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Princeton Meets Cornell In Ivy League Tournament Final
May 08, 2010 | Men's Lacrosse
There have been 180 minutes of lacrosse played between Princeton and Cornell in the last two season. Three games, sixty minutes each.
And of those 180 minutes, Cornell has had the lead for 175:32. That's more than 97% of the time in the three games.
The Big Red did it to Princeton twice last year, scoring early, building a lead, dominating possession and never trailing on the way to a victory. They did it again a week ago in a 10-9 win that forced a four-way tie for the Ivy League championship between Princeton, Cornell, Yale and Brown and sent the first Ivy League tournament to Ithaca via the tiebreakers.
Will Cornell be able to do it again?
We'll find out in the Ivy League final, which matches the two winners from Friday's semifinals. Princeton won the first Ivy tournament game ever, holding off Yale 7-6, while Cornell earned its spot in the final with a 14-8 win over Brown in the second game.
The result is that the two programs who have been the traditional Ivy powers dating to the formation of the league meet in the first tournament final. Princeton and Cornell have won 25 league championships each; Brown is next with eight.
Including the Ivy final, four of Princeton's last 20 games will have been against Cornell.
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The Ivy tournament determines only the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament; the four teams will be considered quad-champions no matter what the outcome of Sunday's final.
And the team that loses is almost surely going to be receiving an at-large bid.
Still, the matchup is a fascinating one, if only to see if Cornell will continue its remarkable streak of scoring early on the Tigers.
You have to go back to 2004 to find a game in which Cornell did not score early and begin to build a quick lead, including the 2008 game that Princeton won after falling behind 2-0 in less than four minutes.
And that was before the last three games. A year ago in Ithaca for the regular season, Princeton entered the game having moved into the No. 1spot in the national rankings. Cornell won the opening face-off and scored on its first possession. By the time five minutes had been played, it was 3-0 Big Red, who would win 10-7.
The teams met again in the NCAA quarterfinals at Hofstra, and again Cornell won the opening face-off and scored on its first possession. This time, it was 2-0 after five minutes.
Then, in the game a week ago, Cornell once more won the opening face-off and again scored on its first possession. This game was 3-0 after five minutes and 4-0 after 10.
In those three games, Cornell has outscored Princeton 8-0 in the first five minutes. Princeton has outscored Cornell 20-18 the rest of the way, but at no point in any of those three games did Princeton ever lead. For that matter, Princeton never tied the score after falling behind on the first possession.
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A week ago Cornell built a 4-0 lead on Princeton after one and led 9-3 in the fourth quarter before Princeton scored six goals in nine minutes, only to fall short 10-9.
In that first game, Princeton had two separate scoreless droughts of at least 20 minutes before erupting for the six goals in the fourth quarter.
Princeton led Yale 7-2 with nine minutes left, but Yale scored four times in seven minutes left before the Tigers held on.
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There is a road off of Route 79 just before the Cornell campus called “Wiedmaier Road.” Perhaps it's in deference to the marquee matchup of Princeton-Cornell men's lacrosse the last two years, the one between Rob Pannell (Cornell's attackman who is the Ivy Player of the Year and Division I's leading scorer) against Chad Wiedmaier (Princeton's defenseman who has been first-team All-Ivy as a freshman and sophomore).
In three games against each other, Pannell has one goal and six assists, an average of 2.7 points per game. In his other 28 career games, Pannell has averaged 4.4 points per game. A week ago, Wiedmaier held Pannell to a single assist. In the three games, Pannell has one goal on 19 shots.
Wiedmaier shut out Yale's leading scorer Matt Gibson in the Ivy semifinal game.
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Princeton had four first-team All-Ivy selections and seven players honored in all.
Mike Chanenchuk was the unanimous Ivy League Rookie of the Year and a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection; he is the ninth Princeton player to be named the league's top rookie and the fourth Princeton player to be first-team All-Ivy as a freshman.
In addition to Chanenchuk, who set the Princeton record for goals by a freshman with 27, the other three Princeton freshmen to be first-team All-Ivy were Scott Bacigalupo in 1991, B.J. Prager in 1999 and Chad Wiedmaier in 2009.
Like Prager 10 years earlier, Wiedmaier earned first-team All-Ivy honors as a sophomore despite missing a huge chunk of the season with a knee injury. In Prager's case, he missed the final third of the season and still led the league in goals scored; in Wiedmaier's case, he missed the first six games due to off-season knee surgery. In the six games Wiedmaier played, Princeton allowed 9.7 goals per game; in the seven he did play, Princeton allowed 8.3 goals per game.
Tyler Fiorito, who made at least 14 saves in four of six Ivy games, and Jack McBride, whose 27 goals tie Chanenchuk for the team lead, were also first-team All-Ivy.
Defenseman Long Ellis and midfielder Jeff Froccaro were second-team picks, while longstick midfielder John Cunningham was an honorable mention choice.
Of Princeton's seven players honored, none are seniors, two are juniors, three are sophomores and two are freshmen.
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Jack McBride has 84 career goals, tied with former teammate Mark Kovler for 15th-best all-time at Princeton. He needs 10 goals to move into a four-way tie for 12th.
McBride is the eighth player in school history to reach at least 80 goals as a junior.
He also has 106 career points, 23rd-best in school history.
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There had never been a four-way tie for the championship until this year, but there were two three-way ties. Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton tied at 4-2 in 1964, and Princeton, Cornell and Dartmouth tied at 5-1 in 2003.
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What Can You Say About ...
