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Cocoziello Named Ivy Men's Lacrosse Player Of The Week
April 17, 2006 | Men's Lacrosse
April 17, 2006
Dan Cocoziello, who led a defense that held a pair of ranked opponents to seven goals apiece and who scored a key goal of his own in one of the games, has been named the Ivy League men's lacrosse Player of the Week.
Cocoziello, the league Rookie of the Year a year ago, is the second Princeton player honored this year, and both of them have been defenseman. John Bennett won the award after Princeton's win at Johns Hopkins earlier this year.
Princeton defeated Penn 16-7, holding the Tigers to more than four goals below their season average, and Harvard 9-7 to remain the lone unbeaten in Ivy play at 3-0. The Tigers, ranked seventh in this week's Inside Lacrosse media poll, host No. 6 Cornell Saturday at Class of 1952 Stadium at noon in the opener of a doubleheader that also features the Princeton women against Dartmouth at 3.
Cornell enters the game 3-1 in the league with wins over Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth and a loss to Penn. Cornell defaeted Princeton 17-4 a year ago in Ithaca, scoring six times in the game's first five minutes to end Princeton's 10-year run as Ivy champion.
A Princeton win over Cornell Saturday would clinch at least a tie for the Ivy championship and would also clinch the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, though several scenarios for three-way and even four-way ties for the championship would still exist.
A Cornell win over Princeton would leave Princeton and Cornell tied in the loss column and would mean that the Big Red could clinch the automatic bid the following week with a win over Brown.