GAME INFORMATION
GAME #12: Cornell at Brown
FACE OFF: Saturday, April 22, at 4:00 p.m.
SITE: Stevenson-Pincince Field (Providence, R.I.)
2017 Records: Cornell (4-7, 2-2 Ivy League); Brown (6-5, 2-2 Ivy League)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 36-20
LAST MEETING: Brown won 22-5, April 23, 2016 in Ithaca, N.Y.


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THE MATCHUP: The Big Red men's lacrosse team heads into a critical Ivy League matchup when it travels to Providence to take on Brown on Stevenson-Pincince Field on Saturday, April 22 at 4 p.m. Both teams sit in a tie for third place in the Ivy League standings with a conference mark of 2-2. Cornell won its final non-conference game of the season last weekend when it defeated Lehigh to improve to 4-7, while the Bears are coming off a mid-week double overtime victory over Providence to move to 6-5 on the year. The game will be simulcast on the Ivy League Digital Network and ESPN3. Fans can also hear the game locally on WCHCU 870 AM.
  
SERIES HISTORY VS. BROWN: The Cornell and Brown rivalry began when the Bears joined the Ivy League in men's lacrosse in 1964. The Big Red came away with an 8-7 victory in that first meeting, and won 23 of the first 28 games between the two programs. The Bears won eight-straight contests vs. Cornell from 1991 to 1997 to gain some ground in the series, which Cornell leads, 36-20. Since snapping that Brown winning streak with a 6-5 decision in 1998, the series has been very tight, despite Cornell's 13-7 record over that time. Of the last 20 meetings, 10 have been decided by three or fewer goals.
 
LOOKING AT THE BEARS: Brown improved to 6-5 on the season with a midweek double overtime victory over Providence to claim the Ocean State Cup. The Bears feature a high-power offense that has reached double-digit goals in all 11 games this season. The team is led by the reigning Tewaaraton Trophy winner, Dylan Molloy, who has team-highs in points (56), goals (34) and assists (22). In total, eight Bears have reached double-digit points on the year, including senior long pole midfielder Larken Kemp, who is the second highest scoring long pole in NCAA Division I history.  Brown ranks 10th in the nation in face-offs, thanks to Ted Ottens, who ranks 11th nationally (198-of-330; .600). Ottens is also ninth in the nation in ground balls per game (7.55 per game). In goal, freshman Phil Goss leads the nation with 13.00 saves per game, but has posted a 13.66 goals-against average and a .505 save percentage.
 
LAST TIME VS. BROWN: No. 3 Brown scored three times in the first 3:19 of the contest and jumped out to a 7-1 lead on its way to a 22-5 victory over Cornell at Schoellkopf Field. 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. Dylan Molloy (three goals, three assists) and Kylor Bellistri (four goals, two assists) both finished with six points, while 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. 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.
 
A WIN OVER BROWN WOULD:
• snap a two-game winning streak by the Bears.
• keep the Big Red in top three of the Ivy League standings.
• improve the Big Red to 37-20 all-time in the series.
• even head coach Matt Kerwick's record to 2-2 vs. the Bears.
• be the 746th win in program history.
• make Cornell 71-72 all-time when unranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
• improve Cornell to 251-54 all-time vs. unranked teams.
 
THE HEAD COACH: Matt Kerwick (31-25, .553) 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 (133-126).
 
CAMPUS CONNECTIONS:
• Dan Nemirov, Tom Reilly, Jake McCulloch and Brown midfielder Jimmy Coughlan all attended Ward Melville High School.
• Ryan Matthews and Brown attackman Dino Lavalle both attended Manhasset High School.
• Brandon Salvatore and Brown midfielder both attended The Taft School.
• Ryan Bray and Brown attackman Jason Curran both attended Shoreham-Wading River.
• Walt Gahagan, Scott Flynn and Brown goalie Phil Goss both attended Deerfield Academy.
 
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK: Jeff Teat has been named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week twice this season. The first award came on March 13 following his 11-point performance vs. No. 13 Virginia. He took home the honor again on April 17 after posting 14 points on six goals and eight assists vs. No. 1 Syracuse and Lehigh. His six points and four assists are both tied for season-highs by an opponent this season against the Orange.
 
CURRENT CAREER LEADERS:
• Freshman Jeff Teat has more career points (54) and more career assists (29) than any other player on the current Big Red roster.
• Not including first-year program Cleveland State, Teat is the only freshman in the nation to currently lead his team in career points ... He is also the only freshman in the nation to currently lead his team in career assists.
• The player on the team with the second most career points is sophomore Colton Rupp (44), while the player with the second most career assists is sophomore Clarke Petterson (17).
• Sophomore Colton Rupp has more career goals (37) than any other player on the current Big Red roster.
• There are only four players on the 2017 roster that have more than 30 points – junior Jordan Dowiak (30), sophomores Colton Rupp (44), Clarke Petterson (39), and freshman Jeff Teat (54).
• There are only nine players on the 2017 roster that have more than 20 points. Of those, more than half (5) are underclassmen.
 
