Match-up pits two of the top seven scoring teams in the NCAA.
#18 UMASS (4-2) at #15 BROWN (3-1)
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 • 4 p.m.
Meister-Kavan Field (1,000) • Providence, R.I.
Streaming Audio: UMassAthletics.com
Live Stats: UMassAthletics.com
New England Rivalry On Tap For Tuesday: UMass at Brown
• One of the top lacrosse rivalries in all of New England will be renewed on Tuesday afternoon as No. 18 UMass travels to No. 15 Brown for a 4 p.m., face-off at Meister-Kavan Field in Providence. The Minutemen (4-2) come into the game following a week off after a 17-3 win over Providence at Garber Field, last Tuesday. The Bears (3-1) come off a big win over then-No. 14 Harvard, 13-11, last Saturday at Harvard Stadium. Brown has won three games in a row since a season-opening loss to Hofstra, 15-12.
• With the 17-3 win over Providence, UMass had its largest margin of victory since 2002 when the Minutemen beat Hartford, 19-5 on March 23.
• Live audio and live stats will be available on UMassAthletics.com.
• The mid-week clash with Brown is the first of two huge games for the Minutemen as UMass hosts its inaugural CAA conference game on Saturday, March 27 as No. 6 Hofstra comes to Garber Field for a 1 p.m. face-off.
Offensive Explosion Early On
• Tuesday’s game pits two of the top scoring teams in the nation as UMass comes into the contest third in the NCAA in goals per game (14.7). Brown ranks seventh with 14.0 per game. Robert Morris leads the country with 15.9, followed by Stony Brook (15.3).
• UMass has at least 11 goals in every game this season with a season-high of 20 against Hartford (2/20).
• UMass has a well-rounded offense with five players tallying more than 15 points. Sophomore attacker Art Kell leads the team in scoring with 24 points on a team-high 16 goals and eight assists. He is tied for 20th in the NCAA in points per game with 4.0. He is also tied for 18th in goals per game with 2.7. Kell comes off a career-high five goals and six-point effort vs. Providence last Tuesday.
• Kell has at least two points in every game this season and at least two goals in five of six games.
• Senior captain midfielder Bobby Hayes is tied for second on the team in points with 19 and stands second in goals with 12. Hayes has points in all six games this season and has points in eight games in a row dating to last season. Hayes leads UMass in man-up goals with four.
• Freshman attacker Will Manny also has 19 points on 11 goals and a team-best tying eight assists. Manny ranks 35th in the NCAA with 1.6 assists per game. Manny has at least two points in every game this season.
• Junior midfielders Ryan Hantverk (11 goals, 6 assists for 17 points) and Anthony Biscardi (9 goals, 6 assists for 15 points) have been very consistent along side of Hayes. UMass’ first midfield has a combined 32 goals and 19 assists for 51 points.
• UMass has been well-rounded on offense with 14 different players scoring and 11 with at least two goals. Five different players have nine or more goals and eight players have at least five goals.
• Senior midfielder Christian Hain has five goals and four assists for nine points on the second midfield. Freshman K.R. Jurgelevich leads all rookies with five goals and seven points.
• Junior attacker Ryan Liebel also has seven goals and senior captain Ryan Smith has four goals.
The Series With Brown
• Brown leads the long-standing New England rivalry, 26-21-1. Brown leads 10-8-1 in games played in Providence. The Bears also hold a slight 15-13 edge in Amherst after last season’s 9-8 win at Garber Field.
• The Bears have won three in a row and four of the last six, including the last low-scoring affairs. In 2007, Brown won 7-4, while it also won in 2008, 4-3.
• In the last meeting at Brown, Bear Brian Asher knocked the ball away from UMass’ Bobby Hayes with 12 seconds left in the game to help the Bears preserve a 4-3 win over the Minutemen on March 15, 2008. UMass’ Tim Balise had scored his second goal of the game with 7:31 left in the fourth quarter to get the Minutemen within a goal. UMass outshot Brown, 38-27 on the day. The Bears goalkeeper, Jordan Burke, played very well in goal, making 16 saves. UMass limited Brown to just eight shots on goal all afternoon as the defense was strong yet again.
• The seven total goals marked the lowest scoring game UMass played in since April 19, 1966, when UMass beat MIT, 3-1. The three goals for UMass was the fewest since a 6-3 loss to Navy on March 11, 2000.
• The Minutemen have had three ties all-time, one of which was against Brown in 1955 by an 8-8 final. The other two were against Holy Cross (1962) and Oberlin (1967).
The Last Meeting:
Brown 9, UMass 8
• UMass shot early and often, but Brown’s All-American goalie Jordan Burke was up to the challenge has he posted 20 saves as the No. 18 Bears topped the No. 13 Minutemen, 9-8, on a sunny afternoon at Garber Field on March 14, 2009. The Minutemen had multiple chances late in the game, but Burke stopped five shots in the fourth quarter including three saves in the final minute as UMass (3-3) peppered him. Minuteman goalie Doc Schneider was stellar as well making 14 saves between the pipes. Brown (4-1) received a career day from senior Reade Seligmann, who posted his first-career hat trick. Freshman Rob Schlesinger also scored the first two goals of his career for Brown.
