GAME INFORMATION
GAME #8: Cornell at Dartmouth
FACE OFF: Saturday, April 2 at 1:00 p.m.
SITE: Scully-Fahey Field (Hanover, N.H.)
2016 Records: Cornell (3-4, 0-1 Ivy League); Dartmouth (1-7, 0-1 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 50-15
LAST MEETING: Cornell won 8-2; March 28, 2015 in Ithaca, N.Y.

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THE MATCHUP: The Big Red men's lacrosse team will travel to Hanover, N.H. to take on Dartmouth at Scully-Fahey Field on Saturday, April 2 at 1 p.m. Cornell (3-4, 0-2) is looking to end a two-game skid and pick up its first Ivy League victory of the season, while the Big Green has lost three straight, including its Ivy League opener to Harvard last weekend, to slip to 1-7 on the year. The game can be seen live online on the Ivy League Digital Network or heard locally on WHCU 870 AM with Barry Leonard and Howie Borkan on the call.
 
SERIES HISTORY VS. DARTMOUTH: The Cornell and Dartmouth rivalry began in 1946 with an 8-7 victory for the Big Red. The Big Green won the next six meetings over a 10-year span, but has won only nine times since 1957. The Big Red dominates the all-time series record, 50-15, and has won 17 of the last 18 meetings, including the last five contests by a combined score of 74-24.

LOOKING AT THE BIG GREEN: Dartmouth is off to a 1-7 start with its lone victory of the year coming in a 13-12 decision at Michigan on March 19. The Big Green averages just 7.5 goals per game, but has been better over the past four outings, with 9.3 goals per contest. During that same span, however, Dartmouth has allowed 14.0 goals per game. The Big Green is led by Wiley Osborne, who has a team-high in points (26), goals (16) and assists (10). Sophomore Richie Loftus has recently provided a spark to the offense, scoring nine goals and adding two assists in the team's last four games. Don Stephan has taken nearly every face-off for the team, going 67-142 (.472), and picking up 24 ground balls. In goal, Blair Friedensohn has started 6-of-7 games and has posted a 10.81 goals-against average and a .460 save percentage. Joe Balaban earned the start in Dartmouth's last outing, getting the nod vs. Vermont. On the year, he has played 139 minutes and posted a 15.52 GAA and a .486 save percentage.
 
LAST TIME VS. DARTMOUTH: After an unusually slow start saw the No. 7 Big Red take a 3-1 lead into halftime, the Big Red exploded for five third quarter goals to earn a hard-fought 8-2 victory over Dartmouth at Schoellkopf Field. The two goals by Dartmouth were the fewest allowed by the Big Red defense since a 13-1 victory over Army during the 2006 season. Senior midfielder Connor Buczek had a hand in four of the five third quarter goals, and the Cornell defense held the Big Green without a goal for over 40 minutes to earn the win. Buczek finished with five points on three goals and two assists, while John Edmonds matched a career-high with three goals. Senior John Hogan chipped in one goal and two assists, while Andrew Keith (goal), Bradlee Lord (assist), and Kason Tarbell (assist) finished with one point apiece. In goal, sophomore Christian Knight was outstanding, registering 10 saves and allowing just one goal in 51:27 of action before giving way to Brennan Donville. In front of Knight, the Big Red defense was tremendous, as Cornell caused 15 of the Big Green's 23 turnovers. Marshall Peters had a career-high three caused turnovers, while Scott D'Antonio, Tony Britton, Matt Schattner and Jake Pulver caused two apiece. Senior Jordan Stevens was outstanding once again, picking up five ground balls, causing one turnover, and holding Dartmouth's leading scorer Wiley Osborne without a point. Osborne eventually handed out an assist on the Big Green's final goal with 45 seconds to play in the contest, but Stevens and the rest of the Big Red's starting defensemen were out of the game by that time. The Big Green's defense was also solid, causing 12 of Cornell's 20 turnovers, with Max Randall posting five caused turnovers and picking up four ground balls. Goalie Blair Friedensohn posted eight saves in the loss. Cornell held the edge in shots (37-26) and shots on goal (16-12), but for the first time all season lost the face off battle as the Big Green won 8-of-14 restarts. Neither team was particularly crisp in the clearing game with the Big Red going 21-of-25, while Dartmouth went 20-of-25. The Big Red scored on 1-of-3 man-up chances, while holding Dartmouth to an 0-of-3 performance.
                
