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Princeton Beats Dartmouth 16-5, Moves Into FIrst-Place Tie In Ivy League
April 11, 2015 | Men's Lacrosse
Final Stats
The painful three-game losing streak was behind them and couldn't be undone. The ever-changing permutations of the Ivy League race were beyond their control.
All that the members of the Princeton men's lacrosse team could worry about was Dartmouth and the two-goal halftime lead the Tigers had built, on a field where such leads had vanished quickly in the past.
This time? There was nothing to worry about.
Princeton played perhaps its best quarter of the season and broke open a tight game to explode past Dartmouth 16-5 on Scully Fahey Field in Hanover, N.H. The win snapped a three-game losing streak and improved Princeton to 7-4 overall but more importantly 3-1 in the Ivy League, tied with Cornell for first place with two weekends to play.
Princeton led 5-3 at halftime before its practically perfect third quarter, in which the Tigers outcored Dartmouth 7-1 and scored those seven goals on just 12 shots. When it was over, Princeton had turned a close game into a 12-4 rout.
Mike MacDonald had five goals and an assist and Kip Orban scored four of his own.
Princeton also threw a defensive blanket on Dartmouth, limiting the Big Green to five goals and 29 shots and hounding them into 21 turnovers.
NOTES -
* Princeton and Cornell are both 3-1 in the Ivy League, followed by Yale at 3-2, Brown at 2-2, Penn at 2-3 and Dartmouth and Harvard at 1-3.
* The five goals allowed were the fewest by Princeton in an Ivy game since a 13-2 win over Brown in 2012.
* Princeton had nine different players with at least one caused turnover, and three - Bobby Weaver, Sam Gravitte and Austin deButts - had two.
* MacDonald continues to move up the career scoring lists at Princeton. With his five goals, he now has 122 career goals, which moved him past B.J. Prager and Justin Tortolani and into fourth-place all-time at Princeton, behind only Jesse Hubbard (163), Chris Massey (146) and Sean Hartofilis (127). MacDonald also had an assist, giving him 190 career points, two back of Massey for seventh at Princeton.
* MacDonald has had at least three goals in a game eight times in 11 games this year. He also had his second-straight five-goal, one-assist game after doing so in the 16-15 loss to Lehigh Tuesday night.
* Orban moved past Jeff Froccaro into 18th place all-time at Princeton with 89 goals, one away from Jack McBride for 17th. He's also fourth all-time in assists among middies, five away from tying Lorne Smith for third.
* Orban moved past the 30-goal mark for the season and now has 33 for the year. He is the sixth Princeton middie in the last 25 years to reach 30 goals in a season, along with Tom Schreiber, Josh Sims, Mark Kovler, Scott Reinhardt and Lorne Smith.
* Three Princeton players had their first career points. Shortstick defensive middie Austin Sims had a pair of assists in transition, while Greg Merrill and Matt Brophy had their first career goals.
* Sean Connors had his first career two-goal game and first career three-point game with a pair of goals and an assist.
* Gavin McBride had two goals and is the only player with at least one point in every game this year. He now has 17 goals and nine assists this season after having no points last year as a freshman.