• UMass senior Jim Connolly scored two goals for the Minutemen but was stopped by Burke twice in the final 30 seconds. Freshman Art Kell had his first-career multi-point day with a goal and two assists.
• Seligmann’s second goal which he shot between his legs with six seconds left in the third quarter was the decisive goal as it broke a 6-6 tie and Brown would never trail. He added his third of the game 2:51 into the fourth quarter for the two-goal edge, 8-6.
• The Minutemen got to within a goal twice in the final 12 minutes. Ryan Hantverk ripped a laser to cut the lead to 8-7 with 11:59 left in regulation. Schlesinger, who scored his first goal on a midfield run to goal in the second quarter, scored an unassisted goal with 10:11 left in the game. UMass once again came to within one as senior Tim Balise took a pretty feed from Kell and beat Burke on the left side with 9:36 left in the game. But that was the last ball to reach the back of the net on either side.
Minute Matters
• Sophomore defenseman Tom Celentani is off to a sensational starting in his first season as a starter on close defense. He leads the team in caused turnovers with 16, which ranks third in the NCAA. He also has 14 groundballs.
• Sophomore face-off man Greg Rushing has been strong on face-offs recently. This season he is 61-of-106 on draws for 57.5 percent. He also leads the team in groundballs with 28. He won a career-best 16-of-21 for 76.2 percent against Albany (3/9) as he scooped six groundballs. Rushing won 14 face-offs vs. Harvard (3/13) and grabbed a career-high eight groundballs.
• Junior Casey Rahn is second on the team with 17 groundballs, as the team’s top long-pole on defense and the face-off wing.
• Senior captain Diogo Godoi is second on the team in caused turnovers with 10 along with his 13 groundballs.
• Six Minutemen have double-figure groundballs. In addition to Rushing (28), Rahn (17), Celentani (14) and Godoi (13), short-stick Stephen Zorkers has 15 and face-off man Anthony Toresco has 16 groundballs.
Best Scoring Start Since 2001
• With 88 goals in the first six games, UMass has its best offensive start to a season since 2001 when the Minutemen scored 105 goals as they started the year 6-0.
• The last time UMass had at least 11 in goals in each of the first five games — as they do this season — was in 2001, a 6-0 start.
• In 2010, UMass had its best three-game start in scoring since 1990, with 47 goals this season. It was the best since 1990, when the Minutemen tallied 70 goals in its first three games. In a trip to Arizona, UMass beat the Wildcats, 27-8 and Whittier College, 28-7 in back-to-back games. That was followed up with a 16-15 loss to Cornell, for a total of 70 goals in the first three games.
20-Goal Outburst Vs. Hartford
• UMass had its highest scoring game in eight years with a 20-10 win over Hartford in the home opener on Feb. 20. The 20 goals were the most since a 21-9 win over Rutgers on May 4, 2002. Ryan Hantverk led the way with a career-high four goals while Ryan Smith scored the first three goals of his career for a hat trick. Bobby Hayes also had a hat trick for the second game in a row.
• The Minutemen jumped out to a 13-7 halftime lead, marking the most goals in a half since that same Rutgers game in 2002. Against the Scarlet Knights, UMass had a 14-goal second half including an 11-goal fourth quarter. Against Hartford, UMass led 8-2 after the first 15 minutes with five goals in the game’s first 6:34.
Manny Named CAA Rookie Of The Week
• Freshman attacker Will Manny was named the CAA Rookie of the Week on Feb. 22 after a seven-point effort in the first two games of the season. Manny is among the national leaders in assists with five, ranking fifth in the country.
Big Winners Over Last 10 Years
• UMass has established itself as one of the top programs in the nation. Since 2001, UMass has the seventh-most wins of any program in college lacrosse with 95 victories.
• The Minutemen have the ninth-best mark among all teams in the NCAA since 2001 with an 94-48 record for a 66.2 win percentage mark. That includes five seasons with 12 or more wins including a school record 13 wins in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006. The Minutemen were second on the list coming into the 2007 season.
Lucky Number 11, No More
• UMass had won 45 games in a row when scoring 11 or more goals until falling at Yale, 13-12 on March 5, 2010. The Minutemen also lost to Harvard, 14-13 on March 13, marking the most goals UMass scored in a loss since a 16-15 defeat to Delaware on April 15, 1995. UMass had won 67 games in a row when scoring 13 or more goals.
• UMass has now won 68 of its last 69 games when scoring 13 goals, after the 17-3 win over Providence.
• The Minutemen have at least 11 goals in every game this season with a 4-2 record and have won 47 of their last 49 games when tallying 11 or more.
• Prior to the Yale loss, UMass’ last loss when they had more than 11 came in the 2002 NCAA Quarterfinals, a 13-12 loss at Johns Hopkins.
• The streak lasted eight years to 2002 — meaning the last four senior classes had never lost when scoring 11 or more goals.
• Last season UMass had four 11-plus efforts in 2009. UMass beat Rutgers 11-10 in overtime in the regular-season finale to go along with 12-6 wins over Fairfield (4/21) and St. John’s (4/4) and a 18-6 win over Yale (2/28).
