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MacDonald Is Ivy Co-Player Of The Year; Orban First-Team, Five Honored
April 29, 2015 | Men's Lacrosse
Mike MacDonald began 2015 hoping to bounce back from a sub-par junior year and two surgically repaired hips. He seems to have done just fine.
MacDonald has put up huge numbers all season, and to his growing list of records he now adds the distinction of being the Ivy League Co-Player of the Year and a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection.
Kip Orban was also a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection. Zach Currier and Bear Goldstein were named to the All-Ivy League second-team, and Ryan Ambler was an honorable mention choice.
MacDonald, who shared the Player of the Year award with Brown's Dylan Molloy, is Princeton's ninth Ivy Player of the Year and first since Tyler Fiorito in 2012. MacDonald was also a first-team All-Ivy selection for the second time in his career.
MacDonald leads Princeton in goals (43), assists (28) and points (71). He ranks third on Princeton's single-season points list, one away from tying Jesse Hubbard for second and three away from the record held by Jon Hess.
He ranks fourth in Division I in points per game and fifth in goals per game. He has had at least three goals nine times this season in 13 games, and he is the only player in program history with at least 40 goals and at least 20 assists in the same season.
Orban leads all Division I midfielders in goals with 40, and he is the first Ivy middie in 22 years - and seventh ever - to reach 40 goals in a season. Orban has at least three goals in eight of Princeton's 13 games, with a high game of seven against Penn.
Orban's 96 career goals are third all-time among Princeton midfielders. This is his first time earning first-team honors.
Currier is Princeton's do-everything midfielder, who can face-off or play the wings on face-offs, is in the first offensive midfield and often plays on the defensive end. He has nine goals and 13 assists, and his 67 ground balls are the most by a Princeton shortstick in 15 years (with one more, it would be the most by a shortstick in 18 years) and are 25 more than the next highest total on the team.
Goldstein is the only current Princeton player who has started every game of his career. A defenseman, he has six caused turnovers and 18 ground balls.
Ambler 21 goals (third-best on the team) and 24 assists (second-best on the team) for 45 points (third-best on the team, one behind Orban). He needs four goals to become the 13th player in program history to have at least 60 goals and 60 assists in a career.
Princeton, the Ivy League tri-champion, faces Cornell in the Ivy League semifinals Friday at 5 at Brown's Stevenson Field.
The complete All-Ivy League team:
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Dylan Molloy, Brown (So., A – Setauket, N.Y.)
Mike MacDonald, Princeton (Sr., A — Georgetown, Ont.)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Ben Reeves, Yale (Fr., A – Macedon, N.Y.)
COACH OF THE YEAR
*Lars Tiffany, Brown
FIRST-TEAM ALL-IVY
*Dylan Molloy, Brown (So., A – Setauket, N.Y.)
Matt Donovan, Cornell (Sr., A — Morristown, N.J.)
*Mike MacDonald, Princeton (Sr., A — Georgetown, Ont.)
*Connor Buczek, Cornell (Sr., M — Cincinnati)
Phil Hession, Dartmouth (Sr., M — Canton, Mass.)
*Kip Orban, Princeton (Sr., M — Westport, Conn.)
Matt McMahon, Penn (Sr., D — Glen Ridge, N.J.)
Michael Quinn, Yale, (Jr., D — Port Washington)
*Jordan Stevens, Cornell (Sr., D — Smithtown, N.Y.)
*Jack Kelly, Brown (Jr., G — West Islip, N.Y.)
SECOND-TEAM ALL-IVY^
Devin Dwyer, Harvard (Jr., A — Garden City, N.Y.)
Nik Doktor, Penn (Sr., A — Rochester, N.Y.)
Conrad Oberbeck, Yale (Sr., A — Greenwich, Conn.)
Larken Kemp, Brown (So. LSM — Greenwich, Conn.)
Zach Currier, Princeton (So. — Peterborough
John Hogan, Cornell (Sr., M — Arnold, Md.)
Bear Goldstein, Princeton (So., D — Dallas)
Brian Fischer, Harvard (Sr., LSM — Garden City, N.Y.)
Robert Osgood, Dartmouth (Sr., D — Marblehead, Mass.)
Alec Tulett, Brown (So., D — Toronto)
Bryan Moore, Harvard (Jr., G — Baltimore)
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY
Walker Kirby, Harvard (Jr., M — Morristown, N.J.)
Christian Knight, Cornell (So., G — Baltimore)
Eric Natale, Yale (Sr. G, — Westminster, Md.)
Dan Lintner, Cornell (Sr., A — Courtice, Ont.)
Joe McCallion, Penn (Sr., M — Narberth, Pa.)
Ryan Ambler, Princeton (Jr., A — Rydal, Pa.)
Nick Piroli, Brown (Sr., A — Black River, N.Y.)
Ian Adrey, Harvard (Jr. M — Greenwich, Conn.)
Joe Lang, Harvard (Fr., M — Mill Valley, Calif.)
*-unanimous selection
^-second team expanded to 11 due to ties in the voting