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Princeton Hosts Hofstra 24 Hours Later Than Originally Planned
February 19, 2015 | Men's Lacrosse
| Princeton vs. Hofstra • Sherrerd Field at 52 • Princeton, N.J. |
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| Gametime | Saturday, Feb. 21 • 3:00 p.m. (changed from Friday to Saturday) |
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| Series Info | Princeton leads 15-13 |
| Records |
Princeton 1-0; Hofstra 0-1 |
| Game Notes |
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| Hofstra |
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NOTE - Princeton vs. Hofstra has been moved from Friday at 3 to Saturday at 3.
Had the Ivy League not changed its rule and allowed its men's lacrosse teams to start a week earlier, then Princeton would be opening its season this weekend against the team it opened with in each of Chris Bates' first five seasons as Princeton's head coach, Hofstra. Instead, Princeton played its first game last weekend, defeating Manhattan 14-4.
When the Princeton-Hofstra game ends, the Tigers will have played 40% of their home schedule for 2015. After this one, the schedule sees Princeton on the road for eight of its last 11, including four straight - three straight against 2014 NCAA tournament teams Johns Hopkins Maryland and Penn - before returning home March 21 against Yale.
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Princeton and Hofstra meet for the 29th time, with Princeton ahead in the series 15-13. The teams have met every year since 2000, and Princeton is 11-4 in those 15 games, including 4-1 since Chris Bates became head coach.
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Princeton's 2005 opener against Johns Hopkins came on March 5. By this March 5, Princeton will be two games away from its fourth game of the year, while Hofstra will have played four games.
Princeton and Hofstra will combine to play 13 games before the first day of spring. Between them they will play seven games in February.
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The temperature forecast for gametime is 30 degrees, which is actually twice what it would have been had the game been played when it was originally scheduled (Friday at 3). The actual temperature at gametime last week in Princeton's win over Manhattan was 28 degrees. The average temperature in Princeton for this week is 43 degrees.
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Princeton's current team has a total of 407 career points.
Four players - Mike MacDonald, Jake Froccaro, Kip Orban and Ryan Ambler - have 354 of those points between them. That would be 87%.
Every other player on the team combined has 53 points.
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Princeton sophomores Bear Altemus, Gavin McBride and Adam Hardej combined for four goals and an assist against Manhattan. Between them last year, they had no goals and no assists.
Altemus scored the first goal of the season. Mike MacDonald had scored the first goal of each of the previous three seasons.
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Hofstra opened the season with an 11-10 loss to Marquette last weekend. Sam Llinares and Mike Malave scored twice each for the Pride.
Hofstra began the season ranked 17th in the coaches' poll before the loss to Marquette, who moved into the top 20 with the win.
Hofstra lost to Marquette to start the 2014 season and then also lost to Princeton. After that, the Pride won 10 of their next 11.
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Mike MacDonald has 10 goals on 18 shots in three career games against Hofstra. Ryan Ambler has a goal and eight assists in two career games against Hofstra.
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Eric Sanschagrin is Princeton's starter in goal this year. He made nines saves while allowing two goals in three quarters in the win over Manhattan.
The opener was Sanschagrin's 10th career start, but it was the first time he'd started a game in the first half of a season in his career. Sanschagrin, a senior, started the last four games of the 2013 season and the last five games of last season.
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Princeton returned nine of its 10 starters from a year ago. The only graduated starter was Tom Schreiber, the four-time first-team All-Ivy League selection, three-time first-team All-America and two-time Tewaaraton finalist.
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Mike MacDonald had surgery on both of his hips in the off-season, and his six-month recovery caused him to miss the entire fall. Slowed by the hip injuries, MacDonald saw his goal total drop from 43 as a sophomore to 19 as a junior, though he did have a team-best 24 assists, more assists than even Tom Schreiber had (though Schreiber led the team in scoring for the fourth straight year).
Now healthy, MacDonald had two goals and three assists against Manhattan, earning the first Ivy League Player of the Week honor for 2015.
MacDonald has 86 goals and 49 assists for his career and needs 14 goals and one assist to join Schreiber and Wick Sollers as the only Princeton players ever with at least 100 career goals and 50 career assists.
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Princeton's 2015 schedule has two new additions to it. Gone are Villanova, whom Princeton has played the last four years, and North Carolina, whom Princeton played the last five.
In their place are Maryland (the Big 10, not the ACC), whom Princeton plast played in the 2006 NCAA quarterfinals (a loss) and before that the 1997 and 1998 NCAA championship games and 2000 and 2004 NCAA quarterfinals (all wins). Princeton and Maryland are hardly strangers; this year's game will be the 43rd between the two, and the first meeting dates to 1927.
