GAME INFORMATION

GAME #15: No. 8 Cornell vs. #2 Yale
FACE OFF: Friday, May 3, at 8:30 p.m.
SITE: Wien Stadium (New York, N.Y.)
2019 Records: Cornell (10-4, 3-2 Ivy League); Yale (11-2, 5-1 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 52-27-1
LAST MEETING: Yale, 16-11 (3/15/2019 in New Haven)   
  

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THE MATCHUP: The No. 8 Big Red men's lacrosse team will look to defend its Ivy League Tournament title when it takes on No. 2 Yale at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, May 3. Cornell enters the tournament at the No. 3 seed and will face the No. 2 seed Bulldogs in the second semifinal following the contest between No. 1 seed Penn and No. 4 seed Brown. A year ago, the Big Red defeated Yale in the championship game to earn its first tournament crown since the 2011 season. Cornell enters the game with a 10-4 record overall after winning its last three outings, while the Bulldogs are 11-2 overall and have won five in a row. The game will be broadcast to a nationwide audience on ESPNU. Fans can also hear the game locally on WHCU 870 AM or worldwide at www.whcuradio.com with Barry Leonard and Howie Borkan '81 on the call.
 
THE SERIES VS. YALE: The Cornell and Yale rivalry began in 1916 with a 5-1 Big Red victory, and Cornell has dominated ever since.
• The Big Red holds a 52-27-1 record in the series, thanks in large part to 22 straight victories over the Bulldogs from 1966 to 1987.
• Cornell had a 14-game winning streak vs. Yale ended when the Bulldogs defeated the Big Red in the 2012 Ivy League tournament.
• Since 2013, the teams have split the series at 4-4.        
 
A WIN WOULD:
• secure a spot in the Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Tournament championship game for the second consecutive season.
• send Cornell to back-to-back Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Tournament championship games for the first time since 2010 and 2011.
• improve the Big Red to 11-4 on the season
• improve Cornell to 53-27-1 all-time vs. Yale. 
• be the 769th win in program history.
• make Cornell 21-16 all-time when ranked No. 8 in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
• improve Cornell to 5-16 all-time vs. opponents that are ranked No. 2 in the USILA Coaches' Poll..
 
THE HEAD COACH
• Peter Milliman (23-9, .719) was promoted to the position of Richard M. Moran Head Coach of Men's Lacrosse in May 2018 after spending one season as the interim head coach.
• He spent the previous four seasons as an assistant coach and then as the program's Mario St. George Boiardi '04 Associate Head Coach of Men's Lacrosse.
• The 2019 season is his sixth as a head coach (60-35, .632).
 
YOUNGEST STAFF: Cornell boasts a pair of recent grads as assistant coaches – Jordan Stevens '15 and Connor Buczek '15. No other Division I staff had two full-time assistant coaches as young as or younger than the Big Red duo.

ONE GOAL:  Jeff Teat enters the game vs. Yale with 99 career goal. Scoring once vs. the Bulldogs will ...
• make him the 11th player in Big Red history to reach 100 career goals.
• make him just the fourth player in Cornell men's lacrosse history to register their 100th goal as a junior, joining Mike French, Rob Pannell and Sean Greenhalgh.
• have him join Mike French as the only two players in Cornell history to post 30 goals and 30 assists in a season three times during their career.
• make him just the seventh player in Ivy League history, and third overall at Cornell, to register 100 goals and 100 assists in a career, joining Rob Pannell (Cornell – 150-204-354), Dylan Molloy (Brown – 197-121-318), Ben Reeves (Yale – 174-142-316), Darren Lowe (Brown – 111-205-316), Mike French (Cornell – 191-105-296) and Michael Sowers (Princeton – 105-150-255).
• make him and Clarke Petterson the first pair of Cornell teammates to register 100 career goals in the same season since Matt Donovan and Connor Buczek in 2015.
 
THE 30-30 CLUB: Jeff Teat needs just one goal to join Mike French as the only two players in Cornell history to post 30 goals and 30 assists in a season three times during their career.
• Only two other Big Red players – Eamon McEneany '77 and Rob Pannell '13 – have tallied at least 30 goals and 30 assists in a season twice in their career.
• Including Teat's performance in 2017 and 2018 there have been just 13 seasons in Cornell history with a 30-30 performer.
 
