GAME INFORMATION
GAME #7: Cornell vs. Penn
FACE OFF: Saturday, March 25, at 1:00 p.m.
SITE: Schoellkopf Field (Ithaca, N.Y.)
2016 Records: Cornell (1-5, 0-1 Ivy League); Penn (3-3, 0-1 Ivy League)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 65-24-3
LAST MEETING: Penn won 9-6, March 26, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pa.

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THE MATCHUP: The Big Red returns to Ivy League play and continues its three-game home stand when it welcomes Penn to Schoellkopf Field on Saturday, March 25 at 1 p.m. Cornell is coming off its first win of the season, a 15-6 victory over instate rival Colgate, while the Quakers dropped its last outing, a 17-8 decision to Princeton to slip to 3-3 overall (0-1 Ivy). The game can be seen online on the Ivy League Digital Network or heard locally on 96.3 FM.
 
SERIES HISTORY VS. PENN: The Cornell and Penn rivalry is the second-oldest in the Ivy League and eighth longest in the nation, beginning in the Quakers' second varsity season, 1901. The Big Red, which had already been fielding a team for nine seasons, took the 3-1 victory, the first of six-straight for Cornell. The two programs began playing each other regularly in 1920, meeting nearly every season since. Saturday's edition will be the 93rd meeting in the series, with the Big Red holding a dominating 65-24-3 record overall. Cornell has won nine of the last 11 meetings, after falling 9-6 last season at Franklin Field.
 
LOOKING AT THE QUAKERS: Penn has dropped its last two outings to Michigan and Princeton to slip to 3-3 overall and 1-2 in the Ivy League. The Quakers have been in nearly every contest with four of its six games being decided by two or few goals, including thrilling wins over Virginia (11-10) and Nay (11-9) and heartbreaking losses to Penn State (13-14) and Michigan (12-13). The offense is led by sophomore attackman Simon Mathias, who leads the team in goals (12), assists (6) and points (18), while classmat Tyler Dunn has added 11 goals to the cause. In the face-off circle, junior Chris Santangelo has been Penn's primary option and he has won 58-of-128 (.453). Between the pipes, sophomore Reed Junkin returns for the Quakers. He has stared all six games this season and has posted an 11.39 goals-against average and .476 save percentage.
 
LAST TIME VS. PENN: Penn scored the first six goals of the game, dominated play in the first quarter, and then held off a frantic Big Red comeback to hold on for a 9-6 victory at Franklin Field. Cornell was led by Andrew Keith and Anthony Teixeira with one goal and one assist apiece, as the Big Red's six goals came from six different players. Alex Roesner led the Quakers with three goals, while Simon Mathias finished with three assists and one goal for a game-high four points. Tyler Dunn also had a multi-point game with two goals. Penn held the slim edge in ground balls (28-26), but the Big Red took more shots (36-27), put more shots on goal (20-14), and had two fewer turnovers (15-13). Despite a slow start, junior Grant Mahler won 12-of-18 face-offs, including 7-of-10 after halftime, and picked up a career-high five ground balls. In goal, Brennan Donville made five saves in the loss, while Penn's Reed Junkin made 14 saves in the win. Cornell's man-down defense continued to impress, holding the Quakers to a 1-of-4 performance.
  
A WIN OVER PENN WOULD:
• improve the Big Red to 66-24-3 vs. Penn and 252-106-1 all-time vs. Ivy League.
• be Cornell's 10th win in the last 12 meetings the Quakers.
• improve head coach Matt Kerwick's career record to 131-124 and to 3-2 vs. the Quakers.
• be the 743rd win in program history.
• make Cornell 68-70 all-time when unranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
• improve Cornell to 248-53 all-time vs. unranked teams.
 
CAMPUS CONNECTIONS:
• Josh Gully's sister, Elizabeth, played lacrosse for Penn from 2013-16.
• Penn freshman midfielder Matt McILwrick is the younger brother of Cornell field hockey co-captain Sam McILwrick. 
• Penn assistant coach Patrick Myers served as Cornell's assistant coach during the 2005 season. He helped the Big Red to an 11-3 record and an Ivy League title as Cornell advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament.

THE HEAD COACH: Matt Kerwick (28-23, .549) 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 (130-124).
 
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 six games this season and in seven 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 seven 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 four games.
• Brandon Salvatore has caused at least one turnover in all six games this season.
 
MOVING ON UP IN CORNELL HISTORY:
• Marshall Peters ranks sixth in caused turnovers (47) … He needs four more to move into fifth place.
• Christian Knight ranks ninth in career saves (351) … He needs 27 more to move into eighth place.
  
IVY KINGS:
• Since Ivy League play began in 1956, Cornell has won a conference-high 29 titles, including 17 undefeated crowns.
• Cornell has won a share of 12 of the last 14 Ivy League titles, with its last crown coming in 2015.
• The Big Red also has the best regular season Ivy League record of any team in the conference at 252-104-1.
 
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 252 regular season conference wins are also the most conference wins by any school in Division I men's lacrosse history.

HOME IS WHERE THE WINS ARE:
• Cornell has enjoyed a true home field advantage since beginning play on Schoellkopf Field in 1972, going 231-82 for a .738 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 (51), Andrew Keith (46), and Walt Gahagan (39).
• Cornell has just seven players with 20-35 games played – Christian Knight (35), Jake Pulver (34), Jordan Dowiak (33), Kason Tarbell (33), Jack Bolen (25), Ryan Matthews (25), Scott Flynn (24), Dan Bockelman (21) and Charlie Estill (21).
• 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.
 
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 742 victories, ranking seventh among the winningest programs in collegiate lacrosse.
 
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.
 
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.
 
TICKLE THE ALL-IVY: The Big Red returns two All-Ivy selections from a year ago –Jake Pulver (second-team) and Ryan Matthews (honorable mention). Both were first-time honorees. 
 
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK:  The 14-member Class of 2020 consists of five US Lacrosse All-Americans, as well as two members of the Team Canada U19 squad, and consists of nine midfielders, two attackmen, two defenders, and one goalie. The group hails from six different states, including a class-high four New Yorkers, as well as one player coming from both Alberta and Ontario.
 
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 he is the 22nd member of his family to attend Cornell.

UP NEXT: Cornell wraps up a three-game home stand when it welcomes Dartmouth to Schoellkopf Field for Kids Day on Saturday, April 1 at 1 p.m.