GAME INFORMATION
GAME #6: Cornell vs. Colgate
FACE OFF: Tuesday, March 21, at 5:00 p.m.
SITE: Schoellkopf Field (Ithaca, N.Y.)
2016 Records: Cornell (0-5, 0-1 Ivy League); Colgate (3-4, 1-2 Patriot League)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 42-7-1
LAST MEETING: Cornell won 6-5, March 15, 2016 in Hamilton, N.Y.

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THE MATCHUP: After playing just one home game through the first five weeks of the season, the Big Red men's lacrosse team opens up a three-game home-stand on Tuesday evening when it welcomes instate rival Colgate to Schoellkopf Field at 5 p.m. Cornell is still seeking its first win of the season after falling in its Ivy League opener at Yale this past Saturday, while the Raiders defeated Siena at home to improve to 3-4 on the year. The game can be seen online on the Ivy League Digital Network. It will also be broadcast on http://player.liquidcompass.net/WHCUAM or locally on WHCU 870 AM.
 
PARKING ADVISORY: Please be aware that parking on the Cornell campus is restricted prior to 5 p.m.! Fans arriving on campus prior to 5 p.m., should park in one of the metered lots or stop at one of the visitor parking kiosks to obtain a parking pass.
 
SERIES HISTORY VS. COLGATE: Cornell first met its upstate rival Colgate during the Raiders' inaugural season in 1921, and the two teams played to a 3-3 tie. The Big Red went on to win the next four meetings and currently holds a 42-7-1 advantage in the all-time series. The two teams played each other fairly regularly until the 1971 season, after which the rivalry took a 21-year hiatus. Since resuming play in the 1993 season, Cornell has gone on to win 15 of 16 meetings, including the last 11 contests, with Colgate's lone win in that span coming in 1997 when it took a 9-6 victory away from Schoellkopf Field.
 
LOOKING AT THE RAIDERS: Colgate enters the week with a record of 3-4 overall (1-2 Patriot League) after defeating Siena in a non-conference contest, 16-11, on Saturday in Hamilton, N.Y. The Raiders' offense is led by junior attackman Anthony Abbadessa (12-10—22) and sophomore attackman Sam Cleveland (11-11—22) with 22 points apiece, while freshman midfielder Griffin Brown leads the team with 13 goals. In the face-off circle, junior Collin Orr has led the way with .644 winning percent (87-135). In goal, four-year starter Brandon Burke returns for the Raiders. He has stared all seven games this season and has posted an 11.65 goals-against average and .497 save percentage.
 
LAST TIME VS. COLGATE: With eight seconds to play in a 5-5 contest, John Edmonds took the ball and wrapped around the Colgate cage. He was knocked off his stride by a Raider defenseman, but the senior attackman found a small sliver of space to slip a cross-crease pass to freshman Zach Ward, who scored at the buzzer to hand the Big Red its 11th straight win over Colgate. Ward was the only Big Red player to score twice in the contest, while Edmonds tallied two assists. Coming off the best came of his career, Brennan Donville, the reigning Ivy League Player of the week, was outstanding yet again with 14 saves and a career-low five goals-against for a career-best .737 save percentage. Ryan Bray was the only other multi-point scorer for the Big Red with one goal and one assist, while Cornell received goals from Clarke Petterson, Jack Bolen and Emmy Poccia. Colgate was kept in the game by its goalie Brandon Burke, who was nearly as impressive as Donville with 13 stops and six goals-against in taking the loss. The game was remarkably close throughout with Cornell holding a slight edge in shots (34-29) and ground balls (24-18). Both teams put 19 shots on goal and neither team scored on their extra-man opportunities. The Big Red had two extra turnovers (14-12) and had four failed clears (10-14) to Colgate's one (20-21).
 
CORNELL VS. THE PATRIOT LEAGUE – The Big Red is 67-56-4 all-time vs. the current members of the Patriot League, thanks mostly to a 42-7-1 record vs. Colgate. Cornell is 15-24 all-time vs. Army, 5-9-3 vs. Lehigh, 0-1 vs. Bucknell and 5-15 vs. Navy. The Big Red has never faced Boston University, Holy Cross, or Lafayette in men's lacrosse.
 