60 POINT PLAYERS: Jeff Teat, Clarke Petterson and John Piatelli are the first trio of Big Red to reach 60 points in a season since Mike French (105), Eamon McEneaney (81) and Jon Levine (64) in 1976.
• Last season, Clarke Petterson (63) and Jeff Teat (99) became just the eighth pair of Cornell teammates to each register 60 points in a season.
• They were the first pair of 60-60 scorers since Rob Pannell (102) and Steve Mock (70) in 2013.
• Teat and Petterson are the first Big Red teammates to register 60 points in back-to-back seasons since Mike French, Eamon McEneaney, and Jon each posted 60+ points in 1975 and 1976.
 
70-POINT SEASONS: Jeff Teat needs just five points to amass more than 70 points in three straight seasons.
• He is just the fourth player in Big Red history to put together at least two 70-point seasons in a career, joining Mike French '76, Eamon McEneaney '77, and Rob Pannell '13. 
 
SEASON MARKS:
• Brandon Salvatore ranks third in Cornell's single-season history with 31 caused turnovers. He needs two more to move into second place and three more to match Jason Noble's school record of 34 in 2013.
• Fleet Wallace ranks 10th in Cornell's single-season history with 21 caused turnovers. He needs two more to move into eighth place.
• Dom Doria needs just three caused turnovers to move into the top 10 in Cornell's single-season history.
• Clarke Petterson needs just three goals to move into the top 10 in Cornell's single-season history.
• John Piatelli needs just four goals to move into the top 10 in Cornell's single-season history.
 
MOVING ON UP IN CORNELL HISTORY:
• Jeff Teat ranks third in career assists (137). He needs 27 more to move into second.
• Jeff Teat ranks fourth in career points (236). He needs 20 more to move in to third.
• Jeff Teat ranks 11th in career goals (99). He needs seven more to move in to 10th.
• Clarke Petterson ranks eighth in career points (172). He needs three more to move into seventh place.
• Clarke Petterson ranks ninth in career goals (112). He needs seven more to move into eighth place.
• Clarke Petterson ranks 12th in career assists (60). He needs two more to move into 10th place.
• Paul Rasimowicz ranks fifth in career faceoffs won (353). He needs 39 more to move into fourth place.
• Brandon Salvatore ranks third in career caused turnovers (63). He needs five more to move into second place.
• Dom Doria ranks ninth in career caused turnovers (38). He needs five more to move into eighth place.
 
CLIMBING THE IVY:
• Jeff Teat currently ranks ninth in Ivy League history for career assists (137) and needs just eight more to move into eighth place.
• Jeff Teat ranks 11th in conference history in career points (236) and needs just five more to move into the top 10.
• Clarke Petterson ranks 35th in Ivy history for career goals (112) and needs two more to move into 34th place.
 
TRACKING IERLAN: Chayse Ierlan has seen action in 12 games this season and has posted double-digit saves 10 times.
• In the two games that he didn't – Hobart and St. Bonaventure – he did not face at least 10 shots.
• Ierlan has posted a career-high 17 saves twice this season (Syracuse & Notre Dame). 
 
MIDSEASON ALL-AMERICANS: For the second year in a row, a pair of Big Red have been named to the Inside Lacrosse Midseason All-American list, as junior Jeff Teat (first-team) earns his second selection along with classmate Brandon Salvatore (second-team).
 
GOING FOR A RIDE: The Big Red has posted the ninth lowest opponent clearing percentage in the country, holding opponents to a .764 performance. 
• Cornell's percentage is the best in the Ivy League.
 
TOP 25 ATTACK: Cornell is the only team in the nation to have all three starting attackman ranked in the top 25 nationally for points per game.
• Three other teams – Penn State (Grant Ament, Mac O'Keefe), Georgetown (Daniel Bucaro, Jake Carraway), and Penn (Sam Handley, Adam Goldner), have two attackman listed in the top 25.
• Maryland and Virginia have two players – one attack and one midfielder – in the top 25.
 