Nikhil Ashra #23
• No. 2 goalie currently recovering from two concussions
• has been backup to Alex Hewit for first two years and now Tyler Fiorito last year and this year; each of first three years, starting goalie has been an All-America
• has a a career .568 save percentage and 7.67 goals-against average
Paul Barnes #31
• scored Princeton's eighth goal in 9-7 win over Brown
• also scored a goal against Manhattan and UMBC
• faced off three times against Brown after facing off once prior during this season and 299 times a year ago as the team's top face-off man
• has gone from facing off to playing in second midfield
• scored four goals off of face-offs in 2009; Princeton had not gotten a goal from its face-off specialist since 2004 prior to that
Christian Blake #32
• backup goalie with Nikhil Ashra's injury
• played 9:24 of fourth quarter against Manhattan
• played 9:59 against Dartmouth, making one save and allowing no goals
• has played 23:17 in his career, with a .500 save percentage
Alex Capretta #1
• scored a goal against Yale in Ivy semifinal, giving him goals in back-to-back games for the first time this year
• scored Princeton's ninth goal against Cornell
• scored first goal of the season in win over Brown
• scored a goal against Dartmouth
• also scored against Rutgers last year
• is playing as a fourth attackman
Chris Chandler #16
• had one caused turnover against Hofstra, Manhattan and UMBC
• played in three games last year as longstick middie after playing in every game sophomore year
Mike Chanenchuk #13
• unanimous Ivy League Rookie of the Year
• unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection
• tied for team lead with 27 goals and second with 35 points
• set Princeton record for goals in a season by a freshman
• first Princeton freshman middie ever to be first-team All-Ivy
• has six games with at least three goals
• scored three goals against Cornell
• did not score against Yale in either game
• also had two assists against Dartmouth to equal high-game of five points
• had three goals against Rutgers
• had two goals against Syracuse and Harvard
• fastest Princeton freshman ever to 10 goals
• had three goals against North Carolina, including scoring the team's ninth and 10th goals to tie it 10-10 in the fourth
• had three goals and two assists against Penn
• had five goals against Manhattan in 2.5 quarters
• scored on his first five shots against Manhattan
• five goals was second-highest single-game total ever by a Princeton freshman, behind only Jack McBride's six against Penn two years ago
• had a goal against UMBC
• had two assists against Hopkins
• had two goals and an assist against Hofstra
• three-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week
• also named to Inside Lacrosse Team of the Week twice
• defered last year after suffering a back injury and is now a freshman
John Cunningham #3
• honorable mention All-Ivy League selection
• started first six games on defense before moving back to natural position of longstick midfielder
• mid-season second-team All-America by Inside Lacrosse
• leads team with 48 ground balls
• has 11 caused turnovers
• has scored four goals, most by a Princeton longstick in a season since John Harrington also had four goals in 1998
• had a goal against Cornell
• had a goal, a caused turnover and 10 ground balls against North Carolina
• goal against UNC was assisted by Jeremy Hirsch; two of Cunningham's four career goals have been assisted by a longstick, and they are the only two longstick-to-longstick goals in at least the last 23 years
• also scored a goal against Rutgers and Brown
• had five ground balls and two caused turnovers against Penn
• had two caused turnovers and three ground balls against UMBC
• helped hold Johns Hopkins All-America middie Michael Kimmel to one goal
• had six ground balls and two caused turnovers against Hofstra
• had 13 caused turnovers and 23 ground balls a year ago despite missing six games with a broken jaw
Jimmy Davis #5
• shortstick defensive midfielder
• had an assist, a caused turnover and three ground balls against Hofstra
• played in every game as third shortstick a year ago, behind graduated Josh Lesko and Brendan Reilly
• had four caused turnovers a year ago
• younger brother of Tommy Davis, who graduated last year after starting for four years on attack
Long Ellis #41
• second-team All-Ivy League selection
• leads team with 17 caused turnovers despite missing two games due to injury
• had two caused turnovers against Penn and Cornell
• had four caused turnovers against Yale during the regular season
• held All-America attackmen Billy Bitter (North Carolina) and Stephen Boyle (Johns Hopkins) to one goal each
• had two caused turnovers and three ground balls against Hofstra
• had three caused turnovers against Manhattan
• listed as starter on defense, but can play defense or longstick midfield and played with a shortstick against Harvard
• missed games against Rutgers and Dartmouth with injury
Rob Engelke #22
• starting on attack
• leads team with 20 assists and is third with 33 points
• is the first Princeton attackman with 20 assists in a season since Ryan Boyle in 2004
• had three goals against Carolina to tie career high
• had a goal and three assists against Dartmouth
• had two goals and an assist against UMBC
• had three assists against Hopkins
• had a goal and four assists against Hofstra
• had a goal and assist against Cornell, Penn and both games against Yale
• had two assists against Manhattan
• had four assists all of last year and nine assists for his career prior to this season
• five points against Hofstra tied career high, set last year against Manhattan
• had made one career start prior to this season but played considerably every year as fourth attackman and on extra man unit
• had nine goals on 15 shots last year for .600 shooting percentage, best on team for players with more than one shot
Tyler Fiorito #6
• a first-team All-Ivy League selection
• has a .633 save percentage (107 saves, 62 goals-against) since Chad Wiedmaier returned six games ago; had a .455 save percentage prior to that
• made 15 saves in first game against Cornell
• made 26 saves while allowing 12 goals in two games against Yale
• made 10 saves while allowing two goals in the second half against Yale
• made 14 saves and had an assist on an 80-yard pass to Jack McBride man-down against Rutgers
• assist against Rutgers was one of two by a Princeton goalie in the last 30 years (Alex Hewit, 2007)
• set a career high with 17 saves against Brown
• made 12 second-half saves against Brown, including eight in the fourth quarter
• made 14 saves against Harvard
• made 12 saves against Syracuse
• made seven saves while allowing two goals against Dartmouth
• made 11 saves while allowing five goals against UMBC
• had eight saves while allowing four goals against Manhattan