Princeton also plays Stony Book, for the third time. The other two games were in 1992 and 1993.
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Kip Orban has the longest current streak in Division I of consecutive games with at least one goal with a goal in 27 straight. In 2014 he became the first player since Peter Trombino 10 years earlier to have at least one goal in every game of a season.
The Princeton record for consecutive games with at least one goal is 46, held by Chris Massey. If he can stretch his streak three more games, he'd join Massey, B.J. Prager and Jason Doneger as the only Princeton players ever to have at least one goal in 30 straight games.
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Kip Orban and Mike MacDonald each have at least one point in 29 straight games, tied for the 12th longest streak in Division I. Hofstra's Sam Llinares has at least one point in 30 straight games, the 10th longest current streak in Division I.
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Princeton had two players selected in the Major League Lacrosse draft. Kip Orban was selected in the third round by Charlotte, while Mike MacDonald went in the sixth round to Rochester.
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Justin Murphy has been Princeton's top face-off man the last two years, but his career ended due to multiple concussions. He is now working with the team as an undergraduate assistant coach.
Murphy won 106 of 192 face-offs last year (55.2%), while every other face-off man Princeton used went 54 for 156 (34.6%). Princeton will use Jake Froccaro, Sam Bonafede and Jack O'Brien as its primary face-off men this year.
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What Can You Say About ...
Bear Altemus #6
• playing in the second midfield
• scored team's first goal of the season - and the first of his career - in the win over Manhattan
Ryan Ambler #14
• team's leading returning point scorer with 43 a year ago (24G, 19A)
• was second on the team in goals and third on the team in assists in 2014
• more than doubled goal total from freshman year to sophomore year (11 to 24)
• had a career-high seven points against Dartmouth (3G, 4A)
• started 13 of 15 games as a freshman, missing games against Rutgers and Dartmouth due to injury
• second-team All-Ivy League in 2014
• father Bob is the all-time leading scorer at Drexel
Austin deButts #30
• playing shortstick defensive midfield
• had a caused turnover against Manhattan
Alistair Berven #40
• starter on defense
• played in two games a year ago
• a native of San Francisco who attended Lawrenceville Prep
Sam Bonafede #12
• faces-off and plays shortstick defensive midfield
• won 9 of 11 face-offs and had a team-best five ground balls against Manhattan
• won 68% of his face-offs during his high school career
• claims to be able to correctly identify the flag of every country on Earth
Zach Currier #25
• starting in the first midfield
• had two goals against Manhattan
• had seven points in the last three games a year ago after having three in the first 10
• had career highs with three goals, four points and five ground balls in the win over Dartmouth
• named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after the win over Dartmouth
Jake Froccaro #10
• preseason third-team All-America by Inside Lacrosse
• tied career-high with three assists against Manhattan
• second-team All-Ivy League in 2014
• first midfielder in program history to reach at least 50 goals by the end of sophomre year
• is the only midfielder at Princeton ever with at least 20 goals as a freshman and sophomore
• leading returning goal scorer after scoring 27 a year ago
• had 10 goals against Yale to tie 63-year-old school single-game record
• 2013 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
• 2013 honorable mention All-Ivy League
• had 24 goals and 10 assists as a freshman
Bear Goldstein #34
• started every game off his career on defense
• one of two current Princeton players who has started every game of his career (Mark Strabo)
• had 11 ground ball and six caused turnovers
Sam Gravitte #17
• team's No. 2 longstick midfielder
• had a caused turnover and ground ball against Manhattan
• can also face-off
Adam Hardej #16
• starter on attack
• had his first two career points with a goal and assist against Manhattan
Mike MacDonald #8
• selected in the sixth round of the Major League Lacrosse draft by Rochester
• has 135 career points (86G, 49A), 18th all-time at Princeton
• tied for 17th all-time at Princeton with 86 career goals
