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Hobart Athletic Communications Hobart and William Smith Colleges Ken DeBolt ([email protected]) Geneva, NY 14456 Director of Athletic Communications Phone: (315) 781-3538 Meredith Rieder ([email protected]) Fax: (315) 781-3531 Athletic Communications Assistant Hobart Statesmen vs. Cornell Saturday, May 15 2 p.m. Media Information The Cornell Game At A Glance: Interviews Records: Hobart 9-6; Cornell 8-4 Site: Schoellkopf Field, Ithaca, N.Y. Interviews during the week Series Record: Cornell leads 71-46-4 Current Streak: Hobart 1 should be arranged through First Meeting: 1898, Hobart 2-1 Last Meeting: May 7, 2004, Hobart 12-10 the Athletic Communication Office. The best time to interview Head Coach MATT Probable Starters KERWICK ’90 is Monday Pos No Name Cl Ht Wt Gls Asst Pts GB Other through Friday between 11 A 11 Mike Conklin SO 6-1 190 24 1 25 16 5 EMG a.m. and noon. Players will A 12 Nate Hill JR 5-10 170 20 26 46 31 Career: 44-60-104 be made available as class A 24 Mark Williamson SR 5-10 185 33 21 54 27 1st-team All-Patriot League and practice schedules allow. M 16 Nate Molinari JR 5-7 170 12 6 18 19 Career-high 4 goals at Army M 36 Brian Joy SR 6-2 195 17 4 21 26 1st-team All-Patriot League M 45 Chris Scanlon JR 5-10 190 16 4 20 17 2nd-team All-Patriot League Web Site FO 31 John Soden FY 6-0 190 0 0 0 70 FO: 176-318 (.553) Information on all of the D 6 John Tammaro SO 6-2 215 0 0 0 36 Career-high 8 GBs vs. PSU Colleges’ athletic teams is D 33 Matt Murphy SO 6-4 215 0 1 1 47 Assisted on GWG at Army available on the Internet at: D 47 Greg McCarthy JR 6-4 220 0 0 0 40 1st-team All-Patriot League www.hws.edu/athletics Pos No Name Cl Ht Wt Svs GA GAA SV% Other GK 18 Dan Valente JR 5-10 170 173 120 8.68 .590 2nd-team All-Patriot League Radio Information TODAY’S GAME—The Statesmen and the Big Red will meet for the 122nd time this afternoon with All Hobart lacrosse games Cornell holding a 71-46-4 series lead. One of the oldest rivalries in collegiate sports, the two can be heard on WEOS schools first squared off in 1898 with Hobart posting a 2-1 victory. The Big Red had won three in a Radio 89.7/90.3 FM in the row before Hobart’s 12-10 win in Geneva last Friday. The Big Red also boast the longest win streak Geneva area. TIM FRAZIER ’06 and MATT JOHNSTON ’04 will in the series, recording nine consecutive victories between 1910 and 1914. serve as the broadcast team today. Station Manager MIKE STORIED TRADITION—Now in its 102nd season, the Hobart lacrosse program has played 1,096 BLACK is the host of the games and boasts a 687-389-20 (.636) all-time record. Only Johns Hopkins and Syracuse universi- pregame show. All of the ties can claim more wins. Two hundred and forty-five Statesmen have earned All-American Colleges’ athletics broadcasts honors, while leading Hobart to 24 NCAA Tournament berths, 13 Division III Championships, can be heard online at: two Division II Championships, and a USILA Championship. www.weos.org/live.html PATRIOTS & STATESMEN—Hobart enjoyed a great deal of success over the past five seasons in the Patriot League. The Statesmen were 26-7 in conference games, including the 2004 Patriot League Before Game Day Tournament, capturing the league crown in 2000 and again in 2002. To request a pass for any Hobart lacrosse home game, SWAN SONG—Hobart is playing its final season in the Patriot League in 2004. The Statesmen will the working media should move to the high-powered ECAC Lacrosse League in 2005. Hobart will join Georgetown, Loyola, contact the Athletic Penn State, Rutgers, St. John’s, and UMass to form the toughest conference in collegiate lacrosse. Communciations Office at least 24 hours in advance. AT THE HELM—The Statesmen are led by third-year Head Coach MATT KERWICK ’90. The 2002 Seating is limited and will be Patriot League Coach of the Year guided his alma mater to the NCAA Tournament that year and assigned on a first-come, has a 20-22 record at Hobart. Including previous head coaching stops at Alfred and Randolph- first-serve basis. To cover the Statesmen Macon, Kerwick boasts a 72-53 (.576) career record over eight-plus seasons. No stranger to on the road, please contact acclaim, he was named the 1997 Babe Kraus Division III