Men's Lacrosse Looks to Stay Alive in Ivy Tournament Race

Sat., Penn (5-7, 1-4 Ivy) at Dartmouth (4-6, 1-3 Ivy), 1 p.m.
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HANOVER, N.H. - The Dartmouth men's lacrosse team will hope to jump a couple of spots in the standings to keep its postseason hopes alive as Penn comes to Hanover for a 1 p.m. start on Senior Day at Scully-Fahey Field. The Big Green will also be honoring its 12 seniors prior to faceoff.

IVY TOURNAMENT BREAKDOWN
Dartmouth has the easier game among the bottom teams on Saturday, record-wise, compared to Harvard who hosts No. 6 Princeton on Saturday, while Brown gets to travel to Ithace to take on No. 8 Cornell on its home turf. The Bears sit at 2-2 in the league and Harvard is tied with Dartmouth, but owns the tie-breaker with the win over the Big Green on March 27. If Harvard and Brown should lose and Dartmouth beats Penn, the Big Green would leap frog Harvard and be tied with Brown going into the matchup next week. If the Big Green should lose on Saturday, Dartmouth would still be mathematically alive, but would need help.

BACK ON TRACK
The Big Green offense came alive in its first game against a non-ranked opponent in the last seven games as Dartmouth defeated Vermont, 18-13, on Tuesday afternoon. Senior Ari Sussman paced the Big Green with a season-high seven points on five goals and two assists, while rookie Chris Costabile added five goals of his own in the win. It was the second time this season Dartmouth had reached 18 goals, with the first coming against Wagner in an 18-9 win on March 11.

STREAKING SUSSMAN
Senior attackman Ari Sussman is the lone Dartmouth player that has scored in each game this season for the Big Green with his largest output coming on Tuesday with seven points. He started the season with five points each in the first three games and has eight multi-point games in the 10 contests this year.

LONG-STICK SCORING
Senior Casey Hingtgen became the first long-pole to score this season and he netted two goals in the win over Vermont on Saturday. He is the lone player with a long stick that has points.

HOLDING ONTO A LEAD
In all of Dartmouth's wins this season, the Big Green has taken an early lead and doesn't give it up. Dartmouth is 4-1 when entering the second half with the lead with the lone loss coming at Harvard, where the Big Green had a 7-3 lead at the break.

SCOUTING THE BIG GREEN
Dartmouth hosts Ivy foe Penn on Senior Day as the Big Green will be playing its final home game of the season and only its fourth on home turf. Dartmouth is averaging under eight goals a game and has only reached double-digits twice this season. The Catamounts will be the first unranked team Dartmouth will face since Wagner on March 11.

Senior captain Ari Sussman is the top point man for Dartmouth. Prior to the win at Vermont, he was fifth in the Ivy League in points per game at 3.22 . He is tops on the Big Green with 36 points on 22 goals and 14 helpers. Junior Josh Etzion remains second on the team with 24 points after a goal and two assists in the win over the Catamounts. He has 15 goals and nine assists, including three man-up goals to lead Dartmouth. Freshman Chris Costabile continues to impress during his first season with 17 goals and five assists and added five goals at Vermont.

In net, sophomore Fergus Campbell has gotten the last five starts with a 2-3 record and earned his second win on Tuesday against Vermont with nine stops. Prior to Tueday, he was fifth in the conference in GAA at 10.32 and his .595 save percentage was tops. Senior Michael Novosel has started five games for Dartmouth and has a 2-3 record. He has collected an 11.76 GAA and .473 save percentage. Freshman Ryan Alexander got some time in the game against Princeton, making his first career save and collected two in the final minutes of the game last Saturday.

SCOUTING THE QUAKERS
Penn makes the trip north to Dartmouth with a 5-7 overall record and a 1-4 mark in Ivy League play, which puts them in seventh place with its last game this Saturday. The Quakers earned their first Ivy victory in its last conference game against Harvard on April 17 with a 12-7 win.

Corey Winkoff leads the team with 37 points on 16 goals and 21 assists. He is in the top-10 in both points per game and assists per game. He is second in assists at 1.67 a contest. John Conneely is not far behind with 31 points on 15 goals and 16 assists. He has six goals on the man-up, but doesn't lead the team. Al Kohart has seven goals with the extra man and his 20 goals overall is tops on the team. Penn has an incredible amount of players scoring goals in double-digits with seven players scoring 10 or more goals. The Quakers are tied with Yale for the most conference goals with 51 on the season and is third overall with 121 tallies.

In net, Joe Hegener has played in 11 games between the pipes and has a 4-5 mark. He has posted a 10.25 goals against average and a .489 save percentage. Chris Casey has also seen time with nine games played with a 1-2 record. Casey is just above Hegener in GAA at 10.57 and his .509 save percentage is ahead of his fellow teammate.

SERIES HISTORY
This will be the 63rd meeting between Dartmouth and Penn with the Quakers holding a 36-26 advantage dating back to 1928. The Big Green won the first meeting by an 8-5 margin. Dartmouth has dropped four in a row against Penn with three of the four coming by one-goal. The Big Green played three-consecutive games at Penn from 1929-1939, before going to home-and-home series since 1940.

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