• UMass is 36-3 in its last 39 games when scoring double-figures, starting 4-2 this year and a 5-1 mark last year. UMass had won 29 games in a row when scoring 10 or more goals, but that streak was snapped with a 11-10 loss to Hofstra on Feb. 21, 2009. The Minutemen were 29-0 when scoring 10 or more goals from 2004-09. Prior to the loss at Hofstra, the last loss when scoring 10 goals came on May 1, 2004, a 17-10 loss at Syracuse.
Thumbnail Sketch Of The Minutemen
• Coming off the program’s 18th NCAA Tournament appearance, the UMass men’s lacrosse team is in its 57th season, starting in 1954. All-time, UMass has a 474-247-3 record.
• The Minutemen are ranked 18th in this week’s USILA Coaches Poll and 19th in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll. UMass was as high as No. 12 in the March 1 USILA poll this season.
• Last season, the Minutemen finished 9-6 overall and captured the ECAC Championship with a 6-1 league record. UMass fell to Princeton in the NCAA Tournament First Round, 10-7, in New Jersey.
• Head coach Greg Cannella is in his 16th season as head coach at his alma mater. Overall, the 1988 UMass grad has a 135-86 career record, winning more than 61.1 percent of the games he has coached. He ranks among the Top 15 among active coaches in the NCAA in career wins and win percentage.
• The Minutemen are beginning play in a new league in 2010, the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). UMass made the move to the league after a national shuffle caused by the formation of the Big East Conference in lacrosse. The Minutemen joined the CAA along with former ECAC member Penn State and will compete in a six-team league along with longtime CAA members Delaware, Drexel, Hofstra and Towson.
• Coming into 2010, UMass will have plenty of new faces in key positions. The Minutemen graduated All-Conference players including ECAC Goalie of the Year and Second-Team All-American Doc Schneider (7.43 GAA and 65.3 Save Pct.) along with its two leading scorers in Tim Balise (31 goals, 5 assists for 36 points) and Jim Connolly (39-5=44). Also, graduated were the fourth and fifth leading scorers in Evan Blum (14-8-22) and Rory Pedrick (12-6=18). Overall, UMass returned just 41 goals of its 143 goals from last season, just 28.7 percent. The leading returning scorer is senior captain midfielder Bobby Hayes (12-14=26), who led the team in assists in 2009. Fellow senior captain attackman Ryan Smith is expected to pick up some of the load in his first season as a starter. Sophomore Art Kell was the top rookie scorer a year ago with 11 goals and three assists and will be back to start on attack.
• The goalie position will have a new face for the first time in four years as Schneider graduated as one of the all-time greats in UMass history. He finished second in career saves with 753 and is now serving as an assistant coach with the Minutemen. Redshirt sophomore Tim McCormack and freshman Steve Mahle battled for the starting role in preseason camp with McCormack getting the nod to start the year. McCormack redshirted last season to retain three years of eligibility while Mahle was starring at West Genesee High School in upstate New York.
• An area with experience heading into 2010 is the close defense, as UMass returns 2009 All-American and 2010 Preseason All-American Diogo Godoi as a senior captain. Godoi will team with returning sophomore Greg Anderson and junior Travis Tripucka. That duo shared starting duties last season along side Godoi and graduated Brennan Mack. Sophomore Tom Celentani has also seen extended playing time on close defense. Junior long-pole Casey Rahn and junior short-stick Stephen Zorkers will also be key to the defense’s success.
Godoi Preseason 2nd-Team All-American
• Senior captain defenseman Diogo Godoi was named an Inside Lacrosse Face-Off Magazine Preseason All-American. He was an Honorable Mention USILA All-American last season. He will return for his senior year with numerous honors as has been also named an All-ECAC First Team defender and an All-New England pick. He anchored a UMass defense that finished the season 11th nationally in fewest goals allowed (7.93). He shut down the opponent’s top scorer on numerous occasions, including in the NCAA Tournament contest at Princeton when he held the Tigers’ top scorer Jack McBride (a Second-Team All-American) pointless. He started all 15 games while recording 28 groundballs and 21 caused turnovers, tied for most on team. He was twice named to Inside Lacrosse Team of the Week on March 23 and April 6.
UMass Picked Second In CAA; Trio Earn Honors
• UMass was picked to finish second in the CAA based on the preseason lacrosse coaches poll. Hofstra was selected to win the league in the coaches’ vote. The Minutemen placed three players on the preseason All-CAA team in senior midfielder Bobby Hayes, junior long-stick midfielder Casey Rahn and senior defenseman Diogo Godoi. The three selections was the second most in the league behind Delaware’s four picks. This is UMass’ first year in the CAA after playing in the ECAC, a league UMass captured the crown in last season.
UMass Wins 2009 ECAC Championship
• UMass won its fourth ECAC Championship in its final season in the league, before moving to the CAA in 2010. The Minutemen won the league in thrilling fashion as Tim Balise scored the game-winning overtime goal, his fifth of the game for the 11-10 victory at Rutgers (5/2). Balise and classmate Jim Connolly (3) combined for eight goals in the win. Doc Schneider made 19 saves including one off the opening face-off win by the Rutgers.
• The Minutemen also captured the league crown in 2001, 2002 and 2005. In 2002 UMass also claimed the league’s automatic qualifier. The Minutemen lost the tiebreaker to Georgetown in 2001 and in 2005, the league did not have an AQ.
