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Men's Lacrosse Weekly Release - Week 4
Complete Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Weekly Release
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PRINCETON, N.J. -- In the final week of complete
nonconference play, the Ivies played in several marquee matchups
versus ranked opponents, with Penn’s 10-6 home win over
eighth-ranked North Carolina highlighting the results. The victory
marked the Quakers' first-ever home triumph over the Tar Heels in
four games played at Franklin Field.
Other Ivy victories last week included Cornell’s 19-4
mid-week win over Canisius and Brown’s 11-3 win at Saint
Joseph’s on Saturday. Sophomore attackman Sam
Hurster scored three goals to help the Bears establish a
10-0 lead in the win.
All told, the Ivy League teams were involved in five one-goal
games last week, including Cornell and Princeton being edged in
Konica Minolta Face Off Classic games at M&T Bank Stadium in
Baltimore. The third-ranked Big Red fell in overtime to top-ranked
Virginia, 9-8. After the Big Red rallied from a three-goal deficit
in the fourth quarter to tie the game with 28 seconds to play in
regulation, the Cavaliers scored in overtime to improve to 7-0 on
the year. Princeton came back from an 8-6 deficit when
Tucker Shanley tied the game at 8-8 with 8:20 left
in the fourth quarter and had shots to tie it at the end, but North
Carolina hung on for the win as Tar Heel goalie Stephen
Restivo made 16 saves.
Elsewhere on Saturday, Harvard and Penn dropped one-goal
decisions to BIG EAST foes. Villanova edged Penn, 8-7, with the
Wildcats' game-winning goal coming with one second remaining on the
clock. Harvard fell at Georgetown, 11-10. Daniel
Eipp tied the game at 9-9 with 10:53 to play, but the
Hoyas netted the next two goals en route to the win.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Penn senior attackman John Conneely (Dix Hills,
N.Y.) led the Quakers to a 1-1 week against a pair of ranked foes,
including a 10-6 win over eighth-ranked North Carolina and a narrow
8-7 last second loss to No. 12/13 Villanova.
In Penn’s first-ever home win over the Tar Heels, Conneely
totaled four points on two goals and two assists to pace the
offense. His second goal came with 4:47 to play to help the Quakers
establish a 9-5 lead. Then against the Wildcats, Conneely added a
goal and two assists. His goal against Villanova gave Penn a 3-2
lead late in the second quarter. He is Penn’s first Ivy
League Player of the Week in almost two years as Rob
McMullen last earned the honor for the Quakers on March
15, 2010.
Conneely’s Weekly
Stats
2 GP, 3G, 4A, 7 Pts., 1 GB, 1 CT, 15 Shots, .200 shooting%
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Yale attackman Conrad Oberbeck (Greenwich, Conn.)
scored five goals over two games last week en route to claiming his
first career Ivy League Rookie of the Week honor. Though the
Bulldogs dropped two close games, Oberbeck helped keep Yale in both
contests. He netted two goals in a midweek game versus Sacred
Heart, his second of which tied the game at 8-8 in the third
quarter. Then over the weekend against Lehigh, the freshman erased
a 4-1 deficit for the Bulldogs by netting three straight goals to
tie the game at 4-4.
Oberbeck also picked up three ground balls in each game for six on
the week and caused two turnovers. He becomes Yale’s first
Ivy League Rookie of the Week since Brandon Mangan
earned the honor on March 28, 2011.
Oberbeck’s Weekly
Stats
2 GP, 5G, 5 Pts., 6 GB, 2 CT, 10 Shots, .500 shooting%
HONOR ROLL
Jeff Cohen, Harvard (Sr., A - Syosset, N.Y.)
1 GP, 3G, 2A, 5 Pts., 1 GB, 9 Shots, .333 shooting%
Matt Donovan, Cornell (Fr., A - Morristown,
N.J.)
2 GP, 2G, 2A, 4 Pts., 4 GB, 7 Shots, .286 shooting%
Connor English, Cornell (Jr., A - Manhasset,
N.Y.)
2 GP, 4G, 3A, 7 Pts., 3 GB, 15 Shots, .267 shooting%
Sam Hurster, Brown (So., A - St. Louis, Mo.)
2 GP, 4G, 4 Pts., 2 GB, 12 Shots, .333 shooting%
Keegan Michel, Harvard (Fr., M - Westminster,
Md.)
1 GP, 1A, 1 Pt., 7 GB, 15-of-22 faceoffs
Kip Orban, Princeton (Fr., M - Staples,
Conn.)
1 GP, 2G, 2 Pts., 2 Shots, 1.000 shooting%
Jack Strabo, Princeton (So., DM - Arlington,
Va.)
1 GP, 1G, 1 GB, 1 Shot, 1.000 shooting%
THIS WEEK
The race for the 2012 Ivy League title begins this week with three
Ivy games, including Yale playing at Cornell, Penn traveling to
Princeton and Brown playing at Harvard.
Last season, Cornell became the 38th squad to post a perfect
record in Ivy play and captured the League title with a 6-0 mark.
It was Cornell’s first unbeaten Ivy season since 2007, and
the Big Red have won at least a share of the past nine titles
dating back to 2004.
Cornell carries an eight-game regular season Ivy win streak into
2012, having last dropped a regular season League game on April 24,
2010 when Brown came away from Schoellkopf Field with a 13-10
victory. Harvard and Penn closed out the 2011 regular season on
two-game Ivy win streaks.
The Ivy teams will once again be playing for the League title as
well as one of four berths in the third annual Ivy League
Men’s Lacrosse Tournament, which determines the
League’s automatic qualifier for the NCAA Championship.
With the League title on the line and each game having Ivy
tournament qualification ramifications, the games are often closely
contested battles. In fact, last season 10 of 21 Ivy games were
decided by a goal, with six of the ten one-goal games reaching
overtime. More of the same could be in store, starting with this
weekend’s games.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Monday, March
12
Harvard at (14/15) Duke, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, March
13
(15/16) Princeton at (10/10) Villanova, 7 p.m.
Saturday, March
17
*Yale at (3/4) Cornell, 1 p.m.
*(19/-) Penn at (15/16) Princeton, 2 p.m. [ESPNU]
*Brown at Harvard, 7 p.m.
Sunday, March
18
Dartmouth at (14/15) Duke, 1 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.
* - Ivy League contest.
