ITHACA, N.Y. – Brown scored three times in the first 3:19 and jumped out to a 7-1 lead on its way to a 22-5 victory over Cornell on Saturday afternoon at Schoellkopf Field. The Bears improved to 12-1 (5-0 Ivy), while the Big Red slipped to 6-6 (1-4 Ivy).
 
"We ran into everything as advertised today," said Matt Kerwick, the Richard M. Moran Head Coach of Lacrosse. "Brown was making plays all over the field. I gotta give them credit. They put us on our heels early and unfortunately we couldn't dig out of it. I thought we could have possible dug out a little bit in that second quarter once we settled in and started getting some defensive stops, but to their credit they ran all over us."
 
Senior goalkeeper Brennan Donville did his part to try and keep the Big Red in the game with a career-best 16 saves, but the high-octane Brown offense, coupled with a swarming pressure defense that forced 21 Cornell turnovers, allowed the visitors to claim their second straight victory in the series.
 
"I thought once he settled in in that second quarter [Brennan] made some big stops," said Kerwick. "Brenny was bailing us out. Unfortunately we turned it over a few times in the clear and then they come right … And then Brenny would have to try and bail us out again. You can't expect him to be a one man team out there for us. He was outstanding."
 
Dylan Molloy had six points (three goals, three assists) as he continues his quest for the NCAA single-season scoring record, while Kylor Bellistri had six points (four goals, two assists), Henry Blynn had five (three goals, two assists) and Brendan Caputo notched four (three goals, one assist) to lead the Brown offense. Molloy added five ground balls and caused three turnovers and Jack Kelly had 12 saves and allowed just five goals to pick up the win in goal.
 
The top scoring team in the nation, Brown took 53 shots, putting 39 on goal (.736).
 
"You can watch them on film and you can prepare for them, but when they're sticking those shots in the corners like they were … You've gotta tip your cap to those guys cause they were earning those goals by putting them in good spots," said Kerwick.
 
Cornell's John Edmonds became the 41st player in school history to reach 100 career points with his fourth quarter assist on Senior Day. Kason Tarbell was the lone multi-point scorer for the Big Red with a pair of goals, while Tony Britton had a pair of caused turnovers and six ground balls.
 
Domenic Massimilian won 13-of-27 faceoffs to highlight Cornell's effort.
 
The Big Red will look to finish the season strong when it travels to Princeton for a game broadcast nationally on ESPNU on Saturday, April 30. 
 
"We're gonna move on," said Kerwick. We've got to put this one behind us because now it's a pride game against our biggest rival in Princeton next week and the focus has to go to that."
 
NOTES TO KNOW

• Brown's 22 goals are the most scored by either team in the history of the series, besting the 20 goals scored by Cornell in 1970 as the Big Red won, 20-6.  
• The 22 goals are the most scored at Schoellkopf Field since Cornell registered 23 goals vs. Canisius in 1998.
• This is just the 19th time in Cornell history that an opponent has scored more than 20 goals in a game, and the first since a 20-12 loss to Maryland in 1995.
• Cornell's man-down defense had killed off 12 consecutive penalties before allowing a Brown man-up goal on their second chance of the day with 3:54 to play in the third quarter.
• With his assist on the final Cornell goal, John Edmonds becomes the 41st player in Big Red men's lacrosse history to reach the 100-point plateau.
• With his 13 face-off wins, Domenic Massimilian becomes just the third player in Cornell history to amass 400 face-off wins in a career (403).
• With his six ground balls, Domenic Massimilian moves into sixth place in Cornell history for ground balls in a single season (109).
• With their two caused turnovers apiece, Marshall Peters and Tony Britton move into sixth and ninth place, respectively, for career caused turnovers.