings Princeton: No. 2; Dartmouth: unranked
The coaches Princeton: Bill Tierney (19th season, 213-62); Dartmouth: Rick Sowell (fifth season, 31-34)
The series Princeton leads 44-6
Last meeting Princeton defeated Dartmouth 13-7 * April 27, 2002
On the one hand ... - A Princeton win over Dartmouth would clinch at least a share of a ninth straight Ivy League championship and a 10th championship in the last 11 years.
... on the other hand - A Dartmouth win over Princeton would leave the Big Green and the Tigers tied at 4-1 in the Ivy League with one game remaining (Dartmouth vs. Harvard, Princeton vs. Brown).
Three for all - Princeton, Dartmouth and Cornell are the only Ivy teams mathematically able to win the championship. Depending on the outcome of the remaining games, any of the three could win the title outright, there could be a two-way tie between either Princeton and Dartmouth, Princeton and Cornell or Dartmouth and Cornell or there could be a three-way tie.
More three - Princeton, Dartmouth and Cornell could finish in a three-way tie for the Ivy League championship; the last three-way championship in Ivy men's lacrosse was with Brown, Cornell and Yale in 1969. The highest bidder - In the event that Princeton, Dartmouth and Cornell tie for the leage title, they would be considered tri-champions. According to the Ivy League manual, to determine the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, consdier: 1) results of head-to-head competition between the teams tied for first place; 2) if a tie persists, the tie will be broken by comparing each team's record against the team occupying the next position in the standings until one team gains the advantage; and 3) if a tie still persists, the tie will be broken by a drawing conducted by the Executive Director.
Streaking - Princeton has defeated Dartmouth 14 straight times.
More streaking - Princeton has won nine straight games.
The whammy - A Princeton win over Dartmouth would give the Tigers a 10-game winning streak for the fifth time in the last eight seasons.
No place like home - Princeton is 3-0 all-time against Dartmouth at the Class of 1952 Stadium and has outscored the Big Green 54-8 in those three games.
Can you spare a dime? - Ryan Boyle has 25 assists in four Ivy League games. The league record for assists in a six-game league season is 26, set by Cornell's Pat Gallagher in 1972 and equalled by Cornell's Tim Goldstein in 1987.
Goal oriented - Jason Doneger has 31 goals in 11 games, an average of 2.8 per game. B .J. Prager, the All-America aattackman whom Doneger replaced this season, had 34 goals in 15 games a year ago, an average of 2.27 per game.
Family affair - Jason Doneger has 31 goals through 11 games; his brother Adam of top-ranked Johns Hopkins, a first-team All-America midfielder a year ago, has 15 goals through 10 games.
Net results - Jason Doneger has scored 10 goals in Princeton's last two games.
Working overtime - Jason Doneger is the only current member of the Princeton men's lacrosse team with an overtime goal after scoring 38 seconds into the second OT in Tuesday's 6-5 win over Loyola.
Get to the point - Ryan Boyle has at least one point in every game of his career.
More point - Ryan Boyle was held to one point (a fourth-quarter goal) in Princeton's 6-5 win over Loyola Tuesday, marking the fifth time in his career he has had only one point in a game. Boyle has averaged 4.5 points per game in the four games following his previous one-point games.
Injury update - Princeton starting defenseman Ricky Schultz has missed the last two games with an ankle sprain. His status for the Dartmouth game is uncertain.
Oliver's twist - After playing shortstick defensive midfield for the first nine games of the season, Oliver Barry moved to longstick close defense against Cornell and Loyola to replace the injured Ricky Schultz. Barry has held his man in both games to one goal.
D plus - Damien Davis held Loyola's leading scorer, Stephen Brundage, without a goal or assist in Tuesday's 6-5 win. It was the fifth time in seven games that Davis has shut out his opponent; four of those five times he guarded the other team's leading scorer.
Good as Gould - Julian Gould's goals-against average of 6.96 is more than one goal per game better than a year ago (8.25).
Face it - Princeton ranks last in the Ivy League in face-off percentage (.452).
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.