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Princeton Takes To The Road: First Stop, Baltimore
February 26, 2015 | Men's Lacrosse
| Princeton vs. Johns Hopkins • Homewood Field • Baltimore, Md. |
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| Gametime | Saturday, Feb. 28 • 1:00 p.m. |
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| Series Info | Johns Hopkins leads 56-28 |
| Records |
Princeton 2-0; Johns Hopkins 2-2 |
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| Princeton | Roster l Schedule l Stats l @TigerLacrosse |
| Johns Hopkins |
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With two home games under its belt, the Princeton men's lacrosse team hits the road this weekend for the first time in 2015.
First, but hardly last.
When the dust settled - or more appropriately snow settled - on its 14-12 win over Hofstra last Saturday, Princeton had completed 40% of its home schedule. What's left in the 2015 regular season are 11 games, of which eight will be played on the road.
The Tigers are not home again until March 21 against Yale.
Between now and then are four straight road games, including three straight against teams who played in the 2014 NCAA tournament and who are currently ranked 12th, 10th and 11th by the media.
Princeton is at Johns Hopkins Saturday, and that will be followed by a trip the following week to Maryland , and another one week later to Penn. There will then be a midweek game at Rutgers March 17, which means Princeton will be playing half of the Big 10 and the defending Ivy League tournament champion all on the road in its next four.
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Princeton opened its 2005 season - 10 years ago - on March 5 against Johns Hopkins.
The 2015 Princeton-Hopkins game comes on Feb. 28, and the teams have already played six games between them.
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Princeton defeated Hofstra 14-12 last Saturday in a game that started with the field already covered by snow and ended with about three or four inches on Sherrerd Field.
Game time temperature for Princeton's opener against Manhattan was 28 degrees, and it was 25 degrees at game time against Hofstra. The gametime temperature Saturday in Baltimore is supposed to be 22 degrees.
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Princeton and Johns Hopkins have met 84 times, and Hopkins has won exactly
two-thirds of the games, with a 56-28 lead in the series. Johns Hopkins won 24 straight from
1967-90, a run that ended in the 1990 NCAA tournament. The play-by-play man on the ESPN broadcast for this year's game is Quint Kessenich, who was Johns Hopkins' goalie in 1990.
Chris Bates is 3-2 against Hopkins since becoming Princeton's head coach.
The road team has won the last four years in the series. Prior to that, Princeton and Johns Hopkins played four straight years at M&T Bank Stadium, and going back a little further, the road team won in 2005 and 2006, meaning the home team hasn't won a game in this series since 2004. Added together, that's six straight wins by the visiting team, as well as four neutral site games that the teams split.
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Princeton played the game against Hofstra minus three of its most important players due to injury - midfielder Jake Froccaro, longstick midfielder Will Reynolds and defenseman Mark Strabo. Froccaro and Reynolds were both preseason third-team All-Americas, and Strabo, a junior, had started all 29 games of his career prior to the game against Hofstra.
Their status for this game is uncertain.
Gavin McBride started on the first midfield, along with Kip Orban and Zach Currier. Aran Roberts, a freshman, started on defense, and Sam Gravitte moved up to be the top longstick midfielder, backed up by Brian Pickup.
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Mark Strabo, Bear Goldstein and Will Reynolds had a combined 38 starts on defense last year in 13 games. Against Hofstra Princeton started Goldstein - the only current player on the team to have started every game of his career - with sophomore Alistair Berven (second career start) and freshman Aran Roberts (first career start).
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Eric Sanschagrin ranks sixth in Division I in save percentage at .650; he had a career save percentage of .515 prior to this season.
Sanschagrin had a career high 16 saves in the snow game against Hofstra.
Sanschagrin has started 12 games in his career and played 745 career minutes, but he has never played one career second to date against Johns Hopkins.
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Tom Schreiber had 11 goals and three assists for 14 points in four games against Johns Hopkins. Ryan Ambler has the most career points against Johns Hopkins of any current player with six (two goals, four assists) in two games, including two goals and three assists in a 15-9 loss last year on Sherrerd Field.
