MARCH 7 Colgate Raiders AT NAVY MIDSHIPMEN NOON COLGATE RAIDERS University Information 0-5, 0-1 PATRIOT LEAGUE Location .....................................Hamilton, N.Y. Founded ...................................................1819 at Enrollment ...............................................2,922 Nickname ............................................. Raiders NAVY MIDSHIPMEN Colors ........................... Maroon, Gray & White President ............................ Dr. Brian W. Casey 2-2, 0-1 PATRIOT LEAGUE VP & Director of Athletics ......... Dr. Nicki Moore Livestream: PLN | Stats: StatBroadcast.com Conference ................................. Patriot League Athletic Dept. Phone................. (315) 228-7611 OPENING FACEOFFS Head Coach • Colgate continues its early stretch of four straight Patriot League games with a Saturday Matt Karweck ..........................Notre Dame ‘06 visit to Navy. Colgate Record ...................... 4-14/2nd season Career Record .......................................... Same • Both teams are looking to bounce back from opening week losses. Patriot League Record ................................. 2-7 • The Raiders last defeated the Midshipmen in Annapolis 10-7 back in 2014. But Colgate did win twice at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium to capture the 2015 Patriot Assistant Coaches & Staff Chris Cooper ...........................Central Michigan League Championship. Jon Sax .............................................. Tufts ‘16 • Griffin Brown with 17 goals thus far has 94 for his career, pushing the senior into the all-time Colgate top 10. Volunteer Assistant Coach Matt Lintner ..................................Roanoke ‘19 COLGATE NOTEBOOK Men’s Lacrosse Staff Chuck Monteith .......... Associate Athletic Trainer Notes of interest on today’s game against the Midshipmen David Bodden ..............Strength & Conditioning Michelle Reese .............Administrative Assistant Colgate and Navy meet for the 23rd time in men’s lacrosse in a series that began in 1928. Office Phone ............................ (315) 228-7570 The teams have played annually since 2004. Navy holds a 15-7 lead and is riding a two-game Home...........Crown Field at Andy Kerr Stadium • Capacity/Surface ....................10,221/FieldTurf winning streak. Colgate’s last victory was 10-4 in 2017 back in Hamilton. The Raiders last won against the Mids in Annapolis in a 10-7 decision back in 2014. Colgate did, however, win twice Program History at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium en route to the 2015 Patriot League Championship. First Varsity Season ..................................1921 Program Record ..................... 472-531-7 (.471) Seasons .....................................................88th Griffin Brown poured in five goals and two assists last Saturday against Boston University First Patriot League Season .......................1991 to up his team-leading season totals to 17 goals and 22 assists. Brown for his career has 94 • Program Patriot League Record .... 97-86 (.530) goals, pushing him into the all-time Colgate top 10. The senior is six goals away from becoming NCAA Tournament .............2008, 2012 & 2015 the ninth player in program history to reach the century mark. Athletic Communications John Painter ..............Director/Lacrosse Contact Did You Know? Four different Raiders have led the team in scoring in Colgate’s first five Cell Phone ............................... (865) 414-1143 • games, with Brown turning the trick at North Carolina (hat trick, one assist) and against Office Phone ............................ (315) 228-7566 Amanda Shike ...............Assoc. Dir./Multimedia Jenna Jorgensen ....................Assistant Director Jordan Doroshenko ...............Assistant Director COLGATE RAIDERS 0-5 (0-1 Patriot) Kyle Relf ......................... Communications Asst. DATE OPPONENT SITE TIME/RESULT ATT. Micah Hamilton .............Video Production Asst. Lisa Diehl .....................Administrative Assistant Feb. 1 at #10 North Carolina Chapel Hill L 6-19 612 Office Phone ............................ (315) 228-7602 Feb. 7 at #5 Syracuse Syracuse L 14-21 2,140 Feb. 18 at Princeton Princeton L 11-20 523 Feb. 22 at Hobart Geneva L 13-21 299 Feb. 29 BOSTON UNIVERSITY * Hamilton L 12-13 215 March 7 at Navy * Annapolis Noon March 14 LAFAYETTE * Hamilton 3:30 p.m. March 21 at Bucknell * Lewisburg 1 p.m. March 24 at Cornell Ithaca 7:30 p.m. March 28 at Harvard Cambridge 1 p.m. April 4 at Army * West Point Noon April 11 LEHIGH * Hamilton Noon April 18 LOYOLA * Hamilton 3:30 p.m. April 24 at Holy Cross * Worcester 5 p.m. * Patriot League Games. All times Eastern. PAGE 2 | COLGATE at NAVY | GAME 6 2020 PATRIOT LEAGUE Boston. Others are Mike Hawkins with five STANDINGS goals against Syracuse, Brian Minicus with a goal and five assists at Princeton, and Nicky Petkevich with three goals and three assists League Overall at Hobart. W-L Pct. W-L Pct. Lehigh 1-0 1.000 4-1 .800 A senior