Lacrosse Game Central

HAMILTON, N.Y. (5/17/12) - The No. 9 Colgate men's lacrosse team will look to continue to make program history this weekend when it travels to Chester, Pa. for a matchup against third seeded Duke in the Quarterfinals of the 2012 NCAA Tournament on Sunday, May 20 at 2:30 p.m.

The game will be televised on ESPNU and will be the Raiders' first neutral site matchup of the season.

Colgate (14-3, 5-1 PL) is coming off a 13-11 win over No. 1 UMass on Saturday afternoon in the NCAA First Round. The team, which handed the Minutemen their first loss of the season, were able to come back from a five-goal deficit to tie the game, before taking its first and only lead in the fourth quarter. Junior Peter Baum, a 2012 Tewaaraton Award Finalist, and freshman Ryan Walsh both had three points in the game on two goals and one assist apiece. They were followed by sophomore Brendon McCann, junior Matt Baker and senior Chris Zielinski who had two goals each, while senior co- captain Jeff Ledwick also added two points from a pair of helpers. Senior Patrick Campbell as well as freshmen Matt Clarkson and Conor Braddish also tallied one goal each in the game.
 
The Raiders came into this year's tournament after earning an at-large bid for the first time in Colgate history. The win over UMass last weekend marked the team's first NCAA Tournament win and first Second Round visit in program history.
 
LUCKY NUMBER 13
Colgate University's “lucky number 13” is clearly playing a part in the Raiders' post-season success, which also includes averaging just over 13 points a game this season. After completing its regular season with a 13-11 win over No. 6/9 Maryland, which helped earn the team an at-large bid, Colgate then went on to become the only team in the country to defeat No. 1 UMass with an identical 13-11 score, and snap the Minutemen's 15-game winning streak. UMass came into the tournament as the No. 6 seed and host of the tournament game between the two teams.
 
ROAD RAGE
The team continues to have a perfect 6-0 record on the road this season, completing its regular season with a 5-0 road mark and adding a sixth win against UMass last weekend. Colgate first defeated Robert Morris on the road 24-14 on March 3 in its largest victory margin this season. The Raiders then went on to secure a 13-9 win over Holy Cross on March 10 followed by a 17-8 win three days later over Binghamton on March 13. The team's last two road wins before the Minutemen were over Army on March 31 with a 15-13 score, and No. 18 Bucknell in its final regular-season league game on April 20, 11-10.
 
RAIDERS' SCORING LEADERS
Peter Baum, who leads the league with six game-winning goals, continues to lead the team with 96 points from 66 goals and 30 assists this season. The junior is currently ranked fifth nationally amongst active Division I players with his 68-goal scoring streak, 27 career hat tricks and 127 career goals, and is tied for fifth with a 44-game point scoring streak that began on March 2, 2010. Baum is followed by PL Rookie of the Year Ryan Walsh who holds the Colgate freshman point and goal scoring records that were set by Baum in 2010, and is now tied for eighth in program history in points in a season. The attackman has 57 points from 35 goals and 22 assists this season. Behind the nation's leading freshman goal scorer is senior Jeff Ledwick who is third on the team with a career-high 46 points from 32 goals and 14 helpers. The co-captain leads the league in man-up goals with nine this season.
 
DEFENDING THE NET
Senior goalie Jared Madison has spent the lion's share of time defending the net this season, starting in 16 of the team's 17 games this season for an impressive 13-3 record. New in goal is sophomore Conor Murphy, who had an incredible 15-save performance in his first career start in Colgate's 13-11 win over No. 1 UMass in the NCAA First Round last weekend. He has played in seven games this season, has an 8.22 goals against average, and a total of 25 saves for a .610 save percentage.
 
ALL EYES ON BAUM
Peter Baum is having a standout 2012 season and has already been named the 2012 Patriot League Offensive Player of the Year. The attackman leads the country in points per game (5.65) and goals per game (3.88), and has a total of 96 points. The last time a player had 96 points in a season was Duke's Matt Danowski in 2007 with 44 goals and 52 assists. This season, Baum has helped his team make program history with 14 wins in a season amongst other team records, while also setting a total of seven individual Patriot League and Colgate records. The junior's records this year include points and goals in a single season for both Colgate and the Patriot League, as well as three Patriot League Tournament records. Baum is also currently second in program history with 129 career goals, is fourth with 30 assists this season, and is fifth in career points with 175. He is also ranked third in league history in career goals.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
This will be the ninth meeting and first neutral site matchup between the two teams since they first met in 1956. All seven games in the series have been played in Durham, N.C. Duke leads the all-time series 6-2, winning the last four meetings in 1995, 1999, 2008 and most recently in 2009 when the Blue Devils defeated Colgate 9-8. The Raiders' only two wins in the series were in the first matchup in history in 1956, which Colgate won 7-6, and in 1960, when the team secured a 19-0 shutout win over Duke.
 
SCOUTING #3 DUKE (14-4, 2-1 ACC)
The nationally ranked No. 3 Blue Devils, who are also the third seed in the tournament, are coming off a 12-9 win over Syracuse in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament last weekend. This is their 16th overall appearance and sixth consecutive in the NCAA Tournament for a 22-14 record in tournament play. The team has advanced to the semifinals seven times in program history including the past five seasons. Duke's most notable wins this season were over nationally-ranked opponents Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina twice and Syracuse twice.
 
The team is led by sophomores Jordan Wolf and Christian Walsh as well as senior Robert Rotanz. Wolf has a team-high 60 points from 30 goals and 30 assists while Walsh has 30 goals and 14 helpers for 44 points, and Rotanz has 40 points from 33 goals and seven assists. Duke also boasts 2012 Tewaaraton Award Finalist senior CJ Costabile who has a 119-231 faceoff record and has collected 121 groundballs this season. In goal, the team is led by junior Dan Wigrizer who has played in 13 games for a 10-3 record, has an 8.67 goals against average, and a total of 113 saves for a .526 save percentage.