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Late Goal Gives Lehigh A 16-15 Win Over Princeton
April 08, 2015 | Men's Lacrosse
Final Stats
If you're only going to make one trip to play at an opponent every 87 years, you might as well make it exciting.
Princeton and Lehigh, meeting for the first time in Bethlehem since 1928, played an entertaining game Tuesday night, one that saw the teams combine for 31 goals on 75 shots. Ultimately, it was Lehigh who also got the win, as Dan Taylor's goal with 15.6 seconds left snapped the last of the 11 ties and gave the Mountain Hawks a 16-15 win.
The teams played the last 39:22 of the game either tied or with one team up by a goal. Princeton fell to 6-4 overall, while Lehigh is now 5-8.
The Tigers finish their regular season with three Ivy League games in a row, beginning Saturday at Dartmouth. Princeton is still very much in the hunt for a spot in the Ivy tournament and for the league title.
Lehigh ran out to a 7-3 lead in the second quarter before Princeton came back to tie it at 7-7 and then go up 8-7. It would be back-and-forth from there, with Princeton's last lead at 15-14 on Kip Orban's goal with 4:14 left.
NOTES
* Mike MacDonald had five goals and an assist for Princeton. He now has 117 career goals, one behind B.J. Prager for fifth all-time at Princeton and three away from Justin Tortolani for fourth. MacDonald also has 184 career points, seventh-best at Princeton, eight away from Chris Massey for sixth.
* Gavin McBride had a career-high four goals for Princeton. He remains the only player with at least one point in every game this year.
* Ryan Ambler had a goal and four assists for the Tigers. He now leads the team with 22 assists for the season.
* Princeton has now played four 16-15 games in the last three seasons. Prior to that, Princeton had played one 16-15 game in the entire history of lacrosse at the school. Princeton defeated Johns Hopkins 16-15 earlier this year on McBride's overtime goal.
* Princeton scored 15 goals on 30 shots. The Tigers were outshot 45-30.
* Tyler Blaisdell made 12 saves in his first career start. He made three of his saves while the game was tied at 15-15.
* Zach Currier had a goal, three assists and six ground balls.
* The game marked the second straight year that Princeton and Lehigh played a thriller. A year ago, Princeton tied the game with 2.7 seconds left on an Orban goal and then won it 10-9 in the second OT on a Tom Schreiber goal. The teams hadn't met since the 1940s prior to that.
* Princeton is 2-1 in the Ivy League, tied with Brown, just behind Cornell (3-1) as no league team remains unbeaten. Yale is 2-2 in the league. Dartmouth and Harvard are both 1-2, and Penn is 1-3. The top four teams advance to the Ivy League tournament.