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Click Here To See Alex Hewit's Goal Against Brown
May 06, 2008 | Men's Lacrosse
Bill Tierney laughed and tried to think back to the last time a goalie scored a goal for him.
"I used to call timeout any time Batch [Scott Bacigalupo] crossed midfield," the Princeton men's lacrosse coach said. "Not Trevor [Tierney]. Not Corey [Popham]. I don't remember one here. If it happened here before, it was a long time ago."
It happened Saturday afternoon in Providence, when Princeton senior goalie Alex Hewit took a pass from Alex Berg off the opening face-off of the fourth quarter and raced the length of the field to score. To do so, he beat Brown's Jordan Burke, who leads Division I in save percentage. Brown won the game 6-5.
Hewit's goal was not the first by a goalie at Princeton. Bill Cronin did it twice in the early 1970s and said that perhaps others had done it that decade, and it's probable that it has happened many times before in a sport that dates back to 1881.
Brown sports information director Chris Humm, a longtime men's lacrosse
observer, noted that former Bears Mike Levin and Greg Cattano had
scored during their college careers. Dartmouth's Andrew Goldstein did
so at Syracuse in the NCAA tournament in 2003.