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Princeton To Face Cornell In NCAA Men's Lacrosse Quarterfinals
May 13, 2009 | Men's Lacrosse
The Ivy League will definitely have a team in the men's lacrosse Final Four next week in Foxboro, Mass. Will it be Princeton, 13-2, Ivy League co-champion and fourth seed in the tournament? Or will it be Cornell, 11-3, Ivy League co-champion, fifth seed in the tournament and 10-7 winner over Princeton on April 18 in Ithaca?
The teams meet Saturday in the second quarterfinal at Hofstra's Shuart Stadium. For Cornell, it is the chance for a second Final Four in three years.
For Princeton, it is the opportunity to reach the Final Four for the 11th time under Bill Tierney and the first time since Ryan Boyle willed the Tigers there in 2004. It is also the chance to avenge one of its two losses ? at the site of the other.
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This game will be the 10th in Bill Tierney's career where Princeton plays a team in the NCAA tournament that it lost to in the regular season. Princeton is 6-3 in the other nine games, with losses to Syracuse (2000, 2002 finals) and Yale (1990 quarterfinals) and wins over Hopkins (1990 first round), North Carolina (1992 semis), Brown (1994 semis), Virginia (1996 final), Syracuse (2001 final) and Hopkins (2002 semis).
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Princeton is playing in the NCAA quarterfinals for the 16th time; the Tigers are 10-5 all-time in quarterfinal games and 4-0 in quarterfinal games played at Hofstra.
Princeton has played in 10 Final Fours and eight championship games and has won six titles (1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001).
Cornell is the only other Ivy League school ever to win an NCAA title, something the Big Red has done three times (1971 in the first NCAA tournament, 1976, 1977).
Because one of the schools is guaranteed to be in the Final Four, come next weekend, the two will have combined for 21 NCAA Final Four appearances; the other five Ivy schools that play men's lacrosse have combined for three (including an appearance by Penn under then-coach Tony Seaman, father of Princeton tri-captain Greg Seaman).
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This will be the third time Princeton has played an Ivy League school in the NCAA tournament. The Tigers lost to Yale 18-7 in the 1990 NCAA quarterfinals, one week after beating Johns Hopkins 9-8 in its first-ever NCAA game. As an aside, the goalie for Hopkins in that game was Quint Kessenich, who made 15 saves in his final college game and who will be doing the NCAA games this weekend on ESPNU.
The other meeting with an Ivy League team in the NCAA tournament came in 1994. Princeton lost to Brown in the regular season that year 7-6, which gave the Bears the Ivy League championship, but Princeton came back to win 10-7 in the semifinals before defeating Virginia in the final.
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Princeton and Cornell tied for the Ivy League championship, as the league recognizes teams that finish tied for first as co-champions. Cornell received the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament by virtue of its win over Princeton on April 18.
Beginning next year, there will be a tournament in Ivy League men's and women's lacrosse to determine the automatic bids for the NCAA tournament only. The team (or teams) that finish first during the regular season will be considered champion (or champions).
Had there been a tournament this year, Cornell would have hosted and played Harvard in one semifinal, while Princeton and Brown would have played in the other semifinal.
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Princeton has won 24 Ivy League championships; Cornell has won 25. Brown is in third place with six.
Princeton and Cornell first met in 1922 and have since played through a series of streaks. Princeton won the first four games and was 21-1-2 in the first 24 meetings, including a 17-game winning streak.
Cornell then won 23 of the next 25 meetings, including 22 straight from 1968-89. Princeton followed by winning 13 of the next 14.
Cornell has since won five of the last six. The lone Princeton win in that stretch was last season at Princeton Stadium.
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Okay, with all of that out of the way, we can get to the April 18th meeting. Let's start with the obvious.
Cornell won 14 of 19 face-offs, including a 13-for-18 performance from John Glynn. For his career, Glynn is now 28 for 38 (73.7%) on face-offs against Princeton, including 24 for 32 (75%) the last two years.
For the year, Glynn ranks fourth in Division I in face-off winning percentage at .589; in the three games since the Princeton game, however, Glynn has won 19 of 43 face-offs (44.2%).
