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Princeton Loss To Harvard Turns Into Ivy Title
April 24, 2010 | Men's Lacrosse
What do you call the Princeton men's lacrosse team after its first loss to Harvard in 20 years?
How about Ivy League champion? Or at least, Ivy co-champion.
Harry Krieger, who entered the game with a sub-.500 save percentage, made 13 saves while allowing seven goals and the Harvard defense swarmed over Princeton all day as the Crimson defeated the Tigers 11-8 in front of 2,827 at Harvard Stadium. It was Harvard's first win over Princeton since 1990.
Still, about 15 minutes later, Brown completed its 13-10 win over Cornell in Ithaca, a win that gave Princeton at least a share of the Ivy title, the 25th in program history and the 11th of this academic year for Princeton teams.
Princeton is now 9-3 overall, 4-1 in the Ivy League. Harvard improved to 6-5, 2-3.
The two results also completely threw open the possibilities for the Ivy League tournament with just three league games to play, all next Saturday. Princeton will host Cornell, while Harvard is at Yale and Dartmouth is at Brown. As of now, all six of those teams are still in contention for Ivy League tournament spots, and only Princeton is assured of a berth.
Princeton can also earn an outright league title or find itself in a two-way, three-way or even four-way tie for the championship.
The host for the Ivy tournament will be either Princeton, Brown or Cornell. Yale can earn a share of the league title but cannot host the tournament. Penn has been mathematically eliminated. Cornell, Yale and Brown would get in the tournament with a win; Harvard and Dartmouth need a win and some help.
Princeton could have clinched the outright title and host role with a win over Harvard, but instead the Tigers never led.
There were two key moments of the game.
The first came late in the first half. Harvard led 5-2 before Mike Chanenchuk scored back-to-back goals, making it 5-4 with 56 seconds to play in the second. The two goals gave Chanenchuk 24 for the year, tied with Peter Trombino and one goal behind B.J. Prager for most goals in a season by a Princeton freshman.
Harvard answered though, as Alex White won the face-off and his brother Terry scored with 16 seconds left after Travis Burr found him open on the backside. The 6-4 halftime score became 7-4 19 seconds into the third, when Jeff Cohen had the ball come to him off a Princeton turnover with goalie Tyler Fiorito out of the cage after a save.
The other big moment was a two-possession stretch of the third quarter that saw Harvard's defense get a stop both times after several shots and after Princeton had the ball for more than two minutes.
Kevin Vaughan led Harvard with three goals.
Fiorito made 14 saves for Princeton. Scott MacKenzie had a goal and three assists, while Chanenchuk was the only Princeton player with more than one goal.
Princeton outshot Harvard 45-37.
Princeton (9-3, 4-1) vs. Harvard (6-5, 2-3)
Date: Apr 24, 2010 Attendance: 2827
Weather:
| SCORE BY PERIOD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Princeton | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| Harvard | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
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Princeton SCORING: GOALS: Chanenchuk, Mike 2; MacKenzie, Scott 1;
Froccaro, Jeff
1; Engelke, Rob 1; McBride, Jack 1; Moni, Tyler 1; Grossman, Mike 1.
ASSISTS: MacKenzie, Scott 3; Engelke, Rob 1; Froccaro, Jeff 1; McBride,
Chris 1;
Sonnenfeldt, Forest 1.
Harvard SCORING: GOALS: Vaughan, Kevin 3; Gibbons, Dean 2; White, Terry 1; Cohen, Jeff 1; Schwartz, Peter 1; Duboe, Jason 1; Roth, Evan 1; Pataki, Andrew 1. ASSISTS: Burr, Travis 1; Cohen, Jeff 1; Dobrosky, Dave 1; Gibbons, Dean 1; Schwartz, Peter 1; White, Terry 1. Penalties - Princeton 2/1:00; Harvard 3/2:00. |