DU Men’s Lacrosse Opens GWLL Play with 12-9 Win Over Bellarmine
Pioneers open Great Western Lacrosse League play with a 12-9 win over the Bellarmine Knights
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of Denver men’s lacrosse team (6-4, 1-0 GWLL) opened league play with 12-9 win over Bellarmine (6-4, 0-2 GWLL) on Sunday afternoon at the Owsley B. Frazier Stadium in Louisville, Ky.
Freshman Mark Matthews (Oshawa, Ontario) led all scorers with five goals and one assist, while freshman Todd Baxter (Madison, N.J.) finished with three goals and one assist. As a team, Denver tallied 40 shots and 27 ground balls for the game, while winning 14-of-24 face-offs and clearing on 18-of 22 attempts.
BU was led by Dereck Hopcroft’s four goals, while Sean Doyle finished with three goals and three assists. As a team, the Knights notched 45 shots and scooped up 27 ground balls, while winning 10-of-24 face-offs and being successful on 15-of-16 clear attempts.
Matthews provided the first point of the game, scoring a man-up goal with 10:55 remaining. Just 12 second later, BU provided the equalizer as Hopcroft scored on a pass from Chase Williams as the Knights had a man-advantage.
The Knights provided the next two goals as Ray Finnegan Jr., and Matt Campbell provided the 3-1 advantage. The Pioneers cut the deficit to one with one second remaining in the period ad Matthews scored his second of the game on a pass from John Dickenson (Dallas, Texas).
Denver evened the score with 4:18 remaining in second period as Baxter scored an unassisted shot, his eighth goal of the season. Matthews then scored his third goal of the game on a pass from senior Kyle Widerstedt (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) with 2:44 left to play in the second period.
The Pioneers then added two more goals over the final two minutes of action in the half as senior Joey Murray (Denver, Colo.) added his first of the game and Baxter added his second on a pass from freshman Jon Vande Werken (Columbus, Ohio) to give Denver a 6-3 lead heading into the locker room.
The Knights provided the first two goals of the third period to cut the deficit to 6-5 as Doyle and Hopcroft both scored. With 4:52 remaining, Matthews added his fourth goal of the game to give the Pioneers their two-goal lead back.
After allowing another goal by BU, the Pioneers took a three-goal lead to end the third period as junior Charley Dickenson (Dallas, Texas) scored his first of the game on a pass from sophomore Andrew Lay (Denver, Colo.) and Baxter added his third of the game on a pass from Matthews.
BU cut Denver’s lead to two less than a minute into the fourth period as Doyle added his second of the game. However, Denver answered with two goals as Lay scored an unassisted shot with 11:55 remaining and Matthews scored his fifth of the game on a pass from Baxter with 9:11 left to play.
A little over a minute later, BU’s Doyle added his third goal of the game on a pass from Jordan Wong to pull within 11-8 of the Pioneers. Denver then added its final goal of the game as John Dickenson added his first of the game on a pass from Charley Dickenson.
The Knights scored the final goal of the game with 3:56 remaining as Hopcroft scored on a pass from Doyle.
Denver remains on the road to face another GWLL opponent in Quinnipiac, traveling to Hamden, Conn., for an 11 a.m. (MT) game.
NCAA BOXSCORE
Denver (6-4, 1-0 GWLL) vs. BU (6-4, 0-2 GWLL)
Date: 03/29/09 Location: Louisville, Ky. Stadium: O.B.Frazier Stadium
Attendance: Start time:1 p.m. End time:2:59 p.m Total time:1:59
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SCORE BY PERIOD 1 2 3 4 Tot
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Denver………….. 2 4 3 3 – 12
BU……………… 3 0 3 3 - 9
Denver SCORING: GOALS: Matthews, Mark 5; Baxter, Todd 3; Dickenson, John 1; Dickenson, Charley 1; Lay, Andrew 1; Murray, Joey 1.