Cornell as a team ranks ninth in Division I in face-off winning percentage at .560; Princeton ranks 37th at .473. Princeton is, in fact, the lowest ranked face-off team remaining in the NCAA tournament.
On the other hand, the team that ranks 38th, or one spot behind Princeton, is Hofstra, which won 47.2% of its draws on the year but went 12 for 23 against the Big Red in the first round of the tournament last week.
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The other key from the April 18th game was that it was 3-0 Cornell after 4:46 of the first quarter. From there, Princeton had to play catch-up the entire way.
Since then, Princeton has played three games and allowed a total of one first-half goal. The Tigers shut out Dartmouth and Brown until the third quarter and then allowed one UMass goal until the third quarter.
Cornell scored five first-half goals on 14 first-half shots against Princeton, while Tiger goalie Tyler Fiorito made three first half saves for a ..375 save percentage.
In the first half of the next three games combined, Princeton has allowed one goal on 47 shots while Fiorito has made 14 saves, for a .933 save percentage. Princeton led those three games by a combined 20-1 at halftime.
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Speaking of Tyler Fiorito, the freshman has the best save percentage (.591) and second-best goals-against (7.51, behind the 7.46 of Duke's Rob Schroeder) of any of the eight goalies remaining in the tournament.
Fiorito became the second Princeton freshman (and first since Scott Bacigalupo in the quarterfinals 18 years ago) to start an NCAA tournament game in goal in the Tigers' 10-7 win over UMass in the first round. Trevor Tierney did not start but was credited with the win in Princeton's 1998 quarterfinal win over Duke.
Fiorito made 12 saves while allowing seven goals against the Minutemen.
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One more item from the first meeting between the two. Cornell led 8-6 late in the third quarter when Big Red goalie Jake Myers made back-to-back saves as time expired.
By the time Princeton got the ball back, it was 10-6 Cornell with about one minute to play in the game. Princeton had the ball approximately 45 seconds of the fourth quarter total.
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Okay, another note from the first game. Cornell had a 30-11 edge in ground balls in that game. The 11 ground balls for Princeton is the lowest total in Bill Tierney's 22 years as head coach and the lowest total by a team in a Division I game this year.
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Last one, promise.
Cornell's Rob Pannell was the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, and he is third in Division I with 35 assists and ninth in scoring with 56 points.
Chad Wiedmaier, like Pannell, was a first-team All-Ivy League selection as a freshman. Wiedmaier was the third Princeton player, and first defenseman, ever to be first-team All-Ivy League selection (joining G Scott Bacigalupo in 1991 and A B.J. Prager in 1999).
The first meeting between Wiedmaier and Pannell was something of a draw. Pannell had a goal and two assists, but he also took eight shots and turned the ball over three times, twice caused by Wiedmaier. Pannell's goal was the first of the day; his two assists came later on in man-up situations.
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Princeton is 13-2, with the loss to Cornell and a March 14 loss at Hofstra, which meant that Princeton was assured of a rematch with one of the two teams it had lost to this season if it could get past UMass in the first round.
Like the Cornell game, Princeton fell behind early against Hofstra, trailing 2-0 at the end of the first quarter and eventually 7-1 in the third quarter before a rally fell short at 9-7.
Princeton trailed at the end of the first quarter three other times this year, to Yale, Penn and Harvard. Princeton won all three, though the Penn and Harvard games were one-goal games (Penn in OT) and Yale was tied until the final 30 seconds of the third quarter.
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Princeton was ranked No. 1 when it played Cornell on April 18. It was the only game for Princeton as the No. 1 team in the country since the 2001 season.
Princeton has wins over two of the other seven remaining teams in the tournament, having defeated second-seeded Syracuse and eighth-seeded Johns Hopkins.
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Princeton's 13 wins are the most since the 2001 team won 14 en route to the program's sixth NCAA championship.
This is the eighth time Princeton has won at least 13 games in a season, all since Bill Tierney became head coach.