OFFENSIVE PUNCH: The Big Red ranks in the top 10 in every NCAA offensive category.
• Second in shooting percentage (.375)
• Fourth in points per game (23.86)
• Fourth in assists per game (9.29)
• Sixth in scoring offense (14.57)
 
INDIVIDUALS IN THE NCAA: These Big Red are in the top 30 in the NCAA rankings ... 
• Jeff Teat – 12th in assists per game (2.57); 15th in points per game (4.64).
• Clarke Petterson – Second in shooting percentage (.587); 10th in goals per game (3.14); 20th in points per game (4.43).
• John Piatelli – Seventh in shooting percentage (.489); Seventh in man-up goals (7); 11th in goals per game (3.07); 20th in points per game (4.43).
• Brandon Salvatore – Sixth in caused turnovers per game (2.21).
• Chayse Ierlan – 20th in save percentage (.538); 27th in saves per game (11.75).
 
200 POINTS PLATEAU: With an assist on Colton Rupp's man-up goal vs. Yale on March 16, junior Jeff Teat registered the 200th point of career.
• Only three other players have amassed 200 points for the Big Red – Rob Pannell (354; 2009-13); Mike French (296; 1974-76); Eamon McEneaney (256; 1975-77). 
 
POINT SCORING STREAK: Clarke Petterson has the longest point scoring streak on the team, standing at 29 consecutive games.
• The streak is good for 18th in the nation.
• It is also the fourth longest streak in the Ivy League, behind Penn's Simon Mathias (55 games), Yale's Jackson Morrill (45) and Princeton's Michael Sowers (42).
 
SIEVE! SIEVE! SIEVE! 
• Through 14 games this season, Cornell's opponents are saving just 42.7 percent.
• During the 2018 season, Big Red opponents managed to save just 39.2 percent of shots faced – the lowest in program history. 
• Since opponent save percentage started being recorded in 1977, Cornell's opponents have saved fewer than 45 percent of shots faced just one other time (2013; .435 percent).
 
RACE TO 100: Both Jake McCulloch (66-29—95) and Connor Fletcher (50-28—78) are closing in on 100 points for their career.
• Last season, both Jeff Teat and Clarke Petterson reached the 100-point plateau.
 
CORNELL STREAKS
• The Big Red has won three games in a row.
• Cornell has defeated four consecutive Ivy League opponents.
• Clarke Petterson has the longest point-scoring streak on the team with one point in each of the last 29 games.
• Chayse Ierlan has won three straight Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors.
• Cornell goalies have posted double-digit saves in 11 consecutive games.
• With the win over No. 1 Towson, Cornell has gone 21 consecutive seasons with at least one win over a nationally ranked opponent.
 
RANKED OPPONENTS: Cornell's schedule features six opponents currently ranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll – Penn State (first), Yale (second), Penn (third), Notre Dame (ninth), Syracuse (10th), and Towson (12th).
• A year ago, the Big Red posted six wins over nationally ranked opponents, the most for Cornell since 2013.
• The Big Red is 2-4 so far this season vs. nationally ranked opponents, including a victory over No. 1 Towson.
• Cornell has defeated the No. 1 team in the nation the last two years – Yale in the 2018 Ivy League Tournament and Towson this season.
 
IERLAN ROOKIE OF THE WEEK NOTES: Chayse Ierlan has been named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week four times this season, including three consecutive accolades on April 15, 22, and 29.
• He is the first Big Red player to win an Ivy award in three consecutive weeks since 2014 when Christian Knight was also named the Rookie of the Week on March 10, 17 and 24.
• Ierlan's four Rookie of the Week selections are the second most in Cornell history behind Christian Knight (2014) and Matt Donovan (2012).
 
IVY ACCOLADES: Cornell has had two players earn three Ivy League Player of the Week awards this season.
• Clarke Petterson was named Player of the Week on April 8 after scoring five goals on just five shots, registering his 100th career goal in the process, as Cornell defeated Harvard, 19-11. 
• Jonathan Donville was named Player of the Week on March 4 after scoring four goals and chipping in three assists in a 17-16 victory over UAlbany.
• Clarke Petterson was named Player of the Week on March 12 after scoring a career-high eight goals to help Cornell upset No. 1 Towson.
 