A WIN OVER PENN WOULD:
• improve the Big Red to 51-15 vs. Dartmouth and 252-101-1 all-time vs. Ivy League.
• be Cornell's 18th win in the last 19 meetings with the Quakers.
• improve head coach Matt Kerwick's career record to 127-116 and to 3-0 vs. the Big Green.
• be the 739th win in program history.
• make Cornell 64-63 all-time when unranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
• improve Cornell to 245-49 all-time vs. teams that are unranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
 
CAMPUS CONNECTIONS:
• Scott Flynn's brother Pat played lacrosse at Dartmouth from 2009-13, serving as team captain during his final two seasons.
• Charlie Estill's sister Caroline is a member of the Dartmouth women's rowing team.
 
THE HEAD COACH: Matt Kerwick (24-15, .615) was named the Richard M. Moran Head Coach of Men's Lacrosse at Cornell University on June 11, 2014. Kerwick, who served in the position on an interim basis during the 2014 season, became the 11th head coach in the programs' 121-year history ... Kerwick has 17 years of head coaching experience (126-116).
 
FRESHMAN FOUR: Cornell has started at least four freshmen in each of its last five games. Dating back to the 2003 season, when the games started statistic began to be kept regularly, the Big Red has started four freshmen five times in a season just once – the final five games of the 2010 campaign. In that stretch, Cornell started Mike Bronzino (defense), Jason Noble (defense), AJ Fiore (goalie) and a combination that featured either Ross Gillum (midfield) or Steve Mock (attack).  
 
TEWAARATON WATCH LIST: On March 17, the Tewaaraton Foundation announced that Cornell senior John Edmonds and junior Domenic Massimilian were added to the 2016 Tewaaraton Award Watch List. 
 
LAST SECOND HEROICS: Freshman Zach Ward scored with :01 remaining in regulation to hand Cornell a 6-5 victory over Colgate on March 15. The buzzer beater is the first for the Big Red since Ryan Hurley scored with :01 remaining in overtime in an 8-7 victory over Yale on March 22, 2008.
 
BABY BIG RED: Of the 29 players that have seen action so far this season, nearly one-third (nine) are freshmen, including four starters – Colton Rupp (attack), Ryan Bray (midfield), Zach Ward (attack) and Clarke Petterson (midfield).
 
EXPERIENCE BY THE NUMBERS:
• The Big Red has just five players that have seen action in at least 30 career games – John Edmonds (56), Matt Schattner (49), Marshall Peters (38), Andrew Keith (35), and Tony Britton (33).
• Cornell has nine players that have seen action in 15-29 games – Christian Knight (29), Domenic Massimilian (26), Walt Gahagan (26), Sean Doyle (25), Brennan Donville (23), Jake Pulver (23), Jordan Dowiak (22), Kason Tarbell (21), and Bradlee Lord (15).
• There are 31 players on the Big Red roster that have played in less than 15 games in their collegiate careers.
 
U19 TEAM CANADA: Three Big Red – freshman Clarke Petterson, and incoming student-athletes Jeff Teat and Caelahn Bullen – have been named to Team Canada's roster for the upcoming Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) U19 Men's Lacrosse World Championship, as was announced in March by the Canadian Lacrosse Association.
 
OUT OF THE RANKINGS: After falling by a single goal to No. 20 Penn State in its season opener, Cornell slipped out of the USILA Coaches Poll for the first time since the 1998 season.
  
IVY KINGS:
• Since Ivy League play began in 1956, Cornell has won a conference-high 29 titles, including 17 undefeated crowns.
• With its share in 2015, Cornell has won a share of 12 of the last 13 Ivy League titles.
• The Big Red also has the best regular season Ivy League record of any team in the conference at 251-102-1.
 
250 IVY WINS: With its 8-2 victory over Dartmouth on March 28, 2015, Cornell became the first program in the Ivy League history to reach 250 regular season conference victories … The Big Red's 251 regular season conference wins are also the most conference wins by any school in Division I men's lacrosse history.
 
INDIVIDUAL STREAKS
• Domenic Massimilian has won double-digits face-offs in 13 straight games.
• Domenic Massimilian has won at least .500 percent of his face-offs in nine straight contests.
• John Edmonds has registered at least one point in nine of Cornell's last 10 games.
• Colton Rupp has posted at least three goals in three of Cornell's last five games.
 
TEAM STREAKS
• The Big Red has won the face-off battle in 10 straight contests.
• Cornell's defense has caused at least five turnovers in six consecutive contests.
• The Big Red's man-down defense has held 5-of-7 opponents scoreless, including two of its last three.
 
RANKED OPPONENTS:  Of the Big Red's 13 opponents this season, six are ranked in the current  USILA Coaches' Poll –Yale (first), Brown (third), Syracuse (seventh), Albany (ninth), Penn State (18th) and Penn (20th) … two others – Harvard and Virginia – are also receiving votes … So far this season, Cornell is 1-3 vs. ranked opponents.
 