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Princeton's last two games were against goalies ranked second (Doc Schneider of UMass, .653) and seventh (Jordan Burke of Brown, .606) in Division I in save percentage.
Princeton scored 21 goals in those two games (including one against UMass backup goalie Mael Walkowiak during a Schneider penalty), while Schneider and Burke combined for 22 saves.
In the two first halves combined, Princeton scored 13 goals while the two goalies made nine saves.
Princeton has four players with at least 40 points on the season (Tommy Davis, Mark Kovler and Rich Sgalardi with 42 each; Jack McBride with 41).
The last time Princeton had four players with at least 40 points was in 1996, with Jesse Hubbard (72), Chris Massey (59), Jon Hess (59) and Todd Eichelberger (43).
In addition, Scott MacKenzie has 29 points on the season. Should he get one more, then Princeton would have five players with at least 30 for the first time ever.
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Mark Kovler has 33 goals, tied for the second-highest single-season total by a Princeton midfielder.
Josh Sims holds the record with 36 in 2000, while Kovler is tied with Bill Chaires, who had 33 in 1973, sort of. Chaires actually had 42 that year, but nine of them came while he was playing attack.
Kovler had career-highs of five goals and six points against UMass. He became the seventh Princeton player ever to have at least five goals in an NCAA game (two did it twice) and the ninth Princeton player to have a six-point NCAA game.
On the other hand, the only time in his last 29 games that Kovler has not scored a goal was the game earlier this year at Hofstra. Kovler, of course, did not score in the four games he did not play at the end of last year after he broke his ankle.
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Mark Kovler and Rich Sgalardi are two of eight Division I midfielders with at least 40 points. Of the remaining six, three of them are from UMBC (Pete Poillon with 48, Alex Hopmann with 44, Kyle Wimer with 41).
The others are Kevin Crowley of Stony Brook (51), Michael Kimmel of Johns Hopkins (41) and Sean Delaney of North Carolina (40).
Princeton and UMBC played on a 60-degree night in Baltimore in early March, and Princeton won 6-5. Sgalardi and Kovler combined for three goals and two assists; the three UMBC middies had three goals and four assists.
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Princeton had 10 goals and three assists in its win over UMass, of which nine of the goals and all three of the assists came from the first midfield unit of Mark Kovler, Rich Sgalardi and Scott MacKenzie.
Tommy Davis had a goal for the only other Princeton point. Jack McBride was held without a goal for the first time this year.
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Rich Sgalardi had seven goals and 11 assists for his career prior to this year. He now has 18 goals and 24 assists for the season.
His 24 assists lead the team and are the most by a Princeton middie since Todd Eichelberger had 29 in 1996. Sgalardi needs two goals to have at least 20 goals and 20 assists, which would be the 34th 20-20 season in school history and first since Ryan Boyle had 23 goals and 44 assists in 2004.
As an aside, there has only been one 30-30 season in school history, and that was by David Tickner in 1976.
The last Princeton midfielder to lead the team in assists was Jeff MacBean in 1995.
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Princeton's first midfield unit of Rich Sgalardi, Mark Kovler and Scott MacKenzie have combined for 113 points (64G, 49A).
Princeton's top seven scoring midfielders from the 2008 season combined for 80 points (42G, 38A).
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Princeton and Cornell combined for seven of the 10 first-team All-Ivy League selections. Princeton had Jack McBride on attack, Mark Kovler at midfield and Chad Wiedmaier on defense; Cornell had Rob Pannell on attack, John Glynn and Max Siebald at midfield and Matt Moyer on defense.
Princeton also had Tyler Fiorito, Tommy Davis and Rich Sgalardi earn second-team honors and Scott MacKenzie and Chris Peyser earn honorable mention. Cornell's Ryan Hurley was a second-team pick, and goalie Jake Myers was honorable mention.
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Princeton ranks 10th in Division I in scoring offense at 11.5 goals per game. Princeton ranked 29th in 2008 with 9.0 goals per game and 20th in 2007, 27th in 2006 and 35th in 2005.