A WIN OVER COLGATE WOULD:
• be Cornell's 12th straight over the Raiders.
• give the Big Red five consecutive wins vs. the Patriot League.
• be the seventh in a row in games played during the week.
• improve the Big Red to 43-7-1 vs. Colgate and 68-56-4 all-time vs. the current members of the Patriot League.
• improve head coach Matt Kerwick's record to 7-0 vs. the Raiders.
• be the 742nd win in program history.
• make Cornell 67-70 all-time when unranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
• improve Cornell to 247-53 all-time vs. unranked teams.
 
CAMPUS CONNECTIONS:
• Scott Flynn's father Bob played football for Colgate.
• Jake McCulloch's sister, Lindsay, was a member of the Colgate field hockey team, serving as team captain her senior season.
• When Mike Murphy left Army West Point to take the head coaching job at Colgate, the Black Knights added former Cornell All-American Kyle Georgalas '05 to the coaching staff.

THE HEAD COACH: Matt Kerwick (27-22, .551) 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 18 years of head coaching experience (129-124).
 
MILLIMAN TABBED TO ASSIST TEAM USA: Peter Milliman, the Mario St. George Boiardi '04 Associate Head Coach of Men's Lacrosse, has been named an assistant coach for the 2019 U.S. men's national indoor team.The team will be led by Regy Thorpe (Syracuse University), who in February was named head coach of Team USA, and will guide the team in pursuit of a gold medal at the 2019 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Indoor Lacrosse Championship (WILC), Sept. 19-28, 2019, in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
 
SAVE STREAK: Christian Knight has registered at least 10 saves in all five games this season and in six consecutive games dating back to the 2015 season finale. That is the longest double-digit save streak of his career, and the longest by any Big Red goalie since Justin Cynar stopped 10+ shots in eight consecutive games during the 2000 season.
 
INDIVIDUAL STREAKS
• Christian Knight has posted double-digits saves in each of the last six games dating back to the 2015 season finale.
• Jordan Dowiak and Clarke Petterson have the longest point scoring streaks on the team having registered one point in each of the last three games.
• Brandon Salvatore has caused at least one turnover in all five games this season.
 
MOVING ON UP IN CORNELL HISTORY:
• Marshall Peters ranks sixth in caused turnovers (46) … He needs five more to move into fifth place.
• Christian Knight ranks ninth in career saves (336) … He needs 42 more to move into eighth place.
  
NEW  YORK STATE OF MIND:  Cornell has traditionally been very successful against collegiate teams from New York state, posting an all-time record of 287-165-7 (.633) … The Big Red has four New York teams on its schedule this season – Hobart, Albany, Colgate and Syracuse and so far is 0-2 in those contests
 
HOME IS WHERE THE WINS ARE:
• Cornell has enjoyed a true home field advantage since beginning play on Schoellkopf Field in 1972, going 230-82 for a .737 winning percentage, with 12 undefeated seasons.
• Cornell has been even more impressive since 2000, going 95-27 overall (.782) with perfect slates in 2015 (6-0), 2011 (8-0), 2009 (6-0), 2007 (7-0) and 2005 (6-0).
 
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK: Jeff Teat was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week on March 13 following his 11-point performance vs. No. 13 Virginia. It is the first weekly award for the Big Red this season.
 
NOTING TEAT'S 11-POINT PERFORMANCE:
• Jeff Teat registered 11 points on five goals and six assists vs. No. 13 Virginia on March 11.
• The 11 points were the most scored in NCAA Division I this season for one week before Hobart's Chris Aslanian registered 13 points vs. Wagner.
• The six assists and 11 points are the most ever recorded by a Cornell rookie.
• The 11 points are the sixth most in Big Red history.
• Teat becomes the first Cornell player to register 11 points in a contest since Tim Goldstein '88 vs. Dartmouth on April 23, 1988.
 
RANKED OPPONENTS:  Of the Big Red's 13 opponents this season, five are currently ranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll – Penn State (first), Syracuse (fifth), Albany (eighth), Princeton (12th) and Virginia (15th)… Cornell 0-3 vs. ranked opponents this season.
 
EXPERIENCE BY THE NUMBERS:
• The 2017 Big Red roster has just three players that have played more than 35 career games – Marshall Peters (50), Andrew Keith (45), and Walt Gahagan (38).
• Cornell has just seven players with 20-35 games played – Christian Knight (34), Jake Pulver (33), Jordan Dowiak (32), Kason Tarbell (32), Jack Bolen (24), Ryan Matthews (24), Scott Flynn (23), Dan Bockelman (20) and Charlie Estill (20).
• There are 35 players on the Big Red roster that have played in less than 20 career games.
 