• honorable mention All-America and second-team All-Ivy League last year as a freshman
• started every game of his career
• preseason second-team All-America by Inside Lacrosse
• ranked fourth in Division I in goals-against (7.40) and 11th in Division I in save percentage (.587) a year ago
• member of United States U19 team that won 2008 World Championship in Vancouver
Jeff Froccaro #18
• a second-team All-Ivy League selection
• has 15 goals and six assists
• is second-fastest Princeton freshman to reach double figures in goals, behind only teammate Mike Chanenchuk
• scored the game-winning goal against Yale with 37 seconds left and the game-winner in overtime against Penn in the game before
• 12 of his 15 goals have come in the second half or overtime
• has won 85 of 167 face-offs
• is 2 for 2 on overtime face-offs (vs. Johns Hopkins, Penn)
• had two goals and an assist and won 7 of 11 face-offs against Penn
• won face-off to start overtime against both Penn and Hopkins; Princeton won both without ever giving up possession
• Ivy League Rookie of the Week each of first two weeks of the season
• seven goals was the most by a Princeton freshman in his first two games; previously, no freshman had scored more than three in his first two games
• had four goals on six shots against Hopkins, including back-to-back goals to make it 10-8 Princeton in the fourth
• also won 10 of 17 face-offs, including the one to start OT
• scored three goals on three shots against Hofstra in first college game
• first goal against Hofstra gave Princeton lead for good in third quarter; last two goals both came in fourth quarter after Hofstra had twice cut Princeton's lead to one
• had a goal and assist and won 8 of 12 face-offs against Dartmouth
• came back from torn ACL as a high school sophomore and then in the final game of his high school career to play in the season opener
Mike Grossman #8
• had a goal against Yale in Ivy semifinal
• started on attack for Chris McBride, who played midfield, in Ivy semifinal
• had a goal and two assists against Penn, all in the second half
• scored first career goal in win over Hofstra
• had a goal against Harvard
• had an assist against Yale
• ankle injury wiped out almost entire freshman year
• was the No. 38-ranked recruit by Inside Lacrosse a year ago
Jeremy Hirsch #37
• team captain
• preseason honorable mention All-America
• had first career point when he assisted on John Cunningham's goal against North Carolina
• had two caused turnovers against Dartmouth
• has nine caused turnovers
• started every game but one since the start of sophomore year and has played in every game but one in his career
Bobby Lucas #17
• has won 25 of 48 face-offs (.521)
• won 9 of 16 face-offs against UMBC, including winning first seven
• won 5 of 6 against Manhattan
• won 5 of 9 against North Carolina
• has not played since Brown game due to injury
Scott MacKenzie #2
• had two goals in fourth quarter against Cornell
• had a goal and a career-high three assists against Harvard; tied career-high with four points
• scored overtime goal to defeat Hopkins; goal came after he missed all six of his shots in regulation
• scored a goal against Hofstra, Syracuse and Yale in Ivy semifinal
• had two assists against North Carolina
• had two assists against Brown
• preseason honorable mention All-America by Inside Lacrosse
• only returning midfield starter
• had 29 points a year ago; every other current middie on the team had a combined career total of 18 prior to this season
Chris McBride #15
• played midfield instead of attack against Yale in Ivy semifinal and had two assists
• had two goals and an assist against North Carolina
• had a goal and two assists against Hopkins
• had four goals against Hofstra, tying career high set last year against Albany
• had four goals on six shots and scored one goal in every quarter against Hofstra
• had two goals against Yale and Brown
• had a goal and assist against UMBC
• had one goal against Rutgers, Manhattan and Penn; Rutgers goal was man-down
• had 18 goals and six assists last year
• moved from midfield to starting on attack alongside cousin Jack McBride last year
• his father is Jack McBride's father's brother; his mother is Jack McBride's mother's first cousin
Jack McBride #14
• a first-team All-Ivy League selection for the second straight year
• a preseason first-team All-America by Inside Lacrosse
• a Tewaaraton Trophy nominee, one of 25 players on the list
• second-team All-America a year ago
• leads team with 42 points and 30 goals
• first Princeton player with back-to-back seasons of at least 30 goals since Jason Doneger in 2003 and 2004
• tied for 15th all-time at Princeton with former teammate Mark Kovler with 84 goals; needs 10 goals to move into a four-way tie for 12th
• has 106 career points, 23rd best all-time at Princeton
• is the eighth player in school history to reach at least 80 goals by his junior year
• has two career overtime assists (last year against Penn, this year against Hopkins); another came on the game-winning goal with 37 seconds left in regulation against Yale during the regular season
• had six goals and three assists in two games against Yale
• named Ivy League Player of the Week after an eight-goal, 10-point week in wins over Dartmouth and Rutgers
• had five goals and two assists to tie carer-high of seven points in win over Dartmouth
• had three goals against Rutgers, including one man-down after a 70-yard pass from goalie Tyler Fiorito
• had three goals and then assisted on game-winner in overtime against Hopkins
• had three goals against Penn, including two goals 12 seconds apart during Princeton's 4-0 run in a 1:18 span of the fourth quarter to tie it
• had two goals and an assist against North Carolina, Hofstra and UMBC
• had two goals against Brown
• had a goal against Manhattan
• one of four Princeton players (B.J. Prager, Sean Hartofilis, Jason Doneger) in the last 10 years to reach 50 goals by the end of sophomore year
• led team with 35 goals last year
• 2008 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
• member of United States U19 team that won 2008 World Championship in Vancouver
• his father is Chris McBride's father's brother; his mother is Chris McBride's mother's first cousin
Jonathan Meyers #28
• started on defense against Hofstra and longstick midfield the next six games
• playing as second longstick middie with John Cunningham since Chad Wiedmaier's return until starting on defense against Rutgers
• has 10 caused turnovers
• had two caused turnovers against Penn and Syracuse
• had a caused turnover in each of the first four games
• gave up football to concentrate on lacrosse
• recruited for football by schools such as Florida, Michigan and Oklahoma
Tyler Moni #27
• moved from second offensive midfield to defensive shortstick for the Penn game
• has 30 ground balls and four caused turnovers