Princeton ranks eighth in scoring defense (7.7 goals per game) to join Duke and Syracuse as the only teams in the quarterfinals to be ranked in the Top 10 in both.
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Cornell ranks 10th in Division I in man-up offense (23 goals, 57 attempts, .404). Princeton ranks 49th in man-down defense (20 goals allowed, 48 attempts, .583 success rate).
Cornell was 2 for 6 on EMOs against Princeton; since then, the Big Red is 0 for 11.
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Tommy Davis (132) and Mark Kovler (114) give the Class of 2009 two players with at least 100 career points for the fourth time.
The other classes: 1977 (Wick Sollers, David Tickner), 1994 (Kevin Lowe, Taylor Simmers), 1998 (Jon Hess, Jesse Hubbard, Chris Massey).
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For what it's worth, the losing team has scored exactly seven goals in each of Princetn's last four games and six times this season, including in the Tigers' losses against Cornell and at Hofstra.
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Princeton vs. Cornell
NCAA Tournament ? Quarterfinals
The site Shuart Stadium ? Hempstead, N.Y.
The date Saturday, May 16, 2009 ? approximately 2:30 p.m.
Radio/TV WPRB FM 103.3; www.goprincetontigers.com/ESPNU
The seeds Princeton: No. 4; Cornell: No. 5
The records Princeton: 13-2 (5-1 Ivy League); Cornell: 11-3 (5-1 Ivy League)
The coaches Princeton: Bill Tierney (25th season overall, 272-92); Cornell: Jeff Tambroni (ninth season overall, 96-33)
The series Princeton leads 36-31-2
Last meeting Cornell defeated Princeton 10-7 ? April 18, 2009
What Can You Say About ...
Nikhil Ashra #23
? played 49:32 against Manhattan, making four saves while allowing five goals
? played second half against Canisius, allowing three goals and making five saves
? played second half against Hofstra
? played 6:19 last year and 35:33 as a freshman as Alex Hewit's backup
Paul Barnes #31
? has scored four goals this season as face-off specialist; team did not have a goal from its face-off man in previous four seasons
? won 13 of 21 face-offs and scored a goal against Brown
? Ivy League Co-Player of the Week after winning 20 of 25 face-offs (80%) against UMBC and Manhattan
? won 13 of 15 face-offs against UMBC, including the first 11
? won face-off with 57 seconds remaining after UMBC had scored to make it 6-5
? scored two goals against Johns Hopkins after face-off wins
? became first Princeton face-off man to score a goal in a game since Drew Casino in 2004
? also scored a goal against Yale
? won 10 of 20 face-offs against Hopkins
? won 15 of 29 face-offs against Albany
? won 13 of 22 face-offs against Canisius
? won 7 of 10 face-offs against Manhattan
? won one of seven face-offs against Cornell
Alex Capretta #1
? attackman currently playing on second midfield
? scored first career goal in win over Rutgers
John Cunningham #3
? returned against Cornell after missing six games due to broken jaw suffered in practice March 17
? had three caused turnovers and an assist against Dartmouth in second game back
? scored a goal against Johns Hopkins
? goal against Hopkins was assisted by Chad Wiedmaier and became first longstick-to-longstick goal since Bill Tierney has been Princeton head coach
? played against Canisius as No. 1 longstick midfielder in place of Charlie Kolkin, who was out with injury
? has 11 caused turnovers
? had four caused turnovers and three ground balls against
Canisius
Jimmy Davis #5
? played in every game as third shortstick defensive midfielder
? played most of Harvard game after injury to Brendan Reilly
? had first career assist against Harvard
? caused two turnovers against Hofstra and one against Brown
? missed most of first two years due to injury
Tommy Davis #7
? a second-team All-Ivy League selection
? has 132 career points, 16th all-time at Princeton
? needs five to tie Taylor Simmers '94 for 15th
? one of seven players in school history with at least 75 career goals and 50 career assists
? only attackman with a point in win over UMass
? Ivy League Player of the Week after a six-goal, two-assist week in wins against Penn and Harvard
? had two goals and two assists against Harvard
? scored four goals, including game-winner in overtime, on four shots against Penn
? had three goals and an assist against Dartmouth
? had two goals and an assist against Brown
? had career-high five goals and tied career high with seven points gainst Manhattan
