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Tyler Blaisdell and the Tigers host Johns Hopkins Friday at 3 on ESPNU.
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Princeton Hosts Johns Hopkins In 87th Meeting
March 02, 2017 | Men's Lacrosse
Princeton vs. Johns Hopkins
Friday, March 3, 2017 • Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium • 3 p.m.
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The Princeton men's lacrosse team brings an 8-9 record against Johns Hopkins this century into the 2017 edition of the rivalry.
Included in those eight wins is exactly one in Princeton. That was back in 2001, the year that Princeton won the most recent of its six NCAA championships.
Princeton's other seven wins during that time have all come in Baltimore - with five at Homewood Field and two at M&T Bank Stadium.
In fact, the home team in this series is 4-9 since 2000. Last year's win by the Blue Jays in Baltimore was the first win by the home team (excluding the four neutral site games from 2007-10) since 2004.
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Princeton and Johns Hopkins meet for the 87th time.
Johns Hopkins leads the all-time series 57-29, including a 24-game winning streak from 1967-90. Princeton is 17-12 against Hopkins since the streak was snapped in the 1990 NCAA tournament, which was also the first NCAA win in Princeton history. The Tigers are 3-0 against Hopkins in NCAA tournament games.
Princeton and Hopkins first played in 1892, with a 3-2 Princeton win that was the only game the teams played until they met again in 1930. The teams would play in 1931 and 1932, not play from 1933-36 and then play again every year since except for 1944.
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The 2017 game will be the first against Johns Hopkins as Princeton head coach for Matt Madalon, who was the interim head coach for the last five games of last year and is now in his first full season as head coach.
Madalon is a member of the Roanoke athletic Hall of Fame and is a former MajorLeague Lacrosse goalie.
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Princeton has yet to leave home this season and will be playing the fourth of five straight games on Sherrerd Field to start the season. It's the second time in program history that Princeton is playing its first five games at home (1982 was the only other time).
After playing Quinnipiac on Sherrerd Field Tuesday, Princeton will play five of its remaining eight regular season games on the road.
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Tyler Blaisdell made 20 saves in Princeton's 17-5 loss to Johns Hopkins a year ago. It was the first 20-save performance by a Princeton goalie since Alex Hewit against Virginia in 2006.
Blaisdell had a save percentage of .448 last season, but he has been over .600 in each of Princeton's first three games. Actually, he's been at at least .615 in each of the first three games. Through three games, he has made 34 saves and allowed 18 goals for a .654 save percentage.
Blaisdell currently ranks fourth in Division I in save percentage and 10th in Division I (and first in the Ivy League) with a 7.20 goals-against average.
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Freshman Michael Sowers leads Princeton with nine assists and 16 points. His per-game numbers rank sixth and 12th in Division I.
Sowers, the current Ivy League Rookie of the Week, had had at least four points in each game this season. He has more points after three games than any other freshman in Princeotn history, and in fact if he does not have a point in either of his next two games, he'll still have more points after five games than any other Princeton freshman.
In addition, after just three games he ranks 10th in assists and 14th in points by a freshman at Princeton for an entire season.
Sowers is also third in Division I in shooting percentage, with seven goals on 11 shots, for a .636 rate.
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Princeton scored 18 goals in its last two games (against Marist and Hofstra).
Of those 18 goals, Zach Currier, Michael Sowers or Gavin McBride either scored or had an assist on 15 of them.
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Zach Currier, Gavin McBride and Michael Sowers are the only three Princeton players with at least one goal in each of the first three games.
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Zach Currier leads Princeton in goals (8), caused turnovers (4) and ground balls (21).
Currier has 193 career ground balls. The top two ground ball totals in Princeton history belong to face-off men Greg Waller (333, graduated in 1992) and James Mitchell (284, graduated in 1997).
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Gavin McBride has scored at least one goal in 12 straight games and has at least one point in 31 straight games (every game since the start of his sophomore year).
McBride had his streak of consecutive games with at least three goals snapped at seven in the loss to Hofstra. The Princeton record for consecutive games with at least three goals is eight, set by Chris Massey in 1996.
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Princeton was 5 for 5 on extra man opportunities against NJIT. The Tigers are 1 for 9 on EMOs in the last two games.