• UMass ended in a tie with Loyola atop the ECAC at 6-1, but claimed the crown by virtue of its 8-6 win at Loyola on March 21.
UMass Claims 2009 ECAC Honors
• ECAC Lacrosse Champion UMass collected three of the top honors in the conference on Tuesday as Greg Cannella was named the Coach of the Year, senior attacker Jim Connolly was named the Offensive Player of the Year and senior Doc Schneider was named the Goalie of the Year. Connolly and Schneider were joined on the ECAC First-Team by senior attacker Tim Balise and junior defenseman Diogo Godoi. Junior midfielder Bobby Hayes was named to the second team.
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BALTIMORE, MD – The second-ranked Syracuse men’s lacrosse team jumped to an 8-1 third-quarter lead and held off a late rally by seventh-ranked Johns Hopkins as the Orange picked up a 10-7 win before 6,504 fans at Homewood Field Saturday evening. The win, the fourth straight for Syracuse over Johns Hopkins, runs the Orange record to 4-1 on the the year. The Blue Jays dropped their second straight and slip to 4-3.
Senior Max Bartig fueled the 8-1 run to open the game for the Orange as he opened the scoring less than three minutes into the game and later added back-to-back goals in the first seven minutes of the third quarter to push a 5-1 halftime lead to 7-1. Junior Stephen Keogh’s second goal of the game made it 8-1 less than a minute after Bartig’s third goal of the game, but JHU, which had been held off the board for more than 23 minutes, rallied.
Senior Steven Boyle sandwiched a pair of goals around a tally by freshman Zach Palmer and sophomore Tom Palasek scored on a nifty dodge from the side to slice the deficit to 8-5 less than 90 seconds into the fourth quarter.
A goal by Jeremy Thompson for Syracuse 45 seconds after Palasek’s goal halted the four-goal run for the Blue Jays, but Palasek struck again just over five minutes later to make it 9-6 and freshman John Greeley scored his second goal of the game with just under three minutes remaining to bring the Blue Jays within two at 9-7.
The Blue Jays hopes for a comeback were dashed just nine seconds after Greeley’s goal as Joel White scooped up the ground ball on the ensuing faceoff and raced into the Blue Jay zone, where he got his hands free from eight yards out to the left of Blue Jay goalie Michael Gvozden and blew home his first goal of the season.
The story of the game was the performance of the Syracuse defense, which kept the Blue Jays away from the goal for nearly three full quarters before the late-game rally. Junior John Galloway posted nine saves, including seven in the second half – two of which came on back-to-back shots from in close in the first 90 seconds of the third quarter. What could have been a 5-2 deficit for the Blue Jays if either of those two shots go was instead a 6-1 hole when Bartig scored at the 13:37 mark.
Bartig led the Orange with his three goals, while Thompson and Keogh added two goals apiece. Senior Cody Jamieson added one goal and three assists for Syracuse, which held advantages in shots (37-26), groundballs (36-25) and faceoffs (14-of-20).
Boyle totaled two goals and two assists, while Greeley and Palasek’s two-goal games were the first of their career. Gvozden was solid goal for the Blue Jays as he posted 14 saves, including several of the highlight-reel variety.
Johns Hopkins returns to action next Saturday when the Blue Jays play at top-ranked Virginia.
#2 Syracuse (4-1) 3-2-3-2/10
#7 Johns Hopkins (4-3) 0-1-2-4/7
Goals: S: Bartig-3, Thompson-2, Keogh-2, Jamieson, Marasco, White. J: Boyle-2, Palasek-2, Greeley-2, Palmer. Assists: S: Jamieson-3, Daniello-2, Amidon. J: Boyle-2, Palasek, Palmer. Saves: S: Galloway-9. J: Gvozden-14. Shots: S-37. J-26. EMO: S: 2-for-2. J: 1-for-4. Attendance: 6.504.
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NOTRE DAME, Ind. – A David Earl (Simsbury, Conn./Westminster School) goal with 1:41 remaining in the first overtime session gave the No. 9 Notre Dame men’s lacrosse team a 7-6 victory over Ohio State on Saturday afternoon at Arlotta Stadium. Earl and fellow junior midfielder Zach Brenneman (East Hampton, N.Y./East Hampton) both notched hat tricks for the Fighting Irish.
Notre Dame (5-2) trailed 6-4 entering the fourth quarter, yet the Fighting Irish defense held the Buckeyes scoreless throughout the final period and in overtime. Brenneman sliced the deficit to one (6-5) with his third goal of the day at the 8:49 mark of the fourth quarter. Brenneman has a team-best four hat tricks this season. Earl knotted the game with 3:20 left in regulation.
Ohio State (4-3) opened the game’s scoring 36 seconds into the contest on a goal from Mario Ventiquattro. James Green made it 2-0 in favor of the Buckeyes midway through the first quarter. Ventiquattro and Green both scored three goals for Ohio State.
Earl put the Irish on the board with 6:48 left in the opening quarter. Ohio State led 2-1 after the opening 15 minutes of play. The Buckeyes regained their two-goal edge on Ventiquattro’s second goal of the day.