UPWARD TRENDS:
• Since moving into the starting line-up vs. Colgate, Walt Gahagan caused at least one turnover in six straight games, averaging 2.8 over the six contests. Prior to that, in his role as a man-down specialist he had caused just three turnovers in three seasons … He currently ranks ninth in the nation with 2.0 CT per game.
• Through the first five games of the season, opponents cleared the ball successfully .865 percent of the time (90-of-104). Since that time, Cornell has implemented a 10-man ride and has held opponents to a .730 percent success rate (84-of-115).
• After registering just two points in his first three collegiate games, Jeff Teat has been phenomenal, registering 52 points over eight games (6.5 points per contest).
• With 54 points and 29 assists this season, Jeff Teat has registered more career points and career assists than any other player on the current Cornell roster.
• Cornell has assisted on at least .650 percent of its goals in each of the last four games, including a season-high .875 percent vs. Lehigh (14-of-16).
 
NATIONAL FRESHMAN:
• Jeff Teat ranks sixth nationally, and is the second highest ranked freshman, in assists per game (2.64).
• Jeff Teat ranks 10th in the nation and second among all freshman in points per game (4.91).
• In both categories, Princeton freshman Michael Sowers ranks first.
• Jeff Teat ranks 33rd in the nation and sixth among all freshman in the nation in goals per game (2.10).
• Brandon Salvatore ranks 18th in the nation, and first among all freshman, in caused turnovers per game (1.64).
 
FRESHMAN CLASS POINTS:
• The Big Red's current freshman class has amassed 91 points from seven players – Jeff Teat (54), Connor Fletcher (29), Austin Fingar (3), Paul Rasimowicz (2), Sam Duggan (1), Ryan Maloney (1), and Brandon Salvatore (1).
• The Class of 2020's 91 points are the most in program history for a rookie class ahead of the 2009 freshmen (86) and the 2016 freshmen (82).
• During the 2009 season, the 86 freshmen points came from three players – Rob Pannell (67 points), Roy Lang (11 points), and Mitch McMichael (eight points).
• Last season's freshmen class is now the third highest scoring rookie class in program history with 82 points coming from seven players – Colton Rupp (24 points), Ryan Bray (22 points), Clarke Petterson (15 points), Anthony Teixeira (nine points), Zach Ward (seven points), Jake McCulloch (four points) and Conor O'Brien (one point).
• There are just four rookie classes in program history that have amassed more than 75 points, with the fourth class coming from the 2002 freshmen that had 76 points from three players – Sean Greenhalgh (42 points), Justin Redd (31 points) and J.D. Nelson (eight points).
• In the 41 seasons since freshmen became eligible to participate in varsity athletics, Cornell has had a freshman class register at least 40 points just eight times (2017, 2016, 2009, 2006, 2002, 2003, 2000, 1995).
• There have been 17 seasons in which the Big Red received just single-digit points from its freshmen (2015, 2014, 2008, 2007, 2005, 1994, 1993, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1981, 1978, 1977).
• Cornell has had three seasons in which a freshman did not register a single point (2007, 1986, 1978).
 
THE PETTERSON-TEAT CONNECTION:
• Clarke Petterson and Jeff Teat both attended The Hill Academy.
• Of Petterson's 24 points on the season, more than half (13) have involved Teat.
• Teat has assisted on six of Petterson's 13 goals this season.
• Of Petterson's 11 assists on the year, seven have come on goals by Teat.
 
FRESHMAN MARKS:
• Freshman Jeff Teat and Connor Fletcher have combined for 83 points, making them the highest scoring freshmen duo in Cornell history, surpassing Rob Pannell and Roy Lang, who combined for 78 points in 2009. 
• Jeff Teat ranks second among all Big Red freshmen in assists (29), behind only Rob Pannell who handed out 42 assists as a rookie in 2009.
• Teat is also second among Cornell freshmen in points (54) and third overall in goals (25).
• Connor Fletcher also ranks sixth among all Big Red freshmen in goals (21), and eighth overall in both points (29) and assists (8).
• Freshman Brandon Salvatore ranks second among all Cornell rookies in caused turnovers (18), second behind Jason Noble, who posted 27 caused turnovers in 2010.   
 
CORNELL STREAKS
• Clarke Petterson has the longest point scoring streak on the team having registered one point in each of the last nine games.
• Jeff Teat has registered at least three points in eight consecutive games, with five points in four consecutive.
• Walt Gahagan has caused at least one turnover in six straight games.
• Christian Knight has double-digit saves in two consecutive games.
 