Johns Hopkins is 8 for 12 on EMOs, and its opponents are 3 for 10.
Hopkins ranks second in Division I in EMO percentage (.667), behind only Marist. The Red Foxes were 1 for 2 against Princeton earlier this season.
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Adam Hardej had one two-goal game in his first three seasons. He's now had two two-goals games in 2017 (NJIT, Hofstra).
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Joel Tinney, Johns Hopkins middie, played at Culver Military Academy with Princeton's Zach Currier, Riley Thompson and Dawson McKenzie.
Jack Rapine, who leads Johns Hopkins in caused turnovers and who has started all four games on defense, was a teammate of Michael Sowers at Upper Dublin High School.
* * *
Bear Goldstein and Michael Sowers are the only two Princeton players to have started every game of their careers.
Goldstein has started all 44 games since he came to Princeton. Sowers has started the three this season.
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Johns Hopkins opened its season on a Tuesday (against Navy, Feb. 7). It is the only mid-week game the Blue Jays have this season.
Princeton will play four Tuesday games this season.
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Johns Hopkins leads Division I in fewest turnovers per game, at 8.75. Princeton is tied for eighth, at 10.67.
* * *
Princeton has won 38 of 73 face-offs through three games, but that number is 13 for 40 in the last two games.
Johns Hopkins has won 42 of 102 face-offs for the season.
* * *
Princeton vs. Johns Hopkins
The site
Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium • Princeton, N.J.
The date
Friday, March 3, 2017 • 3 p.m.
Radio/TV
WPRB FM 103.3/ESPNU
Social media
@tigerlacrosse (Twitter in-game updates)/@Princetonlax (Instagram)
The records
Princeton: 2-1; Johns Hopkins: 4-0
The coaches
Princeton: Matt Madalon
second season at Princeton, 5-3/overall same
Johns Hopkins Dave Pietramala
17th season at Johns Hopkins, 181-69/20th overall, 204-86
The series
Johns Hopkins leads 57-29
Last year
Johns Hopkins defeated Princeton 17-5 • March 5, 2016
Friday, March 3, 2017 • Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium • 3 p.m.
Live Stats
Listen Live
WatchESPN
Princeton Stats
Johns Hopkins website
Princeton Probable Starters
Princeton Career Highs
Princeton Career Scoring/Pronunciation Guide
The Princeton men's lacrosse team brings an 8-9 record against Johns Hopkins this century into the 2017 edition of the rivalry.
Included in those eight wins is exactly one in Princeton. That was back in 2001, the year that Princeton won the most recent of its six NCAA championships.
Princeton's other seven wins during that time have all come in Baltimore - with five at Homewood Field and two at M&T Bank Stadium.
In fact, the home team in this series is 4-9 since 2000. Last year's win by the Blue Jays in Baltimore was the first win by the home team (excluding the four neutral site games from 2007-10) since 2004.
* * *
Princeton and Johns Hopkins meet for the 87th time.
Johns Hopkins leads the all-time series 57-29, including a 24-game winning streak from 1967-90. Princeton is 17-12 against Hopkins since the streak was snapped in the 1990 NCAA tournament, which was also the first NCAA win in Princeton history. The Tigers are 3-0 against Hopkins in NCAA tournament games.
Princeton and Hopkins first played in 1892, with a 3-2 Princeton win that was the only game the teams played until they met again in 1930. The teams would play in 1931 and 1932, not play from 1933-36 and then play again every year since except for 1944.
* * *
The 2017 game will be the first against Johns Hopkins as Princeton head coach for Matt Madalon, who was the interim head coach for the last five games of last year and is now in his first full season as head coach.
Madalon is a member of the Roanoke athletic Hall of Fame and is a former MajorLeague Lacrosse goalie.
* * *
Princeton has yet to leave home this season and will be playing the fourth of five straight games on Sherrerd Field to start the season. It's the second time in program history that Princeton is playing its first five games at home (1982 was the only other time).
After playing Quinnipiac on Sherrerd Field Tuesday, Princeton will play five of its remaining eight regular season games on the road.
* * *
Tyler Blaisdell made 20 saves in Princeton's 17-5 loss to Johns Hopkins a year ago. It was the first 20-save performance by a Princeton goalie since Alex Hewit against Virginia in 2006.
