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Princeton, Brown - With Nearly 30 Goals Per Game Between Them - Meet Sunday
March 26, 2015 | Men's Lacrosse
| Princeton vs. Brown Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium • Princeton, N.J. |
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| Gametime | Sunday, March 29 • 11 a.m. |
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| Series Info | Princeton leads 31-23 |
| Records |
Princeton 6-1 (2-0 Ivy League); Brown 7-1 (1-0 Ivy League) |
| Game Notes |
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Mike MacDonald and Kip Orban have been scoring goals at a rapid rate this season.
They are the last two USILA Offensive Players of the Week. Each has had a seven-goal game within the last two weeks. They are moving up into the elite company of all-time Princeton goal scorers.
Why bring all this up?
MacDonald and Orban are tied for the Princeton lead with 22 goals each. Want a little perspective? The two of them combined have three more goals than Brown's Dylan Molloy has all by himself. For those who don't feel like doing the math, Molloy has 41 goals, making him the first player in Division I to reach 40 goals this season.
Molloy did it in eight games - that's more than five goals per game, by the way. In the great history of Princeton lacrosse, only eight players have ever reached 41 goals for a full season. MacDonald, who had 43 two years ago, is one of them.
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Welcome to what could be one of the great shootouts in college lacrosse this season. Or at least that's how it looks before the face-off.
On one side there's Brown, who was the top scoring team in Division I with 16.88 goals per game until Albany put up 21 Wednesday night to edge into the lead. Still, the Bears have put up at least 20 goals twice and at least 17 five times in eight games
In the other corner we have the Princeton Tigers, who score only 12.57 goals per game. The Tigers are an effecient group, shooting an extraordinary .370 as a team, fourth-best in Division I and best in the Ivy League.
And Princeton's offensive numbers are skewed a bit by a four-goal game against defensive behemoth Maryland. Take away that game, and Princeton has scored 14 per game.
In fact, Princeton's goal totals in its six wins have been 11, 12, 14, 14, 16 and 17. For that matter, the losing team in the last five Princeton wins has scored 10, 11, 11, 12 and 15.
So yes, this one could be high-scoring.
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Of course, all of that probably means the final will be 8-6, right?
Princeton-Brown history is littered with low scoring games. Only three times in the last 32 years have both teams reached double figures in the Princeton-Brown game - in 1991, 2002 and last year, when the Bears ran out to a big lead and held off the Tigers 11-10 in the rain in Providence.
Prior to last year's game, the average score of the previous 10 Princeton-Brown games was 9.5-5.2.
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Brown defeated Marist 16-15 in overtime Tuesday night. The Bears led 11-2 in the third quarter before needing OT.
The game-winner came from Kylor Bellistri. Dylan Molloy had eight goals in the game.
Both Princeton and Brown now have won 16-15 overtime games this season after having huge leads disappear. Princeton defeated Johns Hopkins on Gavin McBride's OT goal after leading 7-0.
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Should it come up, the most goals ever scored in a game at Class of 1952 Stadium is 31, back when Princeton defeated Hofstra 17-14 in 2010 in the first game for Chris Bates as Tiger head coach.
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Princeton leads the all-time series with Brown 31-22. Princeton and Brown did not play men's lacrosse until the 1964 season.
By contrast, Princeton first played Yale and Harvard in the 1880s and Cornell and Penn in the 1920s. The first Princeton-Dartmouth game was in 1953.
Princeton and Brown played twice in 2012, in the regular season and in the Ivy League semifinals, and twice in 1994, in the regular season and in the NCAA semifinals.
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Princeton has never scored more than 15 goals in a game against Brown.
The highest single-game total for Brown against Princeton is 16.
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Brown's Will Gural ranks ninth in Division I in face-off winning percentage at .633 (69 for 199).
In its last two games (Rutgers and Yale), Princeton has won 15 of 51 face-offs. As a result, the Tigers were outshot by a combined 70-58 in those two games, with 29 shots in each game.
Princeton did score 23 goals on those 58 shots (40%).
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Mike MacDonald had nine goals and four assists in Princeton's last two games, a 12-11 win over Rutgers and an 11-10 win over Yale.
MacDonald earned Ivy League Co-Player of the Week honors and USILA Offensive Player of the Week honors.
In his last three games, MacDonald has 12 goals and 10 assists, after getting shut out the game before that by Maryland.