INDIVIDUAL NCAA RANKINGS: The Big Red has several players ranked in the top 25 in the nation in …
• Saves per game – Christian Knight (11th; 11.91)
• Assists per game – Jeff Teat (6th; 2.64)
• Points per game – Jeff Teat (10th; 4.91)
• Caused turnovers per game – Walt Gahagan (9th; 2.00)
• Caused turnovers per game – Brandon Salvatore (18th; 1.64)
 
IN THE NCAA RANKINGS: The Big Red ranks in the top 25 in the nation in …
• Ground balls per game (9th – 32.55)
• Caused turnovers per game (10th – 8.64)
• Clearing percentage (15th – .896)
• Points per game (15th – 18.27)
• Assists per game (16th – 7.00)
• Saves per game (17th – 12.00)
• Scoring offense (21st – 11.27)
 
GROUND BALL FACTS:
• Cornell ranks ninth in the nation in ground balls per game (32.55).
• Of the teams ranked in the top 10 in ground ball per game, Cornell is ranked the lowest in face-off win percentage (65th).
• Of the other nine teams ranked in the top 10, five rank in the top 10 of face-off win percentage (Albany, Army, Yale, Loyola, Brown), with two others (Rutgers and Virginia) ranked in the top 25. 
• The other two members of the top 10 – Maryland and Princeton – rank 30th and 42nd, respectively in face-off winning percentage.
• Despite ranking in the top 10 in the nation in ground balls per game, Cornell does not have a single player on pace to finish with 100 ground balls, which would make 2017 the first season without a 100-ground ball guy since the 2012 campaign.
• Jeff Teat currently ranks third on the team with 27 ground balls. If he remains in third place, he will be the first Big Red attackman to finish in the top three on the team in ground balls since Ryan Hurley picked up 47 in 2009.
 
MOVING ON UP IN CORNELL HISTORY:
• Marshall Peters ranks fourth in caused turnovers (56) … He needs seven more to move into third place.
• Christian Knight ranks eighth in career saves (417) … He needs 37 more to move into seventh place.
 
DOUBLE-DIGIT SAVES: Christian Knight has posted double-digit saves eight times this season, one off his career-high of nine 10+ save performances in 2014.
 
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 254-104-1.
 
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 254 regular season conference wins are also the most conference wins by any school in Division I men's lacrosse history.
 
SINGLE GAME ASSISTS:
• Jeff Teat has posted two of the highest single-game assist tallies by a freshman in Cornell history.
• His six assists vs. Virginia are the most ever recorded by a Cornell rookie.
• Teat's five assists vs. Dartmouth are tied for the second most by a freshman in Big Red history.
 
GAHAGAN'S GAME RECORD:
• Senior defender Walt Gahagan tied the Cornell school record for caused turnovers in a single game with six vs. Dartmouth on April 1.
• The mark was previously held by Jason Noble, who achieved it twice during his career.
• The six caused turnovers were also the most this season in NCAA Division 1 until Virginia's Scott Hooper posted seven vs. Robert Morris on April 11.
 
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.
 
NO SHOT: The Big Red held Dartmouth without a single shot during the first quarter of its 14-5 victory over the Big Green on April 1.
• Dating back to the 2003 season, when shots by quarter began being recorded regularly, Cornell had never held an opponent without a shot in a quarter.
• The previous low had been one shot, last done by Penn in the fourth quarter of a 16-11 Big Red victory on March 24, 2012.  
 
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.
 
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 – Syracuse (first), Albany (fifth), Penn State (10th), Yale (12th) and Princeton (16th) … Cornell 0-4 vs. ranked opponents this season.
 
EXPERIENCE BY THE NUMBERS:
• The 2017 Big Red roster has just seven players that have played more than 35 career games – Marshall Peters (56), Andrew Keith (51), Walt Gahagan (43), Christian Knight (40), Jake Pulver (39), Jordan Dowiak (38), and Kason Tarbell (38).
• Cornell has just 10 players with 20-35 games played – Ryan Matthews (30), Scott Flynn (29), Jack Bolen (28), Dan Bockelman (26) Charlie Estill (26), Clarke Petterson (24), Colton Rupp (24) and Grant Mahler (23), Chad Otterman (22), Fleet Wallace (22) and Ryan Bray (21).
• There are 29 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 745 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 … Petterson is the first sophomore captain in the history of the men's lacrosse program. 
 
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).
 
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.
 
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 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.
 
UP NEXT: Cornell will play its final regular season game and honor its senior class when it welcomes Princeton to Schoellkopf Field on Saturday, April 29 at 3 p.m.