Princeton University Athletics
Princeton Travels To Harvard In Men's Lacrosse
April 15, 2004 | Men's Lacrosse
April 15, 2004
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Princeton has won 24 straight Ivy League road men's lacrosse games and has defeated Harvard 13 straight times. The sixth-ranked Tigers will take those two whammies to the road this weekend, when they travel to Cambridge for the 70th meeting between Princeton and Harvard.
Princeton vs. Harvard
The site Jordan Field * Cambridge, Mass.
The date Saturday, April 17, 2004 * 3:00 p.m.
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The records Princeton: 6-2 (2-0 Ivy League); Harvard: 5-4 (1-2 Ivy League)
The coaches Princeton: Bill Tierney (19th season overall, 221-66); Harvard: Scott Anderson (17th season overall, 123-105)
The series Princeton leads 49-19-1
Last year Princeton defeated Harvard 12-8 * April 12, 2003
No place like home - Princeton has played its last five games at home. The Tigers have not played a road game since March 14 at Virginia, 34 days prior to the Harvard game.
No place like road - Princeton has won 24 straight Ivy League road games, dating to a 1995 loss at Cornell.
A league of their own - Princeton is 74-5 in Ivy League games since the start of the 1991 season.
Ivy update - Princeton and Dartmouth are the only remaining unbeaten teams in the Ivy League. Cornell and Brown have one loss each.
Triskaidekaphobia - Princeton has defeated Harvard 13 straight times.
Aw shoot - Princeton has held its last two opponents to a combined 38 shots (Rutgers 15, Penn 23). Princeton's opponents averaged 35.3 shots per game for the six games prior to that. More shoot - Whitney Hayes has seven goals on nine shots.
A little Hayes-ey - Whitney Hayes had his first career four-point game (1-3) in the win over Penn Tuesday.
More Hayes-ey - Whitney Hayes has five assists in the last two games after having three in the first six.
Come from behind - Princeton has trailed in the second half in each of its last three games, all wins.
More come from behind - Princeton erased its second-half deficit with a 7-0 run against Yale, a 5-0 run against Rutgers and a 5-0 run against Penn.
Fresh faces - Princeton starts three freshmen on offense (Peter Trombino on attack, Whitney Hayes and Scott Sowanick at midfield), has another freshman on the second midield (Michael Biles) and has two freshmen at longstick midfield (Zachary Jungers, John Bennett).
More fresh - Princeton's freshmen have combined to score 27 goals in eight games; Princeton's freshmen last year combined for one goal, and Princeton's freshmen the year before combined for no goals.
Last fresh - Princeton's freshmen combined for four goals and five assists in Princeton's win over Penn Tuesday afternoon.
Boyle-ing point - Ryan Boyle has at least one point in all 50 games of his career.
More Boyle - Ryan Boyle did not score a point in the first 44 minutes against Penn Tuesday and then had two goals and two assists in the final 16.
Still more Boyle - Ryan Boyle leads Princeton in scoring with 33 points, nine more than second-place Jason Doneger. Should Boyle lead Princeton in scoring for the season, he would join Kevin Lowe '94 as the only players in school history to lead the team in scoring for four years.
Streaker - Peter Trombino has at least one goal in each of the first eight games of his freshman year. The Princeton record for consecutive games with at least one goal to start a freshman season is 10, set by Lorne Smith in 1996.
More streaker - Jason Doneger has scored at least one goal in 24 straight games. The Princeton record is 46 straight games, set by Chris Massey from 1995-98.
Last streaker - Jason Doneger, Peter Trombino and Drew Casino all have at least one goal in each game this season.
Poll cats - Princeton is ranked sixth in this week's USILA poll.
Double play - Peter Trombino has scored two goals in each of his last three games.
Oliver's story - Oliver Barry had his first career point with an assist against Penn.
More Oliver - Oliver Barry's assist against Penn was the second by a Princeton longstick this season. Ryan Schoenig, who plays longstick and shortstick defense, had a goal against Quinnipiac.
Casino royale - Drew Casino has 13 goals this season; he had nine for the first three years of his career combined.
Been there, done that - When UConn won the men's and women's NCAA basketball championships this year, it marked the second time the same school has won NCAA men's and women's championships in the same team sport in the same year. Princeton won the 1994 men's and women's lacrosse championship.
Local headlines - Brothers Dixon Hayes (shortstick defense) and Whitney Hayes (four goals, two assists) are graduates of Princeton High School.
All in the family - Freshman Michael Biles, who had his second career goal last week against Hofstra, is the younger brother of Princeton junior Lindsey Biles, the second-leading scorer on the two-time defending NCAA champion and current No. 1 women's lacrosse team.
Sink or swim - Peter Trombino, Scott Sowanick and Zachary Jungers became the 10th, 11th and 12th Princeton players in the last 10 years to start the first game of their freshman season.