The Fighting Irish used a 3-0 run to claim a 4-3 lead at the intermission. Junior long-stick midfielder Andrew Irving (McLean, Va./The Hotchkiss School (Conn.)) began the surge at the 11:34 mark of the second quarter with his first goal of the season. A Brenneman goal evened the contest (3-3) with 8:13 remaining in the first half. Brenneman gave the Irish their first lead of the game with 21 seconds left before halftime.
Ohio State answered Notre Dame’s 3-0 run with one of its own to start the second half. Ventiquattro completed his hat trick to tie the game with 13:44 remaining in the third quarter. Consecutive tallies from Green gave the Buckeyes a 6-4 lead heading into the final quarter.
Notre Dame out shot Ohio State 27-23. Senior goalie Scott Rodgers (Wantagh, N.Y./MacArthur) made 10 saves in the victory, while his counterpart Ryan Brant also had 10 stops. The six goals were the fewest allowed by the Notre Dame defense this season.
Today was Notre Dame’s second overtime contest of the season. The Irish fell at Drexel, 7-6, in overtime on March 9.
The Fighting Irish will open BIG EAST Conference play next Saturday against Rutgers at Arlotta Stadium. Game time is slated for noon (ET).
DURHAM, N.C. – Duke starting attack unit of Ned Crotty, Zach Howell and Max Quinzani combined for 10 goals and eight assists as the eighth-ranked Blue Devils defeated Penn State, 20-11, in men’s lacrosse action on Saturday afternoon in front of 1,691 fans at Koskinen Stadium.
Duke improves to 4-3 on the year while Penn State falls to 0-6.
“This was a good win for us,” said Duke head coach John Danowski. “I thought we got a little bit better today and that was the plan. You can’t worry about any opponent other than your next one, and we came out and executed pretty well. We obviously got contributions from a lot of different players and that is by design. Now we have a short turnaround with Dartmouth on Tuesday night, so we need to put this one behind us and get ready for another test.”
Howell led the way with five markers and two assists while Quinzani added four goals and one helper. Crotty, the nation’s leader in assists, had one goal and five assists as Duke scored a season-high 20 goals.
Penn State’s Chris Hogan and Matthew Mackrides sandwiched goals around a Howell tally to give the visitors a 2-1 lead less than five minutes into the contest. The Blue Devils then used a 5-0 run to claim a 6-2 advantage when Crotty scored an unassisted goal just 12 seconds into the second period. The two teams then traded three goals apiece before Quinzani scored twice in the final 1:34 of the half to send the teams to intermission with Duke ahead, 11-5.
Duke’s Robert Rotanz found the back of the net twice to start the third period, and Justin Turri’s goal at the 7:32 mark gave the Blue Devils a 14-5 cushion. Penn State responded with a 4-2 spurt and closed the margin to 16-9 early in the fourth quarter. Duke then outscored the Nittany Lions by a 4-2 count over the final 11:11 to account for the final margin.
Mackrides led Penn State with four goals while Nick Dolick chipped in two goals and one assist. Starting goalkeeper Dave Baker was credited with six saves while allowing 16 goals in three quarters.
For Duke, Parker McKee tallied a career-high three goals while Rotanz, Steve Schoeffel and Mike Catalino had two goals each. In net, Dan Wigrizer had seven saves while allowing nine goals in 45 minutes of action.
The Blue Devils host Dartmouth on Tuesday at 7 p.m. while Penn State plays St. John’s next Saturday at home at 1 p.m.
BALTIMORE, Md.—The 10th-ranked >> Duke scoreless for 30 minutes en route to an 8-5 victory over the Greyhounds this afternoon in front of 6,000 fans at the grand opening of the Ridley Athletic Complex. The five goals allowed are the fewest by the Blue Devils this season.
Duke freshman goaltender Dan Wigrizer finished with 12 saves, while seniors Ned Crotty and Max Quinzani paced the offense with a combined nine points. Crotty posted one goal and four assists and Quinzani completed the day with four tallies. He pushes his scoring streak to 52 games and the four goals marks the sixth time this season he has scored at least three goals in a game.
Defense was the name of the game in the first half for the Blue Devils, which improves to 3-3, as it held the Greyhounds to just one goal in 30 minutes of action. Wigrizer was outstanding in the first half, making eight stops.
The Greyhounds scored first with a tally from Collin Finnerty 5:03 into the game. Finnerty finished with a team-high three goals for the game. Duke senior midfielder Michael Catalino responded to even the score with 1:41 left in the quarter, as the two squads headed into the first break knotted at one apiece.
The Duke defense kept the clamps on Loyola’s attack, while the Blue Devil offense started to hit its stride in the second quarter. Senior Steve Schoeffel jump-started a five-goal run that spanned 7:53 just over seven minutes into the frame with his second goal of the season. The assist came from the stick of Crotty, the first of his four on the afternoon.
Crotty registered a marker of his own less than two minutes later on a fast-break pass from senior defenseman Parker McKee. The Blue Devils added two more goals in the final 1:35, including a man-down score from Quinzani, to go in front 5-1 at the half. McKee had a strong all-around outing, finishing with an assist, 10 ground balls and three caused turnovers as an anchor to the defense.
The Blue Devils closed out its five-goal run 10 seconds into the third quarter with a third tally from Quinzani.
Loyola put an end to its scoreless stretch, 5:33 into the third quarter with a score from Cooper MacDonell. The goal was the Greyhounds first in 30:30, the longest stretch this season Duke has held a team scoreless.