Coach of the Year after leading the the host school. Saxons to the NCAA Tournament and a 10-4 record. A member of four national championship teams as a student-athlete, Kerwick was a two-time All-American and the MVP of the 1989 NCAA Tournament. He was also a four-year letterwinner in ice hockey. HELPING HANDS—Assisting Coach Kerwick this season are three 2004 Schedule of the best coaches in the business. BRIAN RODGERS returns for Date Opponent Time his third season on the sidelines. An All-Ivy League defenseman F28 1vs. Butler L, 6-7 at Cornell, he followed Kerwick from Georgetown. Second-year M6 *at Holy CrossW, 14-6 assistant TERRY MUFFLEY joined the lacrosse staff with more than M13 *at Lehigh W, 11-4 20 years of coaching experience at Geneva High School, M16 *at Navy L, 8-13 including three Section V Championships. The newcomer to M20 at Georgetown L, 7-9 the group, comes to Hobart with four-years of M27 *LAFAYETTE W, 18-7 RON CHASE M30 at Syracuse L, 10-16 collegiate coaching experience and an outstanding playing A3 *BUCKNELL W, 13-9 career at West Chester University. A7 *COLGATE W, 8-4 A10 PENN STATE W, 8-7 ot POSTSEASON HISTORY—Playing in their 25th NCAA Tourna- HEAD COACH A17 OHIO STATE L, 12-13 ot ment, Hobart boasts an impressive 55-9 (.859) mark in the MATT KERWICK ’90 A24 *at Army W, 14-8 tourney. The Statesmen own 15 NCAA titles, including the first 2 YEAR, SCHOOL W-L A30 vs. Bucknell W, 10-9 12 awarded in Division III. Hobart is making its fourth appear- 2 1992, Randolph-Macon 10-4 M1 at Navy L, 8-9 ance in the Division I fray and is still searching for its first win. M7 *CORNELL W, 12-10 1993, Randolph-Macon 9-4 M15 ^at Cornell 2 pm 1994, Randolph-Macon 8-6 1 at Brooklandville, Md. FIRST TIME AROUND—Eight days ago, Hobart got a late goal from 1996, Alfred 10-5 2 PL Tournament at Navy 1997, Alfred 10-4 ^ NCAA Tournament MARK WILLIAMSON and NATE HILL added an insurance marker inside the final minute as Hobart posted a 12-10 win over 1998, Alfred 5-8 2003 Results (5-8) Cornell. The Statesmen got hat tricks from BRIAN JOY and PAT 2002, Hobart 6-8 Date Opponent Time MEADE to negate the Big Red’s leading scorer, Sean Greenhalgh’s 2003, Hobart 5-8 2004, Hobart 9-6 F23 1Butler W, 13-3 game-high four tallies. Cornell, which was outshot 44-24, relied TOTALS 72-53 M1 *Holy Cross W, 15-4 heavily on first-year goalie Matt McMonagle, who finished with M11 2v Georgetown L, 5-13 a season-high 19 saves. M15 *at Lafayette W, 16-7 M22 *Lehigh W, 9-4 MODEL OF EFFICIENCY—On May 7, Hobart limited Cornell to M25 Syracuse L, 12-15 the lowest number of shots by a Statesmen opponent this season, M29 *at Bucknell L, 7-8 A2 *at Colgate W, 10-8 just 24. That hardly seemed to slow the Big Red. Of those 24 A5 at Penn State L, 10-14 shots, only four missed the cage. Ten were saved by goalie DAN A12 at Denver L, 8-15 VALENTE, while the other 10 appeared in the scoring column, A19 *Army L, 10-12 including both of Sean Greenhalgh’s attempts in the third A26 Loyola L, 12-13 quarter, the only two shots of the frame by Cornell. M2 at Cornell L, 5-14 1 at Baltimore, Md. 2 at San Antonio, Texas SECOND TIME AROUND—Including return engagements with Bucknell and Navy earlier this season, Hobart is an impressive 2004 20-2 in second time around games since 1980. Nazareth’s 13-12 Individual Game Highs overtime win in the 1992 NCAA Division III semifinals and Navy’s 9-8 squeeker in the 2004 Patriot League Championship Points game are the only setbacks. ............ 7, Nate Hill vs Bucknell 6, Mark Williamson vs Lafayette ...6, Mark Williamson at Lehigh BIG RED REMIX—While it has been a while, and never in the #47 - GREG MCCARTHY Goals postseason, Hobart and Cornell do have a long history of 5, Mark Williamson vs Lafayette meeting more than once in the same season. Today marks the ...5, Mark Williamson at Lehigh 22nd time in which the two schools have played multiple times Assists ............ 5, Nate Hill vs Bucknell in the same campaign. The Big Red are 14-7 in rematch games, ....3, Mark Williamson, at Army excluding Cornell’s 1901 sweep of the Statesmen in a three- ... 3, Mark Williamson, Ohio St. game series. ................... 3, Mark Williamson at Holy Cross Shots “RECENT” REMIX HISTORY—Hobart and Cornell have not met ...............