ASSISTS: Baxter, Todd 1; Dickenson, Charley 1; Dickenson, John 1; Lay, Andrew 1; Matthews, Mark 1; Vandeverken, Jon 1; Widerstedt, Kyle 1.
BU SCORING: GOALS: Hopcroft, Dereck 4; Doyle, Sean 3; Finnegan Jr., Ray 1; Campbell, Matt 1.
ASSISTS: Doyle, Sean 3; Davis, Jarrett 2; Williams, Chase 1; Wong, Jordan 1.
Denver GROUND BALLS: Deblois, Brendan 5; Gajic, Ilija 3; Roy, Dillon 3; Wahler, Ben 3; Dickenson, John 2; Lowell, Peter 2; Widerstedt, Kyle 2; Baxter, Todd 1; Jackson, Deke 1; Konkel, Austin 1; MacDonald, Jamie
1; Murray, Joey 1; Sanders, Payton 1; Vandeverken, Jon 1.
BU GROUND BALLS: Bowles, Scott 4; Leung, Karsen 4; Campbell, Matt 3; Hessel, Tim 3; Hopcroft, Dereck 2; Snider, Bobby 2; Williams, Chase 2; Avendt, Teddy 1; Davis, Jarrett 1; Doyle, Sean 1; Porter, Alex 1;
Powell, Austin 1; Timmerberg, Trevor 1; Wong, Jordan 1.
Denver TURNOVERS CAUSED: Dickenson, John 2; Konkel, Austin 2; Widerstedt, Kyle 2; Eichler, Emerson 1; Gajic, Alex 1; Gajic, Ilija 1; Lowell, Peter 1; MacDonald, Jamie 1; Roy, Dillon 1.
BU TURNOVERS CAUSED: Campbell, Matt 2; Bowles, Scott 1; Hessel, Tim 1; Russo, John 1.
SHOTS – Denver 40; BU 45.
SHOTS ON GOAL – Denver 23; BU 16.
Penalties – Denver 4/2:30; BU 5/3:30.
MAN-UP OPPORTUNITIES – Denver 1-4; BU 1-4.
TURNOVERS – Denver 13; BU 18.
FACEOFFS – Denver 14-24; BU 10-24.
CLEARS – Denver 18-22; BU 15-16.
GOALIES – DEN: Lowell, Peter (60:00 minutes, 16 shots-7 saves, 9 GA);
BU: Bowles, Scott (60:00, 23-11, 12).
Start time: 1 p.m. Finish time: 2:59 p.m Length of game: 1:59
Officials: John Gibbons. Scorer: Jason Simmons.
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March 29, 2009
CHRISTY SCORES FIVE GOALS IN LOSS TO NO. 2 MARYLAND
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Julie Christy scored a career-high five goals for No. 14 Stanford, but it wasn’t enough in a 20-12 loss to No. 2 Maryland in a nonconference women’s lacrosse game Sunday. Maryland (11-0) scored the first four goals and led 8-2 with scoring from eight different players.
However, Stanford (7-3) got three goals from Christy in the final 10 minutes of the first half to help the Cardinal draw within 12-8, only for Maryland to answer with two goals at the outset of the second half to re-take control. Brittany Jones scored a game-high six for Maryland, a 10-time national champion.
Christy’s total was one away from tying the school single-game record and eclipsed her previous high of four, against Saint Mary’s on March 6.
Sarah Flynn scored Stanford’s final two goals to take over the team goal-scoring lead, with 21, and finished with six goals on the team’s 1-1 trip. Flynn, Lauren Schmidt (19), Dana Lindsay (19) and Christy (18) all are closely bunched atop the team’s leader board.
The 20 goals were the most allowed by Stanford since a 20-6 loss to Cornell in 2002 and the second-most in school history.
Stanford (4-0 in the conference) returns to action with its biggest Mountain Pacific Sports Federation games of the season, at home against Denver (2-0 MPSF) on April 10 and California (2-1) on April 12. A Stanford victory in either game would ensure a first-round bye in the MPSF tournament, to be held at Stanford from April 23-26.
