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Tom Schreiber (photo by Adam Scott) and Zach Currier (photo by Oded Karni).
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Schreiber And Currier Square Off For FIL Gold
July 20, 2018 | Men's Lacrosse
If you're up early in the Eastern United States or late in the Western United States, you can see what figures to be a pretty intense men's lacrosse game, one with a Princeton alum on each side.
And if you're not up that early or don't want to stay up that late or anything like that, don't worry. You can watch it again seven hours after it happens.
The FIL World Championship of men's lacrosse concludes Saturday when the United States plays Canada for the gold medals. This will be the sixth straight time that these two have met in the finals, including four years ago in Denver, when Canada came away as the champion.
The game faces off at 10 am in Netanya, Israel, which is 3 am in the Eastern United States and midnight in the West. It will be shown live on ESPN2, but If you don't want to see it in the middle of the night, it'll be replayed at noon Eastern time on ESPNU (note - Princeton men's lacrosse social media and goprincetontigers.com won't have anything about the game until after the replay is over).
The teams met last Sunday during pool play, and the United States won 11-10 on a late goal by Johns Hopkins alum Paul Rabil.
The unbeaten United States features 2014 Princeton grad Tom Schreiber, who has 10 goals and seven assists in six games in the tournament. His 17 points lead all U.S. midfielders.
Zach Currier, a 2017 Princeton grad, plays for Canada. Currier has played defensive midfield for the Canadians, and not surprisingly, he leads all of Canada's non-face-off men in ground balls. He also has two goals and an assist, and one of those goals came in the first game between the U.S. and Canada.
The championship game will be the 170th and last one of the tournament. The other 169 have all been played, and each of the other 44 teams has finished someplace between third and 46th.
Princeton had five players who competed in Israel.
Alistair Berven, a classmate of Currier's, was one of England's top defenseman. The English rallied back from a seven-goal deficit to defeat Japan Friday 11-9 to finish in fifth place.
Austin deButts, a 2016 captain, helped Argentina finish 29th with six goals, one assist and 14 ground balls.
Andrew Song had a great tournament for China, who finished 42nd. Song, a rising sophomore longstick midfielder, was all over the field for China, finishing the tournament with two goals, two assists and 37 ground balls.
And if you're not up that early or don't want to stay up that late or anything like that, don't worry. You can watch it again seven hours after it happens.
The FIL World Championship of men's lacrosse concludes Saturday when the United States plays Canada for the gold medals. This will be the sixth straight time that these two have met in the finals, including four years ago in Denver, when Canada came away as the champion.
The game faces off at 10 am in Netanya, Israel, which is 3 am in the Eastern United States and midnight in the West. It will be shown live on ESPN2, but If you don't want to see it in the middle of the night, it'll be replayed at noon Eastern time on ESPNU (note - Princeton men's lacrosse social media and goprincetontigers.com won't have anything about the game until after the replay is over).
The teams met last Sunday during pool play, and the United States won 11-10 on a late goal by Johns Hopkins alum Paul Rabil.
The unbeaten United States features 2014 Princeton grad Tom Schreiber, who has 10 goals and seven assists in six games in the tournament. His 17 points lead all U.S. midfielders.
Zach Currier, a 2017 Princeton grad, plays for Canada. Currier has played defensive midfield for the Canadians, and not surprisingly, he leads all of Canada's non-face-off men in ground balls. He also has two goals and an assist, and one of those goals came in the first game between the U.S. and Canada.
The championship game will be the 170th and last one of the tournament. The other 169 have all been played, and each of the other 44 teams has finished someplace between third and 46th.
Princeton had five players who competed in Israel.
Alistair Berven, a classmate of Currier's, was one of England's top defenseman. The English rallied back from a seven-goal deficit to defeat Japan Friday 11-9 to finish in fifth place.
Austin deButts, a 2016 captain, helped Argentina finish 29th with six goals, one assist and 14 ground balls.
Andrew Song had a great tournament for China, who finished 42nd. Song, a rising sophomore longstick midfielder, was all over the field for China, finishing the tournament with two goals, two assists and 37 ground balls.
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