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Sean Connors and the Tigers are at Cornell Saturday (3 p.m.)
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Princeton Heads To Cornell For Regular-Season Finale
April 27, 2017 | Men's Lacrosse
PRINCETON (9-4, 4-1 Ivy League) VS. CORNELL (4-8, 2-3 Ivy League)
Saturday, April 29, 2017 • Schoellkopf Field, Ithaca, N.Y. • 3 p.m.
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A year ago, the Princeton men's lacrosse team went into its game against Cornell knowing that the outcome would not impact the Tigers and the Ivy League tournament. The same is true this year, though it's for a reason much more to the Tigers' liking.
Whereas the 2016 season was going to end regardless of the outcome of the last game of the regular-season for Princeton, this year the Tigers know that they will be the No. 2 seed in the Ivy League tournament taking on third-seeded Brown, no matter what happens against Cornell in Ithaca Saturday afternoon.
Of course, this is still Princeton-Cornell. Just like a year ago, when Princeton held off the Big Red 6-5 on Sherrerd Field, this game figures to honor all of the great players on both teams who have made this the best rivalry in Ivy League lacrosse history. The teams meet for the 81st time, with Princeton ahead in the series 41-37 with two ties.
Beyond that, Princeton and Cornell have combined to win 56 Ivy League championships (Cornell with 29, Princeton with 27). Brown is third, with 10, and when Brown won that 10th title a year ago, it marked the first time since 1994 that neither Princeton nor Cornell won at least a share of the championship.
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The Ivy League tournament field is set, no matter what happens in the final weekend of the regular season. Beginning Friday in New Haven, it'll be No. 2 Princeton vs. No. 3 Brown at 3:30 and No. 1 Yale vs. No. 4 Penn at 6 in the semifinals, with the championship game Sunday at noon. The winner will get the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
Princeton can still win a share of the league championship, though. The Tigers need a win over Cornell and a Yale loss to Harvard, which would mean a co-championship with Yale. Even if Princeton and Yale end up tied for the championship, Yale has earned the top seed for the Ivy tournament because of its win over Princeton.
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Princeton leads the Ivy League in seven team statistical categories: scoring offense, shooting percentage, points per game, assists per game, man-up offense, scoring margin and winning percentage. Princeton is in the top five in Division I in all of those categories except winning percentage.
Princeton leads Division I in assists per game. The Tigers had 12 assists on 12 goals a week ago against Harvard.
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Princeton has scored 38 goals in its last three games. Of those 38 goals, eight have come in the first half and 30 have come in the second half.
Princeton is 8 for 56 shooting in the first half of those three games, for a .143 shooting percentage. Princeton is 30 for 76 in the second half of those three games, for a .395 shooting percentage.
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The Princeton-Cornell game will be the first matchup of Michael Sowers and Jeff Teat, both freshmen who lead their teams in scoring. Sowers has 70 points (33G, 37A), while Teat has 60 points (28G, 32A).
Last week against Harvard, Sowers broke the Ivy League record for points by a freshman, previously held by Rob Pannell, who had 67 for Cornell in 2009. Teat last week became just the third Ivy freshman to reach the 60-point mark.
Sowers, with 33 goals, trails Cornell's Sean Greenhalgh (39 in 2002) and Harvard's Jeff Cohen (34 in 2009) for goals in a season by an Ivy freshman. Princeton's Kevin Lowe (43 in 1991) still holds the Ivy record for assists by a freshman.
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Speaking of Sowers, he is the fourth player in Princeton history to reach 70 points in a season. He trails only Mike MacDonald (78 in 2015), Jon Hess (74 in 1997) and Jesse Hubbard (72 in 1996) on the single-season list.
Sowers leads the Ivy League and is fourth in Division I in both points and assists.
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Princeton has two of the top five leads in assists in Division I, with Michael Sowers (fourth) and Zach Currier (fifth, with 32). Currier is the only midfielder in the top 17 in Division I in assists.
Princeton also has three of the top 20 leaders in points in the country: Sowers (fourth), Gavin McBride (ninth), Zach Currier (20th).
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Speaking of Gavin McBride, he led all of Division I in goals scored with 46 heading into this weekend's games. McBride had a career-high seven goals in the win over Harvard last weekend.
He also has five games this year with at least five goals, and he has had at least three goals in 14 of the 18 games in which Matt Madalon has been Princeton's head coach.
