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Princeton Falls To Efficient Stony Brook Despite Five From Orban
April 04, 2015 | Men's Lacrosse
Final Stats
The crowd of 1,246 at Stony Brook's LaValle Stadium Saturday afternoon was more than the total number of fans that had seen every other Princeton-Stony Brook game ever played before this one. Okay, so that was only two games, back in the early 1990s, and they drew only 1,168 between them.
For the home fans in the group, it was nothing that they haven't seen all season from their 20th-ranked Seawolves, who used their incredibly efficient offense to churn out a 13-10 win over Princeton and improve to 9-2 on the season. The Tigers, ranked 12th, fell to 6-3 with their second-straight defeat.
It was Stony Brook's first win over Princeton after the Tigers won both games, back in 1992 and 1993.
Stony Brook came into the game with the No. 1 team shooting percentage in Division I at .414 and did nothing in this one to hurt that number. In fact, the Seawolves improved on it, shooting 13 for 30, or .433.
Princeton led 4-1 at the end of the first quarter but trailed 7-6 at the intermission and 8-6 early in the third. Kip Orban and Mike MacDonald tied it, but the Seawolves then scored five of the next seven the rest of the way.
Princeton gets back on the field quickly, playing Tuesday night at Lehigh in a 7:30 face-off. After that, it's three straight Ivy League games to end the regular season, beginning at Dartmouth Saturday.
NOTES -
* Princeton's previous game, a 10-8 loss to Brown, featured a combined 18 goals on 96 shots (.188). The Princeton-Stony Brook game featured 23 goals on 59 shots, for a combined .390.
* Kip Orban scored five of Princeton's 10 goals, on eight shots. Orban was shut out in the loss to Brown, which marked the second time this year that he had not scored a goal in a game, after being goal-less against Maryland. In the two games after being shut out, Orban now has 12 goals on 15 shots.
* Orban now has 83 career goals, tied with Dave Heubeck for 20th all-time at Princeton.
* Mike MacDonald had three goals, giving him 112 for his career, two away from Wick Sollers for sixth all-time at Princeton. He also has 178 career points, four away from Heubeck for seventh.
* Ryan Ambler had a goal and three assists. His first assist made him the 30th player in program history to reach 100 career points.
* Austin deButts, who leads all Division I shortsticks in caused turnovers per game, had two, giving him 14 for the season.
* Bear Altemus had a goal for the Tigers, his fourth of the year.
* Gavin McBride had an assist, keeping alive his streak as the only player on the team with at least one point in every game.
* Sam Bonafede won 12 of 21 face-offs. Zach Currier won 2 of 5 face-offs and had a team-best eight ground balls.
* Stony Brook's Brody Eastwood matched Orban with five goals on eight shots.