In addition to Ambler, the only current players to have points against Hofstra are Jake Froccaro (3G, 2A), Mike MacDonald (3G, 1A), Kip Orban (1G, 1A) and Will Himler (1A).
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Hopkins defeated Princeton 15-9 a year ago in a game that was tied 4-4 at the end of the first quarter, before the Blue Jays scored eight of the next nine goals. Ryan Brown had five goals and three assists for Hopkins, who scored 15 goals on 35 shots.
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Princeton is 23-56 against Johns Hopkins in the regular season and 3-0 against Johns Hopkins in the NCAA tournament.
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Princeton's current team has a total of 433 career points.
Four players - Mike MacDonald, Jake Froccaro, Kip Orban and Ryan Ambler - have 369 of those points between them. That would be 85%.
Every other player on the team combined has 64 points.
MacDonald, Froccaro, Ambler and Orban have 62% of Princeton's points through two games this year (26 of 47), even though Froccaro did not play against Hofstra.
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Mike MacDonald has been the Ivy League Player of the Week each of the first two weeks of the season, winning outright the first week and sharing the honor with Harvard's Deke Burns this past week. MacDonald tied his career high of nine points with five goals and four assists against Hofstra; his other nine-point game was a seven-goal, two-assist performance in a 14-13 overtime win over Cornell in the 2013 Ivy tournament semifinals.
MacDonald had one assist in the first half against Hofstra and then had four goals and three assists in third quarter and one more goal in the fourth. He now leads Princeton in goals (seven), assists (seven) and points (14). In fact, he and Burns lead Division I in points per game with 7.0 per game.
A sixth-ground pick of the Rochester Rattlers in the Major League Lacrosse draft, 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).
MacDonald has 91 goals and 54 assists for his career, and he needs nine goals to join Schreiber and Wick Sollers as the only Princeton players ever with at least 100 career goals and 50 career assists. He's also on pace at least for 45 goals and 45 assists; only Dave Tickner has ever had a 30-goal, 30-assist season at Princeton, though Schreiber came close twice, with one season of 32 goals and 28 assists and another of 28 goals and 32 assists. Tickner, a 1977 grad who only played three seasons due to freshman ineligibility and who moved to midfield from attack as a senior, fell six goals short of the 100-50 club.
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Kip Orban has the longest current streak in Division I for consecutive games with at least one goal, with 28 straight. His streak is tied for the fourth-longest in program history - and the longest by a midfielder - behind attackmen Chris Massey (46), B.J. Prager (31) and Jason Doneger (30) and even with Scott Conklin.
Orban had three goals against Hofstra, tying his career high. It was his sixth career three-goal game.
Orban and Mike MacDonald have at least one point in 30 straight games, tied for the 12th-longest current streak in Division I.
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Zach Currier had three point in his first 10 career games last year. Then he added seven more in the last three.
Currier, playing in the first midfield, has seven more points in the first two games of the year, leaving him second on the team in scoring, behind Mike MacDonald. He had his second career three-goal game in the game against Hofstra, and he two assists for a career-high five points. For the year he has five goals on seven shots (.714, third in Division I).
He also made probably the biggest play of the game, with Princeton ahead by two in the fourth quarter but down two men, including one for two minutes, unreleasable. After a Hofstra turnover, Currier maintained possession for Princeton with a tough catch near the sideline and then almost single-handedly ran out the penalty time.
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Freshman Sam Bonafede leads Princeton with 11 ground balls; no other player has more than five. Bonafede has won 20 of 34 face-offs, a percentage of .588.
As a team last year, Princeton won 46% of its face-offs for the year.
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Neither Gavin McBride nor Bear Altemus had a point last year as freshmen.
McBride had two goals against Manhattan and two more against Hofstra. Altemus had one goal in each game, including the first goal of the season, in the game against Manhattan.