• had a goal against Brown and Harvard as a defensive middie
• had an assist and five ground balls against Penn, including two ground balls after face-offs during Princeton's 4-0 run in the fourth quarter to tie it and then on the face-off to start OT
• had two goals in each of first two games, against Hofstra and Hopkins
• had one goal against Manhattan and UMBC
• had two career goals prior to this season
• had two goals and an assist last year
Tucker Shanley #7
• playing on the second midfield
• had a goal against Dartmouth and Manhattan
Peter Smyth #26
• one of top two shortstick defensive middies
• is also 43 for 86 on face-offs
• had a goal and assist against Dartmouth while winning 6 of 8 face-offs
• had two assists against Rutgers, both after face-off wins
• had first career points with a goal and assist against Hofstra
• won three of eight face-offs against Hopkins while playing as shortstick D middie as well
• father Fran played lacrosse at Princeton, graduating in 1982
Forest Sonnenfeldt #43
• playing on extra-man unit
• had two goals against Dartmouth for first multi-goal game
• first career assist came against Harvard
• scored a goal against Syracuse
• scored first college goal at Manhattan, not far from where he attended the Fieldston School
Chris White #29
• scored first career goal in the win over Brown
• had a goal against Dartmouth
• is playing on second midfield unit
Chad Wiedmaier #9
• a first-team All-Ivy League pick for the second straight year
• preseason first-team All-America by Inside Lacrosse
• missed first six games of the season after having off-season knee surgery that revealed more damage than originally thought
• is second on the team in caused turnovers (12) despite playing half the games
• returned for regular-season game against Yale
• held Cornell's Rob Pannell, the nation's leading scorer, to a single assist; Pannell had been averaging 5.0 points per game
• held Yale's leading scorer Matt Gibson without a point in Ivy semifinal
• also shout out Gibson while he was on the field and caused a turnover on Gibson in final five seconds to preserve the win in regular-season game
• held Brown All-America Thomas Muldoon to one goal while causing two turnovers; goal came on a fastbreak after a face-off win
• forced five turnovers against Dartmouth's Ari Sussman
• named to Inside Lacrosse Team of the Week after Brown game
• had three caused turnovers against Syracuse
• second-team All-America as a freshman
• first-team All-Ivy League as a freshman
• ranked as No. 2 freshman in Division I by Inside Lacrosse a year ago
Game-By-Game
HOFSTRA (W, 17-14)
GOALS - C. McBride 4, Froccaro 3, J. McBride 2, Chanenchuk 2, Moni 2, MacKenzie 1, Smyth 1, Grossman 1, Engelke 1
ASSISTS - Engelke 4, Chanencuk 1, J. McBride 1, Davis 1, Smyth 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 14 goals-against, 11 saves)
JOHNS HOPKINS (W, 11-10, OT)
GOALS - Froccaro 4, J. McBride 3, Moni 2, MacKenzie 1, C. McBride 1
ASSISTS - Engelke 3, Chanencuk 2, C. McBride 2, J. McBride 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:59 min, 10 goals-against, 8 saves)
MANHATTAN (W, 13-8)
GOALS - Chanenchuk 5, J. McBride 1, C. McBride 1, Barnes 1, Froccaro 1, Shanley 1, Styer 1, Moni 1, Sonnenfeldt 1
ASSISTS - Engelke 2, MacKenzie 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (49:00 min, 4 goals-against, 8 saves), Blake (9:24, 3 goals-against, 1 save), Larrabee (1:36, 1 goal-against, no saves)
UMBC (W, 10-5)
GOALS - J. McBride 2, MacKenzie 2, Engelke 2, C. McBride 1, Barnes 1, Chanenchuk 1, Moni 1
ASSISTS - Engelke 1, J. McBride 1, C. McBride 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 5 goals-against, 11 saves)
NORTH CAROLINA (L, 12-11)
GOALS - Chanenchuk 3, Engelke 3, J. McBride 2, C. McBride 2, Cunningham 1
ASSISTS - MacKenzie 2, Hirsch 1, J. McBride 1, C. McBride 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 12 goals-against, 4 saves)
PENN (W, 11-10, OT)
GOALS - Chanenchuk 3, J. McBride 3, Froccaro 2, Grossman 1, Engelke 1, C. McBride 1
ASSISTS - Chanenchuk 2, Grossman 2, MacKenzie 1, Moni 1, Engelke 1, Froccaro 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 12 goals-against, 4 saves)
YALE (W, 7-6)
GOALS - J. McBride 3, C. McBride 2, Engelke 1, Froccaro 1
ASSISTS - J. McBride 2, Engelke 1, Grossman 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 6 goals-against, 15 saves)
BROWN (W, 9-7)
GOALS - J. McBride 2, C. McBride 2, Moni 1, Cunningham 1, Capretta 1, White 1, Barnes 1
ASSISTS - MacKenzie 2, Engelke 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 7 goals-against, 17 saves)
SYRACUSE (L, 13-4)
GOALS - Chanenchuk 2, MacKenzie 1, Sonnenfeldt 1
ASSISTS - J. McBride 2, Engelke 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 13 goals-against, 12 saves)
RUTGERS (W, 10-8)
GOALS - Chanenchuk 3, J. McBride 3, C. McBride 1, Cunningham 1, Engelke 1, Froccaro 1
ASSISTS - Froccaro 2, Smyth 2, MacKenzie 1, Fiorito 1, Chanenchuk 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 8 goals-against, 14 saves)
DARTMOUTH (W, 16-2)
GOALS - J. McBride 5, Chanenchuk 3, Sonnenfeldt 2, Engelke 1, White 1, Shanley 1, Capretta 1, Froccaro 1, Smyth 1
ASSISTS - Engelke 3, Chanenchuk 2, J. McBride 2, Smyth 1, Froccaro 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (47:20 min, 2 goals-against, 7 saves); Blake (9:59 min, 0 goals-against, 1 save); Larrabee (2:41 min, 0 goals-against, 0 saves)
HARVARD (L, 11-8)
GOALS - Chanenchuk 2, J. McBride 1, MacKenzie 1, Grossman 1, Froccaro 1, Engelke 1, Moni 1
ASSISTS - MacKenzie 3, Engelke 1, Sonnenfeldt 1, Froccaro 1, C. McBride 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 11 goals-against, 14 saves)
CORNELL (L, 10-9)
GOALS - Chanenchuk 3, MacKenzie 2, Capretta 1, Cunningham 1, Engelke 1, Froccaro 1
ASSISTS - J. McBride 2, C. McBride 1, Engelke 1, Froccaro 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 10 goals-against, 15 saves)
YALE (W, 7-6 • Ivy League semifinal)
GOALS - J. McBride 3, Engelke 1, Capretta 1, MacKenzie 1, Grossman 1
ASSISTS - C. McBride 2, J. McBride 1, Engelke 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 6 goals-against, 11 saves)
Career Scoring
Player G-A-Pts
14 Jack McBride 84-22-106
2 Scott MacKenzie 26-37-63
22 Rob Engelke 31-29-60
3 Chris McBride 35-16-51
13 Mike Chanenchuk 27-8-35
18 Jeff Froccaro 15-6-21
27 Tyler Moni 10-2-12
8 Mike Grossman 4-3-7
31 Paul Barnes 6-0-6
26 Peter Smyth 2-4-6
3 John Cunningham 5-1-6
43 Forest Sonnenfeldt 4-1-5
1 Alex Capretta 5-0-5
11 Ryan Morrell 2-1-3
21 Connor Reilly 2-1-3
29 Chris White 2-0-2
7 Tucker Shanley 2-0-2
9 Chad Wiedmaier 1-1-2
5 Jimmy Davis 0-2-2
47 Cliff Larkin 1-0-1
24 David Marshall 0-1-1
36 Derek Styer 1-0-1
37 Jeremy Hirsch 0-1-1
6 Tyler Fiorito 0-1-1
And of those 180 minutes, Cornell has had the lead for 175:32. That's more than 97% of the time in the three games.
