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March 10, 2001

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Matt Striebel scored three goals and Will MacColl added two goals and one assist, all in the fourth quarter, to lead Princeton to an 8-4 men’s lacrosse win over Virginia in front of 4,315 at the Class of 1952 Stadium.

Princeton improved to 2-0 on the young season with its second straight 8-4 win, after defeating Johns Hopkins by a similar score last weekend. UVa fell to 1-2.

“It’s good to get these two in the bank,” Princeton coach Bill Tierney said. “It’s certainly never easy against these guys.”

Princeton is now 4-4 against UVa and 61-5 against everyone else since the start of the 1996 season. The Tigers, who defeated UVa 12-11 in last year’s NCAA semifinals, held Virginia All-America attackman Conor Gill to one assist after he had four goals and nine assists in two games against Princeton last year.

Princeton never trailed and outshot Virginia 41-17, but the game wasn’t decided until MacColl had his big fourth quarter. The Tigers led 5-4 after three quarters before MacColl, a sophomore who hardly played a year ago, scored on a feed from Owen Daly with four minutes gone, set up Striebel with 4:42 remaining and finally scored on a one-on-one move with 2:24 to go.

“It feels good to make contributions,” said MacColl, who now has three goals on the year on three shots. “I’m still not where I’d like to be, but I feel I’m getting better. The guys I play with in practice every day help me improve.”

Rob Torti and Sean Hartofilis scored in the first three minutes to make it 2-0 Princeton, but UVa battled back with two goals of its own one minute apart late in the first quarter to make it 2-2. Striebel’s first goal made it 3-2 in the second quarter, but Ian Shure tied it 24 seconds before intermission.

Princeton took a two-goal lead when Striebel and Ryan Boyle scored 26 seconds apart in the third quarter, but Kenney’s goal four seconds before the end of the third made it a one-goal game heading into the fourth.

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