The Blue Devil defense continued to hold off the Greyhounds and added one more goal in the fourth quarter to ice the 8-5 victory.
Duke won the ground ball battle, 40-35, but it was Loyola controlling the action at the faceoff X by winning 13-of-17 restarts. The Greyhounds had a 36-28 edge in shots, while Loyola goaltender Jake Hagelin made eight stops. Defensively, Duke held the Greyhounds to just one man-up score on four opportunities.
The Blue Devils return home for their next contest, hosting Penn State on March 20 at Koskinen Stadium. Faceoff is set for 1 p.m.
DU’s Colin Scott Powers Pioneers Past Canisius 10-5
Freshman Colin Scott scored four goals for the Pioneers, while freshman Cameron Flint added two to help Denver to its second-straight win
DENVER – The University of Denver men’s lacrosse team (3-3) defeated the Canisius Griffons (0-3) 10-5 on Saturday evening at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium. Freshman Colin Scott (Ridgefield, Conn.) led the Denver scoring effort with four goals and an assist on the evening, while freshman Cameron Flint (Georgetown, Ontario) added two goals and an assist.
“We started out the game making some very uncharacteristic mistakes so I was a little frustrated with the way we came out,” said head coach Bill Tierney. “But, the good news is that we were able to overcome that and our offense got into a rhythm midway through the second quarter, giving us the momentum for the rest of the game.”
Canisius took an early 2-1 lead after the first quarter, but the Pioneers rattled off three unanswered goals from Scott, Flint, and senior John Dickenson (Dallas, Texas) in the second quarter to take a 4-2 lead at the half.
The Pioneers never relinquished their lead in the second half, adding six more goals for a final score of 10-5.
Denver outshot Canisius 42-21, including a 20-shot assault in the third quarter. The Pioneers also led the Griffons 40-21 in ground balls, and won 12 of the 19 face-offs. Sophomore goalie Zander Buteux (Madison, N.J.) earned the win for Denver after making eight saves.
Senior Charley Dickenson (Dallas, Texas) moved up one spot in the Pioneer record books with 58 career assists as he finished the night with one assists. The midfielder currently sits in a tie for third place for career assists.
Denver begins a week-long two-game road trip, traveling to South Bend, Ind., for a 2 p.m. MT game on Tuesday, Mar. 16 against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The Pioneers then travel to Stony Brook for an 11 a.m. game on March 20.>>
Irish second-half comeback bid falls short.
HOUSTON, Texas – The third-ranked Notre Dame men’s lacrosse team dropped a 10-8 decision to Fairfield on Saturday afternoon at The Kinkaid School. Senior attackman Neal Hicks (Atlanta, Ga./The Lovett School) paced the Fighting Irish with three goals. Midfielders Grant Krebs (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary’s) and David Earl (Simbsbury, Conn./Westminster School) both chipped in two goals and an assist for the Irish.
Fairfield (2-2) jumped out to a 4-0 lead by the end of the first quarter. Netting goals for the Stags in that span were Matt Plominski (13:42), Nick Baglio (8:37), Brent Adams (2:45) and Kevin Peters (0:13).
Notre Dame (3-2) got on the board with five minutes elapsed in the second quarter as Hicks deposited his first goal of the game. Today was the second hat trick of the season for Hicks, who has a team-best 23-game point streak.
The Stags responded with three straight tallies to take a 7-1 lead with 6:33 left in the first half. The run started on a goal from Mike Esposito with 9:36 showing on the clock in the period. Brent Adams and Sam Snow followed with goals of their own to give Fairfield the six-goal advantage.
Notre Dame’s Max Pfeifer (Crozet, Va./Western Albermarle) put a halt to the surge as he netted a man-up goal with 5:34 remaining in the first half. Fairfield led 7-2 at the intermission.
The Fighting Irish staged a second-half comeback that fell just short. Notre Dame held a 6-3 scoring advantage in the second half.
Hicks opened the half with back-to-back goals to slice the Irish deficit to three (7-4) with 2:15 remaining in the third quarter. However, goals from Fairfield’s Kevin Peters and Max Trunz extended the Stags lead back to five (9-4) by the end of the third quarter.
Notre Dame cut the Fairfield lead to two (9-7) with just under nine minutes left in regulation on a goal from Earl and two man-up tallies from Krebs. The Irish could not get any closer as a Doug Kuring goal put Fairfield back up by three (10-7) with 20 seconds left. Notre Dame’s Earl deposited the final score of the game with seven seconds remaining.
The 10 goals scored by Fairfield snapped Notre Dame’s 20-game streak of not surrendering double digits in goals. The Irish out shot the Stags 42-23. Notre Dame goalie Scott Rodgers (Wantagh, N.Y./MacArthur) made five saves, while Joseph Marra had 17 stops for Fairfield. Senior midfielder Trever Sipperly (Greenwich, N.Y./Greenwich) went 14-6 in faceoff attempts for the Fighting Irish.
Saturday’s contest was part of the inaugural ‘Beating Cancer With a Stick Lacrosse Classic’. The event, which was presented by Lacrosse 4 All, helped to raise money for The Children’s Cancer Hospital at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. It was the first NCAA Division I lacrosse game in Houston since 1970, when Johns Hopkins played Navy.
