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Princeton Heads to Franklin Field For Ivy League Opener Against Penn
March 12, 2015 | Men's Lacrosse
| Princeton vs. Penn Franklin Field • Philadelphia, Pa. |
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| Gametime | Saturday, March 14 • 1 p.m. |
| Video/Live Stats |
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| Twitter/Radio | @PUTigers l @pennathletics l Radio - WPRB FM 103.3 |
| Series Info | Princeton leads 64-18 |
| Records |
Princeton 3-1 (0-0 Ivy League); Penn (3-3, 0-0 Ivy League) |
| Game Notes |
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| Princeton | Roster l Schedule l Stats l NCAA Page l @TigerLacrosse |
| Penn |
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The last time Princeton played at Franklin Field, the game included rain, sleet, snow that covered the field, sunshine that melted the snow and a 45-minute delay at halftime for lightning.
It also included an 11-10 Penn win and started Princeton down a path where in the last two seasons, its 12 Ivy League regular games have seen six - exactly half - decided by one goal. Princeton is 1-5 in those games, including 0-3 a year ago.
Before the calendar officially reaches springtime, the Ivy League has already seen six of its seven teams be ranked at least once in the top 20. With a league that has that many strong teams, expect this to be another year of one tight game after another.
Princeton's opens its 2015 Ivy season at Penn, the defending Ivy League tournament champ. The league jumps in in a big way, with Cornell at Yale and Harvard at Brown as well.
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Princeton is 1-0 in one-goal games this year, with a 16-15 win over Johns Hopkins in overtime two weeks ago.
Princeton was 2-7 in one-goal games the last two years.
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Princeton defeated Penn 15-12 a year ago on Sherrerd Field, as Mike MacDonald had two goals and five assists and Ryan Ambler scored four goals.
MacDonald has nine goals and nine assists in three career games against Penn.
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Princeton leads the all-time series against Penn 64-18.
The teams have split the last four meetings, after Princeton had won 21 straight.
Princeton has lost its last two games at Franklin Field.
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Franklin Field was the site of Princeton's first NCAA championship, back in 1992. Princeton defeated Syracuse 10-9 in two overtimes to win the first of its six titles.
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Sam Gravitte, Princeton's longstick midfielder, had the first goal of his career and the first by a Princeton longstick this year in the loss to Maryland. He also had two caused turnovers and three ground balls. He currently leads Princeton in caused turnovers.
In addition to lacrosse last weekend, Gravitte also performed at McCarter Theater in Princeton in the musical “Spring Awakening.” Gravitte was in the show Friday night and then drove to Maryland separately from the team, returning immediately after the game in time for the Saturday night show.
The last two performances of the show were the Thursday and Friday before the Penn game.
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Princeton scored 14, 14 and 16 goals in its first three games, all wins.
Princeton then scored four goals in its loss to Maryland last weekend.
Princeton did not get a point in the Maryland game from any of its players on attack. Kip Orban saw his 29-game streak with at least one goal end; Orban's streak had been the longest active streak in Division I and is the fourth-longest in Princeton history. In addition, Orban and Mike MacDonald had their 31-game scoring streaks end.
The loss to Maryland marked the first time in the three years that they've been playing together that neither McDonald, Orban nor Ryan Ambler had a goal in a game.
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Princeton went into the Maryland game leading the country in assists per game with 10.7 per game. The Tigers did not have an assist against the Terps.
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Princeton senior goalie Eric Sanschagrin has not played against Penn in his first three seasons.
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Princeton has won 26 Ivy League championships, with its most recent league title in 2012.
Cornell is the only school to have won more Ivy titles than Princeton, with 28 for the Big Red. Including years where there have been more than one winner, there have been 79 Ivy League championships awarded; Princeton and Cornell have combined for 54 of them, or 68.4% of them.
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The seven Ivy League teams are a combined 23-10 on the season.
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Princeton is playing its third straight road game, all against teams that made the 2014 NCAA tournament. Princeton has played the last two Saturdays at Johns Hopkins and Maryland.
After this game, Princeton will be at Rutgers Tuesday night; the Scarlet Knights will be the third Big Ten team Princeton has played.
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When Princeton defeated Johns Hopkins two weeks ago, it marked the third straight year that Princeton had played a 16-15 game.
In the entire history of Princeton lacrosse prior to that, going back to 1882, Princeton had played one 16-15 game, against Rutgers in 1979.
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Mike MacDonald needs six goals to become the 10th player in school history to reach 100 career goals. Should he get there, he would also be the third player in program history to reach at least 100 career goals and at least 50 career assists.
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Gavin McBride did not have a point last year as a freshman. This year, he has eight goals and three assists and is the only player to have at least one goal in each of the first four games.
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Will Reynolds, a preseason third-team All-America defenseman, will miss the rest of the season due to a concussion he suffered in the season opener 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.