The Big Red did it to Princeton twice last year, scoring early, building a lead, dominating possession and never trailing on the way to a victory. They did it again a week ago in a 10-9 win that forced a four-way tie for the Ivy League championship between Princeton, Cornell, Yale and Brown and sent the first Ivy League tournament to Ithaca via the tiebreakers.
Will Cornell be able to do it again?
We'll find out in the Ivy League final, which matches the two winners from Friday's semifinals. Princeton won the first Ivy tournament game ever, holding off Yale 7-6, while Cornell earned its spot in the final with a 14-8 win over Brown in the second game.
The result is that the two programs who have been the traditional Ivy powers dating to the formation of the league meet in the first tournament final. Princeton and Cornell have won 25 league championships each; Brown is next with eight.
Including the Ivy final, four of Princeton's last 20 games will have been against Cornell.
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The Ivy tournament determines only the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament; the four teams will be considered quad-champions no matter what the outcome of Sunday's final.
And the team that loses is almost surely going to be receiving an at-large bid.
Still, the matchup is a fascinating one, if only to see if Cornell will continue its remarkable streak of scoring early on the Tigers.
You have to go back to 2004 to find a game in which Cornell did not score early and begin to build a quick lead, including the 2008 game that Princeton won after falling behind 2-0 in less than four minutes.
And that was before the last three games. A year ago in Ithaca for the regular season, Princeton entered the game having moved into the No. 1spot in the national rankings. Cornell won the opening face-off and scored on its first possession. By the time five minutes had been played, it was 3-0 Big Red, who would win 10-7.
The teams met again in the NCAA quarterfinals at Hofstra, and again Cornell won the opening face-off and scored on its first possession. This time, it was 2-0 after five minutes.
Then, in the game a week ago, Cornell once more won the opening face-off and again scored on its first possession. This game was 3-0 after five minutes and 4-0 after 10.
In those three games, Cornell has outscored Princeton 8-0 in the first five minutes. Princeton has outscored Cornell 20-18 the rest of the way, but at no point in any of those three games did Princeton ever lead. For that matter, Princeton never tied the score after falling behind on the first possession.
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A week ago Cornell built a 4-0 lead on Princeton after one and led 9-3 in the fourth quarter before Princeton scored six goals in nine minutes, only to fall short 10-9.
In that first game, Princeton had two separate scoreless droughts of at least 20 minutes before erupting for the six goals in the fourth quarter.
Princeton led Yale 7-2 with nine minutes left, but Yale scored four times in seven minutes left before the Tigers held on.
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There is a road off of Route 79 just before the Cornell campus called “Wiedmaier Road.” Perhaps it's in deference to the marquee matchup of Princeton-Cornell men's lacrosse the last two years, the one between Rob Pannell (Cornell's attackman who is the Ivy Player of the Year and Division I's leading scorer) against Chad Wiedmaier (Princeton's defenseman who has been first-team All-Ivy as a freshman and sophomore).
In three games against each other, Pannell has one goal and six assists, an average of 2.7 points per game. In his other 28 career games, Pannell has averaged 4.4 points per game. A week ago, Wiedmaier held Pannell to a single assist. In the three games, Pannell has one goal on 19 shots.
Wiedmaier shut out Yale's leading scorer Matt Gibson in the Ivy semifinal game.
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Princeton had four first-team All-Ivy selections and seven players honored in all.
Mike Chanenchuk was the unanimous Ivy League Rookie of the Year and a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection; he is the ninth Princeton player to be named the league's top rookie and the fourth Princeton player to be first-team All-Ivy as a freshman.
In addition to Chanenchuk, who set the Princeton record for goals by a freshman with 27, the other three Princeton freshmen to be first-team All-Ivy were Scott Bacigalupo in 1991, B.J. Prager in 1999 and Chad Wiedmaier in 2009.
Like Prager 10 years earlier, Wiedmaier earned first-team All-Ivy honors as a sophomore despite missing a huge chunk of the season with a knee injury. In Prager's case, he missed the final third of the season and still led the league in goals scored; in Wiedmaier's case, he missed the first six games due to off-season knee surgery. In the six games Wiedmaier played, Princeton allowed 9.7 goals per game; in the seven he did play, Princeton allowed 8.3 goals per game.
Tyler Fiorito, who made at least 14 saves in four of six Ivy games, and Jack McBride, whose 27 goals tie Chanenchuk for the team lead, were also first-team All-Ivy.
Defenseman Long Ellis and midfielder Jeff Froccaro were second-team picks, while longstick midfielder John Cunningham was an honorable mention choice.
Of Princeton's seven players honored, none are seniors, two are juniors, three are sophomores and two are freshmen.
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Jack McBride has 84 career goals, tied with former teammate Mark Kovler for 15th-best all-time at Princeton. He needs 10 goals to move into a four-way tie for 12th.
McBride is the eighth player in school history to reach at least 80 goals as a junior.
He also has 106 career points, 23rd-best in school history.
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There had never been a four-way tie for the championship until this year, but there were two three-way ties. Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton tied at 4-2 in 1964, and Princeton, Cornell and Dartmouth tied at 5-1 in 2003.
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What Can You Say About ...