McBride is the first Princeton player with five games of at least five goals in a season since Jesse Hubbard did it in 1997.
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Gavin McBride has 46 goals for the season. The Princeton single-season record is 53, set in 1996 by Jesse Hubbard.
McBride is currently tied with Chris Massey (46 in 1996) for the fourth-best single-season total in program history. Hubbard is first with 53, followed by Wick Sollers (49 in 1976) and Mike MacDonald (48 in 2015).
McBride also needs four goals to become the 12th player in program history to reach 100 goals for a career.
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Michael Sowers (70 points) and Gavin McBride (61 points) are the second Princeton duo ever to reach at least 60 points in the same season. The only other one was Wick Sollers (68) and David Tickner (66) in 1976; their 134 points are the most by a Princeton duo on the same season.
Michael Sowers and Zach Currier are the second Princeton teammates to have at least 32 assists in the same season. The only other combination was Kevin Lowe (45) and Taylor Simmers (32) in 1994.
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Austin Sims has 21 goals and 27 points despite missing four games in midseason due to an injury. Sims has two goals and an assist in each of his first two games back, against Dartmouth and Harvard.
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Zach Currier is the only player in program history with at least 50 points and 100 ground balls in the same season. Currier is also one of two middies in program history with at least 20 goals and 30 assists in a season, along with Tom Schreiber (28G, 32A in 2013).
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Chase Williams is the only Princeton shortstick defensive midfielder to have played in all 13 games.
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Should Dawson McKenzie get one more goal, Princeton would have eight players reach double figures in goals for the year. So far, Gavin McBride, Michael Sowers, Zach Currier, Austin Sims, Riley Thompson, Charlie Durbin and Adam Hardej are all in double figures.
The last time Princeton had seven double-figure goal-scorers was in 2006, when Peter Trombino, Scott Sowanick, Mark Kovler, Alex Haynie, Josh Lesko, Tommy Davis and Bob Schneider all did so.
The last time Princeton had at least eight double-figure goal scorers was in 1998, when Jesse Hubbard, Chris Massey, Jon Hess, Josh Sims, Lorne Smith, John Wynne, Seamus Grooms, Rob Torti and Mark Whaling all did so, for a total of nine.
Saturday, April 29, 2017 • Schoellkopf Field, Ithaca, N.Y. • 3 p.m.
Live Video
Live Stats
Listen Live
@tigerlacrosse In-Game Twitter Updates
Cornell Website
Princeton Probable Starters
Career Highs
Career Scoring/Pronunciations
A year ago, the Princeton men's lacrosse team went into its game against Cornell knowing that the outcome would not impact the Tigers and the Ivy League tournament. The same is true this year, though it's for a reason much more to the Tigers' liking.
Whereas the 2016 season was going to end regardless of the outcome of the last game of the regular-season for Princeton, this year the Tigers know that they will be the No. 2 seed in the Ivy League tournament taking on third-seeded Brown, no matter what happens against Cornell in Ithaca Saturday afternoon.
Of course, this is still Princeton-Cornell. Just like a year ago, when Princeton held off the Big Red 6-5 on Sherrerd Field, this game figures to honor all of the great players on both teams who have made this the best rivalry in Ivy League lacrosse history. The teams meet for the 81st time, with Princeton ahead in the series 41-37 with two ties.
Beyond that, Princeton and Cornell have combined to win 56 Ivy League championships (Cornell with 29, Princeton with 27). Brown is third, with 10, and when Brown won that 10th title a year ago, it marked the first time since 1994 that neither Princeton nor Cornell won at least a share of the championship.
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The Ivy League tournament field is set, no matter what happens in the final weekend of the regular season. Beginning Friday in New Haven, it'll be No. 2 Princeton vs. No. 3 Brown at 3:30 and No. 1 Yale vs. No. 4 Penn at 6 in the semifinals, with the championship game Sunday at noon. The winner will get the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
Princeton can still win a share of the league championship, though. The Tigers need a win over Cornell and a Yale loss to Harvard, which would mean a co-championship with Yale. Even if Princeton and Yale end up tied for the championship, Yale has earned the top seed for the Ivy tournament because of its win over Princeton.
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Princeton leads the Ivy League in seven team statistical categories: scoring offense, shooting percentage, points per game, assists per game, man-up offense, scoring margin and winning percentage. Princeton is in the top five in Division I in all of those categories except winning percentage.
