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Mike Morean and the Tigers host NJIT Tuesday (6)
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Princeton Hosts NJIT In Tuesday Night Matchup
March 04, 2018 | Men's Lacrosse
PRINCETON (1-2) vs. NJIT (0-6)
Tuesday, March 6, 2018 • Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium • Princeton, N.J. • 6 p.m.
Series - Princeton leads 2-0
Last meeting - Princeton defeated NJIT 22-8 • Feb. 18, 2017
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The Princeton men's lacrosse team is in the middle of opening its season with three of its most established rivals and two of its newer ones.
In fact, it you're into history, here are the first five Princeton opponents and the series histories:
Monmouth - first meeting
Virginia - 25th meeting, including two in NCAA championship games
Johns Hopkins - 88 meetings
NJIT - third meeting
Rutgers - 96th meeting
You might also notice that Princeton is playing all three of New Jersey's other Division I opponents during that run. The third meeting between Princeton and NJIT comes in Game 4 for the Tigers and Game 7 for the Highlanders, as opposed to the season opener that the other two were.
Both teams come into the game on quick turnarounds after losses this past Saturday. Princeton fell at Hopkins 16-9, while NJIT lost to Quinnipiac 18-6.
Princeton vs. NJIT
Five Storylines
* The Face-Off
Both Princeton and NJIT have struggled facing-off so far this season. Princeton has won 28 of 84, for .333. NJIT has won 40 of 137, for .292.
The teams have used a combined 10 face-off men so far, and none of those 10 has won at least 50 percent.
Princeton has allowed 157 shots through three games, which means that Tyler Blaisdell has seen better than 51 per game. The totals so far have been 57 from Monmouth, 48 from Virginia and 52 from Johns Hopkins.
That's a lot of shots. Princeton itself averages 36.3 shots per game.
NJIT's opponents have averaged 45.2 shots per game. NJIT has taken 24.5 shots per game. Â
These two areas are obviously related. The face-off differential leads directly to the shot differential, and both teams are playing a lot of defense.
* Shooting percentages
Princeton led Division I in shooting percentage a year ago at .357 as a team. The 2018 Tigers are shooting .303 as a team so far, which is still very good.
Nobody is shooting any better than sophomore Phillip Robertson, who is 8 for 8 on the season, with at least two goals in every game. Robertson is also 11 for 12 for his career, and his only career miss went wide, meaning none of his shots has ever been saved by a goalie.
Emmet Cordrey is not quite at that level, but his shooting has been great too. Cordrey, the junior, had three goals for his career prior to this season and then did not score against Monmouth.
In the last two games, though, Cordrey has scored four more times, three against UVa and another against Hopkins.
Cordrey's four goals have come on just six shots.
On the other hand, if you take Robertson and Cordrey away, the rest of the team is shooting .221.
As for NJIT, the Highlanders shoots .286 as a team. The top two scorers on the team are Aaron Foster (16G, 4A) and Cole Robillard (6G, 2A). Between them, they are shooting 22 for 57, or .386.
The rest of the team combined is shooting .222, or basically the same as Princeton.
* Fastest to 100
Michael Sowers finished his freshman season, which was 15 games, with a Princeton single-season record 82 points (41G, 41A).
So far through three games this year, Sowers has 15 points (5G, 10A). Added together, he now has 46 goals and 51 assists.
As insane as it sounds, Sowers is already 25th all-time at Princeton in career assists. He also stands on the verge of becoming the 35th player in program history to reach 100 career points.
In fact, he needs three points to reach that 100-point mark. With 18 career games, he has three games to get those three points to make him the fastest to 100 in program history.
Currently the fastest has been David Tickner and Wick Sollers, who both got there in 22 games and both in the same game in 1976.
* Jersey fresh
Princeton is playing NJIT, Monmouth and Rutgers, the other three Division I schools in New Jersey. NJIT and Monmouth play each other in April. Rutgers is only playing Princeton.
Princeton's last in-state non-Rutgers oponent before NJIT and Monmouth was FDU-Madison, whom the Tigers played in 1985. Before that, the last New Jersey opponent was Stevens Tech, back in 1946. Princeton's last in-state non-Rutgers oponent was FDU-Madison, whom the Tigers played in 1985. Before that, the last New Jersey opponent was Stevens Tech, back in 1946.