Maryland 20, Stanford 12
Stanford 8 4 – 12
Maryland 12 8 – 20
S – Christy (5 goals, 0 assists), Flynn (2-1), Hubbard (1-2), K. Nesbitt (1-1), Schwab (1-1), Foard (1-1), Lindsay (1-0), Schmidt (0-2).
M – Bri. Jones (6-0), Mollison (4-3), Bra. Jones (2-2), Merrifield (2-1), Johnson (2-1), McFadden (2-0), Taylor (1-1), Spinnenweber (1-0), Poist (0-1).
Records – Stanford 7-3, Maryland 11-0.
BALTIMORE – No. 2 Syracuse (7-1) overcame a four-goal deficit in the fourth quarter to defeat No. 15 Loyola, 14-13, on Saturday, March 28 at Diane Geppi-Aikens Field. The Orange outscored the Greyhounds, 6-1, in the final 8:06 to extend its winning streak to five games.
Senior Dan Hardy scored three goals in the rally, including the game-winner with 1:17 to go. Hardy, senior Pat Perritt and sophomore Stephen Keogh combined for 15 points in the victory as each finished with five points on the day. Hardy’s point total matched his career high and he tied his personal-best with four goals Saturday. Keogh led the Orange with five goals, tying his career best, and Perritt netted a goal and a career-high four assists in the contest.
Down 12-8 after a goal by Cooper MacDonnell with 12:01 left to play, the Orange relied on Keogh and Hardy to get back in the game. Keogh opened the game-clinching run with consecutive goals at the 8:06 and 7:16 marks to pull SU within two, 12-10. Hardy scored the Orange’s third straight goal with 6:36 to play to close the gap to one.
The Greyhounds (5-4) briefly regained the momentum on an unassisted goal by Jimmy Daly with 4:41 left to push the margin back to two, 13-11. But Syracuse scored three times in the span of 1:16 to pull ahead, 14-13, at 1:17 mark Hardy notched two of the Orange’s last three goals to silence a Loyola crowd that was on him for most of the game.
Loyola still had a chance to tie it after an Orange turnover and a successful clear, but sophomore goalie John Galloway made a crucial save on Shane Koppens with 27 seconds to go to maintain the lead. Following an Orange timeout, Syracuse successfully cleared the ball with Perritt running out the clock to seal the victory.
Galloway finished with 11 saves in the contest, including five in the fourth quarter, to give the Syracuse offense a chance to rally. His point-blank save on Taylor Ebsary with 8:21 to go led to Keogh’s goal that made the score 12-9 and ignited the Syracuse comeback.
Junior faceoff specialist Gavin Jenkinson and sophomore Josh Amidon also played crucial roles in the victory. Jenkinson went 10-for-11 at the faceoff X and he won eight of the nine draws he took in the fourth quarter, including the last seven of the game. Amidon tallied two assists during the team’s four-quarter run, including one on Hardy’s game-winner.
Syracuse needed the fourth-quarter scoring spree to pull out the win because the Greyhounds outscored the Orange, 6-1, in the third quarter to claim an 11-8 lead. Loyola also netted the first goal of the fourth period to push its margin to 12-8. MacDonnell and Koppens combined to score of five of Loyola’s eight goals in the second half and four of the team’s six scores in the third period.
MacDonnell finished with a career-best five goals to lead Loyola. The Greyhounds also got four points (3g, 1a) from Koppens and five points from Colin Finnerty (1g, 4a) as their trio of attackmen combined for 14 of the team’s 19 points Saturday. Goalie Alex Peaty, making his first start of the season, stopped 10 shots in a losing effort.
Syracuse won a season-high 18 faceoffs, going 18-for-30 at the X in the contest. The Orange also held a 41-35 advantage in ground balls, including scooping up 15 of the 22 ground balls awarded in the fourth quarter. Sophomore Joel White and senior Matt Abbott both posted career highs in ground balls for the Orange. White collected 10 and Abbott had nine. Several of their ground ball wins came on faceoffs as they helped key the team’s success in the faceoff circle.