The Fighting Irish are back in action when they play host to Denver on Tuesday, March 16. Game time is slated for 4:00 p.m. (ET) at Arlotta Stadium.
HEMPSTEAD, NY – The 10th-ranked Hofstra men’s lacrosse team used a six-goal run to pull away from visiting Johns Hopkins in the second half and the Pride went on to post a 14-6 victory over the Blue Jays at rain and wind-swept Shuart Stadium Saturday evening. The win improves Hofstra’s record to 2-1, while the Blue Jays slip to 4-2 with the loss.
The Pride put the game away with the six-goal run after the Blue Jays had sliced a 6-2 halftime deficit to 6-4 in less than 90 seconds early in the third quarter. Jamie Lincoln answered the mini-run by Johns Hopkins when he swept across the top of the box and took a quick pass from Jay Card and blew one inside the near post. The 7-4 lead held until the final five minutes of the period, when the Pride added two goals by Stephen Bentz and a final goal by Mike Skudin with just 1.2 seconds remaining to push the lead to 10-4 entering the final quarter.
The Pride got a goal by Adrian Sorichetti while up two men with 4:54 remaining in the first half and Lincoln blew one home from 12 yards out at the top of the box less than two minutes later to close the first-half scoring.
A 12-yard laser by senior Michael Kimmel 36 second into the third quarter sliced the deficit to 6-3 and John Greeley’s first career goal less than a minute later made it 6-4, but Lincoln’s goal three minutes later ignited the game-turning run, which lifted the Pride to their third straight win against Hopkins at home.
Lincoln led the Pride with five goals and three assists, while Card added two goals and a game-high four assists. The Pride held advantages in shots (34-19) and ground balls (28-22) and converted on 3-of-4 extra-man chances.
Senior Steven Boyle led the Blue Jays with two goals and one assist.
Note: The game was delayed 14 minutes in the first quarter when the high winds knocked the power out at the stadium.
The Blue Jays fell behind 4-1 at the end of the first quarter and trailed 6-2 at the half as the Pride scored in settled offense, in transition and with a two-man advantage in the first 30 minutes. A Mike DeNapoli goal less than five minutes into the first quarter opened the scoring, but was answered less than a minute later by Blue Jay senior Tom Duerr, who slipped through traffic from the side and slipped a five-yarder past Hofstra goalie Rob Bellairs.
Hofstra got back-to-back goals from Jamie Lincoln and Jay Card in a span of just 21 seconds midway through the quarter and Johns Hopkins head coach Dave Pietramala inserted Steven Burke in goal for the Blue Jays after Card’s goal.
DeNapoli’s second goal, which came on a quick restart after the Blue Jays were called for offsides, came less than two minutes later, but Burke proved his mettle early in the second quarter when he stuffed Card in-tight while the Pride were playing a man down and Duerr buried an extra-man goal a short time later to make it 4-2.
Hempstead, NY – Junior Stephen Bentz tallied three goals and two assists and four other Pride players added two goals as 11th-ranked Hofstra downed #19 Brown, 15-12, at James M. Shuart Stadium Saturday afternoon. The Pride evened their record at 1-1 while the Bears dropped their season opener.
Hofstra sophomore Brad Loizeaux recorded two goals and one assist while classmate Michael DeNapoli, junior Steven DeNapoli and freshman Adrian Sorichetti each added two goals. Junior Jamie Lincoln posted one goal and two assists for the Pride. Freshman goalie Rob Bellairs stopped seven shots in the Hofstra cage. The Bears of Brown were led by seniors Reade Seligman with three goals and four assists and Thomas Muldoon with four goals and one assist while junior David Hawley tallied three goals and one assist.
The Bears opened the scoring with just 1:15 remaining in the first quarter as Muldoon scored off a pass from Rob Schlesinger for a 1-0 lead-the Bears only lead of the game. The Pride took nine shots on Brown goalie Matt Chriss with the junior making eight of his 13 saves in the contest in the first quarter.
The Pride found the target in the second quarter, scoring six times to take a 6-3 lead at the intermission. Just 12 seconds into the second quarter Stephen DeNapoli scored right off the face-off to tie the game at 1-1. Less than 90 seconds later, senior Danny Stein found Bentz coming around the back of the cage for his third goal of the season and a 2-1 advantage. Muldoon tied the game from five yards out on a perfect pass across the crease from Seligmann.
But Hofstra tallied three straight goals as Sorichetti notched his third of the year from Michael Hamilton at the 11:52 mark, and Bentz tallied his second and third of the game to build a 5-2 lead. Seligmann brought the Bears back to within two with a bullet from 10 yards out off a pass from Hawley with 5:39 to play in the half but Mike DeNapoli scored an unassisted goal on a charge to the cage with 23 seconds remaining in the period to boost the Hofstra lead to 6-3 at the break.
The second half featured nine goals and just two saves by each team. Brown closed to 6-5 scoring two in the first 1:06 as Matt Greenberg and Seligman dented the twine. But the Pride responded with three unanswered goals as Lincoln posted his fifth of the year at the 12:52 mark, Steven DeNapoli tallied a man-up goal 20 seconds later, -and Tom Interlicchio posted his first of the year from Lincoln four minutes after that for a 9-5 advantage.