Princeton's rivalry with Stevens actually dates back to1886, two years before Princeton played Rutgers for the first time. And Stevens was the last team Princeton played in 1893 before dropping the sport until 1921. A year earlier, in 1892, Princeton played a game against Lawrenceville.
Princeton and Stevens played four times in the 1920s and then three times in the 1940s, and that was that. Meanwhile, the Princeton-Rutgers series has been an annual event since 1921, other than 1944 and 1945. Princeton and Rutgers will play Saturday on Sherrerd Field.
* Youth movement
It's easy to forget that Michael Sowers is a sophomore, but he is. In fact, Princeton is starting two sophs (Sowers, Phillip Robertson) and a freshman (Chris Brown)on attack and another sophomore (Connor McCarthy) in the midfield.
Those four have combined for 20 of Princeton's 33 goals and 19 of Princeton's 22 assists.
Other notes
* Tyler Blaisdell has started 35 straight games in goal for Princeton.
* Aaron Forster has scored 16 of NJIT's 42 goals, or 38 percent.
* Freshman longstick midfielder Andrew Song was the Ivy League Rookie of the Week after the game against Virginia, in which he had a goal, three ground balls, two caused turnovers and two face-off wins. Only five other players have had at least one in each of those categories during a game since caused turnovers became a stat in 2009 - Paul Barnes, Peter Smyth, Jake and Jeff Froccaro and of course Zach Currier. Song leads Princeton with six caused turnovers, more than twice the next-best total, and is second on the team with nine ground balls, one behind Austin Sims for the team lead
* Freshman Chris Brown is second on the team with 11 points, behind Michael Sowers, who has 15. Brown has at least one goal and one assist in each of the first three games.
* There is a lot of experience between the two starting goalies, both of whom have seen a lot of shots so far this season and in their careers. NJIT goalie Nick Marzullo has started 37 career games, and he and Princeton goalie Tyler Blaisdell have started a combined 72 games. Also between them, they have seen 2,990 shots; 1,661 for Marzullo and 1,329 for Blaisdell.
* Princeton is 2-0 all-time against NJIT, with wins of 21-4 (in 2016) and 22-8 (2017). This will be the third game in the series, and all three will have been in Princeton.
* Defenseman George Baughan missed the first two games due to injury before making his debut against Johns Hopkins.
Tuesday, March 6, 2018 • Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium • Princeton, N.J. • 6 p.m.
Series - Princeton leads 2-0
Last meeting - Princeton defeated NJIT 22-8 • Feb. 18, 2017
Live Video
Live Stats
Listen Live
@tigerlacrosse In-Game Twitter Updates
NJIT Website
Tickets
Princeton Probable Starters
Career Highs
Career Scoring/Pronunciations
The Princeton men's lacrosse team is in the middle of opening its season with three of its most established rivals and two of its newer ones.
In fact, it you're into history, here are the first five Princeton opponents and the series histories:
Monmouth - first meeting
Virginia - 25th meeting, including two in NCAA championship games
Johns Hopkins - 88 meetings
NJIT - third meeting
Rutgers - 96th meeting
You might also notice that Princeton is playing all three of New Jersey's other Division I opponents during that run. The third meeting between Princeton and NJIT comes in Game 4 for the Tigers and Game 7 for the Highlanders, as opposed to the season opener that the other two were.
Both teams come into the game on quick turnarounds after losses this past Saturday. Princeton fell at Hopkins 16-9, while NJIT lost to Quinnipiac 18-6.
Princeton vs. NJIT
Five Storylines
* The Face-Off
Both Princeton and NJIT have struggled facing-off so far this season. Princeton has won 28 of 84, for .333. NJIT has won 40 of 137, for .292.
The teams have used a combined 10 face-off men so far, and none of those 10 has won at least 50 percent.
Princeton has allowed 157 shots through three games, which means that Tyler Blaisdell has seen better than 51 per game. The totals so far have been 57 from Monmouth, 48 from Virginia and 52 from Johns Hopkins.
That's a lot of shots. Princeton itself averages 36.3 shots per game.
NJIT's opponents have averaged 45.2 shots per game. NJIT has taken 24.5 shots per game. Â
These two areas are obviously related. The face-off differential leads directly to the shot differential, and both teams are playing a lot of defense.
* Shooting percentages
Princeton led Division I in shooting percentage a year ago at .357 as a team. The 2018 Tigers are shooting .303 as a team so far, which is still very good.