Nikhil Ashra #23
• No. 2 goalie currently recovering from two concussions
• has been backup to Alex Hewit for first two years and now Tyler Fiorito last year and this year; each of first three years, starting goalie has been an All-America
• has a a career .568 save percentage and 7.67 goals-against average
Paul Barnes #31
• scored Princeton's eighth goal in 9-7 win over Brown
• also scored a goal against Manhattan and UMBC
• faced off three times against Brown after facing off once prior during this season and 299 times a year ago as the team's top face-off man
• has gone from facing off to playing in second midfield
• scored four goals off of face-offs in 2009; Princeton had not gotten a goal from its face-off specialist since 2004 prior to that
Christian Blake #32
• backup goalie with Nikhil Ashra's injury
• played 9:24 of fourth quarter against Manhattan
• played 9:59 against Dartmouth, making one save and allowing no goals
• has played 23:17 in his career, with a .500 save percentage
Alex Capretta #1
• scored a goal against Yale in Ivy semifinal, giving him goals in back-to-back games for the first time this year
• scored Princeton's ninth goal against Cornell
• scored first goal of the season in win over Brown
• scored a goal against Dartmouth
• also scored against Rutgers last year
• is playing as a fourth attackman
Chris Chandler #16
• had one caused turnover against Hofstra, Manhattan and UMBC
• played in three games last year as longstick middie after playing in every game sophomore year
Mike Chanenchuk #13
• unanimous Ivy League Rookie of the Year
• unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection
• tied for team lead with 27 goals and second with 35 points
• set Princeton record for goals in a season by a freshman
• first Princeton freshman middie ever to be first-team All-Ivy
• has six games with at least three goals
• scored three goals against Cornell
• did not score against Yale in either game
• also had two assists against Dartmouth to equal high-game of five points
• had three goals against Rutgers
• had two goals against Syracuse and Harvard
• fastest Princeton freshman ever to 10 goals
• had three goals against North Carolina, including scoring the team's ninth and 10th goals to tie it 10-10 in the fourth
• had three goals and two assists against Penn
• had five goals against Manhattan in 2.5 quarters
• scored on his first five shots against Manhattan
• five goals was second-highest single-game total ever by a Princeton freshman, behind only Jack McBride's six against Penn two years ago
• had a goal against UMBC
• had two assists against Hopkins
• had two goals and an assist against Hofstra
• three-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week
• also named to Inside Lacrosse Team of the Week twice
• defered last year after suffering a back injury and is now a freshman
John Cunningham #3
• honorable mention All-Ivy League selection
• started first six games on defense before moving back to natural position of longstick midfielder
• mid-season second-team All-America by Inside Lacrosse
• leads team with 48 ground balls
• has 11 caused turnovers
• has scored four goals, most by a Princeton longstick in a season since John Harrington also had four goals in 1998
• had a goal against Cornell
• had a goal, a caused turnover and 10 ground balls against North Carolina
• goal against UNC was assisted by Jeremy Hirsch; two of Cunningham's four career goals have been assisted by a longstick, and they are the only two longstick-to-longstick goals in at least the last 23 years
• also scored a goal against Rutgers and Brown
• had five ground balls and two caused turnovers against Penn
• had two caused turnovers and three ground balls against UMBC
• helped hold Johns Hopkins All-America middie Michael Kimmel to one goal
• had six ground balls and two caused turnovers against Hofstra
• had 13 caused turnovers and 23 ground balls a year ago despite missing six games with a broken jaw
Jimmy Davis #5
• shortstick defensive midfielder
• had an assist, a caused turnover and three ground balls against Hofstra
• played in every game as third shortstick a year ago, behind graduated Josh Lesko and Brendan Reilly
• had four caused turnovers a year ago
• younger brother of Tommy Davis, who graduated last year after starting for four years on attack
Long Ellis #41
• second-team All-Ivy League selection
• leads team with 17 caused turnovers despite missing two games due to injury
• had two caused turnovers against Penn and Cornell
• had four caused turnovers against Yale during the regular season
• held All-America attackmen Billy Bitter (North Carolina) and Stephen Boyle (Johns Hopkins) to one goal each
• had two caused turnovers and three ground balls against Hofstra
• had three caused turnovers against Manhattan
• listed as starter on defense, but can play defense or longstick midfield and played with a shortstick against Harvard
• missed games against Rutgers and Dartmouth with injury
Rob Engelke #22
• starting on attack
• leads team with 20 assists and is third with 33 points
• is the first Princeton attackman with 20 assists in a season since Ryan Boyle in 2004
• had three goals against Carolina to tie career high
• had a goal and three assists against Dartmouth
• had two goals and an assist against UMBC
• had three assists against Hopkins
• had a goal and four assists against Hofstra
• had a goal and assist against Cornell, Penn and both games against Yale
• had two assists against Manhattan
• had four assists all of last year and nine assists for his career prior to this season
• five points against Hofstra tied career high, set last year against Manhattan
• had made one career start prior to this season but played considerably every year as fourth attackman and on extra man unit
• had nine goals on 15 shots last year for .600 shooting percentage, best on team for players with more than one shot
Tyler Fiorito #6
• a first-team All-Ivy League selection
• has a .633 save percentage (107 saves, 62 goals-against) since Chad Wiedmaier returned six games ago; had a .455 save percentage prior to that
• made 15 saves in first game against Cornell
• made 26 saves while allowing 12 goals in two games against Yale
• made 10 saves while allowing two goals in the second half against Yale
• made 14 saves and had an assist on an 80-yard pass to Jack McBride man-down against Rutgers
• assist against Rutgers was one of two by a Princeton goalie in the last 30 years (Alex Hewit, 2007)
• set a career high with 17 saves against Brown
• made 12 second-half saves against Brown, including eight in the fourth quarter
• made 14 saves against Harvard
• made 12 saves against Syracuse
• made seven saves while allowing two goals against Dartmouth
• made 11 saves while allowing five goals against UMBC
• had eight saves while allowing four goals against Manhattan
