2021 NAVY MEN’S LACROSSE NAVY LACROSSE CONTACT: STACIE MICHAUD | [email protected] | 410.293.8773 (W) | 410.212.3761 (C) GM 7: #10 ARMY VS. #16 NAVY STAT LEADERS SATURDAY, APRIL 24 | 12:00 PM | NAVY-MARINE CORPS MEMORIAL STADIUM | ANNAPOLIS, MD. NAVY ARMY NAVY MIDSHIPMEN ARMY BLACK KNIGHTS TEAM AVG NCAA CONF AVG NCAA CONF 2021 Record: 4-2, 2-2 Patriot League 2021 Record: 6-2, 4-1 Patriot League Scoring Offense 10.83 35 6 12.88 22 3 Ranking: 16 (USILA Coaches); 19 (IL Media) Ranking: 10 (USILA Coaches); 10 (IL Media) Scoring Defense 10.00 18 5 8.88 4 1 Head Coach: Joe Amplo Head Coach: Joe Alberici Points / Game 17.50 30 5 19.88 24 4 Career Record: 59-57, 9th Year Career Record: 143-104, 17th Year Assists / Game 6.67 28 5 7.00 25 4 Navy Record: 7-4, 2nd Year School Record: 135-98, 16th Year Extra-Man Offense 50.0 4 1 32.1 36 6 Last Game: April 17 // Navy 14, #15 Loyola 12 Last Game: April 17 // #11 Army 14, Boston U. 8 Man-Down Defense 65.2 40 6 72.4 17 2 Next Game: May 1 // at Lafayette, 2:30 pm Next Game: May 1 // Colgate, 3:00 pm Faceoff % 43.4 49 8 44.0 46 5 Streak: Won 1 Streak: Won 2 Ground Balls / Gm 35.33 8 2 32.50 25 5 Turnovers / Gm 15.33 15 5 14.50 10 3 Caused TO / Gm 7.83 29 6 7.75 32 7 MULTIMEDIA INDIVIDUAL PLAYER AVG NCAA PLAYER AVG NCAA Television: CBS Sports Network Points / Gm Daniel 3.67 55 Nichtern 5.38 8 Announcers: Jason Knapp and Evan Washburn Goals / Gm Daniel 2.00 73 Nichtern 2.50 41 Live Video: None Assists / Gm Daniel/Skalniak 1.67 42 Nichtern 2.88 7 Radio: WNAV 1430 AM, 99.9 FM GAA Rees 10.09 23 Schulper 8.90 8 Announcers: Pete Medhurst and Joe Miller Save % Rees 57.1 13 Schulper 58.4 9 Live Stats: NavySports.com Saves / Gm Rees 13.33 11 Schulper 12.12 26 Faceoff % Jarosz 55.6 27 Grabher 52.2 36 Twitter: @NavyAthletics and @navymlax Ground Balls / Gm Jarosz 3.80 60 Grabher 4.12 48 Facebook: NavyAthletics Caused TO / Gm Bonitz/Franchuk 1.50 32 Hudgins 2.00 10 Instagram: @NavyAthletics Team NCAA - NCAA ranking, Conf - Conference ranking // Individual NCAA ranking SETTING THE STAGE NAVY’S SCHEDULE • One of the most storied rivalries in college athletics will be center stage this Saturday at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (12:00 pm) when Army (6-2, 4-1 Patriot League) and Navy (4-2, 2-2 PL) battle one another in 4-2 Overall | 2-2 Patriot League | 3-1 Home | 1-1 Away | 0-0 Neutral the series’ 101st meeting. It’s the first time both teams are ranked at the time of the game since 2016 when the Mids were ranked #9 and the Black Knights were #20. DATE NAVY RK OPPONENT (RK) RESULT TV/VIDEO • Saturday’s contest will be televised live by CBS Sports Network with Jason Knapp and Evan Washburn calling 2.20 RV / NR Mount St. Mary’s (-- / --) W 8-5 ESPN+ the action. 2.28 19 / 19 Jacksonville (-- / RV) W 13-6 ESPN+ • Additionally, Pete Medhurst and Joe Miller will provide the call on 1430 AM / 99.9 FM WNAV with coverage 3.28 18 / 16 Bucknell * (-- / --) W 13-10 ESPN+ beginning at 11:45 am with the Navy Lacrosse Pregame Show. 4.3 17 / 14 Loyola * (15 / 18) L 10-14 CBS SN • Following the guidelines set by state and local government officials, spectators are allowed at home Navy 4.10 RV / 19 at Lehigh * (8 / 7) L 7-13 ESPN+ lacrosse games. Fans will be required to wear a mask throughout the contest and asked to maintain social 4.17 RV / RV at Loyola * (15 / 14) W 14-12 ESPN+ distancing. 4.24 16 / 19 ARMY * (10 / 10) 12:00 PM CBS SN 5.1 -- / -- at Lafayette * (-- / --) 2:30 pm CBS SN GAME DAY STORYLINES 5.7 PL Semifinals TBA CBS SN • SENIOR SALUTE: Naval Academy Director of Athletics Chet Gladchuk and Head Coach Joe Amplo will honor 5.9 PL Championship TBA CBS SN Navy’s 15 senior lacrosse players - Joe Byrne, Christian Daniel, Joe deLyra, Jeff Durden, Michael Foster, Nick * Patriot League Game Franchuk, Tim Griffin, Jacob Mandish, Andrew McKenna, Colin Meehan, Donovan Murphy, Tyler Perreten, Rankings - USILA Coaches Poll / Inside Lacrosse Media Poll Spencer Rees, John Salcedo and Logan Spilker - and 2 senior managers - Chris