Nobody is shooting any better than sophomore Phillip Robertson, who is 8 for 8 on the season, with at least two goals in every game. Robertson is also 11 for 12 for his career, and his only career miss went wide, meaning none of his shots has ever been saved by a goalie.
Emmet Cordrey is not quite at that level, but his shooting has been great too. Cordrey, the junior, had three goals for his career prior to this season and then did not score against Monmouth.
In the last two games, though, Cordrey has scored four more times, three against UVa and another against Hopkins.
Cordrey's four goals have come on just six shots.
On the other hand, if you take Robertson and Cordrey away, the rest of the team is shooting .221.
As for NJIT, the Highlanders shoots .286 as a team. The top two scorers on the team are Aaron Foster (16G, 4A) and Cole Robillard (6G, 2A). Between them, they are shooting 22 for 57, or .386.
The rest of the team combined is shooting .222, or basically the same as Princeton.
* Fastest to 100
Michael Sowers finished his freshman season, which was 15 games, with a Princeton single-season record 82 points (41G, 41A).
So far through three games this year, Sowers has 15 points (5G, 10A). Added together, he now has 46 goals and 51 assists.
As insane as it sounds, Sowers is already 25th all-time at Princeton in career assists. He also stands on the verge of becoming the 35th player in program history to reach 100 career points.
In fact, he needs three points to reach that 100-point mark. With 18 career games, he has three games to get those three points to make him the fastest to 100 in program history.
Currently the fastest has been David Tickner and Wick Sollers, who both got there in 22 games and both in the same game in 1976.
* Jersey fresh
Princeton is playing NJIT, Monmouth and Rutgers, the other three Division I schools in New Jersey. NJIT and Monmouth play each other in April. Rutgers is only playing Princeton.
Princeton's last in-state non-Rutgers oponent before NJIT and Monmouth was FDU-Madison, whom the Tigers played in 1985. Before that, the last New Jersey opponent was Stevens Tech, back in 1946. Princeton's last in-state non-Rutgers oponent was FDU-Madison, whom the Tigers played in 1985. Before that, the last New Jersey opponent was Stevens Tech, back in 1946.
Princeton's rivalry with Stevens actually dates back to1886, two years before Princeton played Rutgers for the first time. And Stevens was the last team Princeton played in 1893 before dropping the sport until 1921. A year earlier, in 1892, Princeton played a game against Lawrenceville.
Princeton and Stevens played four times in the 1920s and then three times in the 1940s, and that was that. Meanwhile, the Princeton-Rutgers series has been an annual event since 1921, other than 1944 and 1945. Princeton and Rutgers will play Saturday on Sherrerd Field.
* Youth movement
It's easy to forget that Michael Sowers is a sophomore, but he is. In fact, Princeton is starting two sophs (Sowers, Phillip Robertson) and a freshman (Chris Brown)on attack and another sophomore (Connor McCarthy) in the midfield.
Those four have combined for 20 of Princeton's 33 goals and 19 of Princeton's 22 assists.
Other notes
* Tyler Blaisdell has started 35 straight games in goal for Princeton.
* Aaron Forster has scored 16 of NJIT's 42 goals, or 38 percent.
* Freshman longstick midfielder Andrew Song was the Ivy League Rookie of the Week after the game against Virginia, in which he had a goal, three ground balls, two caused turnovers and two face-off wins. Only five other players have had at least one in each of those categories during a game since caused turnovers became a stat in 2009 - Paul Barnes, Peter Smyth, Jake and Jeff Froccaro and of course Zach Currier. Song leads Princeton with six caused turnovers, more than twice the next-best total, and is second on the team with nine ground balls, one behind Austin Sims for the team lead
* Freshman Chris Brown is second on the team with 11 points, behind Michael Sowers, who has 15. Brown has at least one goal and one assist in each of the first three games.
* There is a lot of experience between the two starting goalies, both of whom have seen a lot of shots so far this season and in their careers. NJIT goalie Nick Marzullo has started 37 career games, and he and Princeton goalie Tyler Blaisdell have started a combined 72 games. Also between them, they have seen 2,990 shots; 1,661 for Marzullo and 1,329 for Blaisdell.
* Princeton is 2-0 all-time against NJIT, with wins of 21-4 (in 2016) and 22-8 (2017). This will be the third game in the series, and all three will have been in Princeton.
* Defenseman George Baughan missed the first two games due to injury before making his debut against Johns Hopkins.
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