• honorable mention All-America and second-team All-Ivy League last year as a freshman
• started every game of his career
• preseason second-team All-America by Inside Lacrosse
• ranked fourth in Division I in goals-against (7.40) and 11th in Division I in save percentage (.587) a year ago
• member of United States U19 team that won 2008 World Championship in Vancouver
Jeff Froccaro #18
• a second-team All-Ivy League selection
• has 15 goals and six assists
• is second-fastest Princeton freshman to reach double figures in goals, behind only teammate Mike Chanenchuk
• scored the game-winning goal against Yale with 37 seconds left and the game-winner in overtime against Penn in the game before
• 12 of his 15 goals have come in the second half or overtime
• has won 85 of 167 face-offs
• is 2 for 2 on overtime face-offs (vs. Johns Hopkins, Penn)
• had two goals and an assist and won 7 of 11 face-offs against Penn
• won face-off to start overtime against both Penn and Hopkins; Princeton won both without ever giving up possession
• Ivy League Rookie of the Week each of first two weeks of the season
• seven goals was the most by a Princeton freshman in his first two games; previously, no freshman had scored more than three in his first two games
• had four goals on six shots against Hopkins, including back-to-back goals to make it 10-8 Princeton in the fourth
• also won 10 of 17 face-offs, including the one to start OT
• scored three goals on three shots against Hofstra in first college game
• first goal against Hofstra gave Princeton lead for good in third quarter; last two goals both came in fourth quarter after Hofstra had twice cut Princeton's lead to one
• had a goal and assist and won 8 of 12 face-offs against Dartmouth
• came back from torn ACL as a high school sophomore and then in the final game of his high school career to play in the season opener
Mike Grossman #8
• had a goal against Yale in Ivy semifinal
• started on attack for Chris McBride, who played midfield, in Ivy semifinal
• had a goal and two assists against Penn, all in the second half
• scored first career goal in win over Hofstra
• had a goal against Harvard
• had an assist against Yale
• ankle injury wiped out almost entire freshman year
• was the No. 38-ranked recruit by Inside Lacrosse a year ago
Jeremy Hirsch #37
• team captain
• preseason honorable mention All-America
• had first career point when he assisted on John Cunningham's goal against North Carolina
• had two caused turnovers against Dartmouth
• has nine caused turnovers
• started every game but one since the start of sophomore year and has played in every game but one in his career
Bobby Lucas #17
• has won 25 of 48 face-offs (.521)
• won 9 of 16 face-offs against UMBC, including winning first seven
• won 5 of 6 against Manhattan
• won 5 of 9 against North Carolina
• has not played since Brown game due to injury
Scott MacKenzie #2
• had two goals in fourth quarter against Cornell
• had a goal and a career-high three assists against Harvard; tied career-high with four points
• scored overtime goal to defeat Hopkins; goal came after he missed all six of his shots in regulation
• scored a goal against Hofstra, Syracuse and Yale in Ivy semifinal
• had two assists against North Carolina
• had two assists against Brown
• preseason honorable mention All-America by Inside Lacrosse
• only returning midfield starter
• had 29 points a year ago; every other current middie on the team had a combined career total of 18 prior to this season
Chris McBride #15
• played midfield instead of attack against Yale in Ivy semifinal and had two assists
• had two goals and an assist against North Carolina
• had a goal and two assists against Hopkins
• had four goals against Hofstra, tying career high set last year against Albany
• had four goals on six shots and scored one goal in every quarter against Hofstra
• had two goals against Yale and Brown
• had a goal and assist against UMBC
• had one goal against Rutgers, Manhattan and Penn; Rutgers goal was man-down
• had 18 goals and six assists last year
• moved from midfield to starting on attack alongside cousin Jack McBride last year
• his father is Jack McBride's father's brother; his mother is Jack McBride's mother's first cousin
Jack McBride #14
• a first-team All-Ivy League selection for the second straight year
• a preseason first-team All-America by Inside Lacrosse
• a Tewaaraton Trophy nominee, one of 25 players on the list
• second-team All-America a year ago
• leads team with 42 points and 30 goals
• first Princeton player with back-to-back seasons of at least 30 goals since Jason Doneger in 2003 and 2004
• tied for 15th all-time at Princeton with former teammate Mark Kovler with 84 goals; needs 10 goals to move into a four-way tie for 12th
• has 106 career points, 23rd best all-time at Princeton
• is the eighth player in school history to reach at least 80 goals by his junior year
• has two career overtime assists (last year against Penn, this year against Hopkins); another came on the game-winning goal with 37 seconds left in regulation against Yale during the regular season
• had six goals and three assists in two games against Yale
• named Ivy League Player of the Week after an eight-goal, 10-point week in wins over Dartmouth and Rutgers
• had five goals and two assists to tie carer-high of seven points in win over Dartmouth
• had three goals against Rutgers, including one man-down after a 70-yard pass from goalie Tyler Fiorito
• had three goals and then assisted on game-winner in overtime against Hopkins
• had three goals against Penn, including two goals 12 seconds apart during Princeton's 4-0 run in a 1:18 span of the fourth quarter to tie it
• had two goals and an assist against North Carolina, Hofstra and UMBC
• had two goals against Brown
• had a goal against Manhattan
• one of four Princeton players (B.J. Prager, Sean Hartofilis, Jason Doneger) in the last 10 years to reach 50 goals by the end of sophomore year
• led team with 35 goals last year
• 2008 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
• member of United States U19 team that won 2008 World Championship in Vancouver
• his father is Chris McBride's father's brother; his mother is Chris McBride's mother's first cousin
Jonathan Meyers #28
• started on defense against Hofstra and longstick midfield the next six games
• playing as second longstick middie with John Cunningham since Chad Wiedmaier's return until starting on defense against Rutgers
• has 10 caused turnovers
• had two caused turnovers against Penn and Syracuse
• had a caused turnover in each of the first four games
• gave up football to concentrate on lacrosse
• recruited for football by schools such as Florida, Michigan and Oklahoma
Tyler Moni #27
• moved from second offensive midfield to defensive shortstick for the Penn game