Princeton also has two players on the Tewaaraton Trophy watch list - MacDonald and Jake Froccaro.
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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
• also had a goal against Maryland
• 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
• had three goals and two assists against Johns Hopkins, including the tying goal with seven seconds remaining
• 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
• team's leading returning point scorer with 43 a year ago (24G, 19A)
• 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
• leads team with five caused turnovers
• had two caused turnovers against Hopkins
• 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
• tied for the team lead with 14 ground balls
• has won 38 of 69 face-offs
• won 13 of 23 against Johns Hopkins
• 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
• Ivy League Player of the Week after having two goals and three assists, while winning six of eight face-offs and having eight ground balls against Johns Hopkins
• had five points for the second straight game after tying career high with three goals and setting new career high with five points against Hofstra
• had two goals against Manhattan
• has seven goals on 11 shots for team-best .636 shooting percentage
• tied for the team lead in ground balls
• started his career with three point in 10 games; has 19 points in the seven 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
• named to the Tewaraaton Trophy watchlist
• missed the Johns Hopkins and Hofstra games due to injury
• returned to have a goal against Maryland
• 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
• is the only current player on the team to have started every game off his career
• had 11 ground ball and six caused turnovers as a freshman
Sam Gravitte #17
• team's No. 1 longstick midfielder
• had his first career goal - and first by a Princeton longstick since Will Reynolds against Yale last year - as well as two caused turnovers against Maryland
• had four ground balls against Johns Hopkins, all on the wing on face-off wins
• has eight ground balls and two caused turnovers
• can also face-off
Adam Hardej #16
• starter on attack
• had a goal against Johns Hopkins
• 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
• named to the Tewaraaton Trophy watchlist
• has 149 career points (94G, 55A), 13th all-time at Princeton
• four-way tie for 13th all-time at Princeton with 94 career goals
• with six goals would be the 10th player in school history to reach 100 for his career
• also needs six goals to become the third Princeton player (Wick Sollers, Tom Schreiber) to have at least 100 career goals and 50 career assists
• had three goals and two assists against Johns Hopkins
• Ivy League Player of the Week each of the first two weeks (shared the award with Harvard's Deke Burns in Week 2)
• 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
• 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
• has eight goals and three assists in four games after having no points as a freshman
• is the only player to have at least one goal in every game this year
• has seven goals on 12 shots
• had three goals and two assists against Johns Hopkins, including the game-winning goal in overtime for his first overtime goal since his junior year of high school
• also scored against Hopkins to tie the game at 14-14 in the fourth quarter
• 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
• had at least one goal in 29 straight games, which had been the longest active streak in Division I, snapped against Maryland
• has the fourth-longest streak in program history, behind Chris Massey (46 games), B.J. Prager (31) and Jason Doneger (30)
• had a career-high four goals and, with two assists, career-high six points against Johns Hopkins
• 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
• the No. 2 longstick midfielder with Will Reynolds out with injury
• 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
• will miss the remainder of the 2015 season after suffering a concussion in the opener against Manhattan
Aran Roberts #35
• freshman who has start the last three games
• Ivy League Rookie of the Week after the Johns Hopkins game
• had two caused turnovers against Hopkins, including caused turnover and ground ball that regained possession in overtime and led to the game-winning goal
• 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 a year ago
• 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 .535 save percentage
• made a career-high high 16 saves in the win over Hofstra
• made 12 saves against Johns Hopkins
• 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
• missed the Maryland game due to an injury
• was a high school All-America
Mark Strabo #3
• had started every game of his career on defense before missing the Hofstra, Hopkins and Maryland games due to injury
• had 22 ground balls and seven caused turnovers a year ago
Riley Thompson #24
• plays mostly with the extra-man unit
• had two assists against Johns Hopkins, including cross-crease feed to Gavin McBride for the game-winning goal in overtime
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)
JOHNS HOPKINS (W, 16-15)
GOALS - Orban 4, MacDonald 3, Ambler 3, McBride 3, Currier 2, Hardej 1
ASSISTS - Currier 3, Ambler 2, Orban 2, Thompson 2, McBride 2, MacDonald 2
GOALIES - Sanschagrin (60:00 min, 15 goals-against, 12 saves)
MARYLAND (L, 11-4)
GOALS - McBride 1, Froccaro 1, Altemus 1, Gravitte 1
ASSISTS - none
GOALIES - Sanschagrin (60:00 min, 11 goals-against, 8 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
149 Michael S. MacDonald (94G, 55A) 2012-present
148 Sean P. Hartofilis (127G, 21A) 2000-03
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 Michael S. MacDonald 2012-present
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
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 A. (Kip) Orban 2012-present
65 Christopher R. McHugh 1988-91
63 Ralph N. (Bo) Willis 1951-53
59 Torr J. Marro 1990-93