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Men's Lacrosse Weekly Release - Week 5
Complete Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Weekly Release
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PRINCETON, N.J. -- The 2012 Ivy League season got
off to an intriguing start as Cornell, Princeton and Harvard each
posted conference season-opening wins to take an early advantage in
the Ivy standings on a weekend that saw two of the three League
games decided by a goal – including one overtime contest.
Cornell hosted Yale in the first Ivy League game of the season, and the Big Red held on for an 8-7 win with Roy Lang's game-winning goal, which he scored with just over five minutes to play. Cornell goalie Andrew West made a career-high 13 saves as the Big Red rallied from a two-goal first half deficit. Matt Gibson led the Yale attack with two goals and two assists, while Bulldog goalie Jack Meyer stopped six shots as the Yale defense held Cornell to a season-low goal total.
After a midweek 14-8 win at tenth-ranked Villanova, Princeton
got off to a 1-0 start in Ivy League play by downing Penn, 11-4, at
home. Versus the Quakers, the score was tied 3-3 midway through the
second quarter but Princeton’s defense held Penn off the
scoreboard for more than 33 minutes as the Tiger offense built a
10-3 lead. Mike MacDonald had three goals and two
assists versus the Quakers, while the Tigers’ mid-week win
was keyed by five-goal outbursts from Tom
Schreiber and Jeff Froccaro.
Harvard, which fell at No. 14/15 Duke, 11-8, last Monday, also
improved to 1-0 in Ivy play with a dramatic 10-9 overtime win
against Brown. Jeff Cohen tallied five goals for
the second straight game, including the game-winning score at the
2:19 mark of overtime. Keegan Michel proved vital
for Harvard by winning 15-of-23 face-offs. Brown freshman
Nick Piroli sent the game to overtime when his
third goal of the game tied it at 9-9 with 5:30 left in the fourth
quarter. Piroli also had an assist in the game for a four-point
day.
Dartmouth returned from a stretch of twelve days without a game and fell at No. 14/15 Duke by the score of 20-9.
Co-PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Harvard senior attackman Jeff Cohen (Syosset,
N.Y.) extended his streak of hat tricks to five games by scoring a
total of 10 goals last week as he helped the Crimson go 1-1. At No.
14/15 Duke on Monday, Cohen tallied two man-up goals as he netted
five scores on 12 shots. He also caused a turnover and picked up
two ground balls in the losing effort. Then in Harvard’s Ivy
League opener against Brown on Saturday night, Cohen added five
more goals, including the game-winning score at 2:19 of overtime,
propelling the Crimson to a 10-9 victory. Cohen scored five times
on nine shots against the Bears.
Cohen, who has 23 goals on the season, is Harvard’s first
Ivy League Player of the Week since Dean Gibbons
earned the honor on April 25, 2011. A three-time Ivy League Rookie
of the Week in 2009, it is Cohen’s first career Ivy League
Player of the Week honor.
Cohen’s Weekly
Stats
2 GP, 10G, 10 Pts., 2 GB, 1 CT, 21 Shots, .476 shooting%
Co-PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Junior Jeff Froccaro (Sands Point, N.Y.) led Princeton to a pair
of wins last week, including a 14-8 victory at tenth-ranked
Villanova, and a win over Penn, 11-4. He scored a career high five
goals against the Wildcats and added two assists for a seven point
showing, also a career high mark. He scored the five goals on just
ten shots.
Then against the Quakers in the Ivy League opener for both teams,
Froccaro added two goals and an assist for three points. He opened
the scoring in that game and gave the Tigers a 3-1 lead. The
midfielder/attackman, who was a two-time Rookie of the Week in
2010, has earned his first career Ivy League Player of the Week
honor.
Froccaro’s Weekly
Stats
2 GP, 7G, 3A, 10 Pts., 9 GB, 1 CT, 15 Shots, .467 shooting%
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Princeton freshman Mike MacDonald (Georgetwon,
Ontario) helped the Tigers to a pair of wins last week, including a
14-8 victory at tenth-ranked Villanova, and an 11-4 home win over
Ivy foe Penn. In the first Ivy League game of his career, MacDonald
scored three goals on four shots and added a pair of assists for a
five-point game. His three goals and five points were both career
high marks. The attackman also earned Co-Rookie of the Week honors
on Feb. 27.
MacDonald’s Weekly
Stats
2 GP, 3G, 2A, 5 Pts., 4 Shots, .750 shooting%
HONOR ROLL
Johnny DePeters, Brown (Jr., M - Woodbury,
Conn.)
1 GP, 3G, 3 Pts., 4 Shots, .750 shooting%
Matt Gibson, Yale (Sr., A - Point Lookout,
N.Y.)
1 GP, 2G, 2A, 4 Pts., 2 GB, 1 CT, 6 Shots, .333 shooting%
Keegan Michel, Harvard (Fr., M - Westminster,
Md.)
2 GP, 10 GB, 25-of-42 faceoffs
Nick Piroli, Brown (Fr., A - Black River,
N.Y.)
1 GP, 3G, 1A, 4 Pts., 5 Shots, .600 shooting%
Tim Schwalje, Penn (Jr., A - Setauket, N.Y.)
1 GP, 1G, 2A, 3 Pts., 2 GB, 1 CT, 3 Shots, .333 shooting%
Andrew West, Cornell (So., GK - Darien,
Conn.)
1-1 GP-GS, 60:00 Mins., 7GA, 7.00 GAA, 13 Saves, .650 save%,
1-0
THIS WEEK
After a pair of midweek matchups that includes No. 3/4 Cornell
playing No. 9/8 Denver at Hofstra and Dartmouth visiting Chapel
Hill, N.C. to face the No. 14/15 Tar Heels, the second set of Ivy
League games take place on Saturday, March 24.
Yale plays host to Princeton its home League opener, with the
Bulldogs looking to even their Ivy record at 1-1, while the Tigers
will try to move to 2-0. Penn hosts No. 3/4 Cornell, and will also
aiming to even its Ivy record at 1-1 in its first home Ivy game of
the season. The Big Red, on the other hand, will be trying to move
to 2-0 in Ivy play while extending a nine-game regular season
League winning streak.
In the final Ivy game of the weekend, Harvard welcomes Dartmouth.
The Crimson is coming off an overtime Ivy home win last weekend,
while the game is the Big Green’s first League game of the
season. Brown has the Ivy bye this weekend and will face America
East foe Vermont.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Tuesday, March
20
(9/8) Denver vs. (3/4) Cornell, 4 p.m.
Wednesday, March
21
Dartmouth at (14/15) North Carolina, 4 p.m.
Saturday, March
24
*(12/13) Princeton at Yale, Noon
Brown at Vermont, 1 p.m.
* (3/4) Cornell at Penn, 1 p.m.
*Dartmouth at Harvard, 2 p.m.
* - Ivy League contest
(X/Y) - X refers to national ranking in the Inside Lacrosse
Poll and Y refers to national ranking in the USILA Coaches
Poll
