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PRINCETON (5-5, 0-3 Ivy League) vs. DARTMOUTH (2-8, 0-3 Ivy League)
Sherrerd Field • Princeton, N.J. • April 14, 2018 • noon
Series history - Princeton leads 56-9
Last year - Princeton defeated Dartmouth 16-6 • April 15, 2017

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There are three weekends left in the Ivy League men's lacrosse season, for a total of nine games to be played.
The Princeton men's lacrosse team can only worry about three of those, beginining with the game against Dartmouth and continuing next week at Harvard and then in two weeks at home against Cornell.
Princeton is currently 5-5 overall but 0-3 in the Ivy League. The goal is to get into the Ivy League tournament, which is still a possibility for the Tigers.
Still, it's not about the big picture quite yet for Princeton. The Tigers can't get three wins in a weekend, and their opponent today is thinking the same thing. Dartmouth is 0-3 in the Ivy League as well and is faced with the same math that stands in the way of the same goal as Princeton.
The all-time series between the two favors Princeton 56-9, including a 32-1 record in games played in Princeton.
Princeton defeated Dartmouth 16-6 in Hanover a year ago.

Princeton vs. Dartmouth
Five Storylines

The league race
Princeton and Dartmouth are both 0-3. There is no guarantee that getting to 3-3 gets them in the Ivy League tournament, but it's a pretty good starting point. And it's still mathematically possible for both.
For its part, should it get to 3-3, Princeton would need a little help from the rest of the results to get into the top four, because it wouldn't have the tiebreaker with Penn or Brown head-to-head or both in a three-way tie.
Dartmouth would have the tiebreaker over both Penn and Brown should it get to 3-3, since it still has games against both and would have to have beaten them to get to 3-3.
The best road for Princeton is to get to 3-3, have Penn or Brown be 2-4 and have Harvard or Cornell be 3-3. In that case, Princeton would have to have beaten Harvard and would therefore have the tiebreaker over the Crimson and Big Red.
Beyond that it gets way too complex.Besides, none of that matters today.

First half, second half
Dartmouth has outscored Princeton 8-3 in the first half of the last two games between the teams. Princeton has outscored Dartmouth 20-1 in the second half the last two years.
Dartmouth led Princeton 3-0 at halftime in the last game between the teamson Sherrerd Field, and Princeton then outscored Dartmouth 7-0 in the second half.
Last year in Hanover Dartmouth led 5-3 at the break. Princeton then went on a 13-1 second half run, erasing the early deficit to win 16-6.
Princeton was led a year ago by Michael Sowers, who had three goals and three assists, and then six players who had two goals each, including current players Connor McCarthy and Austin Sims.

Quick turnarounds
Both Princeton and Dartmouth played road games Tuesday.
Princeton defeated Siena 17-11 in Albany in the first meeting between the schools. Princeton led 15-4 at one point in the third quarter.
Phillip Robertson had a career-high seven goals for Princeton in the game, while Michael Sowers had five assists and eight points, neither of which were career highs.
Tyler Blaisdell made 16 saves and allowed eight goals.
Dartmouth lost 9-8 in two overtimes at UMass Lowell. Alex Burnley made a career high 14 saves.

Chasing 100
Senior midfielders Austin Sims and Riley Thompson are chasing 100 career points.
Sims enters the Dartmouthg game with 73 goals and 23 assists for 96 career points, while Thompson is two behind at 94 career points (43G, 51A).
Michael Sowers went over the 100-point mark for his career earlier this season, becoming the 34th player in program history to do so.
Sims had two points as a freshman, both on assists, as he was mostly a shortstick defensive midfielder. He improved to 25 points as a sophomore (23G, 2A), which means that he had four assists in his first two years combined. He had three assists Tuesday against Siena, a career high.
Sims would be well past 100 career points had he not missed five games a year ago due to injury.
Thompson also started slowly, with six points his freshman year. He then had 26 as a sophomore and 40 as a junior before putting up 22 more heading into the Dartmouth game.
Speaking of milestones, Tyler Blaisdell is now ninth all-time at Princeton with 485 saves. Up next would be Alex Hewit (2005-08) with 491 for eighth and then John Wright (1986-89) with 495 for seventh.

Sowers update
Michael Sowers had three goals and five assists against Siena, giving him 21 goals and 41 assists for the year and 62 goals and 82 assists for the year.
Even though he has three regular-season games left in his sophomore season, Sowers is already 10th all-time in program history in assists and 18th all-time in points.
His 62 points this season are the 11th-best single-season total in program history. Of course he already has the school record with 82 last year.
His 41 assists match his total for all of last year, even though he's played 10 games this year and the team played 15 a year ago. The 41 assists leave him in seventh place on the single-season list, behind Kevin Lowe (three times), Ryan Boyle (twice) and Jon Hess. He's also seven assists away from the school record, shared by Boyle (2003) and Hess (1997).
Sowers leads Division I in assists per game (4.1) and is third in points per game (6.2). He also is currently eighth in Division I in career assists, trailing six seniors and Loyola junior Pat Spencer.
Sowers has at least two points in every game of his career.

Other Princeton notes

* Freshman Chris Brown is the only current Princeton player with at least one goal in every game. Brown has 17 goals and 12 assists for the season, and his 29 points are tied with Tom Schreiber for ninth all-time among Princeton freshmen, one behind Mike MacDonald for eighth.

* Speaking of freshmen, Princeton's Andrew Song (12) and George Baughan (eight) rank 1-2 in caused turnovers on the team. Baughan had two casused turnovers and five ground balls against Siena.

* Tyler Blaisdell made 16 saves and allowed eight goals against Siena, moving his career save percentage back over .500. Blaisdell has been in double figurs in saves seven times this season, including each of the last four.

* Arman Medghalchi has started the last 23 games on defense.

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