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Princeton Hosts UMass In NCAA Men's Lacrosse Opening Round
May 07, 2009 | Men's Lacrosse
If it's Princeton-UMass, it must be the NCAA tournament. The teams meet for the third time, and for the third time, it'll come in the postseason.
Princeton, the fourth seed, hosts unseeded UMass Sunday at 5 in the opening round of the NCAA tournament in a matchup of the Ivy League co-champion and ECAC champion.
Princeton defeated UMass 11-6 in the 1995 opening round in the last men's lacrosse game ever played at Palmer Stadium, which was torn down two years later. Princeton then defeated UMass 11-9 in the 1997 quarterfinals at Hofstra. Jesse Hubbard, who is in his mid-30s, scored six goals for the Tigers in that game.
Chad Wiedmaier, who was named first-team All-Ivy League this season, was two days shy of his fifth birthday for the first meeting and a few days past his seventh birthday for the second one.
The two head coaches from those meetings, Princeton's Bill Tierney and Greg Cannella of UMass, are still the head coaches more than a decade later.
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Princeton is in the NCAA tournament for the 18th time in the last 20 years; prior to that, Princeton had never played in the NCAA tournament.
The Tigers are 29-11 all-time in NCAA tournament games, including 14-4 in NCAA games decided by one goal. Princeton has won six NCAA championships, played in eight NCAA championship games and reached 10 Final Fours.
Having said all that, Princeton had also missed the tournament two of the last four years prior to this season, including last year's.
Princeton has four current players who have at least one point in an NCAA tournament game: Tommy Davis (5-2-7), Mark Kovler (4-1-5), Josh Lesko (2-2-4) and Rob Engelke (2-0-2).
There are nine current Princeton players (Davis, Kovler, Lesko, Engelke, Brendan Reilly, Chris Peyser, Jeremy Hirsch, Scott MacKenzie, Charlie Kolkin) who have played in an NCAA tournament game, including three (Davis, Kovler, Davis) who have started.
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Every player from the class of 1992 through the present has played on at least one Ivy League championship team during his career. Every class from the class of 1993 through the present, except for the current freshmen, has won at least two Ivy League championships.
For that matter, every Princeton player from the Class of 1992 to the Class of 2004 won at least one NCAA championship.
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Princeton and Cornell finished tied for the Ivy League championship with 5-1 records. Cornell received the automatic bid by virtue of its win over Princeton.
Princeton and Brown received at-large bids to the tournament.
Princeton has now won 24 Ivy League championships, including 14 in the 22 years that Bill Tierney has been the head coach. Princeton did not win an Ivy title in the 21 years prior to Tierney's arrival.
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Should UMass beat Princeton, it would be the third team to do so this season. If Princeton can prevent that from happening, it would have a shot at a rematch with one of the two who have already done so.
The winner of the Princeton-UMass game plays the winner of Cornell-Hofstra in the quarterfinals at Hofstra on May 16. Cornell and Hofstra are the teams that have defeated Princeton.
Princeton has played six of the other 15 teams in the NCAA tournament and went 4-2 in those games.
The Tigers defeated second-seeded Syracuse, eighth-seeded Johns Hopkins and unseeded Brown and UMBC and lost to fifth-seeded Cornell and unseeded Hofstra.
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Princeton ranks 10th in Division I scoring offense (11.6 goals per game). Princeton ranked 29th in 2008, 20th in 2007, 27th in 2006 and 35th in 2005.
Princeton is averaging double figures in goals for the first time since the 2004 team went to the Final Four and has its highest scoring average since the 2002 team averaged 12.1 goals per game.
Princeton played one more game this year than it did a year ago and has taken 132 more shots (more than seven more shots per game) than it did a year ago.
Interestingly, Princeton has 162 goals and 89 assists, or an assist on 54.9% of its goals. That is the lowest figure since the 1998 team had an assist on 48.4% of its goals.
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Princeton has scored at least four goals 19 times in 56 quarters this season (37%). Princeton scored at least four goals eight times in 52 quarters a year ago (15%).
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Princeton has won 16 straight games at the Class of 1952 Stadium, including a 6-0 record this year. Princeton has averaged 13.7 goals and 48.0 shots per game at home this season and has reached double figures in all six games, reaching the 14-goal mark four times.
Princeton has averaged 13.0 goals and 41.0 shots in its two neutral site games (vs. Hopkins at M&T Bank Stadium; vs. Syracuse at Giants Stadium).
In away games, however, Princeton has averaged 8.96 goals and 29.8 shots per game. In six games on another team's campus, Princeton has failed to reach double figures three times.
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Princeton is 3-0 all-time in NCAA tournament games at Class of 1952 Stadium, having defeated Albany in 2003, Rutgers in 2004 and UMBC in 2006.
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Princeton had eight players earn All-Ivy honors, including first-team selections Mark Kovler, Jack McBride and Chad Wiedmaier.