? had two goals and two assists against Rutgers
? had four assists against Albany
? had three goals against Canisius
? had two goals against Yale
? had two assists against Hopkins
? had a goal and assist against Syracuse
? led team in goals and assists last year, becoming first player since Justin Tortolani in 1990 to lead the team in goals and assists in same season
? led team in assists each of the last two years
Long Ellis #14
? has played defense, longstick midfield and shortstick defensive midfield
? played longstick midfield and shortstick defensive midfield against Harvard
? four ground balls and two caused turnovers against Syracuse
? had three ground balls and a caused turnover against Yale
? had game-winning goal in one game and assisted on game-winning goal in other game against English national team during team's trip to Spain and Ireland last June
Rob Engelke #22
? has nine goals on 13 shots (.643 shooting percentage)
? had a shot against UMass saved; prior to that, last missed shot was against Manhattan on March 8
? had two goals on two shots against Dartmouth
? tied career high with three goals and set career high with five points against Manhattan
? made first career start in win over Manhattan
? scored goal against Hopkins and Syracuse
? scored two goals against Canisius
? had an assist against Albany and Brown
? plays mostly in man-up situations
? had two goals against Georgetown as a freshman in only prior NCAA tournament game
Tyler Fiorito #6
? a second-team All-Ivy League selection
? has started every game
? ranks seventh in Division I in goals-against (7.51) and 10th in Division I in save percentage (.591)
? ranks first among goalies remaining in the NCAA tournament in save percentage and second in goals-against, behind Duke's Rob Schroeder
? made 12 saves while allowing seven goals against UMass in first NCAA tournament game
? has allowed one first-half goal and made 14 first-half saves in last three games combined (0.67 goals-against, .933 save percentage)
? Inside Lacrosse Division I Player of the Week after his 15-save performance in 12-8 win against Syracuse in Big City Classic
? also earned Ivy Rookie of the Week honors for second time after Syracuse game
? made 15 saves, including one on a tough shot from 10 yards out with 38 seconds left, in 10-9 win over Harvard
? shut Dartmouth out for 39:43 to start game
? made seven saves while allowing one goal in three quarters against Dartmouth
? named by Inside Lacrosse fourth best freshman in Division I
? helped hold Syracuse to more than six goals below average for season (14.1 prior to game); Syracuse had been ranked No. 1 in scoring offense in Division I
? Ivy Rookie of the Week after wins over UMBC and Manhattan
? made 10 saves while allowing five goals against UMBC
? made 13 saves while allowing 10 goals against Albany
? played entire game against Hopkins, making 11 saves for first career double-figure save total
? made five second quarter saves against Hopkins as Princeton built a 9-1 lead
? started and played first half against Canisius, making four saves and allowing three goals
? allowed six goals and made nine saves against Rutgers
? made 10 saves while allowing seven goals while playing all 60 minutes against Yale, including nine saves and three goals allowed in final three quarters
? started and played first eight minutes against Manhattan, allowing one goal and making two saves
? member of United States U19 team that won World Championship last summer in Vancouver
Jeremy Hirsch #37
? has eight caused turnovers
? started 26 straight games before coming off bench against Dartmouth and then started again against Brown and UMass
? played in 13 of 14 games as freshman as fourth defenseman
Charlie Kolkin #43
? No. 1 longstick midfielder
? started at close defense against Dartmouth
? third on the team with 15 caused turnovers
? 2009 preseason All-America
? returned to lineup after missing game against Canisius with a minor injury; it was first game missed in his career
? named Nike/Inside Lacrosse Division I Player of the Week after Princeton's win over Cornell last year
Mark Kovler #17
? a first-team All-Ivy League selection for second time
? mid-season second-team All-America by Inside Lacrosse
? was one of 21 Tewaaraton Trophy nominees
? 14th all-time at Princeton with 90 career goals; next up are three players with 94
? became 22nd player in program history to reach 100-point mark for career with two goals and two assists against Harvard