In the first half, the Orange never trailed, but it could not extend its lead to more than two goals at any point. Syracuse led 3-1 late in the first quarter and 4-2 at the start of the second quarter when senior Kenny Nims whipped a behind-the-back pass to Keogh for an easy man-up goal. The Orange also led 7-5 at the half on a fast-break score by junior Chris Daniello before Loyola gained the momentum in the third quarter and built its four-goal advantage.
Syracuse will attempt to run its winning streak to six games on Saturday, April 4 when it plays Princeton in the Big City Classic at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The game is slated to start at 2:30 p.m. and is the centerpiece of a tripleheader presented by Inside Lacrosse.
Game Notes: Former Syracuse attackman/midfielder Brian Crockett (2003-06) was honored with a moment of silence prior to the game … Crockett was killed in a car accident early Friday morning … Nims extended his consecutive game scoring streak to 24 with four points (2g, 2a) Saturday … Jenkinson’s 10 faceoff wins were a career high … Amidon’s two assists tied his personal best … The four-goal deficit was the largest the Orange has overcome to win this season … The victory improved the Orange’s all-time record to 19-5 against Loyola … Syracuse has won nine of the last 11 meetings with the Greyhounds.
Navy Lax Takes Down Hoyas
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senior goalkeeper Tommy Phelan (Towson, Md.) made a career-high 15 saves, while junior attackman Brendan Connors (Bellmore, N.Y.) pitched in a hat trick to lead the 16th-ranked Navy men’s lacrosse team to a 10-8 win over Georgetown Saturday afternoon at the Multi-Sport Field in Washington, D.C. The win snapped Navy’s five-game losing streak to the Hoyas, as the Mids’ last victory in the series came in 2004 when Navy made its run to the NCAA Championship Game.
“I thought overall we played well today,†said an emotional Richie Meade, whose Mids had lost back-to-back one-goal games to the Hoyas coming into today’s contest. “We struggled a bit clearing the ball, but I thought our close defensemen handled the pressure pretty well. As I try to reflect, I don’t feel like we stole a win. I think this team worked hard all week in practice and came to play today.â€
After a sloppily-played first quarter that featured a combined 14 turnovers by the two teams, Georgetown took a 1-0 lead into the second stanza off a Dan D’Agnes goal.
The next 23 minutes, however, were all Navy as the Mids built a 4-1 lead halfway through the third quarter. Connors evened the score two minutes into the second quarter and then gave the Mids the lead for good when close defenseman Michael Hirsch (Schwenksville, Pa.) scooped up a loose ball and found defensive middie Bobby Lennon (Westminster, Md.) streaking up the middle. Lennon split the field before finding Connors on the right wing for the go-ahead goal with 9:30 to go in the second.
Navy scored the final goal of the half when senior Bruce Nechanicky (Montgomery Village, Md.) fought through a double team behind the cage and lofted the ball up and over the middle section of the field to junior midfielder Joe Lennon (Westminster, Md.), who stuck a shot in the upper right hand corner. It was Nechanicky’s first trip back to Multi-Sport Field since suffering the first of two devastating knee injuries that would keep him off the field for a year and a half.
While Navy was outshot by Georgetown in the second period, 7-6, Phelan came up big, stopping four of the seven shots he faced.
Navy extended its lead at the 8:34 mark in the third quarter when Tim Paul (Parkton, Md.) and Patrick Moran (Annapolis, Md.) teamed up for a highlight-reel extra-man goal. Paul set up five yards inside the top of the box and appeared to be shooting, but Moran came darting across the crease to snatch the ball out of the air and pump in the goal to give the Mids a 4-1 advantage. It also marked the 10th-consecutive game Moran has scored a goal for the Mids.
After nearly 26 minutes of scoreless play from the Hoyas, Craig Dowd punched in a goal for Georgetown in transition.