economics major, Brown al- Loyola 1-0 1.000 4-1 .800 ready earned placement on the 2020 Army 1-0 1.000 5-2 .714 • Preseason All-Patriot League Team. Brown Boston U. 1-0 1.000 3-3 .500 in each of the last two seasons has led Col- Bucknell 0-0 .000 5-1 .833 gate in goals scored and gone on to earn Holy Cross 0-1 .000 4-2 .667 All-Patriot League Second Team honors. He Navy 0-1 .000 2-2 .500 scored 20 times last year, including a team- COLGATE 0-1 .000 0-5 .000 best six man-up goals, to go with nine as- Lafayette 0-1 .000 0-5 .000 sists. The six man-up goals tied for third in SATURDAY’S GAMES conference. COLGATE at Navy, 12 Army at Lafayette, 12 Mike Hawkins scored five goals at Syra- cuse last month on just seven shots. He Duke at Loyola, 12 • Bucknell at Boston University, 1 previously had a pair of five-goal games Holy Cross at Lehigh, 1 against first Binghamton and then Bucknell during his debut season of 2018. Colgate goalie Sean Collins leads the Patriot League and ranks seventh nationally in saves • per game at 14.4. Collins already has made 72 saves in the five games. Colgate Raises $51K Cooper Belanger has four man-up goals to tie for the Patriot League lead and rank fourth nationally. The senior attackman has five goals to surpass his career total before this season. for Boston Children’s Hospital • Colgate Men’s Lacrosse joined in on a national Eight Colgate opponents are ranked in the top 20 in this week’s USILA Coaches Poll. Colgate’s fundraising effort to support Boston Children’s ranked opponents are: No. 1 Syracuse, No. 3 North Carolina, No. 6 Princeton, No. 7 Cornell, Hospital, raising $51,000 as a team. • No. 11 Loyola, No. 15 Army, No. 19 Lehigh and No. 20 Bucknell. Hobart is receiving votes. The Raiders had 100 percent participation in a Colgate’s 2020 roster features student-athletes from 18 states, making it among the most bid to shave each and every head on the team, expansive in Division I. earning a $1,000 donation per student-athlete. • Anonymous donors challenged college lacrosse Colgate’s 2020 offense returned four of its top five scorers from a year ago. Brown led the players across the country to shave their heads in way with 20 goals and 9 assists, followed by Nicky Petkevich in third with 16 and 5, James support of the kids and families who rely on the • Caddigan with 13 and 10, and Brian Minicus with 10 and 5. lifesaving care and research provided by the No. 1 pediatric research hospital in the world, Boston The 2020 Raider schedule is a “road warrior” challenge! Colgate began at ACC powers Children’s Hospital. North Carolina and Syracuse, followed by games at Princeton and Hobart. Additional road • opponents are Navy, Bucknell, Cornell, Harvard, Army and Holy Cross. “Our guys took it upon themselves to do it for a great cause,” Colgate head coach Matt Karweck Colgate began its preseason training this season in Florida. The Raiders were in the Tal- said. “I’m really proud of this group for its com- lahassee area for their opening week, and they mixed community service centered on hur- mitment and dedication.” • ricane relief with a fund-raising scrimmage against Jacksonville. The Colgate team was a big media hit in Florida, earning kudos for its work in constructing a tempo- • rary fire house to help replace the Mossy Pond Fire De- partment structure damaged during Hurricane Michael in October 2018. Senior Lewis Langford and his family were spark behind the team’s wishes to help make a dif- ference in the small community of Mossy Pond, Florida. The Raiders helped raise $6,500 for the Mossy Pond Fire Department. Colgate head coach Matt Karweck named Jon Sax an assistant coach and Matt Lintner a volunteer assistant • coach during the recent offseason. Sax joins the Raiders from his alma mater, Tufts, where he was the defensive coordinator for the last three seasons. During his time on the staff, Tufts posted a combined 50-10 record. Lintner just completed his playing career at Roanoke. @ColgateLacrosse GOCOLGATERAIDERS.COM @colgatelacrosse GAME 6 | COLGATE at NAVY | PAGE 3 2020 COLGATE MEN’S LACROSSE ROSTER Numerical Roster Alphabetical No. Name Cl. Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown (Previous School) No. Name Pos. 1 Alex Pistorius Fr. A 6-3 200 San Diego, Calif. (Torrey Pines) 51 Thor Adamec LSM 2 Bobby Goggin Jr. M 6-3 205 Old Greenwich, Conn. (Choate Rosemary Hall) 12 Parker Baddley LSM 3 James Caddigan Jr. A 5-8 180 Smithtown, N.Y. (Smithtown West) 10 Cooper Belanger A 4 John Gunnin So. G 6-0 185 Dallas, Texas (St. Mark’s School of Texas) 8 Connor Brook M 5 Mike Hawkins Jr. M 5-9 170 Glastonbury, Conn. (Glastonbury) 11 Griffin Brown M 6 Lewis Langford Sr. M 5-10 180 Tallahassee, Fla. (Maclay School) 30 Chris Burns G 7 Nathaniel Welcomer Jr. G 6-4 215 Lafayette, Calif. (Acalanes) 3 James Caddigan A 8 Connor Brook Fr. M 6-0 175 Denver, Colo. (Colorado Academy) 46 Jack Cain D 9 Jesse Rosenblatt Sr. A 6-0 195 Boulder, Colo. (Dawson School) 42 Owen Callahan M 10 Cooper Belanger Sr. A 5-10 170 Bloomfield Hills, Mich.