Kovler was a second-team selection as a freshman, a first-team selection as a sophomore and not selected as a junior after an ankle injury wiped out the last third of his season. Kovler has 28 goals on the season; no Princeton middie has ever had that many and not been a first-team pick.
McBride was the Ivy League Rookie of the Year a year ago and followed that with a first-team All-Ivy season, something five of the previous six Princeton Rookies of the Year also did.
As for Wiedmaier, he became the first Princeton defenseman ever to be a first-team All-Ivy League selection. The only other Princeton freshmen ever to be first-team selections were goalie Scott Bacigalupo in 1991 and attackman B.J. Prager in 1999.
As an aside, Bacigalupo and Prager would be first-team All-Ivy three times and second-team once. In Bacigalupo's case, he was a second-team All-Ivy selection as a senior ? when he also won the Lt. Raymond Enners Award as the Division I Player of the Year.
Rich Sgalardi, who had seven career goals and 11 career assists prior to this year, was a second-team All-Ivy pick after a 15-goal, 23-assist regular season. Tommy Davis, one of seven players in school history with at least 75 career goals and 50 career assists, was also a second-team pick, as was freshman goalie Tyler Fiorito, who has started every game this year.
Midfielder Scott MacKenzie and defenseman Chris Peyser were honorable mention selections.
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Speaking of Tyler Fiorito, the UMass game will mark the second time in program history that a freshman will start an NCAA tournament game in goal. The only other time was in 1991, when Scott Bacigalupo started against Towson in the quarterfinals at Palmer Stadium.
Princeton lost that game 14-13 in triple overtime. On the bright side, Bacigalupo made 20 saves in that game. On the brighter side, Bacigalupo would lead Princeton to NCAA championships in 1992 and 1994, being named MVP of the Final Four both times.
While he did not start an NCAA game as a freshman, Trevor Tierney did get the win in one. Tierney came off the bench against Duke in the 1998 quarterfinals as the Tigers trailed 8-4 in the second quarter and then played the final 37 minutes, allowing one goal and making six saves as Princeton rallied to win 11-9.
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Jack McBride (34 goals, seven assists) and Chris McBride (17 goals, six assists) are starters on attack for Princeton and first cousins.
Jack's father and Chris' father are brothers, and their mothers are first cousins. Chris's father introduced Jack's father to his wife's cousin, and they subsequently married as well.
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Princeton ranks 37th in Division I in face-off winning percentage at .476. UMass ranks 41st at .460.
UMass will be Princeton's third straight opponent to be ranked behind the Tigers in face-offs. Princeton won 10 of 24 against Dartmouth (ranked 40th) and then 14 of 22 against Brown (ranked 55th).
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Princeton has shut its last two opponents out into the second half.
The Tigers did not allow a goal against Dartmouth until 39:43 had past, or 5:17 was left in the third quarter. The Big Green scored their first goal on their 18th shot of the game, by which time Princeton had built a 10-0 lead.
Last Saturday against Brown, Princeton did not allow a goal until 35:13 had gone by, or until there was 9:47 left in the third quarter. Brown scored on its 21st shot of the game. Princeton led 8-0 at the time.
Speaking of the Brown game, the winner of that game was going to tie Cornell for the Ivy League championship. The automatic bid was up for grabs as well, but obviously all three teams were already assured of their spots in the postseason.
Brown goalie Jordan Burke and Princeton goalie Tyler Fiorito each made a tough save on the other teams' first shot of the day. There would be 12 shots by the teams combined for the rest of the first quarter, none of which would be on goal.
After the scoreless first 15 minutes, Princeton responded with seven goals on seven shots to start the second quarter against Burke, the Ivy League Player of the Year.
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UMass starting longstick midfielder Casey Rahn is fourth on the team in ground balls with 34, and he also has 19 caused turnovers and one goal.
It is possible that at times during the Princeton-UMass game, Rahn will be matched against his high school teammate Tyler Moni, who is on the Tigers' second midfield unit.
According to Mapquest, Class of 1952 Stadium is 1.53 miles from Princeton High School.
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Princeton averaged 48.2 shots per game for its first six games. The Tigers went past the 50-shot mark four times in those six games, including one 60-shot outing (in the season opener against Canisius).
Since then, Princeton has averaged 32.5 shots per game, largely because teams have attempted to slow the Tigers down. Penn, for instance, was called for seven first-half stalling warnings in its game against Princeton.
In fact, Princeton took more shots (289) in its first six games than it did in its last eight of the regular season (260).
Princeton's shooting percentage has gone way up as its shot total has come way down. Princeton had a team .256 shooting percentage for its first six games; Princeton is shooting .338 as a team since.
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There are four players in Division I who have a .500 or better shooting percentage: Stephen Keough of Syracuse (.554), Ryan Compitello of Hartford (.513) and Chris Boland of Johns Hopkins and Logan Rausse of Fairfield (.500 each).
