2014 Ivy League Men's Lacrosse
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2014 Ivy League Week 4 Men’s Lacrosse March 10, 2014 STANDINGS THIS WEEK • Cornell still unbeaten, good week for Ivies The Big Red moved to 5-0 with a pair of wins last Ivy League Overall week, including a 12-9 win over second-ranked and Points Record Pct. GF GA Record Pct. GF GA Streak previously unbeaten Virginia. With the win, Cornell Cornell 0 0-0-0 .000 0 0 5-0-0 1.000 72 45 W 5 jumped seven spots in both polls this week up to No. 8. Brown 0 0-0-0 .000 0 0 3-1-0 .750 40 38 W 2 Penn 0 0-0-0 .000 0 0 3-1-0 .750 44 34 W 3 After four unbeatens fell in another topsy-turvey Yale 0 0-0-0 .000 0 0 2-1-0 .667 30 26 L 1 week nationally, the Big Red is one of three unbeaten Harvard 0 0-0-0 .000 0 0 3-2-0 .600 54 46 W 2 teams remaining nationally. Cornell, Maryland (5-0) Princeton 0 0-0-0 .000 0 0 2-2-0 .500 46 46 L 2 and Johns Hopkins (5-0) own the only unblemished records still this season. Dartmouth 0 0-0-0 .000 0 0 1-2-0 .333 27 41 W 1 As a League, the Ivies went 7-2 last week to move to CO-PLAYER OF THE WEEK 19-9 on the year. Cornell junior attack Matt Donovan (Morristown, N.J.) had an eight-point week, • Ivy Slate Opens Saturday including a big day to help The Big Red beat second-ranked Virginia. Against the The first Ivy League games of the season come up Cavaliers, Donovan had two goals and three assists as Cornell came away with a on the slate this Saturday. Fresh off of its big win over 12-9 win. Donovan had four of his five points as Cornell got back into the game after Virginia, Cornell will host Yale. The Bulldogs suffered trailing in 5-2. Those two goals and two assists turned the deficit into a 6-5 Cornell an overtime loss at Fairfield last Saturday and will lead at the intermission and sparked a 10-2 Cornell run. Donovan also had a goal host Lehigh on Tuesday before the League opener. in two assists in a 19-6 rout of Canisius earlier in the week. Penn heads up I-95 to take on Princeton on Saturday Donovan’s Statistics for the Week afternoon. The Quakers have won three in a row after 2 GP, 3G, 5A, 8 Pts., 2 GP, 12 Shots, 6 SOG their opening loss at Duke, while the Tigers have lost consecutive home games to Johns Hopkins and Harvard junior goalkeeper Jake Gambitsky (Wantagh, N.Y.) had 30 saves in two North Carolina. Crimson wins last week. After recording 12 saves in a 10-8 win over Quinnipiac on Tuesday, Gambitsky had a career-high 18 saves on 25 shots on goal in Harvard’s Saturday night, Harvard hosts Brown. The Bears are 15-7 win at Georgetown on Saturday. Gambitsky now has double-digit saves in 3-1 after beating Hobart on Saturday, 13-10. Harvard four of five games this season and has a League-high 59 saves this season (11.8 is 3-2 after a solid win at Georgetown on Saturday, per game). 15-7. Gambitsky’s Statistics for the Week 2 GP, 2-0, 116:57 min., 15 GA, 7.70 GAA, 30 saves, 66.7 sv%, 3 GB UPCOMING SCHEDULE CO-ROOKIE OF THE WEEK Tuesday, March 11 Brown freshman attack Dylan Molloy (Setauet, N.Y.) had another strong week to [14/15] Lehigh at [17/17] Yale, 7 pm [IVY] lead the Bears to a pair of wins. Molloy had four goals and an assist in Wednesday’s win over Hartford, 15-7. He then followed that up with a game-high three goals and Saturday, March 15 game-high seven ground balls as Brown defeated Hobart, 13-10. *[17/17] Yale at [8/8] Cornell, 1 pm [IVY] *[11/12] Penn at [16/16] Princeton, 3 pm [IVY] Molloy now has 11 goals and two assists in his first four collegiate contests. *[RV/--] Brown at [--/RV] Harvard, 7 pm [IVY] Molloy’s Statistics for the Week Tuesday, March 18 2 GP, 7G, 1A, 8 Pts., 3 GB, 12 shots, 9 SOG [8/8] Cornell at [19/RV] Colgate, 4 pm Dartmouth at [7/5] Penn State, 5 pm Cornell freshman goalkeeper Christian Knight (Baltimore, Md.) made the most of [16/16] Princeton at Villanova, 7 pm his first collegiate start on Saturday -- beating second-ranked Virginia. After making [--/RV] Harvard at [5/4] No. Carolina, 7 pm [ESPN3] seven saves in his debut against Canisius on Tuesday, Knight got the nod against the Cavs and responded with 15 saves on 24 shots on goal to hand UVA its first KEY: loss of the season and shut down one of the highest scoring offenses in the nation *Ivy League game (entered at 14.77 GPG). [IVY] streamed on The Ivy League Digital Network Rankings listed as Warrior Media / USILA Knight’s Statistics for the Week 2 GP, 1-0, 84:17 min., 13 GA, 22 svs., 62.9 sv% Web: IvyLeagueSports.com | #IvyDigital: IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com Facebook: TheIvyLeague | Instagram: IvyLeagueSports | Twitter: @Ivy_Athletics, #IvyLax Week 2 4 2014 Ivy League Men’s Lacrosse HONOR ROLL WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS Conrad Oberbeck, Yale (Jr., A, Greenwich, Conn.) PLAYERS OF THE WEEK 1 GP, 1 GS, 4G, 1A, 5 Pts. February 24 ............................................................. Tom Schreiber, Princeton Nick Doktor, Penn (So., A, Rochester, N.Y.) March 3 ........................................................................ Matt Donovan, Cornell 2 GP, 2G, 1A, 3 Pts. March 10 ...........................Matt Donovan, Cornell / Jake Gambitsky, Harvard March 17 .......................................................................................................... Tom Schreiber, Princeton (Sr., M, East Meadow, N.Y.) 1 GP, 3G, 3A, 6 Pts., 2 GB March 24 .......................................................................................................... March 31 .......................................................................................................... Jordan Schochet, Brown (Jr., FO, Plano, Texas) April 7 ............................................................................................................... 2 GP, 22-28 FO, 7 GB April 14 ............................................................................................................. April 21 ............................................................................................................. April 28 ............................................................................................................. WEEKLY AWARDS HISTORY PLAYER OF THE WEEK ROOKIES OF THE WEEK School Last Occurrence Player February 24 ..................................................................... Dylan Molloy, Brown Brown April 23, 2012 Sam Hurster Cornell March 10, 2014 *Matt Donovan March 3 ..............................................................................Kevin Brown, Penn Dartmouth April 15, 2013 *Mike Olentine March 10 ............................... Dylan Molloy, Brown / Christian Knight, Cornell Harvard March 10, 2014 Jake Gambitsky March 17 .......................................................................................................... Penn April 22, 2013 *Brian Feeney March 24 .......................................................................................................... Princeton February 24, 2014 Tom Schreiber March 31 .......................................................................................................... Yale April 15, 2013 *Brandon Mangan April 7 ............................................................................................................... April 14 ............................................................................................................. ROOKIE OF THE WEEK April 21 ............................................................................................................. School Last Occurrence Player April 28 ............................................................................................................. Brown March 10, 2014 *Dylan Molloy Cornell March 10, 2014 *Christian Knight Dartmouth March 30, 2009 Fergus Campbell Harvard April 15, 2013 Devin Dwyer Penn March 3, 2014 Kevin Brown Princeton April 22, 2013 Jake Froccaro Yale March 12, 2012 Conrad Oberbeck *Shared honor Week 3 4 2014 Ivy League Men’s Lacrosse TEAM-BY-TEAM NOTES WARRIOR MEDIA POLL BROWN March 10 Brown freshman Dylan Molloy continues to impress, rolling up seven goals in two Rank Team ............................................... Record ...........Points .............Previous games last week for the Bears. He now has 11 goals in his first four games this 1 Maryland (22) ......................................5-0 ....................459 .....................1 season, starting in place of the injured Henry Blynn. He also had a game-high seven 2 Loyola (1) .............................................5-1 ....................432 .....................5 ground balls in the win over Hobart on Saturday in Hempstead. N.Y. The Bears face 3 Johns Hopkins ....................................5-0 ....................411 .....................4 Harvard to open the Ivy slate on Saturday night. 4 Duke ...................................................4-2 ....................352 .....................3 5 North Carolina ....................................4-1 ....................344 .....................8 6 Virginia ................................................6-1 ....................338 .....................2 CORNELL 7 Penn State ..........................................3-1 ....................328 .....................7 Cornell used a pair of monster runs to record a pair of wins last week. In a 19-6 win 8 Cornell ...............................................5-0 ....................303 ...................15 over Canisius, The Big Red scored 12-consecutive goals at one point. Maybe more 9 Denver ................................................4-2 ....................281 ...................12 impressive, though, were the nine-straight tallies against second-ranked