MacDonald has 106 career goals, tied with Tom Schreiber for seventh all-time at Princeton, eight away from Wick Sollers for sixth. MacDonald also has 171 career points (106G, 65A), three away from Sollers for eighth.
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Gavin McBride is the only Princeton player to have at least one point in every game this year. McBride, a sophomore, did not have a point last year. He has 10 goals and seven assists through seven games this season.
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Princeton scored four goals in the first 53:38 of last year's game against Brown in Providence. The Tigers then scored five more goals in the next 3:54. In the process, Princeton turned a 10-5 deficit into an 11-10 game with 3:28 left but could never get the goal to tie the game.
Princeton went 2-4 in the Ivy League last year, with three one-goal losses and a two-goal loss. Princeton was 2-7 in one-goal games the last two years combined.
This year? Princeton is now 3-0 in one-goal games, with a two-goal win as well.
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Princeton and Cornell entered the weekend at 2-0 in the Ivy League. Brown and Dartmouth were both 1-0.
Harvard, Penn and Yale are all 0-2.
All three Ivy League games last weekend were decided by one goal, with two in overtime.
Since the first Ivy League tournament in 2010, no team has had three league wins and failed to make the field of four.
The Ivy games yesterday were Yale at Penn and Dartmouth at Cornell.
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Kip Orban leads all Division I midfielders in goals per game and is ninth overall in Division I.
Orban went over the 100-point mark for his career in the win over Yale last weekend.
After his four-goal game against Yale, Orban now has 78 career goals, which ranks him 22nd all-time at Princeton. Orban also has 13 goals in his last three games.
Among pure middies all-time at Princeton, Orban trails only Tom Schreiber (106), Josh Sims (104), Lorne Smith (94) and Mark Kovler (84).
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Brown's Jack Kelly leads the Ivy League in save percentage (.556) and is second in goals-against average (9.45). Kelly made 16 saves against Princeton a year ago in the game in Providence.
Brown's Larken Kemp leads the nation in caused turnovers per game with 2.86.
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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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When Princeton defeated Johns Hopkins, 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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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. Jake Froccaro, also a preseason third-team All-America, played against Manhattan and Maryland but will also miss the rest of the season due to a concussion.
Mark Strabo had started every game of his career before getting injured after the Manhattan game. He has not played since.
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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 four players on the Tewaaraton Trophy watch list - MacDonald and Jake Froccaro were originally named, and Kip Orban and Zach Currier were added.
What Can You Say About ...
Bear Altemus #6
• playing in the second midfield
• had 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
• had his first career assist in the Yale game
Ryan Ambler #14
• second-team All-Ivy League in 2014
• needs four points to reach 100 for his career (48G, 48A)
• second on the team in assists (12) and points (25)
• tied career high with five assists against Rutgers
• had five goals and three assists against Penn
• five goals against Penn tied career high; eight points were new career high
• 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
• father Bob is the all-time leading scorer at Drexel
Austin deButts #30
• playing shortstick defensive midfield
• leads team with 10 caused turnovers
• had three caused turnovers and four ground balls against Yale
• had two caused turnovers against Hopkins
• had a caused turnover and three ground balls against Rutgers
Alistair Berven #40
• has started six games on defense
• played in two games a year ago
• a native of San Francisco who attended Lawrenceville Prep
Tyler Blaisdell #2
• played the second half against Rutgers, making four saves while allowing three goals
• made a save with 30 seconds remaining to preserve 12-11 win
Sam Bonafede #12
• has won 60 of 117 face-offs
• won 17 of 28 face-offs against Penn to earn Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors
• won 7 of 9 in the first quarter against Penn as Princeton built a 7-2 lead and never trailed
• missed the Rutgers game due to injury
• 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
Sean Connors #9
• had a goal and assist against Yale for his first multi-point game
• started for the first time on attack against Rutgers and had an assist
• had a goal against Penn
Zach Currier #25
• starting in the first midfield
• named to the Tewaaraton Trophy watchlist
• 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 assists against Yale
• had two goals against Manhattan
• second on the team in caused turnovers
• leads team in ground balls with 28
Jake Froccaro #10
• preseason third-team All-America by Inside Lacrosse
• named to the Tewaraaton Trophy watchlist
• played in two games but will miss the remainder of the season due to a concussion