• needs 14 goals and one assist to become the third Princeton player (Wick Sollers, Tom Schreiber) to have at least 100 career goals and 50 career assists
• named first Ivy League Player of the Week in 2015 after his two goal, three-assist, three caused turnover performance against Manhattan
• has at least one point in 29 straight games
• missed the fall after having arthroscopic surgery on both hips to repair bi-lateral torn labrums; recovery took six months
• 2014 second-team All-Ivy League
• 2014 Tewaaraton Trophy watchlist
• 2013 first-team All-Ivy League
• 2013 honorable mention All-America
• had 43 goals in 2013, the sixth-best single-season total in school history and the most by a Princeton player since Chris Massey had 45 in 1997
Gavin McBride #50
• playing in first offensive midfield when Jake Froccaro plays defense
• had two goals - the first two of his career - against Manhattan
Kip Orban #13
• team captain
• drafted in the third round of the Major League Lacrosse draft by Charlotte
• has at least one goal in 27 straight games, the longest current streak in Division I
• has at least one point in 29 straight games
• had two goals against Manhattan
• 2013 second-team All-Ivy League selection
• had 27 goals and eight assists in 2013, including the game-winning goal in the Ivy League semifinal against Cornell in overtime
Will Reynolds #7
• preaseason third-team All-America by Inside Lacrosse
• starter on close defense
• had his first career goal in the game against Yale
• had three caused turnovers against Lehigh
• had a caused turnover and two ground balls against Rutgers
Aran Roberts #35
• will play on close defense
• had a caused turnover against Manhattan
• grew up in Ireland (sounds like it) before attending high school in California (doesn't sound like it)
Will Rotatori #27
• started first eight games on attack
• now playing in the second midfield
• had five goals and an assist a year ago
Eric Sanschagrin #31
• will be the starter in goal
• made nine saves while allowing two goals in three quarters against Manhattan
• started his 10th career game last week against Manhattan but started a game in the first half of the season for the first time
• started the last five games of the 2014 season
• started the last four games of the 2013 season
Austin Sims #4
• freshman who will play shortstick defensive midfield
• was a high school All-America
Mark Strabo #3
• has started every game of his career
• had 22 ground balls and seven caused turnovers a year ago
GAME BY GAME
MANHATTAN (W, 14-4)
GOALS - Ambler 4, Orban 2, MacDonald 2, McBride 2, Currier 2, Altemus 1, Hardej 1
ASSISTS - MacDonald 3, Froccaro 3, Hardej 1
GOALIES - Sanschagrin (45:00 min, 2 goals-against, 0 saves); O'Connor (7:54 min, 0 goals-against, 3 saves); Blaisdell (7:06 min, 2 goals-against, 2 saves)
PRINCETON RECORDS
Career Points
247 Kevin E. Lowe,(73G, 174A) 1991-94
232 Ryan J. Boyle (70G, 162A) 2001-04
215 Jonathan A. Hess, (82G, 133A) 1995-98
211 Jesse H. Hubbard (163G, 48A) 1995-98
200 Thomas M. Schreiber (106G, 94A)......... 2011-14
192 Christopher G. Massey (146G, 46A) 1995-98
182 David J. Heubeck (83G, 99A) 1977-80
174 Joseph S. (Wick) Sollers (114G, 60A) 1975-77
164 P. Justin Tortolani (120G, 44A) 1989-92
163 David H. Tickner (94G, 69A) 1975-77
153 Gerald P. Ronon (97G, 56A0 1980-83
152 Peter J. Trombino (98G, 54A) 2004-07
148 Sean P. Hartofilis (127G, 21A) 2000-03
147 Ralph N. (Bo) Willis (63G, 84A) 1951-53
146 Donald P. Hahn (50G, 96A) 1949-51
141 Joshua S. Sims (103G, 38A) 1997-2000
139 Robert A. Palumbo (74G, 65A) 1985-88
137 Taylor W. Simmers (72G, 65A) 1991-94
135 Michael S. MacDonald (86G, 49A) 2012-present
Career Goals
163 Jesse H. Hubbard 1995-98
146 Christopher G. Massey 1995-98
126 Sean P. Hartofilis 2000-03
120 Justin P. Tortolani 1989-92
118 William J. Prager 1999-2002
114 Joseph S. (Wick) Sollers 1975-77
106 Thomas M. Schreiber 2011-14
105 Jason M. Doneger 2001-05
103 Joshua S. Sims 1997-2000
98 Peter Trombino 2004-07
97 Scott R. Conklin 1992-95
97 Gerald A. Ronan 1980-83
94 William M. Chaires 1973-75
94 David H. Tickner 1975-77
94 Lorne D. Smith 1996-99
90 Joseph P. McBride 2008-11
86 Jeff J. Froccaro 2010-13
86 Michael S. MacDonald 2012-present
84 Mark L. Kovler 2006-09
83 David J. Huebeck 1977-80
82 Jonathan A. Hess 1995-98
78 Samuel D. Hill 1947-50
77 Tommy Davis 2006-09
76 Scott D. Reinhardt 1991-94
74 Robert M. Thomas Jr. 1977-80
74 Rovert A. Palumbo 1985-88
73 Kevin E. Lowe 1991-94
70 Phillip S. Allen 1960-62
68 Andrew N. Moe 1988-89, 1991-92
65 Christopher R. McHugh 1988-91
63 Ralph N. (Bo) Willis 1951-53
59 Torr J. Marro 1990-93
58 Christopher A. (Kip) Orban 2012-present