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Here Comes The McBride
April 08, 2008 | Men's Lacrosse
Dan Cocoziello held Penn's Craig Andrzejewski scoreless, ending the Quakers' leading scorer's streak of 25 straight games with at least one point. Alex Hewit was his All-America self, making 14 saves, several of which were spectacular one-on-one stops.
They both picked the wrong night to shine.
Princeton's 14-5 win over Penn Tuesday night had only one star, and it was Tiger attackman Jack McBride, who set a Princeton freshman record with six goals in the win. McBride's six goals came on just six shots.
"He was hitting a lot of pipes recently," said Princeton head coach Bill Tierney. "When you're a scorer and you're doing that, it's going to start falling for you soon enough."
The win improved Princeton to 5-4 overall and 2-0 in the Ivy League heading into a game Saturday at Harvard. Penn fell to 5-4, 3-2 Ivy League.
Princeton has now defeated Penn 19 straight times, in a streak that began in the 1990 season. McBride wasn't even two years old when the current run began, and he wasn't even the first McBride to score for Princeton in the most recent win over the Quakers.
Chris McBride, Jack's cousin, scored the first goal for Princeton, evening the score after Garvey Heiderman had given Penn a 1-0 lead four minutes in. By the time the first quarter had ended, Jack McBride had scored three times as the Tigers built a 4-1 lead.
"It was a big game for us," said McBride, who now has 10 goals in his last three games after having five in his first six. "I've been feeling pretty good. I was just trying to get some shots. They started to go in, and we got a lot of momentum."
McBride's fourth of the night came in the second quarter, and Princeton looked comfortable at 6-2 after Mark Kovler scored as well. Penn, though, would rally, getting goals from Casey O'Rourke and Alex Weber late in the second to make it 6-4 at halftime.
Penn would get no closer, though. Scott MacKenzie scored 3:27 into the third, and McBride then put in his fifth and sixth less than two minutes apart shortly after MacKenzie's goal. Peter Striebel and Tommy Davis made it an 11-4 game after three.
Were it not for McBride, Hewit and Cocoziello would have been front and center for the Tigers. Cocoziello stopped Andrzejewski cold, becoming the first player to shut him out since, well, Cocoziello also had done it, also at Class of 1952 Stadium, back in the 2006 season.
As for Hewit, he gobbled up almost everything that came his way, and several of his saves came from right on the doorstep. It was the fourth win for Hewit over Penn in his career, as he became the second Princeton goalie ever to beat a team four times. Scott Bacigalupo did it to five teams.
Penn actually outshot Princeton 37-29. Aside from McBride, no other Princeton player had more than one goal.
Princeton, Cornell and Brown are currently undefeated in the Ivy League.