ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell men's lacrosse team will honor its 16-member senior class and go for history when it closes out the regular season by hosting Dartmouth at Schoellkopf Field on Saturday, April 26 at 12 p.m. The contest will be broadcast on ESPN+.

• Senior All-American and Tewaaraton Trophy candidate CJ Kirst enters the game on the cusp of standing alone as Division I men's lacrosse's all-time leading goal scorer — he is currently tied atop the list with Virginia's Payton Cormier (2020-24) with 224.
• The Big Red will also be attempting to clinch its 20th outright Ivy title after gaining at least a share of its 33rd Ancient Eight crown with last weekend's 20-12 victory at No. 10 Harvard.
• Following the contest, Cornell will honor its seniors — Michael Bozzi, Danny Caddigan, Andrew Dalton, Christopher Davis, Rory Graham, Alex Holmes, Hugh Kelleher, CJ Kirst, Wyatt Knust, Michael Long, Duke Reeder, Ryan Sheehan, Jayson Singer, Kyle Smith, Antonio Topouzis and Walker Wallace.
• Cornell, ranked No. 1 in the latest national polls for the fifth consecutive week, brings a seven-game win streak into Senior Day.
• The Big Red ranks No. 1 nationally in goals (16.3), assists (10.8), and points (27.1) per game, as well as in shooting percentage (.371) while scoring at least a dozen goals in every contest this season.
• The nation's active leading scorer at 310 points, the six-time Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week paces all of college lacrosse with his 80 points (59 goals, 21 assists) this season.
• Kirst's running mate Michael Long is just the sixth player at Cornell to surpass 200 points, as well as the fourth Big Red player to surpass both 100 career goals (105) and 100 career assists (105). He enters the week with 210 points, sixth all-time at Cornell.
• Junior Jack Cascadden has been outstanding at the faceoff X, winning 64 percent of his restarts in the past seven contests (115-of-180).
• The defense has surrendered just 9.8 goals over its past five games and is allowing opponents to shoot just 26 percent overall this season.
• The Big Red has been jumping out on opponents all season, outscoring opponents 110-60 in the first half (an average score of 9-5).
• Head coach Connor Buczek's Big Red team returns eight starters and 22 letter winners from last season's 9-5 squad that won the Ivy League regular season title — its third straight and 32nd overall in program history.

GAME INFORMATION
RV/RV Dartmouth at #1/1 Cornell
DATE & TIME: Saturday, April 26 at 12:00 p.m.
SITE: Schoellkopf Field - Ithaca, N.Y.
RECORDS: Dartmouth 8-4 (2-3 Ivy); Cornell 11-1 (5-0 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads 57-15
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
DIGITAL PROGRAM: CornellBigRed.com
GAME NOTES: CornellBigRed.com

A WIN OVER DARTMOUTH WOULD ...
• make Cornell 12-1 on the season with its eighth straight win.
• clinch Cornell's 20th outright Ivy League title and its 18th perfect league mark.
• be its 13th straight victory over the Big Green dating back to 2011.
• mark the program's eighth season with at least 12 wins since 2007 and the 17th time in school history.
• push head coach Connor Buczek's career record to 46-15 (.754).
• be the 820th in program history (819-502-27, .618).

LAST TIME VS. DARTMOUTH
• The Big Red topped Dartmouth, 15-10, on Scully-Fahey Field in the final Ivy League regular season game to clinch its third consecutive conference crown. 
• Cornell's offense was led by senior CJ Kirst, who tallied seven points on four goals and three assists. 
• Freshman Ryan Goldstein had two goals and three assists for five points. 
• Danny Caddigan put away a hat trick for his three points. AJ Nikolic dished out two assists and Hugh Kelleher put away two goals. 
• Luke Gilmartin rounded out the Big Red's multi-point scorers with a goal and an assist. 
• Danny Boccafola caused a team-high two turnovers and Wyatt Knust made 18 saves for a .720 save percentage.
• Dartmouth had four players record a multi-point outing — Tommy Rogan, Henry Bonnie, and Brandon Ventarola each tallied three points on two goals and an assist. 
• Mitchell Myers won 15-of-23 faceoffs, grabbing six groundballs. 

