PRINCETON, N.J. – Georgetown University's men's lacrosse team earned its first win of the 2023 season with a 13-10 victory on the road at No. 6/5 Princeton on Saturday. Playing against their third-straight nationally ranked opponent, the Hoyas improve to 1-3 on the year while the Tigers drop to 2-2.
 
Hoya Highlights

• Brian Minicus led the Hoyas with three goals and two assists while Tucker Dordevic and Declan McDermott both posted hat tricks.
• Jacob Kelly had a goal and two assists, Patrick Crogan tallied a goal and an assist, Graham Bundy Jr. and Nicky Solomon both had a lone goal and TJ Haley registered his first assist of the season.
• James Reilly won 13 of 25 (.520) faceoffs and collected a game-high 10 ground balls.
• Defensively, Will Bowen had two caused turnovers and two ground balls while Will Tominovich added a caused turnover with four ground balls.
• In goal, Michael Scharfenberger earned the win in his first start of the season. He collected 15 saves for a .600 save percentage to go with three ground balls.

How it Happened

• McDermott put the Hoyas on the board early at the 13:23 mark before Princeton responded with back-to-back goals to take their first – and only – lead of the game. Trading runs to a 4-4 tie late in the first quarter, Dordevic's first goal with 11 seconds left courtesy of a Kelly assist gave the Blue & Gray a 5-4 lead they would not relinquish.
• With the Hoyas man up early in the second, Dordevic and Kelly connected once again 23 seconds in before McDermott scored again less than two minutes later to give GU a 7-4 advantage. Princeton would close out the half with a pair of unanswered goals to make it a 7-6 Hoya lead going into the break.
• Coming out of the locker room after halftime, Georgetown went on a 5-0 run to lead 12-6 with Minicus scoring twice, Bundy adding a man up goal and both Dordevic and McDermott completing their hat tricks.
• A late goal in the third, followed by back-to-back scores from the Tigers in the fourth made it 12-9 but Kelly's goal with 2:42 gave Georgetown a four-goal cushion en route to the 13-10 victory.

Princeton Notes

• Coulter Mackesy led the Tigers with five goals and an assist while Jake Stevens had three goals and an assist.
• Stevens was also credited with three caused turnovers.
• In goal, Griffen Rakower and Michael Gianforcaro split duties with Rakower giving up seven first half goals despite collecting 11 saves.

Hoya Notes

• Georgetown improves to 2-6 all-time against Princeton and the win is the first ever over the Tigers in the regular season.
• Bundy moves into sole possession of 10th place all-time in career scoring at Georgetown, passing Michael Mauboussin ('86) with 141 points.
• Bowen passes Joe LiCalzi (F'21) for ninth all-time in career caused turnovers at Georgetown with 40.

Up Next
The Hoyas return to the Hilltop for five-straight home games, starting with Richmond on Saturday, March 11 at noon.