Brown wasn’t through as Muldoon scored his third and fourth of the game 1:40 apart to close to within two. But the Pride responded with goals from Sorichetti and Loizeaux to rebuild a four-game lead at 11-7. The Bears made things interesting in the fourth quarter, scoring four of the first five goals as Hawley scored twice and Seligman and George Sherman sandwiched a Pride goal by Jay Card in the first 5:37 to close to within one at 12-11. But Mike DeNapoli, Michael Burke and Loizeaux scored unassisted goals down the stretch to boost the Pride lead to 15-11. Hawley closed out the scoring with 1:09 to play for Brown.
The Pride outshot the Bears, 39-30, and picked up 39 ground balls to Brown’s 25. Hofstra returns to action next Saturday, March 13 when the Pride entertain the fifth-ranked Blue Jays of Johns Hopkins at 7 p.m.
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Blue Jays Fall to 3-1 With Overtime Loss
BALTIMORE, MD – Scott MacKenzie scored his only goal of the game 59 seconds into overtime to lift seventh-ranked Princeton to an 11-10 victory over fifth-ranked Johns Hopkins in the second game of the 2010 Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium. The win, Princeton’s second straight against the Blue Jays, lifts the Tigers to 2-0 on the season, while Johns Hopkins slips to 3-1 and had its nine-game regular-season winning streak snapped.
Princeton appeared to have the game in hand with possession late in the fourth quarter behind the Blue Jay goal on a restart, but Blue Jay goalie Michael Gvozden forced a turnover and JHU quickly worked the ball up field to senior midfielder Michael Kimmel, who carried into the Princeton zone with a full head of steam and blew a shot past Princeton goalie Tyler Fiorito to tie the game at 10-10 with 14 seconds remaining. As it would turn out, the Blue Jays never had possession again.
Princeton won the faceoff after Kimmel’s goal, but couldn’t score in the final seconds, but the Tigers won the only faceoff in overtime and worked the ball to junior Jack McBride at the top of the box to Gvozden’s right. He skipped a pass through traffic to MacKenzie, who was parked just above the goal line to Gvozden’s left. With time and room, he stepped into a shot and slipped it just inside the near post for the game-winner.
Princeton led 7-4 at the half as McBride scored all three of his goals before halftime and the Tigers held the Blue Jays scoreless for the final 18:50 before the break. After Hopkins took a 4-3 lead on a Nate Matthews goal with 3:50 remaining in the first quarter, Jack McBride and Chris McBride scored back-to-back goals to give Princeton a 5-4 lead early in the second quarter. A Tyler Moni goal 31 seconds after Jack McBride’s tally made it 6-4 and Jack McBride accounted for the 7-4 halftime score.
It took more than five minutes for the Blue Jays to gain an offensive possession in the third quarter, but they then needed less than two minutes after that to pull within one as attackmen Kyle Wharton and Tom Duerr struck for back-to-back goals midway through the period to draw the Blue Jays to within 7-6.
An opportunisitic Jeff Froccaro goal for Princeton – he swept in a loose ball in front of the goal after a nifty Gvozden save – gave the Tigers a two-goal lead back, but JHU answered seven seconds later on Steven Boyle’s 14th goal of the season and senior midfielder Max Chautin used a nice hesitation dodge from the side to get inside his defender and handcuffed Fiorito from seven yards out to draw the Blue Jays even at 8-8.
Frocarro, who scored three goals last week, added his third and fourth goals of the game to give the Tigers a 10-8 lead with less than six minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, but JHU freshman Zach Palmer tallied a highlight-reel backhanded goal with 4:44 remaining and Kimmel fired home the game-tying goal just over four minutes later. That set the stage for MacKenzie’s game-winner, which gave Princeton its first back-to-back wins against Johns Hopkins since 2000 and 2001.
Froccaro led Princeton with four goals and grabbed eight of the Tigers’ 24 ground balls while winning 10-of-17 faceoffs. Jack McBride added three goals and one assist and Rob Engelke chipped in with three assists for the Tigers, who also got eight saves from Fiorito and held advantages in shots (37-27), ground balls (24-23) and faceoffs (13-12).
Boland and Duerr led the Blue Jays with two goals apiece, while Kimmel (1g, 2a) and Boyle (1g, 1a) were also multi-point scorers for the Blue Jays. Gvozden posted10 saves for the Blue Jays, who out-scored Princeton 6-3 in the second half, but never led again after Matthews’ goal late in the first quarter was answered by Jack McBride’s goal with one second remaining in the period.
#7 Princeton (2-0) 4-3-2-1-1/11
#5 Johns Hopkins (3-1) 4-0-4-2-0/10
Goals: P: Froccaro-4, J. McBride-3, Moni-2, C. McBride-1, MacKenzie-1. J: Boland-2, Duerr-2, Boyle, Wharton, Matthews. Kimmel, Palmer, Chautin. Assists: P: Engelke-3, Chanenchuk-2, C. McBride-2, J. McBride-1. J: Kimmel-2, Boyle-1, Donovan-1, Greeley-1. Saves: P: Fiorito-8. J: Gvozden-10. Shots: P-37. J-27. EMO: P: 0-for-0. J: 1-for-1. Attendance: 19,742.
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