? third all-time in goals at Princeton by a midfielder, behind Josh Sims '00 (103) and Lorne Smith '99 (94)
? tied with Bill Chaires (in 1973) for second in goals by a Princeton midfielder in a season with 33; Josh Sims has the record with 36 in 200
? had career highs with five goals and six points in NCAA first round against UMass
? had three goals in loss to Cornell
? was shut out once this season, against Hofstra at Shuart Stadium; it is the only game he has been without a point last two years
? had two goals and two assists against Dartmouth
? had three goals against Syracuse in Big City Classic
? had four goals in consecutive games vs. Rutgers and Albany
? four goals against Rutgers all came in the second half, on four shots
? had two goals against Yale
? had two goals and an assist against UMBC
? had two goals against Hopkins
? had a goal against Canisius and a goal and assist against Manhattan
? suffered broken ankle in practice last April 10 and missed
remainder of season
? three-time All-America
? preseason third-team All-America by Inside Lacrosse
Josh Lesko #19
? has gone from starting 12 games a year ago at midfield to being first shortstick defensive middie unit with Brendan Reilly
? has more goals this year (six) as a defensive middie than a year ago (two) as an offensive middie
? second on team with 36 ground balls
? has eight caused turnovers
? had a goal, five ground balls and a caused turnover against Brown
? had two goals, seven ground balls and two caused turnovers against Albany
? had a goal against Cornell
? had a goal and assist against Hofstra
? scored a goal against Johns Hopkins
? had an assist against Manhattan
Scott MacKenzie #2
? an honorable mention All-Ivy League selection
? has a point in all but one game (Harvard)
? has 13 goals in 15 games this season after having four his first two seasons combined
? had a goal and assist against UMass in opening round
? had a goal and two assists against Syracuse, Penn and Dartmouth
? had career-high three goals and four points vs. Manhattan
? had two goals and an assist against Yale
? had Princeton's first goal against Hopkins, Hofstra and Yale
? had a goal and two assists against Rutgers
? had two assists against Albany and an assist against UMBC
? had a goal and assist against Canisius
Chris McBride #15
? had three goals and an assist against Harvard
? had an assist against Syracuse after being shut out against Yale, ending nine-game scoring streak
? had career-high four goals against Albany
? had two goals against UMBC
? started and ended Princeton's 5-0 third-quarter run against UMBC
? had one goal against Hopkins, Hofstra and Brown
? scored two goals against Canisius
? had a goal and assist against Dartmouth and Manhattan and an assist against Rutgers
? had two goals a year ago
? moved from midfield to starting on attack alongside cousin Jack McBride
? his father is Jack McBride's brother; his mother is Jack McBride's mother's first cousin
Jack McBride #14
? a first-team All-Ivy League selection
? was one of 21 Tewaaraton Trophy nominees
? leads team with 34 goals and tied for team lead with 41 points despite missing game against Manhattan
? was shut out against UMass, marking first time this season he did not have a goal
? had one goal against Cornell, which came with 1:06 to play
? one of four Princeton players (B.J. Prager, Sean Hartofilis,Jason Doneger) this decade with 50 goals by end of sophomore year
? has been Princeton's leading goal-scorer eight times
? scored four goals against Dartmouth, including one 11 seconds into the game
? had two goals against Harvard, including game-winner with 1:58 to play
? had two goals and one assist against Brown
? had two goals and game-winning assist in OT against Penn
? had three goals against Syracuse
? tied career high with six goals against Albany
? scored four goals against Hopkins while matched against All-America defenseman Michael Evans
? led Princeton with four goals and five points against Canisius
? all four goals against Canisius came after halftime, as Princeton erased 3-2 deficit
? had one goal against UMBC after spending two nights prior in infirmary with stomach flu; did not play against Manhattan
? had two goals and an assist against Hofstra and Yale
? had a goal and assist against Rutgers
? 2008 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
? member of United States U19 team that won World Championship last summer in Vancouver