Of those four, Keough and Boland played against Princeton this season. Keough went 2 for 7 in a 12-8 Princeton win; Boland had a 1 for 3 day in a 14-8 Princeton win.
The two combined were 3 for 10 (obviously), for a .300 percentage (obviously).
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UMass ranks 26th in Division I in man-up offense (.326, 15 for 46). Princeton ranks 47th in man-down defense, having allowed 19 extra-man goals in 47 opportunities (a success rate of .596); only one team ranked behind Princeton has a winning record (Colgate, ranked 52nd).
At the same time, Princeton has actually improved significantly on man-down defense since the middle of the season. The Tigers were ranked 56th of 57 at one point and allowing teams to score on 52.2% of their EMOs (a success rate of .478).
Princeton committed 11 penalties last week, which led to nine EMOs for Brown, who then scored three goals in those nine opportunities.
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Princeton went 7-6 a year ago, with losses to Johns Hopkins, Virginia, Albany, Syracuse, Dartmouth and Brown. Princeton went 5-0 this year against teams it lost to last year, with wins over Johns Hopkins, Albany, Syracuse, Dartmouth and Brown (Princeton did not play Virginia this year).
Princeton lost to Hopkins, Albany, Syracuse and Dartmouth by a combined 48-26, or an average of 5.5 goals per game. This year, Princeton outscored those five by a combined 69-41, or an average of 5.6 goals per game.
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Tommy Davis (131 career points) and Mark Kovler (108 career points) give the Class of 2009 two players with more than 100. The only other classes with more than one career 100-point scorer were: 1977 (Wick Sollers and David Tickner), 1998 (Jesse Hubbard, Jon Hess, Chris Massey), 1994 (Kevin Lowe, Taylor Simmers).
Kovler needs two goals to become the fifth midfielder in school history to reach 30 goals in a season. Josh Sims has the most by a middie with 36 in 2000; Sims also had 32 in 1998. The other two were Scott Reinhardt with 30 in 1994 and Lorne Smith with 31 in 1999.
Then there is Bill Chaires, who scored 42 goals in 1973. Of his 42 goals, 33 came as a middie, while the other nine were on attack.
Kovler ranks 14th all-time at Princeton with 85 career goals. He is third all-time in goals by a middie, behind Sims (103) and Smith (94).
Princeton vs. UMass
Opening Round ? NCAA Tournament
The site Class of 1952 Stadium ? Princeton, N.J.
The date Sunday, May 10, 2009 ? 5 p.m.
Radio/TV WPRB FM 103.3; www.goprincetontigers.com/ESPNU
The seeds Princeton: No. 4; UMass: unseeded
The rankings Princeton: No. 4 (USILA)/No. 4 (Inside Lacrosse); UMass: No. 15 (USILA)/No. 15 (Inside Lacrosse)
The records Princeton: 12-2 (5-1 Ivy League); UMass: 9-5 (6-1 ECAC)
The coaches Princeton: Bill Tierney (25th season overall, 271-92); UMass: Greg Cannella (15th season overall, 131-83)
The series Princeton leads 2-0
Last meeting Princeton defeated UMass 11-9 ? May 17, 1997
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
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 10 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 131 career points, 16th all-time at Princeton
? needs six to tie Taylor Simmers '94 for 15th
? one of seven players in school history with at least 75 career goals and 50 career assists
? 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 12 shots (.750 shooting percentage)
? 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 (7.55) and 11th in Division I in save percentage (.588)
? 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 25 straight games before coming off bench against Dartmouth and then started again against Brown
? played in 13 of 14 games as freshman as fourth defenseman
Charlie Kolkin #43
? No. 1 longstick midfielder
? started at close defense against Dartmouth
? second on the team with 14 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 85 career goals; next up are three players with 94
? became 22nd player in program history to reach 100 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)
? needs two goals to become the fifth midfielder in school history to reach 30 goals in a season (Bill Chaires in 1973, Scott Reinhardt in 1994, Josh Sims in 1998 and 2000, Lorne Smith in 1999)
? had two goals and two assists against Dartmouth
? had three goals against Cornell
? had three goals against Syracuse in Big City Classic
? tied career high of four goals in consecutive games against Rutgers and Albany
? in all has four four-goal games in career (vs. Syracuse sophomore year and Virginia a year ago)
? four goals against Rutgers all came in the second half, on four shots
? had two goals against Yale
? has 11 goals in last four games after getting shut out at Hofstra
? 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 seven 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 12 goals in 14 games this season after having four his first two seasons combined
? 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
? has at least one goal in all 13 games he's played
? 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 overtime 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 41 straight games on defense
? tied for second on team with 14 caused turnovers
? 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
? has more than twice as many points this year (38) as he had for his career prior (18)
? had a goal against Harvard to end a streak of four straight games with at least four points
? 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
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 21 caused turnovers
? had caused 12 turnovers in last six 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