The Mids wasted little time in answering, however, as just 18 seconds later Connors willed his way through four Georgetown players before his diving shot at the crease made its way past Hoya keeper Jack Davis to complete the hat trick.
Navy then went up by four goals (6-2) with 2:16 remaining in the third when defensive midfielder Geoff Leone (Massapequa, N.Y.) intercepted a Georgetown pass and went coast-to-coast with what would be the first of his two goals on the afternoon.
Like any quality and disciplined team, Georgetown mounted a comeback, scoring a pair of goals in the final 24 seconds of action, including a 10-yard sidearm shot by Andrew Brancaccio. The Hoyas trimmed the lead to one at 6-5 when Navy was flagged for its fourth penalty in 10 minutes of play (3:05-8:23) and sophomore Ricky Mirabito stuck in an extra-man goal from the doorstep against Phelan.
The two teams would exchange goals over the next 10-plus minutes before back-to-back goals by Paul and Nechanicky just 42 seconds apart gave the Mids a 10-7 lead with 3:15 remaining in the contest.
Junior middie Scott Kocis was able to close the gap for the Hoyas to two on an unassisted shot with 1:17 to go, but it was as close as Georgetown would get as Navy took the 10-8 victory.
While Connors led all scorers with his first collegiate hat trick, Paul turned in a five-point effort on two goals and a career-high tying three assists.
“This was probably our biggest win of the year,†said Connors, who has scored 14 goals on the year. “The team really worked hard this week and I think we locked it on and pulled off a big win for our program.â€
Defensively, Navy rookie Matt Vernam (Shoreham, N.Y.) held Georgetown’s leading scorer Ricky Mirabito, younger brother of former Navy All-American Nick Mirabito, to just one goal, an extra-man strike. Additionally, team captain Andy Tormey (Syracuse, N.Y.) forced a team-high five Georgetown turnovers.
Phelan, meanwhile, got his first start of the season in goal where he came up with 15 saves, including eight in the third quarter. It’s the most saves by a Navy keeper since a 21-save effort by Seth DiNola against Penn State on April 12, 2003.
“Last year Tommy came into the Colgate game and played really well, so I really wasn’t worried about how he would play today,†added Connors. “I think he does a great job out there under pressure.â€
“It was great being back out there with our defense – Andy Tormey, Matt Vernam, Mike Hirsch, Thomas Zimmerman,†said Phelan, who was making his first start since last year’s NCAA quarterfinal contest against Johns Hopkins. “If I ever have a good game, it’s the mark of a great defense and today they did a great job. Georgetown has some really talented shooters and I was just trying to anticipate where they were going to shoot. Our gameplan was to try and contain Ricky Mirabito and I think our defense did a great job of that.
“This is the caliber of team we’re looking to play against and beating Georgetown shows that we have the team and the drive to win.â€
At the conclusion of the game, Navy was presented a trophy in memory of longtime official Scott Boyle who tragically suffered a heart attack and passed away during the 2005 Navy-Georgetown game in Annapolis. Scott’s widow, Becky, and daughter, Kelly, were on hand to congratulate the Midshipmen on their win and to remember their husband and father, one of the great ambassadors of lacrosse.
The Midshipmen will be back in action on Friday when they play host to longtime rival Maryland, who is reeling after dropping a seven-overtime decision to top-ranked Virginia in Charlottesville. Navy and the Terps will lock sticks at 7:00 pm at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in a game television to a national audience on CBS College Sports. Navy fans can also tune in to 1430 WNAV and 1050 WFED to hear the Voice of Navy Lacrosse Pete Medhurst call the action.
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Connolly’s Last-Minute Goal Give No. 14 UMass 9-8 Win Over Penn State
Minutemen senior attackers Connolly and Balise each tally hat tricks in win.
