ITHACA, N.Y. -- For the second consecutive week and the sixth time this season, Cornell senior men's lacrosse player
CJ Kirst has been named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week. Kirst was dominant in the Big Red's road win over No. 10 Harvard, clinching the program's 33rd Ivy League title and matching the NCAA's career goal-scoring record in the process.
Kirst scored five goals and added an assist in a top 10 road victory at Harvard, 20-12, with his final goal matching Virginia's Peyton Cormier atop the NCAA Division I men's career goal-scoring list at 224. After Harvard cut a six-goal lead to 7-5 in the second quarter, Kirst had a natural hat trick with three scores in the span of just 41 seconds. He added a pair of second-half goals. Kirst chipped in two ground balls in the win. The nation's leading goal scorer upped his season total of 59, joining Mike French '76 as the only two Big Red players to record multiple 50-goal seasons in their career (both did it three times).
Kirst and his teammates will celebrate Senior Day following its game with Ivy rival Dartmouth on Saturday, April 26 at 12 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field. The contest will be broadcast on ESPN+.