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Princeton Falls To No. 3 Yale In Yet Another 11-10 Game
March 26, 2016 | Men's Lacrosse
Final Stats
Princeton came into the game off a 10-goal loss. Yale came in unbeaten, ranked third in the country and leading the nation in scoring defense.
Final score? Of course it was 11-10. What else would it be?
The incredible run of one-goal Princeton-Yale men's lacrosse games continued Saturday afternoon, as the Tigers and Bulldogs again were separated by a single score. This time, it was Yale who came out on top, holding on for an 11-10 win over the Tigers. Sophomore Austin Sims had a career-high four goals for the Tigers.
The game marked the seventh-straight year - every year that Chris Bates has been the Princeton head coach - that the two have played a one-goal game in the regular season, and that doesn't even incude last year's Ivy League tournament championship game.
In fact, of Princeton's last 16 games, three have now been 11-10 games against the Bulldogs.
The win improved Yale to 7-0 overall and 2-0 in the Ivy League. Princeton is now 2-5, 0-2.
The loss notwithstanding, Princeton could leave New Haven feeling good about two things. First, the Tigers rebounded strongly after last weekend's 20-10 loss to Penn.
Second, there is Yale's own recent history, and the Bulldogs have three times gone from 0-2 in the league to come all the way back and win the Ivy tournament.
GAME NOTES
* Princeton trailed 11-10 with a little less than four minutes to go. Yale was able to control the ball nearly all of the remainder of the way, taking five shots that all went wide. The shot clock was put on with a little less than a minute remaining, and Princeton got the ball back with just under 30 seconds to go. The last chance ended when the Tigers were called for being offsides.
* Austin Sims had followed up his three-goal game last week against Penn with four more goals against Yale. Sims, a sophomore who did not have a goal a year ago, is now tied with Ryan Ambler for the team lead with 12 goals on the season. Sims scored three of his goals against Yale after halftime, including two in the first 1:27 of the third quarter.
* Zach Currier had two goals, six ground balls, a caused turnovers and five face-off wins in seven attempts. Currier had Princeton's 10th goal, making it an 11-10 game with 4:58 to go.
* Princeton fell behind 3-0 in the first eight minutes. The second Yale goal came off a caused turnover on a clearing attempt when Bulldog defenseman Robert Mooney scored into an empty net from 35 yards away. The third goal came on another clearing attempt, when Ben Reeves checked the ball out of Princeton goalie Tyler Blaisdell's stick and had it roll into the goal.
* Princeton became the first team this season to reach double figures against Yale, who came in allowing 6.3 goals per game, the best in Division I.
* Gavin McBride had two goals and an assist and now has at least one point in 22 straight games. Riley Thompson did not have a goal for the first time this season but did have two assists.
* Austin deButts had two caused turnovers and two ground balls. Ryan Ambler also had two caused turnovers, as well as a goal and assist.