March 28, 2009
Box Score
AMHERST, Mass. – Jim Connolly’s wraparound goal with 55.2 seconds remaining in regulation gave the UMass men’s lacrosse team a thrilling 9-8 win over Penn State in an ECAC classic on Saturday afternoon at Garber Field. Connolly and fellow senior Tim Balise each netted hat tricks while Doc Schneider stood tall with 12 of his 15 saves coming in the second half, stopping a Nittany Lion onslaught dead in its tracks. The Minutemen improve their record to 5-3, 3-0 in conference play while Penn State is 3-5, 0-3 in the ECAC.
The Nittany Lions battled back from a 6-4 halftime deficit to tie the score at six, seven, and eight, but were never able to take the lead. Freshman Art Kell broke a 7-7 deadlock with a wraparound on the left side to beat Penn State goalie Drew Adams, who finished the afternoon with 13 saves. Matthew Mackrides scored only 13 seconds later to tie the score once again, 8-8.
Connolly’s sensational individual effort on the right side stood as the difference and Schneider stopped one last desperation shot from Chris Hogan with 30 seconds remaining to preserve the victory.
The Minutemen took a 1-0 lead barely over a minute into the game as Mike Fetterly netted his first-career goal, a man-up tally at 13:48. Balise scored his first of the day at 8:43, taking a Bobby Hayes pass before dodging a defender and releasing a bullet.
Penn State answered with three straight goals bridging the first and second quarters, but Connolly answered on an unsettled situation to make it 3-3. The Nittany Lions took a 4-3 lead at 9:41 off Jack Forster’s second of the game, but the Minutemen scored three consecutive spanning the final 7:49 of the first half for a 6-4 halftime advantage.
The Nittany Lions dominated the early stages of the third quarter, but were never able to take a lead. Balise scored UMass’ first goal of the quarter coming with only 19 seconds remaining to give the Minutemen a 7-7 advantage, setting up the thrilling fourth quarter finish.
The UMass defense was stout once again, as Diogo Godoi (career-high 5 GB) and Brennan Mack (4 GB) headed up a defense that held its opponent in single digits for the sixth time this season.
Final shots were 48-39 in favor of Penn State while the Nittany Lions won the faceoff battle, 11-10. Penn State was 2-for-2 on the extra man and UMass was 1-for-5. UMass was 21-for-24 on clears while Penn State was 21-for-28.
The Minutemen return to action in one week as they host former assistant coach Jason Miller and his St. John’s Red Storm at 1 p.m. on Garber Field. Follow all the action on UMassAthletics.com live streaming video and WMUA 91.1 FM Radio.
March 27, 2009
No. 14 STANFORD DOWNS JOHNS HOPKINS IN LACROSSE
BALTIMORE, Md. – Baltimore native Sarah Flynn scored three goals in a return to her hometown to lead No. 14 Stanford to a 10-7 victory over Johns Hopkins in nonconference women’s lacrosse action Friday. The sophomore scored the opening goal and led all scorers as the Cardinal (7-2) quickly built a 5-1 lead and the Blue Jays (4-5) never drew closer than three thereafter. Much of the task of maintaining the lead fell on the shoulders of sophomore goalie Annie Read, who made a career-high 10 saves. “She kept Hopkins from closing the gap,” Stanford coach Amy Bokker said.
Flynn, one of seven children, was supported by her family. And Stanford, with eight players from Maryland, had a sizable following of friends, family and alums.
“It was almost like we were in front of our home crowd,” Bokker said. Stanford showed little evidence of rust in its first game in 19 days, owing to a break for Dead Week and winter quarter finals. The Cardinal got two goals apiece from Leslie Foard and Lauren Schmidt, who has 19 goals to share the team goal-scoring lead with Flynn. “Our offense needed a little bit of work, but the girls were so excited to put on their uniforms and play again,” said Bokker, whose team has won three straight.
The task, however, grows more difficult for Stanford. Next is 10-time national champion Maryland (9-0 going into its game Friday night), the No. 2 team in the country. Gametime is Sunday at 9 a.m. PDT. Stanford fans can follow the game through live stats that can be found on the Gametracker link at gostanford.com.