Kalafut and Caitlyn Thompson - prior to the start of Saturday’s contest. PATRIOT LEAGUE STANDINGS • 8-1-1: Both Army and Navy enter Saturday’s game with 811 victories in their program’s histories which ties for the PATRIOT LEAGUE OVERALL fourth most in college lacrosse. Navy has put together a 811-368-14 in 114 years of lacrosse with its inaugural DIVISION OVERALL PL season being 1908. Army has recorded an 811-398-7 mark in what is its 104th season (1907 1st yr). W L Pct W L Pct W L Pct • DURDEN AND DANIEL GARNER NATIONAL AND CONFERENCE ACCOLADES: Jeff Durden (Sr / LSM) NORTH was one of 10 players named to this week’s USILA Div. I National Team of the Week. He scored a pair of goals, Army 2 0 1.000 4 1 80.0 6 2 75.0 including the game-winner, while also grabbing a career-high 6 ground balls in the Mids’ win at #15 Loyola Boston U. 2 1 66.7 4 2 66.7 6 3 66.7 last Saturday. Durden’s goal snapped a Loyola run of 6-consecutive goals with his game-winner coming just 9 Colgate 1 1 50.0 2 3 40.0 2 5 28.6 seconds after the Greyhounds tied it up. Co-captain Christian Daniel (Sr / A) contributed a career-high 5 assists, Holy Cross 0 3 00.0 1 3 25.0 2 4 33.3 including 3 in the opening quarter as Navy built a 7-1 lead. All 3 of those assists were fed to Jack Sweeney (Jr / A) on set extra-man plays. Daniel also dealt out a pair of assists to Jon Jarosz (Fr / A) in the second and third SOUTH quarters. Daniel’s poise and leadership were on display in the closing minutes of the game where with under two Lehigh 4 0 1.000 7 0 1.000 8 0 1.000 minutes to go, he split the double team coming out of a timeout and bounced his shot past a third defender into Loyola 3 1 75.0 3 3 50.0 5 5 50.0 the open goal to give the Mids the eventual two-goal victory. NAVY 1 2 33.3 2 2 50.0 4 2 66.7 Bucknell 1 3 25.0 1 4 20.0 2 5 28.5 • SWANSON RETURNS: After missing 3 games following a foot injury in the opener against Mount St. Mary’s on Lafayette 0 3 00.0 0 5 00.0 0 9 00.0 Feb. 20, Dane Swanson (Fr / M) returned to the lineup on April 10 against Lehigh. He contributed the 3-three points of his career, including his first-collegiate goal at the 14:12 mark in the second quarter. Swanson, who was Friday, April 23 ranked by Inside Lacrosse as the 25th-best overall player and fifth-best midfielder among the incoming freshman • Brown at Boston U. 7:00 pm class, followed up with a 4-point effort at Loyola last Saturday where he pitched his first-career hat trick. • REACHING 100: With his first (14:07, 3Qtr) of 3 goals against Loyola on April 3, Christian Daniel (Sr / A) Saturday, April 24 became the 36th player in program history to reach 100 career points and the 12th-fastest to achieve the • ARMY AT NAVY 12:00 PM feat. Daniel, who has been held without a point in just 2 of the 37 games he has played in over his career, has • Bucknell at Lehigh 2:00 pm amassed 113 points on 72 goals and 41 assists and is ranked 25th on the Mids’ all-time scoring list. He is just 8 • Loyola at Lafayette 2:00 pm points outside of the top 20 (121 by Brendan Schneck, 1977-78). 1 WWW.NAVYSPORTS.COM 2021 NAVY LACROSSE NAVY NUMERICAL ROSTER ALPHABETICAL ROSTER No Name Pos Yr Ht Wt Hometown / High School No Name Pos Yr 2 Jimmy Rubino (ruh-BEAN-oh) LSM Jr 6-1 180 Potomac, Md. / Winston Churchill 62 Phil Arnold D So 3 Jeff Durden LSM Sr 5-10 205 Cumming, Ga. / The McCallie School (Tenn.) 4 Nick Barry FO Jr 4 Nick Barry FO Jr 5-10 180 Islip, N.Y. / Islip 34 Jackson Bonitz D Fr 5 Augie Fratt DM Jr 6-1 195 Bellevue, Wash. / Bellevue 13 Joe Byrne A Sr 6 Jon Jarosz (JAIR-is) A/M Fr 6-6 224 Gambrills, Md. / Severn School 50 Andrew Calabrese GK Fr 8 Jacob Mandish LSM Sr 6-5 208 Davidsonville, Md. / Severn School 46 Brian Calabrese A So 9 Joel Mandish DM Jr 6-1 182 Davidsonville, Md. / Severn School 37 Ryan Chase DM Jr 10 Colin Meehan (ME-han) DM Sr 5-10 189 Chantilly, Va. / Chantilly 54 Dom Cole A So 11 Logan Spilker M Sr 6-2 183 Severna Park, Md. / Severna Park 21 Nick Cole A Jr 12 Keegan Houser M Fr 6-4 213 Annapolis, Md.