Chanenchuk's Five Lead Princeton over Manhattan
from press release
Jeff Froccaro more than doubled the previous record for goals in
the first two games by a Princeton freshman. By the middle of the
third game, Mike Chanenchuk had tied him for the team freshman
lead.
Chanenchuk scored five goals, on his first five shots, to lead
Princeton to a 13-8 win over Manhattan on a perfect Tuesday
afternoon at Gaelic Park. The game was the first in New York City
for Princeton since 1925.
The win improved Princeton, ranked fifth by the media and sixth by
the coaches, to 3-0 on the young season. The Tigers, who defeated
Manhattan a year ago in the first meeting between the schools, host
UMBC Saturday at 1 at Class of 1952 Stadium.
The Tigers led 7-2 at halftime and 12-4 seven seconds into the
fourth quarter. Princeton coach Chris Bates played every healthy
player on the roster.
"Mike shot the ball very well," Bates said. "When you score five
like that, you're diong something right."
Princeton opened it season with wins over Hofstra at home and Johns
Hopkins in overtime this past Saturday in front of nealry 20,000
fans at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. This time, Princeton
played in front of 482 fans, many of whom came from the nearby
Fieldston School, the alma mater of Tiger freshman Forest
Sonnenfeldt, who scored his first career goal.
In fact, besides Chanenchuk, no Princeton player scored more than
one goal in the game. In addition to Sonnenfeldt, freshman Tucker
Shanley and junior longstick midfielder Derek Styer had their first
career goals.
But the day belonged to Chanenchuk, who scored three in the first
and one more in the second and third before leaving for the
day.
Froccaro, the Ivy League Rookie of the Week each of the first two
weeks and Inside Lacrosse's top-ranked freshman to date, had three
goals against Hofstra and four against Hopkins, giving him a school
record seven in his first two games as a freshman. Chanenchuk had
two in his first two games, but his five tied him with Froccaro -
until Froccaro scored his eighth four minutes later.
Jack McBride, Chris McBride Tyler Moni and Paul Barnes also had one
for Princeton, while Rob Engelke had two more assists to match his
previous career total of nine in just his first three games this
year. Scott MacKenzie, who scored the game-winner against Hopkins
in OT, had an assist.
Tyler Fiorito played the first 49 minutes in goal and made eight
saves while allowing four goals. Christian Blake and Yuri Larrabee
each played in goal as well.
Manhattan was led by Justin Jensen's three goals and Brett
Miranda's two.
Princeton outshot Manhattan 40-23 and won 15 of 23 face-offs,
including 5 of 6 from freshman bobby Lucas, 4 of 7 from Froccaro
and 5 of 8 from Peter Smyth. Long Ellis had three caused turnovers
for the Tigers.