• has 30 ground balls and four caused turnovers
• had a goal against Brown and Harvard as a defensive middie
• had an assist and five ground balls against Penn, including two ground balls after face-offs during Princeton's 4-0 run in the fourth quarter to tie it and then on the face-off to start OT
• had two goals in each of first two games, against Hofstra and Hopkins
• had one goal against Manhattan and UMBC
• had two career goals prior to this season
• had two goals and an assist last year
Tucker Shanley #7
• playing on the second midfield
• had a goal against Dartmouth and Manhattan
Peter Smyth #26
• one of top two shortstick defensive middies
• is also 43 for 86 on face-offs
• had a goal and assist against Dartmouth while winning 6 of 8 face-offs
• had two assists against Rutgers, both after face-off wins
• had first career points with a goal and assist against Hofstra
• won three of eight face-offs against Hopkins while playing as shortstick D middie as well
• father Fran played lacrosse at Princeton, graduating in 1982
Forest Sonnenfeldt #43
• playing on extra-man unit
• had two goals against Dartmouth for first multi-goal game
• first career assist came against Harvard
• scored a goal against Syracuse
• scored first college goal at Manhattan, not far from where he attended the Fieldston School
Chris White #29
• scored first career goal in the win over Brown
• had a goal against Dartmouth
• is playing on second midfield unit
Chad Wiedmaier #9
• a first-team All-Ivy League pick for the second straight year
• preseason first-team All-America by Inside Lacrosse
• missed first six games of the season after having off-season knee surgery that revealed more damage than originally thought
• is second on the team in caused turnovers (12) despite playing half the games
• returned for regular-season game against Yale
• held Cornell's Rob Pannell, the nation's leading scorer, to a single assist; Pannell had been averaging 5.0 points per game
• held Yale's leading scorer Matt Gibson without a point in Ivy semifinal
• also shout out Gibson while he was on the field and caused a turnover on Gibson in final five seconds to preserve the win in regular-season game
• held Brown All-America Thomas Muldoon to one goal while causing two turnovers; goal came on a fastbreak after a face-off win
• forced five turnovers against Dartmouth's Ari Sussman
• named to Inside Lacrosse Team of the Week after Brown game
• had three caused turnovers against Syracuse
• second-team All-America as a freshman
• first-team All-Ivy League as a freshman
• ranked as No. 2 freshman in Division I by Inside Lacrosse a year ago
Game-By-Game
HOFSTRA (W, 17-14)
GOALS - C. McBride 4, Froccaro 3, J. McBride 2, Chanenchuk 2, Moni 2, MacKenzie 1, Smyth 1, Grossman 1, Engelke 1
ASSISTS - Engelke 4, Chanencuk 1, J. McBride 1, Davis 1, Smyth 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 14 goals-against, 11 saves)
JOHNS HOPKINS (W, 11-10, OT)
GOALS - Froccaro 4, J. McBride 3, Moni 2, MacKenzie 1, C. McBride 1
ASSISTS - Engelke 3, Chanencuk 2, C. McBride 2, J. McBride 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:59 min, 10 goals-against, 8 saves)
MANHATTAN (W, 13-8)
GOALS - Chanenchuk 5, J. McBride 1, C. McBride 1, Barnes 1, Froccaro 1, Shanley 1, Styer 1, Moni 1, Sonnenfeldt 1
ASSISTS - Engelke 2, MacKenzie 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (49:00 min, 4 goals-against, 8 saves), Blake (9:24, 3 goals-against, 1 save), Larrabee (1:36, 1 goal-against, no saves)
UMBC (W, 10-5)
GOALS - J. McBride 2, MacKenzie 2, Engelke 2, C. McBride 1, Barnes 1, Chanenchuk 1, Moni 1
ASSISTS - Engelke 1, J. McBride 1, C. McBride 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 5 goals-against, 11 saves)
NORTH CAROLINA (L, 12-11)
GOALS - Chanenchuk 3, Engelke 3, J. McBride 2, C. McBride 2, Cunningham 1
ASSISTS - MacKenzie 2, Hirsch 1, J. McBride 1, C. McBride 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 12 goals-against, 4 saves)
PENN (W, 11-10, OT)
GOALS - Chanenchuk 3, J. McBride 3, Froccaro 2, Grossman 1, Engelke 1, C. McBride 1
ASSISTS - Chanenchuk 2, Grossman 2, MacKenzie 1, Moni 1, Engelke 1, Froccaro 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 12 goals-against, 4 saves)
YALE (W, 7-6)
GOALS - J. McBride 3, C. McBride 2, Engelke 1, Froccaro 1
ASSISTS - J. McBride 2, Engelke 1, Grossman 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 6 goals-against, 15 saves)
BROWN (W, 9-7)
GOALS - J. McBride 2, C. McBride 2, Moni 1, Cunningham 1, Capretta 1, White 1, Barnes 1
ASSISTS - MacKenzie 2, Engelke 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 7 goals-against, 17 saves)
SYRACUSE (L, 13-4)
GOALS - Chanenchuk 2, MacKenzie 1, Sonnenfeldt 1
ASSISTS - J. McBride 2, Engelke 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 13 goals-against, 12 saves)
RUTGERS (W, 10-8)
GOALS - Chanenchuk 3, J. McBride 3, C. McBride 1, Cunningham 1, Engelke 1, Froccaro 1
ASSISTS - Froccaro 2, Smyth 2, MacKenzie 1, Fiorito 1, Chanenchuk 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 8 goals-against, 14 saves)
DARTMOUTH (W, 16-2)
GOALS - J. McBride 5, Chanenchuk 3, Sonnenfeldt 2, Engelke 1, White 1, Shanley 1, Capretta 1, Froccaro 1, Smyth 1
ASSISTS - Engelke 3, Chanenchuk 2, J. McBride 2, Smyth 1, Froccaro 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (47:20 min, 2 goals-against, 7 saves); Blake (9:59 min, 0 goals-against, 1 save); Larrabee (2:41 min, 0 goals-against, 0 saves)
HARVARD (L, 11-8)
GOALS - Chanenchuk 2, J. McBride 1, MacKenzie 1, Grossman 1, Froccaro 1, Engelke 1, Moni 1
ASSISTS - MacKenzie 3, Engelke 1, Sonnenfeldt 1, Froccaro 1, C. McBride 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 11 goals-against, 14 saves)
CORNELL (L, 10-9)
GOALS - Chanenchuk 3, MacKenzie 2, Capretta 1, Cunningham 1, Engelke 1, Froccaro 1
ASSISTS - J. McBride 2, C. McBride 1, Engelke 1, Froccaro 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 10 goals-against, 15 saves)
YALE (W, 7-6 • Ivy League semifinal)
GOALS - J. McBride 3, Engelke 1, Capretta 1, MacKenzie 1, Grossman 1
ASSISTS - C. McBride 2, J. McBride 1, Engelke 1
GOALIE - Fiorito (60:00 min, 6 goals-against, 11 saves)
Career Scoring
Player G-A-Pts
14 Jack McBride 84-22-106
2 Scott MacKenzie 26-37-63
22 Rob Engelke 31-29-60
3 Chris McBride 35-16-51
13 Mike Chanenchuk 27-8-35
18 Jeff Froccaro 15-6-21
27 Tyler Moni 10-2-12
8 Mike Grossman 4-3-7
31 Paul Barnes 6-0-6
26 Peter Smyth 2-4-6
3 John Cunningham 5-1-6
43 Forest Sonnenfeldt 4-1-5
1 Alex Capretta 5-0-5
11 Ryan Morrell 2-1-3
21 Connor Reilly 2-1-3
29 Chris White 2-0-2
7 Tucker Shanley 2-0-2
9 Chad Wiedmaier 1-1-2
5 Jimmy Davis 0-2-2
47 Cliff Larkin 1-0-1
24 David Marshall 0-1-1
36 Derek Styer 1-0-1
37 Jeremy Hirsch 0-1-1
6 Tyler Fiorito 0-1-1
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