LAST TIME OUT
• On a day that Cornell won its 33rd Ivy League title and senior CJ Kirst tied the NCAA Division I record for career goals, it was the quiet plays that added up to give top-ranked Cornell a 20-12 victory at No. 10 Harvard at Jordan Field. 
• Kirst scored five goals and assisted on a sixth with his final goal of the day matching Virginia's Peyton Cormier atop the NCAA list with 224. 
• Sophomore Willem Firth found Kirst on the doorstep for a dunk with 6:04 remaining to tie the record. 
• Firth had four goals and an assist and classmate Ryan Goldstein was credited with three goals and three assists to pace an offense that assisted on 13 of its scores and had 11 different players find the back of the net. 
• Jack Cascadden dominated at the faceoff X with a 23-of-29 effort that included a goal and 14 ground balls, while Wyatt Knust made 12 saves in goal. 
• Eddie Rayhill and Matt Dooley each caused a pair of turnovers to spark the defense.
• Logan Ip had two goals and three assists to lead the Crimson, while Sam King - the second-leading active NCAA scorer behind Kirst - was held to a goal and two assists.

MILESTONE WATCH
• Senior CJ Kirst's 310 points rank second on the school's career list — Rob Pannell '13 sits first with 354 points.
• The senior has 59 goals this season and is just one away from the seventh season in school history with 60 and seven shy of John Piatelli's 2022 record of 66.
• With 80 points in 2025, Kirst needs four points to reach the top 10 in school history in a season.
• Kirst also has 56 career caused turnovers, two from reaching sixth on Cornell's all-time list.
• With his next man-up goal, Kirst would reach 13th on the school's career list with 14.
• At 14th place in career goals with 105, Long is one from matching his Big Red head coach Connor Buczek '15 with 106 for 13th.
• With 19 career wins in goal, Knust is three away from reaching the top 10 at Cornell.
• Sophomore Ryan Goldstein's 47 assists are three from reaching 50 and joining the top 20 in school history.
• Sophomore Willem Firth has eight man-up goals this season and is one from reaching fourth in a season.

KIRST WATCH
• Cornell and the Ivy League's all-time goal scoring leader (224), senior CJ Kirst is on the verge of jumping to the top of the all-time NCAA career charts all by himself.
• Kirst is the nation's active leader in career goals (224) and points (310), well ahead of Princeton's Coulter Mackesy (158), and Mackesey (234) and Harvard's Sam King (234), respectively.
• The 10th player in Division I history to reach the 200-goal mark, he became the fastest player to reach that mark and his 60 games played are six fewer than any of the other players on the list.
• Kirst's next goal will put him into sole possession of first place in Division I men's lacrosse history for career goals with 225, breaking a tie with Payton Cormier (2020-24 at Virginia).
• Kirst's 3.73 goals per game is the fourth-best average in Division history — and second at Cornell behind Mike French's 4.06, which is No. 2 in NCAA history. NC State's Stan Cockerton scored 4.39 goals per game from 1977-80.
• His points total of 310 puts him 18th in NCAA history and six from moving up to 16th.
• Kirst's 4.92 goals per game leads all players in all NCAA Divisions, with Joseph James of Division III Franciscan (4.56) ranking second. 
• The senior is the nation's leading goal scorer in Division I at 4.92 goals per game with No. 2 being Army West Point's Jackson Eicher at 3.75 — more than a goal behind the Big Red captain.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Cornell has scored at least 12 goals in all 12 contests this season.
• Senior CJ Kirst (first, 5.17), sophomore Ryan Goldstein (fifth, 4.38) and senior Michael Long (13th, 3.96) rank among the nation's top 15 active leaders in career points per game.
• Willem Firth ranks second in the nation with eight extra-man scores.
• Since regaining his starting spot last April, senior Wyatt Knust has 241 saves (13.4 saves per game) with a 10.04 goals against average and a .579 save percentage in his past 18 contests (15-3 record).
• Junior Jack Cascadden has scored 13 career goals (with four assists) directly off face-offs in his career, including eight goals this season.
• Senior defender Jayson Singer has started 40 of the past 41 games for the Big Red.
• Cornell is 22-6 (.786) at home under head coach Connor Buczek.