• had 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
• has two caused turnovers and 11 ground balls
• had 11 ground ball and six caused turnovers as a freshman
Sam Gravitte #17
• team's No. 1 longstick midfielder
• second on the team in ground balls with 24
• 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 seven ground balls and a caused turnover against Yale
• had five ground balls and a caused turnover against Penn
• had four ground balls against Johns Hopkins, all on the wing on face-off wins
• can also face-off
• played against Maryland after appearing at McCarter Theater the night before and the night of the game in the musical “Spring Awakenings”
Adam Hardej #16
• has played attack, midfield and man-up
• had first career two-goal game against Rutgers, including the only goal Mike MacDonald did not score during the crucial 5-0 fourth-quarter run
• had a goal against Johns Hopkins
• had a goal against Yale
• 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
• is the only player in Princeton men's lacrosse history with at least one career game with seven goals and another career game with at least six assists
• leads team in goals, assists and points
• is third in Division I in points per game, sixth in Division I in assists per game and ninth in Division I in goals per game
• has 171 career points (104G, 61A), ninth all-time at Princeton (three points from Wick Sollers for eighth)
• is tied with Tom Schreiber for seventh all-time at Princeton with 106 goals; needs eight to tie Wick Sollers for sixth)
• is one of three players in program history with at least 100 career goals and 60 career assists (Tom Schreiber, Wick Sollers)
• had nine goals and four assists against Rutgers and Yale to earn Ivy League Player of the Week for the third time this year; was also the USILA Offensive Player of the Week
• tied career high with seven goals against Rutgers, including four during a 5-0 run in the fourth quarter as Princeton turned a 9-7 deficit into a 12-9 lead in what became a 12-11 win
• had two goals and four assists against Yale
• had three goals and six assists to tie career high with nine points against Penn
• 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 10 goals and seven assists in four games after having no points as a freshman
• is the only player to have at least one point in every game this year
• 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 a goal and two assists against Penn
• had two goals and an assist against Hofstra
• had a goal against Yale
• had two asssist against Rutgers
• 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
• leads all Division I middies in goals per game and is ninth overall in Division I
• second on the team team with 22 goals
• ranks 22nd in goals at Princeton with 78, which is also fifth all-time among Princeton middies (Tom Schreiber, Josh Sims, Lorne Smith, Mark Kovler)
• had career high seven goals and career high nine points in the win over Penn to earn USILA Offensive Player of the Week and Ivy League Co-Player of the Week honors
• nine-point day against Penn came one week after steak of 29 straight games with at least one goal was 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 four goals and, with two assists, against Johns Hopkins
• had four goals against Yale
• had three goals and an assist against Hofstra
• had two goals against Rutgers and 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
• made first career start on defense against Yale
• 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
• had a caused turnover against Penn
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 Penn, 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 a goal against Yale
• had an assist against Hofstra
• had five goals and an assist a year ago
Eric Sanschagrin #31
• has a .504 save percentage while starting every game
• made a career-high high 16 saves in the win over Hofstra
• made 12 saves against Johns Hopkins
• made 10 saves against Penn
• 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 last four 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 first career goals against Rutgers
• had two assists against Johns Hopkins, including cross-crease feed to Gavin McBride for the game-winning goal in overtime
• had an assist against Yale
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)
PENN (W, 17-11)
GOALS - Orban 7, Ambler 5, MacDonald 3, McBride 1, Connors 1
ASSISTS - MacDonald 6, Ambler 3, Orban 2, McBride 2
GOALIES - Sanschagrin (60:00 min, 11 goals-against, 10 saves)
RUTGERS (W, 12-11)
GOALS - MacDonald 7, Orban 2, Hardej 2, Thompson 1
ASSISTS - Ambler 5, McBride 2, Connors 1
GOALIES - Sanschagrin (30:00 min, 8 goals-against, 6 saves); Blaisdell (30:00 min, 3 goals-against, 4 saves)
YALE (W, 11-10)
GOALS - Orban 4, MacDonald 2, McBride 1, Connors 1, Hardej 1, Ambler 1, Rotatori 1
ASSISTS - MacDonald 4, Currier 2, Altemus 1, Connors 1,
Thompson 1
GOALIES - Sanschagrin (60:00 min, 10 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
171 Michael S. MacDonald (106G, 65A) 2012-present
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
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 Michael S. MacDonald 2012-present
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
84 Mark L. Kovler 2006-09
83 David J. Huebeck 1977-80
82 Jonathan A. Hess 1995-98
78 Christopher A. (Kip) Orban 2012-present
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