GAME INFORMATION
GAME #8: Cornell vs. Dartmouth
FACE OFF: Saturday, April 1, at 1:00 p.m.
SITE: Schoellkopf Field (Ithaca, N.Y.)
2017 Records: Cornell (1-6, 0-2 Ivy League); Dartmouth (1-6, 0-1 Ivy League)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 51-15
LAST MEETING: Cornell won 19-4, April 2, 2016 in Hanover, N.H.


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THE MATCHUP: The Big Red will look to secure its first Ivy League win this weekend when it welcomes Dartmouth to Schoellkopf Field on Saturday, April 1 at 1 p.m. Cornell is coming off a heartbreaking 10-9 loss to Penn last weekend, while the Quakers fell to Harvard, 14-7. Both teams are 1-6 on the year and winless in the Ancient Eight. The game can be seen online on the Ivy League Digital Network or heard locally on WCHCU 870 AM.
 
KIDS DAY!: The men's lacrosse game vs. Dartmouth will be the team's annual Kid Day! All kids will be admitted FREE to the game and will receive a free poster for a post-game autograph session with the team. Free parking will be available in the Crescent Lot and the Hoy Parking Garage for ALL fans and the autograph session will take place in the Hall of Fame Room (overlooking Schoellkopf Field) immediately following the game. 
 
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, 51-15, and has won 18 of the last 19 meetings, including the last six contests by a combined score of 93-28.
 
LOOKING AT THE BIG GREEN: Dartmouth has dropped its last four outings, including its Ivy League opener to Harvard last weekend, to slip to 1-6 overall. The Big Green's lone win came against Vermont (11-8) in the only game in which the team's offense scored more than 10 goals. Junior attackman Richie Loftus leads the unit with 19 points on a team-high 14 goals, while senior attackman Wiley Osborne has a team-best 12 assists. Junior midfielder Jack Korzelius and freshman attackman Ben Martin are the only other players with double-digit points with 11 and 10 goals, respectively. In the face-off circle, Tucker Brown has been Dartmouth's main option, winning 47-of-111 restarts (.423), but the sophomore has picked up just nine ground balls on the year. In goal, freshman George Christopher has started all seven games and has played nearly every minute. He is averaging 10.9 saves per game but has saved just .475 percent of the shots he has faced to go along with an 11.96 goals-against average.
 
LAST TIME VS. DARTMOUTH: The Big Red scored 10 unanswered goals to defeat Dartmouth for the sixth year in a row, winning 19-4, at Scully-Fahey Field. Making his first career start, freshman Anthony Teixeira finished with three goals and two assists while four other freshmen – Colton Rupp (three goals), Ryan Bray (two goals, two assists), Jake McCulloch (two goals) and Clarke Petterson (two assists) – finished with multiple points. Senior midfielders John Edmonds and Emmy Poccia both tallied two goals, while Ithaca native Charlie Estill earned his first career start and finished with a career-high two assists. All three of the Big Red's healthy goalies saw action, with Brennan Donville making six saves and allowing just four goals in 45 minutes, before Dan Nemirov posted one save in 11:05. Freshman Teddy Strzetelski did not face a shot. The Big Red also held significant advantages in shots (51-21), shots on goal (32-11) and ground balls (49-23). Cornell was also nearly perfect on the clear (23-25), while Dartmouth had a dismal 14-of-24 performance. The Big Red went 2-of-3 on man-up chances, while Cornell's man-down defense was perfect for the sixth time this season, holding Dartmouth scoreless on three tries.  Both teams had more than 20 turnovers. Dartmouth had three players finish with two points each, led by Evan Key's two goals. In goal, Joe Balaban got the start and finished with seven saves and 15 goals allowed in 32:23, before giving way to Blair Friedensohn, who tallied six saves and allowed four goals.
 
A WIN OVER DARTMOUTH WOULD:
• improve the Big Red to 52-15-3 vs. the Big Green and 252-107-1 all-time vs. Ivy League.
• be Cornell's seventh in a row in the series.
• improve head coach Matt Kerwick's career record to 131-125 and to 4-0 vs. the Big Green.
• be the 743rd win in program history.
• make Cornell 68-71 all-time when unranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
• improve Cornell to 248-54 all-time vs. unranked teams.
 
