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Princeton Falls To Harvard 16-12 Despite McBride's Four
April 23, 2016 | Men's Lacrosse
Final Stats
The fire alarm went off in the Princeton men's lacrosse team's hotel at 7 a.m. Saturday morning. That's not a good start to the day.
Neither is when the other team's face-off man scores eight seconds into the game.
In typical fashion, the 2016 Princeton men's lacrosse team faced any and all obstacles head on and fought hard to the final whistle. Unfortunately for the Tigers, they came Princeton up a bit short - at Harvard and for the year.
Harvard's Will Walker scored six goals to lead the Crimson to a 16-12 win over Princeton in front of 2,213 at Harvard Stadium Saturday afternoon. The loss eliminated Princeton - and Cornell - from any chance at reaching the Ivy League tournament, whose field will consist of Brown, Yale, Penn and Harvard. Princeton finishes its season this coming Saturday at home against Cornell.
Gavin McBride led Princeton with four goals, and Bobby Weaver had a career-high three. Ryan Ambler had a goal and four assists to move into 10th place all-time at Princeton in career scoring.
GAME NOTES
* Harvard's Keegan Michel won the opening face-off and scored eight seconds into the game. Princeton would never lead in the game, though it would be tied 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4 and for the last time at 7-7 on McBride's fourth, which came with 3.3 seconds left in the first half.
* Harvard went up 8-7 with 11:41 left in the third quarter, and it stayed that way for nearly 10 minutes. The Crimson then scored twice in the final 1:41 of the quarter, including Joe Lang's goal wiith 10 seconds left, to make it 10-7. Harvard scored the first two of the fourth quarter to make it a five-goal game.
* Princeton scored five goals in the final 8:06 of the game but could not get closer than three.
* McBride's four goals tied his career high and gave him 23 for the season, tied with Austin Sims for the team lead. McBride has at least three goals in each of his last four games and has at least one point in 27 straight games.
* Zach Currier had two goals, one assist, nine ground balls, a caused turnover and three face-off wins in six attempts. He also played on the face-off wings and in the first and second midfields.
* Ambler now has 75 goals and 91 assists in his career. He moved past Dave Tickner and Justin Tortolani to get to 10th place all-time in points at Princeton, and he moved past Charles Stillwell into seventh all-time in assists. He is also one of four Princeton players, along with Jon Hess, Tom Schreiber and Dave Heubeck, with at least 75 career goals and 90 career assists.
* Princeton was outshot 45-30.