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Princeton Falls To Cornell, Will Face Big Red Again In Ivy Semifinals
April 25, 2015 | Men's Lacrosse
Final stats
The Princeton men's lacrosse team will head to Providence this coming Friday hoping that history will repeat itself.
The kind from two years ago. Not from today's second quarter.
Cornell played about as perfect a second quarter as a team can play, erasing an early Princeton lead and turning it into a 15-10 win over the Tigers in the regular season finale for both.
Cornell outscored Princeton 9-0 and outshot the Tigers 24-4 in that impeccable second quarter, after Princeton had put together a 5-0 start to the game in the first quarter.
The result is that Princeton and Cornell will now meet again in six days (5 pm start in Providence), this time in the Ivy League tournament semifinals at Brown. And that's where Princeton wants history to repeat itself.
It was two years ago that Cornell blitzed Princeton 17-11 in the regular season finale, only to have Princeton turn around six days later and win 14-13 in overtime in the Ivy semifinals.
Princeton would have hosted the tournament had it won, and it was looking like that after the first 15 minutes, which ended with Princeton ahead 5-0. Cornell's John Edmonds scored to start the second quarter, and it was 5-5 just over five minutes into the quarter. The lead grew to 9-5 at the break and 10-5 early in third third.
Princeton wouldn't get closer than two the rest of the way, that at 10-8 and 11-9.
Kip Orban led Princeton with four goals, while Mike MacDonald had three goals and two assists.
NOTES -
* Princeton and Cornell shared the Ivy League championship with the Big Red win. Brown earned a share with its 17-8 win over Dartmouth, as well as the top seed and host spot. Yale would earn a share with a win later over Yale.
* Cornell will be the tournament's second seed and will play third-seeded Princeton. Brown, the top seed, will play fourth-seeded Yale. The tournament winner gets the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
* Orban's four goals gave him 40 for the season, making him the first Princeton midfielder ever to get 40 goals in a season. Orban had entered the day tied with Josh Sims for the school record for goals in a season by a middie. Orban also has 96 career goals, third-best by a Princeton middie, behind Tom Schreiber (106) and Sims (103).
* MacDonald now has 43 goals and 28 assists in the season. He became the third Princeton player to reach 70 points in a season, joining Jon Hess (74 in 1997) and Jesse Hubbard (72 in 1996).
* MacDonald and Orban are the first Princeton teammates to reach 40 goals in a season since Jason Doneger and Sean Hartofilis both had 41 in 2003.
* MacDonald is tied for seventh (with himself) on Princeton's single-season goals list with 43. He and Chris Massey are the only two Princeton players ever to have two seasons of at least 43 goals.
* Ryan Ambler had two goals and two assists. Gavin McBride had one goal and one assist.
* Cornell won 20 of 29 face-offs and had a 38-24 edge in ground balls.