Princeton leads Division I in assists per game. The Tigers had 12 assists on 12 goals a week ago against Harvard.
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Princeton has scored 38 goals in its last three games. Of those 38 goals, eight have come in the first half and 30 have come in the second half.
Princeton is 8 for 56 shooting in the first half of those three games, for a .143 shooting percentage. Princeton is 30 for 76 in the second half of those three games, for a .395 shooting percentage.
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The Princeton-Cornell game will be the first matchup of Michael Sowers and Jeff Teat, both freshmen who lead their teams in scoring. Sowers has 70 points (33G, 37A), while Teat has 60 points (28G, 32A).
Last week against Harvard, Sowers broke the Ivy League record for points by a freshman, previously held by Rob Pannell, who had 67 for Cornell in 2009. Teat last week became just the third Ivy freshman to reach the 60-point mark.
Sowers, with 33 goals, trails Cornell's Sean Greenhalgh (39 in 2002) and Harvard's Jeff Cohen (34 in 2009) for goals in a season by an Ivy freshman. Princeton's Kevin Lowe (43 in 1991) still holds the Ivy record for assists by a freshman.
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Speaking of Sowers, he is the fourth player in Princeton history to reach 70 points in a season. He trails only Mike MacDonald (78 in 2015), Jon Hess (74 in 1997) and Jesse Hubbard (72 in 1996) on the single-season list.
Sowers leads the Ivy League and is fourth in Division I in both points and assists.
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Princeton has two of the top five leads in assists in Division I, with Michael Sowers (fourth) and Zach Currier (fifth, with 32). Currier is the only midfielder in the top 17 in Division I in assists.
Princeton also has three of the top 20 leaders in points in the country: Sowers (fourth), Gavin McBride (ninth), Zach Currier (20th).
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Speaking of Gavin McBride, he led all of Division I in goals scored with 46 heading into this weekend's games. McBride had a career-high seven goals in the win over Harvard last weekend.
He also has five games this year with at least five goals, and he has had at least three goals in 14 of the 18 games in which Matt Madalon has been Princeton's head coach.
McBride is the first Princeton player with five games of at least five goals in a season since Jesse Hubbard did it in 1997.
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Gavin McBride has 46 goals for the season. The Princeton single-season record is 53, set in 1996 by Jesse Hubbard.
McBride is currently tied with Chris Massey (46 in 1996) for the fourth-best single-season total in program history. Hubbard is first with 53, followed by Wick Sollers (49 in 1976) and Mike MacDonald (48 in 2015).
McBride also needs four goals to become the 12th player in program history to reach 100 goals for a career.
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Michael Sowers (70 points) and Gavin McBride (61 points) are the second Princeton duo ever to reach at least 60 points in the same season. The only other one was Wick Sollers (68) and David Tickner (66) in 1976; their 134 points are the most by a Princeton duo on the same season.
Michael Sowers and Zach Currier are the second Princeton teammates to have at least 32 assists in the same season. The only other combination was Kevin Lowe (45) and Taylor Simmers (32) in 1994.
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Austin Sims has 21 goals and 27 points despite missing four games in midseason due to an injury. Sims has two goals and an assist in each of his first two games back, against Dartmouth and Harvard.
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Zach Currier is the only player in program history with at least 50 points and 100 ground balls in the same season. Currier is also one of two middies in program history with at least 20 goals and 30 assists in a season, along with Tom Schreiber (28G, 32A in 2013).
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Chase Williams is the only Princeton shortstick defensive midfielder to have played in all 13 games.
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Should Dawson McKenzie get one more goal, Princeton would have eight players reach double figures in goals for the year. So far, Gavin McBride, Michael Sowers, Zach Currier, Austin Sims, Riley Thompson, Charlie Durbin and Adam Hardej are all in double figures.
The last time Princeton had seven double-figure goal-scorers was in 2006, when Peter Trombino, Scott Sowanick, Mark Kovler, Alex Haynie, Josh Lesko, Tommy Davis and Bob Schneider all did so.
The last time Princeton had at least eight double-figure goal scorers was in 1998, when Jesse Hubbard, Chris Massey, Jon Hess, Josh Sims, Lorne Smith, John Wynne, Seamus Grooms, Rob Torti and Mark Whaling all did so, for a total of nine.
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