PRESEASON HONORS
• Senior attackman CJ Kirst is the USA Lacrosse Division I Men's Preseason Player of the Year and Attackman of the Year.
• Kirst, senior midfielder Hugh Kelleher and senior attackmen Michael Long have been selected to the 2025 Tewaaraton Trophy Watch List.
• Kirst was also chosen as a USA Lacrosse, USILA and Inside Lacrosse Division I Men's Preseason All-America first team selection. 
• Kirst was chosen as college lacrosse's top player by Inside Lacrosse in its IL Top 50, while Long was slotted No. 19.
• Long was a third-team All-America choice by both USILA and Inside Lacrosse.
• Sophomore midfielder Willem Firth, senior defender Jayson Singer and senior goalkeeper Wyatt Knust were honorable mention selections by USILA, while Inside Lacrosse honored Firth, senior midfielder Hugh Kelleher and senior short-stick midfielder Chris Davis.

THE HARD HAT
• Charlie Box was selected to carry the Hard Hat for the 2025 season. 
• Sixth-year senior Michael Long (2023) and fifth-year senior CJ Kirst (2024) have also carried the Hard Hat during their careers.
• 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.

NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
• Cornell has traditionally been very successful against collegiate teams from New York state, posting an all-time record of 306-168-7 (.643).
• The Big Red has three New York teams on its schedule during the 2025 season – Hobart (22-9), UAlbany (18-11) and Syracuse.
• Cornell is 18-2 over its past 20 contests against New York state teams dating back to 2018, including 4-1 vs. Syracuse, and owns a seven-game win streak against teams from the Empire State.

PROFESSIONAL NOTES
• Jeff Teat '21 broke the single-season Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) scoring record with 64 points (28 goals, 36 assists), shattering the previous mark of 44 by Lyle Thompson (2022) and matched by Marcus Holman (2023).
• Professional lacrosse's all-time single-season leading point scorer is Rob Pannell '13. The former Big Red player set the record in the 2018 season of the Major League Lacrosse (MLL), putting away 43 goals and 35 assists for 78 points.
• Chayse Ierlan '23 became the fourth Big Red player taken in the PLL Draft after the goalkeeper was chosen No. 29 overall by the California Redwoods last May. He joins Gavin Adler '24, Jeff Teat '21 and Clarke Petterson '19. Teat was the No. 1 overall pick in 2021 and Adler went No. 1 in 2023.
• Since 2002, Cornell has had 38 players chosen in the MLL/PLL Draft.

HALLS OF FAME
• One of the most successful lacrosse coaches of all time, Nevin D. "Ned" Harkness was announced as one of four coaches making up the 2024 class of inductees to the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IMLAC) Hall of Fame. 
• Another Cornell name to be inducted into this class is Big Red alumnus Howie Borkan '81, who is the "Bob Russell Contributors Award" recipient.
• Additionally, Texas A&M coach Tony Scazzero '75, who was the longest tenured coach in the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association before retiring last spring, was inducted into the MCLA Hall of Fame.
• Jason Noble '13 was inducted into the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame this past fall. 
• The three-time All-America selection (first-team in 2013, second-team in 2012, honorable mention in 2011) was also a two-time first-team All-Ivy pick and anchored of one of the nation's top defenses. 
• He later was named the 2017 NLL Defensive Player of the Year in leading the Georgia Swarm to the league title.

IVY PRESEASON POLL
• The Big Red was chosen first in the Ivy League Preseason Media Poll announced in February.
• Cornell finished first with nine of the 14 first-place votes and a total of 90 points, just ahead of Princeton (87 points, four first-place votes).
• Yale (71 points, one first-place vote) and Penn (57 points) rounded out the top four.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red will host the 2025 Ivy League Tournament at Schoellkopf Field with the semifinals set to go down on Friday, May 2 at 4 and 6:30 p.m.
• All three games will be televised on ESPNU.
• Along with the Big Red, No. 2 Princeton, No. 10 Harvard and Yale will be the remaining teams.