Princeton University Athletics
Princeton Hosts Brown To End Men's Lacrosse Season
May 06, 2005 | Men's Lacrosse
May 6, 2005
The Princeton men's lacrosse team hosts Brown Saturday afternoon (1, WHWH AM 1350, www.goprincetontigers.com) in its final game of the 2005 season. Princeton can finish no higher than second and no lower than third in the Ivy League standings, though the Tigers could find themselves with considerable company in second: A Princeton loss to Brown and a Harvard win over Dartmouth would leave five teams tied for second at 3-3.
BROWN (6-5, 2-3) vs. PRINCETON (4-7, 3-2)
Ivy items - The Ivy League season has two games remaining: Brown at Princeton and Harvard at Dartmouth (tonight, 6). Cornell has already clinched the championship with a 6-0 record.
More Ivy - A Princeton win over Brown would give the Tigers at least a share of second place in the Ivy League.
Still more Ivy - A Brown win over Princeton and Harvard win over Dartmouth would leave Cornell at 6-0, Penn at 0-6 and the other five teams all at 3-3.
Last Ivy - Princeton will finish the Ivy League season either alone in second place (Princeton win, Harvard win), in a two-way tie for second place (Princeton win, Dartmouth win), in a three-way tie for third (Brown win, Dartmouth win) or in a five-way tie for second (Harvard win, Brown win).
I'm honored - Alex Hewit was named Ivy League Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week after his 16-save performance against Dartmouth in Princeton's 10-8 win last Saturday.
Peter and re-Peter - Peter Trombino is the only player in Princeton men's lacrosse history with at least 20 goals and at least 10 assists as both a freshman and sophomore.
History lesson - Peter Trombino and Scott Sowanick have joined Kevin Lowe '94, Jon Hess '98 and Ryan Boyle '04 as the only Princeton players with double figures in goals and assists as freshmen and sophomores. Whitney Hayes needs one goal to join them. Lucky seven - With three goals against Dartmouth, Jason Doneger moved past Josh Sims into seventh place all-time at Princeton with 104 career goals. He needs 10 goals in his final career game to tie Wick Sollers '76 for sixth place.
The Doneger factor - Jason Doneger is averaging 3.3 goals per game in Princeton's wins and 0.7 goals per game in Princeton's losses.
More Doneger - Jason Doneger has scored one, four, five and three goals in Princeton's four wins. The game in which he scored one goal was against Penn, when his goal came in the second overtime. Open Mike - Mike Gaudio has 15 goals, the most by a Princeton sophomore midfielder since Josh Sims scored 32 in 1998.
More Mike - Mike Gaudio has 15 goals and two assists in his last 10 games. He had one point for his 16 career games prior to that.
The whammy - Princeton has beaten Brown 11 straight times.
Goal oriented - Princeton has scored 47 goals in its four wins (11.8 per game) and scored 36 goals in its seven losses (5.1 per game).
Youth movement - Of the 16 players who have scored at least one goal for Princeton this season,12 return for at least two years.
More youth - Princeton's freshmen and sophomores have combined to score 63 goals; Princeton's juniors and seniors have combined to score 20 goals.
Three for all - Peter Trombino, Scott Sowanick and Whitney Hayes all have at least one point in every game this season.
One for all - Peter Trombino has at least one point in all 26 games of his career and at least one goal in 25 of 26 games of his career.
Hot Coco-ziello - Dan Cocoziello will become the third Princeton freshman since 1992 to start every game on defense, joining Damien Davis (2000) and Kurt Lunkenheimer (1996).
Coming attractions - Princeton returns two starting attackmen, all six members of the first two midfield units, one starting defenseman, two goalies who have started at least one game, the top three longstick midfielders, the top three face-off men and four of five shortstick defensive midfielders.