USILA TEAM OF THE WEEK: Cornell has had three players earn four USILA Team of the Week selections this season.
• After posting a 14-point opening weekend with 10 goals and four assists vs. Hobart and Lehigh, Jeff Teat was named to the team on Feb. 26.
• Connor Fletcher earned the March 5 honor after scoring the game-winner vs. UAlbany with 14 seconds to play.
• Clarke Petterson took home the awards on March 12 after scoring eight goals in Cornell's upset of No. 1 Towson.
• Petterson is the first Big Red to repeat this season, earning the honor on April 9 after scoring five goals, including the 100th of his career, on five shots at Harvard.
 
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN:  The Big Red has four captains this season – seniors Ryan Bray, Jake McCulloch, Clarke Petterson and Fleet Wallace.
 
HARD HAT: Jeff Teat was selected to carry the Hard Hat for the 2019 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.
 
INTERNATIONAL BIG RED: With six international players on the roster (five Canadians, one Australian), Cornell has the fifth most international players in Division I men's lacrosse this season.  
• Only Robert Morris (15 Canadians); Vermont (nine Canadians; one German); St. Bonaventure (nine Canadians) and Hobart (seven Canadians) have more.
• Other than Cornell (Tim Graham – Australia) only Vermont has a player on its roster from a foreign country other than Canada (Per-Anders Olters – Germany).
• Tim Graham is the first Cornell men's lacrosse player to come from a foreign country other than Canada since John E. Beeby (Dersingham, Eng.), Thomas H. Beeby (Dersingham, Eng.) and John S. Roederer (Paris, France) all appeared on the 1961 roster.
 
AUSTRALIAN NOTES: Tim Graham is the first Australian to play men's lacrosse in the Ivy League.
• Graham becomes just the eight Australian to play Division I men's lacrosse, and the first since Adam Sear (Yokin) and James Watson-Galbraith (Perth) played for Maryland and UMBC, respectively, during the 2010 season.
 
THE SEASON 2019: The Big Red will be featured in a five-chapter multi-platform video and digital content series, "The Season 2019." Now in its second season, the series also features the Florida Gators' women's lacrosse team and is being broadcast on ESPNU.
 
ELITE COMPANY
• During the 10-year span of 2009-2018 only 12 schools have registered 100 victories – Duke (145), Maryland (132), Denver (129), Syracuse (114), Loyola (113), Notre Dame (110), Virginia (109), North Carolina (108), Yale (108), Cornell (107), Albany (106), and Johns Hopkins (101).
• During that time, only 10 teams have won at least 65 percent of its games – Syracuse (.754), Maryland (.754), Denver (.746), Duke (.744), Notre Dame (.720), Loyola (.717), Yale (.692), Cornell (.673), Virginia (.671) and North Carolina (.665).
 
DOUBLE-DIGIT GAMES: With his 10 points vs. Brown on April 21, 2018, Jeff Teat matched the Cornell record held by Mike French '76, with five double-digit games.
• Of his five 10+ point games, two have come against nationally ranked teams, and three have come against Ivy opponents.
12  vs. Harvard (4/7/2018)       
12  vs. No. 16 Princeton (4/29/2017)                  
11  vs. No. 13 Virginia (3/11/2017)
10  vs. Hobart (2/24/2018)
10  vs. Brown (4/21/2018)
 
100-POINT: With his four points vs. Yale in the Ivy League Tournament, Clarke Petterson became the 43rd player in Cornell history to register 100 career points.
 
WIN NUMBER 750
• Cornell picked up the 750th win in program history when it defeated Air Force, 23-5 on March 27, 2018.
• The Big Red is one of just seven NCAA Division I men's lacrosse programs to boast at least 750 wins.
 
FASTEST TO 100:
• With 100 points in 18 career games, Jeff Teat scored 100 career points faster than any other four-year player in Cornell or Ivy League history.
• In NCAA history, the 18 games matches Tim Nelson (NC State/SU), who also did it in 18 games from 1982-83.
• Rob Pannell tallied his 100th career point in his 25th career game with the Big Red during his sophomore season in 2010.
• Michael French '76 (16 games) and Eamon McEneaney '77 (19 games) registered their 100th career point in fewer games than Pannell, but due to NCAA rules that prohibited freshmen from playing varsity sports, both accomplished the feat in their junior season.
• Teat was the 42nd player in Cornell history to amass 100 career points.
 
MILLIMAN TABBED TO ASSIST TEAM USA: Head Coach Peter Milliman was 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 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.