THE NOTABLE JEFF TEAT:
• Jeff Teat was named the No. 1 overall recruit in the Inside Lacrosse 2016 Power 100 Freshmen Rankings.
• He is the Big Red's first-ever Inside Lacrosse No. 1 recruit.
• He is Inside Lacrosse's first-ever overall No. 1 to hail from Canada.
• Last year, as a member of the Ontario Junior A League's Brampton Excelsiors, he finished the regular season as the leading scorer in the league with 145 points (7.6 points per game), the highest point total since John Grant Jr. registered 160 in 1994.
 
OVERTIME NOTES: With its 19-18 overtime loss vs. Virginia on March 11, 2017 Cornell has played at least one overtime game in each of the past 11 seasons, dating back to a 12-11 overtime triumph over Albany in the 2007 NCAA quarterfinals. During that span, the Big Red has posted a 10-6 record in OT games … Cornell had won three consecutive overtime games prior to the loss to UVA and head coach Matt Kerwick is 4-2 all-time at Cornell in overtime contests.
 
CLOSE CALLS: Since the beginning of the 2003 season, Cornell is 36-21 in games that have been decided by a single goal, a mark that was lowered when the Big Red fell to Virginia, 18-19, in overtime during the 2017 Pacific Coast Shootout. Of the 21 losses, 17 have come against ranked opponents, including 11 against squads ranked in the top-10, five of which were ranked either No. 1 or No. 2 in the nation.
 
GOALIE ASSIST: When Christian Knight assisted on Jeff Teat's goal with one second to play in the third quarter vs. Hobart on Feb. 24 it was the Big Red's first point by a goalie since Ted Lynch registered an assist vs. Colgate on April 13, 1993.
 
THROWBACK NUMBERS:
• The 2017 roster features two unique numbers on it - #51 and #77.
• Freshman Jeff Teat is the first player to wear #51 since Jerome Dolins wore it in 1966.
• Sophomore Tom Reilly is the first Big Red men's lacrosse player to ever wear #77. 
 
LOTS OF WINS: Cornell's 12-10 victory over Princeton on April 26, 2014 was the 725th win in program history. The Big Red now has 741 victories, ranking seventh among the winningest programs in collegiate lacrosse.
 
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN:  The Big Red has four captains this season – seniors Ryan Matthews and Marshall Peters, junior Jake Pulver, and sophomore Clarke Petterson.
 
ELITE COMPANY:  Over the past 10 seasons (2007-2016) only 10 schools have registered 100 victories – Duke (151), Syracuse (126), Denver (122), Maryland (122), Notre Dame (120), UVA (116), Cornell (115), North Carolina (110), Hopkins (105), Loyola (105) … During that span, only seven teams have won at least 70 percent of its games – Duke (.766), Notre Dame (.755), Syracuse (.754), Cornell (.723), Maryland (.713), Denver (.709), and UVA (.703).
 
HARD HAT: Jake Pulver 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.
 
PRESEASON ALL-AMERICANS:  Junior defenseman Jake Pulver was named a preseason honorable mention All-American by Inside Lacrosse Magazine.
 
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.
• 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.
• Connor Fletcher's father, Daniel, graduated from Cornell in 1985 and his great uncle, Bob Mealy '51, is considered one of the best runners in Cornell track history and is a member of the Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame.
• Griffin Buczek's brother, Connor '15, was an All-American lacrosse player for Cornell and currently serves as the team's volunteer assistant coach while attending Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and playing professionally for the Florida Launch … His aunt, Colleen Cottrell Calderwood, also attended Cornell.
• Ryan McDonald's uncle, Dan McDonald, played lacrosse at SUNY Potsdam and served as an assistant coach for the Big Red under Richie Moran from 1995-96 ... His aunt, Tina Mahoney graduated from Cornell in 1988.
• Griff Gosnell's great-uncle, John Gude Gosnell, graduated from Cornell in 1950.
Josh Gully's father, Josh '83, lettered twice for the Big Red lacrosse team and is the 22nd member of his family to attend Cornell.
 
UP NEXT: Cornell returns to Ivy League play this weekend when it welcomes No. 19 Penn to Schoellkopf Field on Saturday, March 25 at 1 p.m.