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Men's Lacrosse Weekly Release - Week 5
Complete Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Weekly Release in pdf format
PRINCETON, N. J. -- Ivy League play got
underway this past weekend, with the road teams posting a 2-1
record in the first three Ivy games of the season. Twelfth-ranked
Cornell made the trip to New Haven, Conn., and handed the Bulldogs
their first loss of the season, 10-8. Yale had opened the year with
four straight wins but a four-goal performance by Steve
Mock helped the Big Red earn the win. Harvard was the
other team to open League play with a road win, downing Brown,
11-7, on a pair of hat tricks by Dean Gibbons and
Ryan Stevens. Eighteenth-ranked Penn kicked off
its Ivy season with an historic 8-3 home win over 11th-ranked
Princeton, its first win over the Tigers since 1989.
The Ivies also played three non-conference games. Dartmouth, which
had the Ivy bye, fell in a shootout at seventh-ranked Duke on
Sunday, 18-10. Earlier in the week, Harvard took out Massachusetts
rival Holy Cross, 10-4, and 15th-ranked Villanova came up with its
second consecutive one-goal win over an Ivy foe, this time taking
out Princeton, 10-9.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Cornell sophomore attackman Steve Mock
(Huntington, N.Y.) led the Big Red to a 10-8 Ivy League win over
Yale on Saturday afternoon by scoring four goals, which matched his
career high mark. Mock’s four goals came on just eight shots
and were registered during a decisive 6-3 scoring run by the Big
Red. His first goal of the day broke open a 3-3 tie. He also scored
the game-winning goal, as well as Cornell’s final goal of the
game, which gave the Big Red its biggest lead of the day. The 2010
Ivy League All-Tournament Team honoree now has six goals on the
year and he gives Cornell its third consecutive Ivy League Player
of the Week honoree, as Rob Pannell earned the distinction on March
7 and March 14.
Mock’s Weekly
Stats
4G, 4 Pts., 8 Shots, 7 SOG, 1 GB, 1 GWG, Team: 1-0
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Penn freshman defender Maxx Meyer (Melville,
N.Y.) led the Quakers to an 8-3 win over 11th-ranked Princeton at
Franklin Field on Saturday, snapping Penn's 21-game losing streak
to the Tigers that dated back to 1989. The anchor of the Penn
defense, Meyer was one of the best players on the field as Penn
held Princeton to its lowest goal total since 2008, its lowest
total in an Ivy contest since 2006 and its lowest total against the
Quakers since 1987.
Meyer also scored his first collegiate goal in the win, caused two
turnovers and came up with four ground balls. He is the second
Quaker to earn Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors this season,
joining Brian Feeney (Feb. 28).
Meyer’s Weekly
Stats
1G, 1 Pt., 2 GB, 2 Shots, 2 SOG, 4 GB, 2 CT, Team: 1-0
HONOR ROLL
Matt Chriss, Brown, Sr., G (Lutherville, Md.)
1-1 GP-GS, 60:00 mins., 18 SVS, 3 GB, 11 GA, .621 SV %, 11.00 GAA,
0-1
John Cunningham, Princeton, Jr., LSM (Fairfield,
Conn.)
8 GB, 3 CT, Team: 0-2
Daniel Eipp, Harvard, Fr., M (Groton, Mass.)
2G, 2A, 4 Pts., 3 Shots, 2 SOG, 2 GB, Team: 2-0
Brian Feeney, Penn, Fr., G (Summit, N.J.)
1-1 GP-GS, 60:00 mins., 7 SVS, 3 GA, .700 SV %, 3.00 GAA, 1-0
Harry Krieger, Harvard, So., G (Timonium,
Md.)
2-2 GP-GS, 120:00 mins., 25 SVS, 11 GA, .694 SV %, 5.50 GAA,
2-0
Gregory Mahony, Yale, Jr., M (Mercer Island,
Wash.)
3G, 3 Pts., 8 Shots, 3 SOG, 1 GB, 1 CT, Team: 0-1
Jeff Perkins, Dartmouth, Fr., A (Dallas,
Texas)
4G, 1A, 5 Pts., 6 Shots, 5 SOG, Team: 0-1
THIS WEEK
The Ivy men’s lacrosse week begins on Tuesday with a pair of
midweek road games versus ranked opponents for Dartmouth and
Cornell. The Big Green closes out its spring break trip with a game
at sixth-ranked North Carolina, while tenth-ranked Cornell is set
to play at 12th-ranked Stony Brook. Both tilts will begin at 7:00
p.m., with the Dartmouth-North Carolina game scheduled to air live
on ESPNU.
Then on Saturday, the second set of Ivy League games will take
place. Cornell is at 13th-ranked Penn, 19th-ranked Yale plays at
Princeton and Dartmouth opens its 2011 Ivy slate by playing host to
18th-ranked Harvard.
Cornell and Penn carry 1-0 League records into their clash,
meaning at least one team will move to 2-0 after the weekend, a
mark Harvard would also reach with a win at Dartmouth. After
suffering losses last weekend, Yale and Princeton will be looking
to avoid going 0-2 to start their League slates when they meet in
Princeton, N.J.
Brown, which has the Ivy bye this week, will take on New England
rival Vermont on Saturday in its only game of the week.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Tuesday, March
22
Dartmouth at (6) North Carolina, 7 pm [ESPNU]
(10) Cornell at (12) Stony Brook, 7 pm
Saturday, March
26
Vermont at Brown, 1 pm
(10) Cornell at (13) Penn, 1 pm*
(19) Yale at Princeton, 1 pm* [Verizon FiOS 1]
(18) Harvard at Dartmouth, 2 pm*
(#) - refers to national ranking in the USILA Coaches Poll
released on March 21.
* - Ivy League contest.
Television coverage listed in [brackets].