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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
• has one goal in each of the first two games
• scored team's first goal of the season - and the first of his career - in the win over Manhattan
Ryan Ambler #14
• second-team All-Ivy League in 2014
• team's leading returning point scorer with 43 a year ago (24G, 19A)
• had four goals in the opener against Manhattan
• had two assists against Hofstra
• 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)
• started 13 of 15 games as a freshman, missing games against Rutgers and Dartmouth due to injury
• father Bob is the all-time leading scorer at Drexel
Austin deButts #30
• playing shortstick defensive midfield
• tied for the team lead in caused turnovers
• 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
• leads team with 11 ground balls
• has won 20 of 34 face-offs
• had his first career point with an assist against Hofstra
• 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
• second on the team in scoring with seven points
• tied career high with three goals and set new career high with five points against Hofstra
• had two goals against Manhattan
• started his career with three point in 10 games; has 14 points in the five games since
• 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
• missed the Hofstra game due to injury
• 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
• is the only current player on the team to have started every game off his career after Mark Strabo missed the game against Hofstra due to injury
• had 11 ground ball and six caused turnovers
Sam Gravitte #17
• team's No. 2 longstick midfielder who was the No. 1 LSM with Will Reynolds out injured against Hofstra
• has four ground balls and two caused turnovers
• 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
• Ivy League Player of the Week each of the first two weeks (shared the award with Harvard's Deke Burns this past week)
• has 144 career points (91G, 54A), 16th all-time at Princeton
• tied for 17th all-time at Princeton with 91 career goals
• needs nine goals to become the third Princeton player (Wick Sollers, Tom Schreiber) to have at least 100 career goals and 50 career assists
• tied career-high (set originally against Cornell in the 2013 Ivy tournament) with nine points against Hofstra with five goals and four assists; had one assist in the first half and then eight second half points, including a four-goal, three-assist third quarter
• had a two goal, three-assist, three caused turnover performance against Manhattan
• has at least one point in 30 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
• had two goals and an assist against Hofstra
• 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 28 straight games, the longest current streak in Division I
• tied with Scott Conklin for the fourth-longest streak in program history, behind Chris Massey (46 games), B.J. Prager (31) and Jason Doneger (30)
• has at least one point in 30 straight games
• had three goals and an assist against Hofstra
• 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
Brian Pickup #33
• can play longstick midfield or close defense
• returned to play against Hofstra after missing all of last year and the opener this year due to injury
Rob Posniewski #41
• senior playing on the man-down defensive unit
Will Reynolds #7
• preaseason third-team All-America by Inside Lacrosse
• missed the game against Hofstra due to injury
• 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
• freshman who made his first career start in the Hofstra game
• had a caused turnover against Hofstra and 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 an assist against Hofstra
• had five goals and an assist a year ago
Eric Sanschagrin #31
• has a .641 save percentage, sixth-best in Division I
• made a career-high high 16 saves in the win over Hofstra
• made nine saves while allowing two goals in three quarters against Manhattan
• started the last five games of the 2014 season
• started the last four games of the 2013 season
Austin Sims #4
• freshman shortstick defensive midfielder
• had three ground balls against Hofstra
• was a high school All-America
Mark Strabo #3
• had started every game of his career on defense before missing the Hofstra game due to injury
• 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, 9 saves); O'Connor (7:54 min, 0 goals-against, 3 saves); Blaisdell (7:06 min, 2 goals-against, 2 saves)
HOFSTRA (W, 14-12)
GOALS - MacDonald 5, Orban 3, Currier 3, McBride 2, Altemus 1
ASSISTS - MacDonald 4, Currier 2, Ambler 2, Rotatori 1, Orban 1, Bonafede 1, McBride 1
GOALIES - Sanschagrin (60:00 min, 12 goals-against, 14 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, 56A) 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
144 Michael S. MacDonald (91G, 53A) 2012-present
141 Joshua S. Sims (103G, 38A) 1997-2000
139 Robert A. Palumbo (74G, 65A) 1985-88
137 Taylor W. Simmers (72G, 65A) 1991-94
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
91 Michael S. MacDonald 2012-present
90 Joseph P. McBride 2008-11
86 Jeff J. Froccaro 2010-13
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
61 Christopher A. (Kip) Orban 2012-present
63 Ralph N. (Bo) Willis 1951-53
59 Torr J. Marro 1990-93