Game Notes: Lacrosse Goes to Lone Star State to Face Colorado College

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Hampden-Sydney (1-3) vs. Colorado College (1-0)
Sunday, March 11 | 1 pm Eastern/Noon Central | Dallas, TX | Southern Methodist University | Mustang Stadium

Last Time Out for H-SC   

• The Tigers lost at home 13-11 to #19 Cabrini on Wednesday.
• Cabrini led 3-1 after one quarter, 7-3 at halftime, and 10-6 after three quarters.
• Cabrini scored on their first two man-up attempts then failed to score on their last seven tries.
• H-SC struggled on the EMO, going just 1-7.
• The Tigers cut the deficit to 8-6 with 6:32 left in the third quarter.
• H-SC found themselves down 11-7 with 8:57 to go in the game and scored four straight goals to tie the game at 11-11 with 1:17 left.
• Hampden-Sydney had the chance to hold the ball for the final possession with 40 seconds, but an ambulance siren led to the referees to call H-SC for a foul.
• Cabrini was able to score on a breakaway goal after the foul to go up one with 29 seconds remaining.
• Cabrini got the ball back and scored on an empty netter.
• Nate Cundy had four goals and one assist.
• Carter Mavromatis had three goals and one assists, Ryan Marting two and one.

Last Time Out for CC

• Colorado College opened their season on Wednesday with a 10-5 win over Alfred University.
• CC was down 4-1 with 5:48 left in the first half.
• CC scored the last three goals of the half to tie the game at 4-4 at intermission.
• Colorado scored the first three goals of the second-half to cap a 6-0 run.
• Eight different players scored a goal with Henri Halle and Charles Curtis scoring two each.
• Five different players had an assist, giving the Tigers 11 players with at least one point.
• Kevin Wylie won 13 of 16 face-offs.
• Zach Pierce had four caused turnovers and seven groundballs.
• Zach Steedman made nine saves and scooped nine groundballs.
• Alfred goalkeeper Cody O'Connor had 18 saves.Alfred was just 1-6 on EMOs.
• Colorado held edges in groundballs (38-29) and shots (39-30).

The Last Time These Two Met    

• Hampden-Sydney defeated Colorado College 21-7 in 1989.
• Three players had four goals for H-SC.

In the 2012 National Ranks

• 10 - Micah Keller, Goals/Game (4.33)
• 24 - Ground Balls Per Game (39.0)
• 33 - Assists Per Game (33)
• 40 - Man-Up Offense (0.35)
• 42 - Micah Keller, Points/Game (4.67)
• 45 - Points Per Game (16.0)
• 54 - Ryan Martin, Points/Game (4.0)
• 54 - Brad Mostowy, GBs/Game (6.0)
• 63 - Scoring Offense (9.33)
• 65 - Man-Down Defense (0.783)
• 68 - Saves Per Game (11.0)
• 78 - Scoring Margin (-1.0)
• 83 - Face-Off Win Percentage (0.457)
• 83 - Carter Mavromatis, Assists/Game (1.67)
• 83 - Ryan Martin, Assists/Game (1.67)
• 86 - Win Percentage (0.333)
• 95 - Scoring Defense (10.33)
• 95 - Brad Mostowy, Face-Off Win % (0.47)
• 112 - Ryan Martin, Goals/Game (2.33)

The Numbers Game    

• 8 - Micah Keller's rank in career points at H-SC.
• 6 - Keller's rank in career goals at H-SC.
• 39 - Numer of goals for the Tigers this season
• +17 - Turnover margin for the Tigers.
• 3 - Number of goals Keller needs to move into the top-five career goal scorers at H-SC
• 4th - Brad Mostowy's rank on the H-SC career groundballs list

Looking at Colorado College

• Receiving votes in the Top 20 Poll
• Went undefeated in the regular season before losing to Roanoke College 25-5 in the NCAA Tournament.
• Defated Birmingham Southern 8-6 in the SCAC Championship game.
• Sean Woods is in his first year as head coach at CC. He came from D2 Mars Hill.
• Steve Rijo was named a Preseason All-American.
• The Tigers return six of their seven players to contribute 20 or more points.
• Their top two faceoff men both graduated; they took 322 of the team's 379 faceoffs and won 66% of them.
• Zach Steedman returns in goal after a strong freshman campaign.