CAMPUS CONNECTIONS:
• Scott Flynn's brother Pat played lacrosse at Dartmouth (2009-13), serving as team captain during his final two seasons.
• Charlie Estill's sister Caroline was a member of the Dartmouth women's rowing team.
• Girff Gosnell and Dartmouth freshman midfielder Jack Forrest both attended Bullis School.
• Josh Gully and Dartmouth junior attackman Evan Key both attended Pingry School.
• Walt Gahagan, Scott Flynn and Dartmouth sophomore attackman Harrison Lane all attended Deerfield Academy.
• Conor O'Brien and Dartmouth freshman defender James Sullivan both attended Westlake High School.
• Colton Rupp, Jack Bolen, Marshall Peters and Dartmouth sophomore London McKenzie all attended Landon School.

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.

THE HEAD COACH: Matt Kerwick (28-24, .538) 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 (130-125).
  
FRESHMAN SCORING: Freshman Jeff Teat and Connor Fletcher are already two of the highest scoring rookies in Cornell history.  
• Jeff Teat already ranks second among all Big Red freshman in assists (14), behind only Rob Pannell who handed out 42 assists as a rookie in 2009.
• Teat is also seventh among Cornell freshman in points (29) and 11th overall in goals (15).
• Connor Fletcher ranks 13th among all Big Red freshman in points (21), 12th in goals (15) and 10th in assists (6).

FLETCHER'S FIVE GOALS:
• Freshman Connor Fletcher had a hand in six of Cornell's nine goals vs. Penn with five goals and one assist.
• His five goals are tied for the second-most ever scored in a game by a Big Red freshman, behind Sean Greenhalgh's six goals vs. Syracuse in 2002
• Fletcher is the first Cornell rookie to record five goals since Greenhalgh did so vs. Dartmouth on April 13, 2002.
 
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 opened the 2017 season by registering at least 10 saves in six games, and in seven consecutive games dating back to the 2015 season finale. That was 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.
 
CORNELL STREAKS
• Clarke Petterson has the longest point scoring streak on the team having registered one point in each of the last five games.
• The Big Red man-down defense has held its last three opponents scoreless (0-9).
• Cornell has won the ground ball battle in two consecutive games.
• The Big Red has posted fewer turnovers in two straight games.  
 
INDIVIDUAL NCAA RANKINGS: The Big Red has several players ranked in the top 25 in the nation in …
• Saves per game – Christian Knight (8th; 12.43)
• Assists per game – Jeff Teat (17th; 2.00)
• Points per game – Jeff Teat (22nd; 4.14)
 
IN THE NCAA RANKINGS: The Big Red ranks in the top 20 in the nation in …
• Clearing percentage (10th – .906)
• Ground balls per game (13th – 30.7)
• Saves per game (15th – 12.43)
• Man-down defense (17th – .714)
 
MOVING ON UP IN CORNELL HISTORY:
• Marshall Peters ranks sixth in caused turnovers (48) … He needs three more to move into fifth place.
• Christian Knight ranks ninth in career saves (360) … He needs 18 more to move into eighth place.
 
HOME IS WHERE THE WINS ARE:
• Cornell has enjoyed a true home field advantage since beginning play on Schoellkopf Field in 1972, going 231-83 for a .736 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, six are currently ranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll – Penn State (second), Syracuse (third), Albany (eighth), Princeton (15th), Virginia (16th), and Yale (19th) … Cornell 0-3 vs. ranked opponents this season.
 
EXPERIENCE BY THE NUMBERS:
• The 2017 Big Red roster has just four players that have played more than 35 career games – Marshall Peters (52), Andrew Keith (47), Walt Gahagan (40) and Christian Knight (36).
• Cornell has just 10 players with 20-35 games played –Jake Pulver (35), Jordan Dowiak (34), Kason Tarbell (34), Jack Bolen (26), Ryan Matthews (26), Scott Flynn (25), Dan Bockelman (22) Charlie Estill (22), Clarke Petterson (20), and Colton Rupp (20).
• There are 33 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.
 
CLOSE CALLS: Since the beginning of the 2003 season, Cornell is 36-22 in games that have been decided by a single goal, a mark that was lowered when the Big Red fell to Penn, 8-9, on March 25. Of the 22 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.

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.
  
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.
 
U19 TEAM CANADA: Three Big Red – sophomore Clarke Petterson, and freshmen Jeff Teat and Caelahn Bullen – were members of the Team Canada squad that won the silver medal at the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) U19 Men's Lacrosse World Championship this past summer.
 
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. 
  
UP NEXT: Cornell hits the road to take on Harvard on Saturday, April 8 at 1 p.m.