? his father is Chris McBride's brother; his mother is Chris McBride's mother's first cousin
Jonathan Meyers #28
? has faced off and played on defense and on wings on face-offs
? recruited for football by schools such as Florida, Michigan and Oklahoma; plays football and lacrosse at Princeton
Tyler Moni #27
? playing on second midfield group
? scored first career goal in win over Manhattan
? also had a goal against Dartmouth
? had an assist against Albany
? had three goals during Princeton's European trip for highest goal total by any current player
Chris Peyser #38
? honorable mention All-Ivy League selection
? named co-Division I Defenseman of the Week by Christian Swezey of Inside Lacrosse along with teammate Chad Wiedmaier after Hopkins game
? preseason third-team All-America
? has started 42 straight games on defense
? tied for second on team with 16 caused turnovers
? had two caused turnovers in win over UMass
? had three caused turnovers against Brown
? team tri-captain
Brendan Reilly #29
? team tri-captain
? preseason honorable mention All-America
? one of top two shortstick D-middies since freshman year
? suffered ankle injury against Harvard but did play against Cornell
? helped hold Kyle Wimer of UMBC, who had been reigning DI Player of the Week and team's leading scorer, to one goal
? had a goal against Syracuse in man-down situation
? had an assist against Canisius and Brown
? a Woodrow Wilson Schoool Scholar in the Nation's Service
? completed Marine Corps Office Candidate School over summer and will be commissioned a 2nd Lt. after graduation
? also an All-Collegiate Sprint Football League selection in varsity sport for players 174 pounds or less
Greg Seaman #42
? team tri-captain
? had two goals against Brown
? scored a goal against Hopkins, Rutgers and Cornell
? son of Towson coach Tony Seaman
Rich Sgalardi #18
? second-team All-Ivy League
? only player with at least one point in every game
? tied for team lead with Mark Kovler and Tommy Davis with 42 points
? has 24 assists, most on the team, most by a Princeton player since Ryan Boyle had 44 in 2004 and most by a Princeton midfielder since Todd Eichelberger had 29 in 1996
? one of eight midfielders in Division I (and two on team, along with Mark Kovler) with at least 40 points
? needs two goals to have at least 20 goals and 20 assists, which would be the 34th 20-20 season in school history
? has more than twice as many points this year (42) as he had for his career prior (18)
? had three goals and an assist against UMass in first round
? had three assists against Dartmouth
? tied career high with five points against Penn (2G, 3A)
? had two goals and two assists against Syracuse
? named to Inside Lacrosse Team of the Week after Syracuse game
? Ivy League Player of the Week after having five goals and four assists in wins over Rutgers and Yale
? had career high five points against Yale (2G, 3A), eclipsing career-high for points set four days earlier against Rutgers
? had career-high three goals and four points against Rutgers
? had two goals and an assist against Albany
? had a goal and assist against UMBC
? had a goal and two assists against Canisius
? had two assists against Johns Hopkins and Manhattan
? had a goal against Harvard to end a streak of four straight games with at least four points
Chad Wiedmaier #9
? first-team All-Ivy League
? first freshman defenseman and third freshman ever to be first-team All-Ivy at Princeton (Scott Bacigalupo, B.J. Prager)
? ranked as No. 2 freshman in Division I by Inside Lacrosse
? ranked as fourth-best defenseman by Inside Lacrosse; only freshman of 28 players named as top seven at their position
? leads team with 23 caused turnovers
? had caused 14 turnovers in last seven games
? Ivy League Rookie of the Week after helping shut out Brown into second half and scoring a goal of his own
? stripped Harvard's Dean Gibbons in front of goal with five seconds remaining to preserve Princeton win
? Ivy League Rookie of the Week after holding Hopkins' Steven Boyle to one goal and matching Boyle's point total with an assist of his own
? assist came on goal by fellow freshman longstick John Cunningham for the first longstick-to-longstick goal since Bill Tierney has been head coach
? named co-Division I Defenseman of the Week by Christian Swezey of Inside Lacrosse along with teammate Chris Peyser after Hopkins game
? caused three turnovers against Albany