Stanford 10, Johns Hopkins 7
Stanford 7 3 – 10
Johns Hopkins 4 3 – 7
S – Flynn (3 goals-0 assists), Foard (2-0), Schmidt (2-0), Lindsay (1-0), Christy (1-0), Siegfried (1-0), K. Nesbitt (0-2), Hubbard (0-1).
JH – Ibello (2-1), Bathras (2-1), Rossi (1-0), Maranto (1-0), McCaffrey (1-0).
Records – Stanford 7-2, Johns Hopkins 4-5.
Georgetown Hosts No. 16 Navy on Saturday for Fourth Annual Boyle Cup
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Georgetown University men’s lacrosse team will play its second home game of the week on Saturday, March 28, hosting local rival Navy. Face-off at the Multi-Sport Field is slated for 1 p.m.
The game will be shown live on the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), with Bob Socci handling the play-by-play and Matt Poskay serving as the color analyst. It can also be viewed live on the Georgetown Athletics website – www.guhoyas.com – with Chuck Timanus providing the call on HoyaVision.
Georgetown enters the game with a 3-4 overall record, while Navy is 6-3 overall and ranked No. 16 in the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association poll and in the Nike/Inside Lacrosse Top 20.
Georgetown won its first home game of the season on Wednesday, holding off No. 11 Harvard in overtime, 9-8, with junior Rickey Mirabito (Binghamton, N.Y./Chenango Forks) scoring the winning goal off an assist from junior Craig Dowd (East Northport, N.Y./Northport) with 1:19 left.
The Hoyas have been led on the offensive side by a quartet of juniors. Mirabito is one of four players with at least 10 points, scoring a team-leading 20 points, including a team-best 15 goals. Mirabito is third in the ECAC League in goals per game (2.14) and ranks fifth in the league in points per game (2.71). Dowd is second on the team with 17 points, dishing out a team-high 11 assists. He is third in the ECAC in assists per game (1.57) and tied for seventh in the league in scoring (2.43).
Juniors Andrew Brancaccio (Bethesda, Md./Georgetown Prep) and Scott Kocis (Huntington, N.Y./ Huntington) are tied for third on the team in scoring with 14 points apiece. Brancaccio has 11 goals and three assists for 14 points, while Kocis has scored 10 goals and four assists.
Georgetown’s defense has allowed more than 10 goals only once this season. The unit, led by junior goalie Jack Davis (Glen Ridge, N.J./Glen Ridge), is allowing only 9.37 goals per game. Davis, in his first year as a starter, has made 66 saves and carries a 9.42 GAA.
Junior Barney Ehrmann (Baltimore, Md./Gilman) leads the team with 31 ground balls, while junior Chris Nixon (Duxbury, Mass./Duxbury) has added 24, senior Chris Taylor (Mercer Island, Wash./Mercer Island) has 18 and senior Stevie Bauer (Red Bank, N.J./Peddie School) has 14 ground balls.
Senior Dan Vinson (Pleasant Hill, Calif./DeLaSalle) has been strong at the face-off X for the Hoyas, winning 39-of-72 attempts (54.8%). Classmate Mike Shotwell (Fairfax, Va./St. Stephens-St. Agnes), who won seven attempts during the win over Harvard, has won 50.7 percent of his attempts (37-of-73).
The Midshipmen opened the season with wins against VMI and Ohio State before losing consecutive games to North Carolina and Bucknell. Navy had won four-straight before losing to Colgate at home last week. Junior attack Tim Paul leads the team in scoring with 24 points, scoring a team-high 15 goals and adding nine assists. Junior Brendan Connors has 11 goals and six assists for 17 points, while sophomore Andy Warner is third on the team with nine goals and seven assists for 16 points.
The game will mark the Fourth Annual Boyle Cup. The Boyle Cup is named in honor of longtime official Scott Boyle, who tragically collapsed and passed away while officiating the Navy-Georgetown game at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on April 2, 2005.