TOP 10 NATION: The Big Red opened the week ranked in the top 10 nationally in two statistical categories – man-down defense (fifth – .778) and face-off winning percentage (eighth –.640).
 
FACE-OFF FRENZY: Domenic Massimilian entered the week ranked 13th in the nation in face-off win percentage (.628) … For his career, he has won at least .500 percent of his face offs in 20-of-22 games
 
GOOD OFF THE GROUND: Domenic Massimilian entered the week ranking second in the nation in ground balls per game (8.50) … For his career; he has led the team in ground balls in 19-of-22 contests.
 
YOUNG GUN: Colton Rupp is ranked fifth in the nation among freshmen with 2.14 goals per game.
 
MOVING ON UP IN CORNELL HISTORY:
•Domenic Massimilian ranks fifth place in career face-offs won (333).
•Domenic Massimilian ranks 14th (204) in career ground balls.
•Marshall Peters ranks seventh in caused turnovers (42).
•Christian Knight ranks 13th in career saves (286).
 
BALANCED OFFENSE: So far this season, the Big Red has had a balanced scoring effort, with the attack unit accounting for 38-of-89 points on the season (43%). A year ago, Cornell saw 122-of-256 points coming from the attack unit (48%).
 
FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET: On Dec. 21, 2014, Marshall Peters tied the Cornell Department of Athletics record for fastest 40-yard dash, running it in a time of 4.38 seconds and matching the mark set by Max Seibald in 2008. Administered by Tom Howley, Associate Director of Athletics for Athlete Performance, the dash is laser timed and the record is across several sports in the department.
 
LOTS OF WINS: Cornell's 12-10 victory over Princeton on April 26, 2014 was the 725th win in program history. The Big Red is now 738-466-27 all-time, and its 738 victories rank seventh among the winningest programs in collegiate lacrosse.
 
ELITE COMPANY:  Over the past 10 seasons (2006-2015) only nine schools have registered 100 victories – Duke (146), UVA (126), Syracuse (124), Denver (121), Cornell (120), Notre Dame (119), Maryland (117), Hopkins (106), North Carolina (102) … During that span, only four have won at least 75 percent of its games – Duke (.785), Virginia (.754), Syracuse (.752), and  Cornell (.750).
 
PRESEASON ALL-AMERICANS:  Junior face-off specialist Domenic Massimilian was named a preseason third-team All-American by Inside Lacrosse Magazine. 
 
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN:  The Big Red has three captains this season – seniors Brennan Donville, John Edmonds, and Matt Schattner.
 
HARD HAT: Marshall Peters was selected to carry the Hard Hat for the 2016 season. The tradition of the Hard Hat began in the fall of 1999. Midway through the fall season, a player is selected to carry the Hard Hat for the year. The recipient is someone that the coaches feel demonstrates a blue-collar approach to the game of lacrosse; he is driven and selfless, not the most talented player on the field, but consistently the hardest worker. He puts the team first, and embodies how the coaches want Cornell players to act and respond on or off the field.
 
FAMILY TIES:
• Head Coach Matt Kerwick's parents Thomas and the late Patricia, as well as his sister Ann, all graduated from Cornell.
• Andrew Keith's brother, Thomas '13, was an All-American long-stick midfielder for the Big Red, earning four varsity letters from 2010-13.
• Ryan Matthews' cousin Matt Sutherland played lacrosse at Cornell.
•Sam Welch's parents, Patrick '85 and Ruth Welch '87, are both former Big Red athletes. A two-time Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association champion at 150 pounds, Patrick is in the Cornell Hall of Fame, while Ruth was a three-year letter winner for gymnastics, serving as team captain as a senior. 
• Matt Schattner's uncle, Mark Major, played hockey at Cornell from 1984-87, while his aunt, Martha Manilla Major, played soccer for the Big Red from 1986-87.
• Dan Nemirov's mother, Jamie, as well as one aunt and his maternal grandfather all graduated from Cornell. 
• Scott Flynn's grandfather Norman Penney attended Cornell Law School and later served as both a professor in the law school and Dean of University Faculty. 
•Charlie Estill's grandfather Frederick Siefke graduated from Cornell in 1948.
•Troy Revello's older sister Grace attends Cornell.
•Anthony Teixeira's great-uncle Stephen W. Fillo graduated from Cornell in 1959.
 
UP NEXT: The Big Red returns home to take on Harvard on Saturday, April 9 at 3 p.m.