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Princeton Hosts Quinnipiac Friday Night Without Boyle
April 03, 2003 | Men's Lacrosse
April 3, 2003
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Princeton vs. Quinnipiac
The site Class of 1952 Stadium * Princeton, N.J.
The date Friday, April 4, 2003 * 7:00 p.m.
Radio WBUD/www.goprincetontigers.com
The records Princeton: 5-2 (2-0 Ivy League); Quinnipiac: 2-6 (1-1 America East)
USILA rankings Princeton: No. 2; Quinnipiac: not ranked
The coaches Princeton: Bill Tierney (19th season, 209-62); Quinnipiac: Eric Fekete (second season, 8-13)
The series First meeting
Boyle update - Ryan Boyle, the 2002 Ivy League Player of the Year, suffered a hamstring injury against Penn. He will definitely miss the Quinnipiac game, and his status beyond that is unknown at this point.
More Boyle - Ryan Boyle, who had five assists against Penn before his injury, is Princeton's leading scorer with 30 points (six goals, 24 assists). He has led Princeton in scoring each of the last two years as well.
Welcome Matt - Senior Matt Trevenen, who was an attackman freshman year before moving to midfield since, is likely to replace Ryan Boyle on attack. Trevenen had two goals and two assists against Penn.
Hey, strangers - Princeton and Quinnipiac have never met in lacrosse.
Busy bodies- Princeton's game against Quinnipiac is its fifth in 13 days. After that, Princeton plays one game in the following 14 days. No place like road - The road team has won all seven of Princeton's games this season.
Wake up call - After Penn cut Princeton's lead to 7-6 midway through the third quarter Tuesday, Princeton scored one goal in 12 seconds, another goal 39 seconds later and another goal a minute later. Princeton scored the final five goals to win 12-6.
A league of their own - Princeton is 68-3 in its last 71 Ivy League games.
I'm honored - Sean Hartofilis was named the Inside Lacrosse/Warrior Division I Player of the Week after scoring 11 goals last week, a career-high six against Rutgers and five against Yale. Hartofilis scored two goals 12 seconds apart in the middle of the fourth quarter against Rutgers to erase an 8-7 deficit and lead Princeton to a 10-8 win.
More honored - Sean Hartofilis was named the Ivy League Player of the Week this past week.
Still more honored - Sean Hartofilis is the second straight Princeton player to be named Inside Lacrosse/Warrior Division I Player of the Week, after Damien Davis earned the award a week ago.
Good Will hunting - Will MacColl had his fourth career two-goal game in Princeton's win over Penn.
No Josh-ing - Josh White tied his career highs in goals (three) and points (four) against Penn.
Middle men - Of Princeton's 12 goals against Penn, nine were scored by midfielders.
Quarterly report - Princeton outscored its opponents 31-29 in the first and fourth quarters and 50-25 in the second and third quarters.
Hart-stopping - Sean Hartofilis is in sixth place all-time at Princeton in goals scored in a career (106). He began last week in 12th place.
Still more Hart - Sean Hartofilis needs eight goals to tie Wick Sollers for fifth place all-time at Princeton. He needs 12 to tie B.J. Prager for fourth and 14 to tie Justin Tortolani for third.
Last Hart - Sean Hartofilis has 21 goals in seven games, an average of 3.0 goals per game. He also has 21 goals on 58 shots, a .362 shooting percentage. His goals-per-game and shooting percentage by season:
Year Goals Games Goals per game Shots Shooting %
2000 20 15 1.33 78 .256
2001 33 15 2.20 118 .280
2002 32 15 2.13 120 .267
2003 21 7 3.00 58 .362
Goal oriented - Jason Doneger and Sean Hartofilis have combined for 38 of Princeton's 81 goals (47%). Doneger, Hartofilis and Brad Dumont have combined for 50 of Princeton's 81 goals (62%).
Brad to the bone - Brad Dumont has at least two goals in four of his last five games.
Fresh face - Erik Kudla scored the first goal of the season by Princeton's Class of 2006 with his goal against Yale.
Feeding time - Jason Doneger had his first career assist in Princeton's win over Penn Tuesday. Doneger had 26 career goals prior to that.
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 - Princeton's starting lineup features seven seniors (attackman Sean Hartofilis, middies Owen Daly, Brad Dumont and Matt Trevenen, defensemen Damien Davis and Brian Lieberman, goalie Julian Gould). In addition, starting longstick midfielder Joe Rosenbaum is also a senior.
Last veterans - 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.