This will be the 20th meeting all-time between Georgetown and Navy. The Hoyas lead the head-to-head series, 13-6, and have won the last five meetings. In last year’s game, Navy scored three times in the fourth quarter to tie the game at 10-all, but Mirabito, who led GU with three goals in the game, scored with 1:42 left in overtime to give the Hoyas a thrilling 11-10 win.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Syracuse University’s Matt Abbott (Syracuse, N.Y.) is one of 10 finalists for the 2009 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award for men’s lacrosse. Finalists were selected from a list of 30 candidates based on personal qualities that define a complete student- athlete. While on-the-field performance thus far during the college lacrosse season was a factor in determining the finalists, the criteria also includes a high emphasis on classroom, character and community service.
In addition to Abbott, the other finalists are: Jordan Burke (Brown), Michael Colleluori (Hofstra), Brandon Corp (Colgate), Joel Delgarno (Ohio State), Danny Glading (Virginia), Ryan Hoff (Notre Dame), Max Seibald (Cornell), Andy Tormey (Navy) and Grant Zimmerman (North Carolina).
“These ten student-athletes are to be commended for their all-around outstanding achievements as a collegian,†said Bob Gfeller, Lowe’s senior vice president of marketing. “Lowe’s is proud of its affiliation with the NCAA and college athletics, and we are pleased to help honor these individuals who have displayed a commitment to character, community and the classroom in addition to their competition on the lacrosse field.â€
Nationwide voting begins immediately and concludes on May 7. Fan balloting will be combined with votes from coaches, media and sponsors to determine this year’s winner, who will receive the award during the NCAA Championships in Foxboro, Mass. The link to vote is: www.seniorclassaward.com/lacrosse/
A 2009 team captain, Abbott has been named to the SU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll in six of his first seven semesters on campus and will graduate with a degree in finance in May.
On the field, Abbott has played in 53 career games with 20 starts. He has 11 points, including six goals, and leads the Orange with 26 ground balls this season. He is a member of the 2009 Tewaaraton Trophy Watch List and he has been invited to the 2010 U.S. National Team tryouts.
CLASS is an acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School and the program was launched during the 2001-02 season in response to the trend of college basketball players leaving early to turn professional. The award was conceived by sportscaster Dick Enberg and was inspired by the story of former Duke star Shane Battier, who could have been an NBA lottery pick but elected to return to college where he led the Blue Devils to the national championship and earned his degree.
Former Orange standout Mike Leveille won the award last year, the second time it was presented in the sport of men’s lacrosse. Cornell goalie Matt McMonagle was the inaugural winner in 2007.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State senior attackman Joel Dalgarno has been named one of 10 finalists for the 2009 Lowe’s Senior Class Award, the organization announced Thursday. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence: Classroom, Character, Community and Competition. Dalgarno and the nine other finalists were selected from a list of 30 candidates.
An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School, the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages those leaders to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact on their circle of influence.
Fan voting is available now online at seniorclassaward.com, with fan balloting accounting for one-third of the final vote. The remaining two-thirds is determined by NCAA Division I coaches and national media members. You can also vote for Dalgarno by sending texting “LAX5†to 839863.
Dalgarno, from Coquitlam, British Columbia, is a team captain for the Buckeyes this year and is on the 2009 Tewaaraton Watch List. The Buckeyes’ leading scorer this year, he was an honorable mention All-American a year ago, is a two-time first team All-Great Western Lacrosse League selection and was the 2006 GWLL Newcomer of the Year. He has started every game of his Buckeye career and ranks second in career points and goals and third in assists. Dalgarno, who is expected to earn his degree in Family Resource Management: Consumer Affairs this spring, is a two-time Ohio State Scholar-Athlete and has earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.
The Buckeyes return to action with a game against Quinnipiac at 1 p.m. Saturday in Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. It marks Senior Day for the 10 members of the 2009 Ohio State senior class.
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