Blaisdell had a save percentage of .448 last season, but he has been over .600 in each of Princeton's first three games. Actually, he's been at at least .615 in each of the first three games. Through three games, he has made 34 saves and allowed 18 goals for a .654 save percentage.
Blaisdell currently ranks fourth in Division I in save percentage and 10th in Division I (and first in the Ivy League) with a 7.20 goals-against average.
* * *
Freshman Michael Sowers leads Princeton with nine assists and 16 points. His per-game numbers rank sixth and 12th in Division I.
Sowers, the current Ivy League Rookie of the Week, had had at least four points in each game this season. He has more points after three games than any other freshman in Princeotn history, and in fact if he does not have a point in either of his next two games, he'll still have more points after five games than any other Princeton freshman.
In addition, after just three games he ranks 10th in assists and 14th in points by a freshman at Princeton for an entire season.
Sowers is also third in Division I in shooting percentage, with seven goals on 11 shots, for a .636 rate.
* * *
Princeton scored 18 goals in its last two games (against Marist and Hofstra).
Of those 18 goals, Zach Currier, Michael Sowers or Gavin McBride either scored or had an assist on 15 of them.
* * *
Zach Currier, Gavin McBride and Michael Sowers are the only three Princeton players with at least one goal in each of the first three games.
* * *
Zach Currier leads Princeton in goals (8), caused turnovers (4) and ground balls (21).
Currier has 193 career ground balls. The top two ground ball totals in Princeton history belong to face-off men Greg Waller (333, graduated in 1992) and James Mitchell (284, graduated in 1997).
* * *
Gavin McBride has scored at least one goal in 12 straight games and has at least one point in 31 straight games (every game since the start of his sophomore year).
McBride had his streak of consecutive games with at least three goals snapped at seven in the loss to Hofstra. The Princeton record for consecutive games with at least three goals is eight, set by Chris Massey in 1996.
* * *
Princeton was 5 for 5 on extra man opportunities against NJIT. The Tigers are 1 for 9 on EMOs in the last two games.
Johns Hopkins is 8 for 12 on EMOs, and its opponents are 3 for 10.
Hopkins ranks second in Division I in EMO percentage (.667), behind only Marist. The Red Foxes were 1 for 2 against Princeton earlier this season.
* * *
Adam Hardej had one two-goal game in his first three seasons. He's now had two two-goals games in 2017 (NJIT, Hofstra).
* * *
Joel Tinney, Johns Hopkins middie, played at Culver Military Academy with Princeton's Zach Currier, Riley Thompson and Dawson McKenzie.
Jack Rapine, who leads Johns Hopkins in caused turnovers and who has started all four games on defense, was a teammate of Michael Sowers at Upper Dublin High School.
* * *
Bear Goldstein and Michael Sowers are the only two Princeton players to have started every game of their careers.
Goldstein has started all 44 games since he came to Princeton. Sowers has started the three this season.
* * *
Johns Hopkins opened its season on a Tuesday (against Navy, Feb. 7). It is the only mid-week game the Blue Jays have this season.
Princeton will play four Tuesday games this season.
* * *
Johns Hopkins leads Division I in fewest turnovers per game, at 8.75. Princeton is tied for eighth, at 10.67.
* * *
Princeton has won 38 of 73 face-offs through three games, but that number is 13 for 40 in the last two games.
Johns Hopkins has won 42 of 102 face-offs for the season.
* * *
Princeton vs. Johns Hopkins
The site
Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium • Princeton, N.J.
The date
Friday, March 3, 2017 • 3 p.m.
Radio/TV
WPRB FM 103.3/ESPNU
Social media
@tigerlacrosse (Twitter in-game updates)/@Princetonlax (Instagram)
The records
Princeton: 2-1; Johns Hopkins: 4-0
The coaches
Princeton: Matt Madalon
second season at Princeton, 5-3/overall same
Johns Hopkins Dave Pietramala
17th season at Johns Hopkins, 181-69/20th overall, 204-86
The series
Johns Hopkins leads 57-29
Last year
Johns Hopkins defeated Princeton 17-5 • March 5, 2016
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