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Men's Lacrosse Weekly Release - Week 3
Complete Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Weekly Release (PDF)
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The storyline of the second
week of Ivy men’s lacrosse play turned out to be individual
offensive explosions as milestones were reached and the
League’s teams combined to average over 11 goals per
game.
In wins on Tuesday night, a pair of senior attackmen including
Cornell’s Rob Pannell and Harvard’s
Jeff Cohen each reached the 100-career goal
plateau. Pannell did it as part of a 10-point effort versus
Binghamton and Cohen reached the mark while scoring five goals at
Holy Cross. Also on Tuesday, Princeton sophomore Tom
Schreiber continued his hot start to 2012 with four goals
against Manhattan.
Over the weekend, Dartmouth junior Chris
Costabile led the attack with a seven-goal outburst, each
of which proved pivotal as the Big Green edged Sacred Heart, 11-10.
It was the most goals scored by a Dartmouth player in over six
years, as Jamie Coffin was the last Big Green
player to reach that total (Feb. 26, 2006 vs. Providence).
Elsewhere, Brown senior Parker Brown netted four
goals against fifth-ranked UMass.
All told, in a busy week of nonconference action the Ivies went
6-4, with three of the four losses coming to ranked opponents. Wins
by Cornell, Dartmouth and Yale on Saturday saw all three of those
teams push their records to 2-0 in the early stages of the 2012
season.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Cornell senior Rob Pannell (Smithtown, N.Y.), the
reigning Ivy League and national Player of the Year, showed why he
is one of college lacrosse’s best in two victories last week,
scoring seven goals and adding nine assists for 16 points in
victories over Binghamton and Army. He opened the season with six
goals and four assists in a 17-12 win over Binghamton, including
scoring the game-tying and go-ahead goals late in the third quarter
as Cornell rallied for the win. His 10-point game was the first by
a Cornell player since 1995 and he became the 34th player in NCAA
history to record 100 career goals and 100 career assists. During
the game, he scored consecutive goals in the span of six seconds to
set a Cornell record.
Then in a dominant 18-7 triumph over Army, who had lost at No. 3
Syracuse by a goal earlier in the week, Pannell had a goal and five
assists in just three quarters of action. He added four ground
balls, giving him six in the two games, and also caused a turnover.
Last year, Pannell earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors four
times.
Pannell’s Weekly
Stats
2 GP, 7G, 9A, 16 Pts., 6 GB, 1 CT, 17 Shots, .412 shooting%
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Cornell freshman attack Matt Donovan (Morristown,
N.J.) jumped right into the starting lineup with Pannell and
Steve Mock and showed he could be an impact player
in the 2012 season. In wins over Binghamton and Army, he scored
five goals and posted three assists for eight points, while adding
five ground balls. Donovan opened his career with a goal and an
assist to go along with three ground balls in the win over
Binghamton.
Donovan followed up with a six-point effort (four goals, two
assists) to go along with two ground balls in a dominant 18-7 win
over Army. The six points were the most by a Cornell freshman in a
game since Rob Pannell in 2008. He is the first Big Red player to
earn Rookie of the Week honors since AJ Fiore did
so on April 19, 2010.
Donovan’s Weekly
Stats
2 GP, 5G, 3A, 8 Pts., 5 GB, 14 Shots, .357 shooting%
HONOR ROLL
Parker Brown, Brown (Sr., A - San Francisco,
Calif.)
1 GP, 4G, 4 Pts., 2 GB, 8 Shots, .500 shooting%
Jeff Cohen, Harvard (Sr., A - Syosset, N.Y.)
2 GP, 8G, 9 Pts., 1 GB, 26 Shots, .308 shooting%
Chris Costabile, Dartmouth (Jr., M - Sykesville,
Md.)
1 GP, 7G, 7 Pts., 3 GB, 2 CT,11 Shots, .636 shooting%
Matt Gibson, Yale (Sr., A - Point Lookout,
N.Y.)
1 GP, 2G, 4A, 6 Pts., 1 GB, 8 Shots, .250 shooting%
Keegan Michel, Harvard (Fr., M - Westminster,
Md.)
2 GP, 2G, 1A, 3 Pts., 5GB, 5 Shots, .400 shooting%, 14-of-27
faceoffs
Conrad Oberbeck, Yale (Fr., A - Greenwich,
Conn.)
1 GP, 3G, 3 Pts., 1GB, 1 CT, 5 Shots, .600 shooting%
Tom Schreiber, Princeton (So., M - East Meadow,
N.Y.)
2 GP, 5G, 3A, 8 Pts., 5 GB, 1 CT, 15 Shots, .333 shooting%
THIS WEEK
It is another full slate of nonconference action for the Ivy teams
as they combine to play 11 games in the next week, starting with a
busy Tuesday night that includes home games for Dartmouth, Cornell,
Yale and Penn.
The third week’s set of opponents has a distinct ACC and BIG
EAST feel to it. Both Penn and Princeton will take on eighth-ranked
North Carolina and third-ranked Cornell will take on top-ranked
Virginia. Also on Saturday, Harvard plays at Georgetown and Penn
welcomes regional rival Villanova.
Both the UNC-Princeton and the Cornell-Virginia games will be
televised live on ESPNU as part of the 2012 Konica Minolta Face-Off
Classic, which will take place at M&T Bank Stadium in
Baltimore, Md.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Tuesday, March
6
Bellarmine at Dartmouth, 3 p.m.
Canisius at (3/3) Cornell, 4 p.m.
Sacred Heart at (15/16) Yale, 7 p.m.
(8/8) UNC at Penn, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, March
7
Hartford at Brown, 3 p.m.
Saturday, March
10
1 - (14/14)Princeton vs. (8/8) UNC, 11 a.m.
[ESPNU]
(-/20) Harvard at Georgetown, 1 p.m.
Brown at Saint Joseph’s, 1 p.m.
1 - (3/3) Cornell vs. (1/1) Virginia, 1:30 p.m.
[ESPNU]
(12/13) Villanova at Penn, 3 p.m.
(X/Y) - X refers to national ranking in the Inside Lacrosse
Poll and Y refers to national ranking in the USILA Coaches
Poll.
1 - Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium in
Baltimore, Md.
