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February 23, 2004
Site: Orlando, Florida (UCF Club Sports Field)
Scores: #5 Michigan 24, Central Florida 0
Records: UM (1-0), UCF (1-2)
Next
U-M Game:
Wednesday, February 25 -- vs. #7 Florida (Gainesville, Fla.), 7:00 p.m.
EST
Event Recap I
Boxscore I
Notes & Quotes
Wolverines Roll Past Central Florida in Season Opener
Orlando, Fla. – The University of Michigan
men’s lacrosse team defeated the University of Central Florida Golden
Knights 24-0 Monday evening in Orlando, Florida at the UCF Club Sports
Field in sunny, 72 degree weather. It was the first of three games U-M
will play this week in the state of Florida. Nine Wolverines had
multi-point games including leading scorers junior Ryan Clark
(Summit, N.J./Summit) who tallied one goal along with six assists
for a total of seven points, senior captain Ray Lombardi (Lake
Forest, Ill./Lake Forest) who notched 2-3-5 totals and freshman
reserve attacker Joe Williamson (Romeo, Mich./Romeo) who
tied the team high with three goals and added two assist for a
five-point game and “game-ball” honors as presented by head coach John
Paul.
In a game where Michigan’s reserves saw almost a
full-half of play, the Wolverines dominated in every aspect, winning
faceoffs 22-4, collecting 56 groundballs compared to UCF’s 19, and
tallying 57 shots, while Michigan’s defense held the Golden Knights to
only six shots. Michigan also lead in clear-percentage with a .857
percentage (18-21) next to Central Florida’s .444% (11-25). With the
extra-man advantage the Wolverines were able to convert three out of
their seven total chances while denying UCF on each of their three
chances.
Senior captain Jeff Hanna (Fayetteville,
N.Y./Fayetteville-Manilus) tied the team-lead with three goals on
the day, for 3-1-4 totals. Freshman attacker Mark Idzenga
(River Vale, N.J./Bergen Tech) contributed two goals along with one
assist.
Amongst midfielders, senior midfielder Justin
Gal (Amherst, Mass./Milton Academy), junior midfielder
Trevor Broad (Grosse Pointe, Mich./University Liggett) and
sophomore midfielder Jim Constantine (Troy, Mich./Seaholm)
each tallied two goals, while sophomore midfielder Eric Rimmke
(Portage, Mich./Portage Northern) notched two assists.
Junior goaltender Dan Webber (Weston,
Mass./Weston) played the first half and made two savse, freshman
Ryan Kaufman (Olney, Md./Magruder) played the third quarter
along with 6:55 of the fourth and recorded one save, while freshman
Zach Mintz (Norwalk, Conn./Norwalk) finished the final 8:05
without seeing a shot on goal.
Michigan
will play next vs. seventh-ranked Florida, on Wednesday (Feb. 25) in
Gainesville at 7:00 p.m. on the UVS Field.
NOTES
● Six
freshman notched their first points as Wolverines in only their first
game led by Joe Williamson’s five point (3-2-5) performance while both
freshman goaltenders saw action.
● Michigan
used all 37 players on the roster today with the reserves seeing
significant early-season action in most of the second half.
● With the
24-0 victory, Michigan tied its third largest margin of victory ever.
The last time the Wolverines won by a +24 margin Michigan defeated
Purdue on March 25, 2000 by a score of 25-1.
●
Ryan Clark
notched a career high seven points in the contest with 1-6-7 totals.
Clark notched six points, twice, in his freshman campaign of 2002.
QUOTES
UM Head Coach John Paul
On the game overall: "I think we
accomplished our goals. We wanted to work hard out there no matter what
the score was - outwork them the entire game. I think we did that. We
didn’t score until six minutes in so maybe we came out a little
nervous. But once we got going, we got going. We knew they had already
played a game and this was our first so we knew if just kept going and
outworked them we’d be fine.”
On the defense: "The defense really did a great job today. They
held them to only six shots, and only three on goal. The defense did
their job.
On being able to work the reserves: "It was great to get all that
time for the reserves. Getting them early-season action is important.
They may not be able to see that much time for the rest of the year and
to get it now is important. Its also the best they have played all
year.”
On game plan: "Overall we wanted to stay
within our system. We wanted to work on the things we would use all
year. We could have improvised a little more and could have been more
aggressive on defense but we just wanted to stick to the system and work
it. We also didn’t want to show off too much, this early in the season
with the games vs. Florida and BYU coming up.”
GAME SUMMARY
Michigan vs. Central Florida
Monday, February 23
4:00 p.m. EST, UCF Club Sports Field, Orlando, Florida
Score by Quarter 1 2 3 4 OT Totals
Michigan ………… 5 5 8 6 24
Central Florida........ 0 0 0 0
0
Michigan Scoring
Ryan Clark 1G/6A - 7 Pts.
Joe Williamson 3G/2A - 5 Pts.
Ray Lombardi 2G/3A - 5 Pts.
Jeff Hanna 3G/1A - 4 Pts.
Mark Idzenga 2G/1A - 3 Pts.
Jim Constantine 2G/0A - 2 Pts.
Justin Gal 2G/0A - 2 Pts.
Trevor Broad 2G/0A – 2 Pts.
Eric Rimmke 0G/2A - 2 Pts.
Bobby Groenke 1G/0A - 1 Pt.
Mike O’Leary 1G/0A - 1 Pt.
Pat Conway -1G/0A - 1 Pt.
Mike Best -1G/0A – 1 Pt.
Dave Silverman - 1G/0A – 1 Pt.
Anthony Ragnone 0G/1A - 1 Pt.
Greg Jaffe – 0G/1A – 1 Pt.
Joe Grimberg – 0G/1A – 1 Pt.
Central Florida Scoring
none
Michigan In Net
Michigan: Dan Webber – 2 saves / 0 goals against (30:00 minutes), Ryan
Kaufman - 1 saves / 0 goals against (21:55 minutes), Zach Mintz 0 saves
/ 0 goals against (8:05 minutes).
Team Statistics 1 2 3 4 OT
Totals
Ground Balls
Michigan 15 10 15
16 56
Central Florida 3 6 4
6 19
Shots
Michigan 11 16 15
15 57
Central Florida 0 2 3
1 11
Face-offs
Michigan 5 3 7
7 22
Central Florida 1 3 0
0 4
Clears
Michigan 5/6 6/6 5/7
2/2 18/21
Central Florida 4/6 2/7 3/7
2/5 11/25
Extra Man
Michigan 0/2 1/1 2/4
- 3/7
Central
Florida 0/1 0/1 0/1 -
0/3
Scoring Summary
8:44 (1st)….UM….B
Groenke….UM
1, UCF 0
8:33 (1st)….UM….Gal….UM
2, UCF 0
7:11 (1st)….UM….Constantine….UM
3, UCF 0
6:21 (1st)….UM….Hanna….UM
4, UCF 0
4:34 (1st)….UM….Hanna….UM
5, UCF 0
End of 1st
Quarter: Michigan 5, Central Florida 0
13:55 (2nd)….UM….Lombardi
(Clark)….UM
6, UCF 0
11:49 (2nd)….UM….Ragnone
(Clark)….UM 7, UCF 0
11:04 (2nd)….UM
(EMO)….Gal (Lombardi)….UM 8, UCF 0
6:16 (2nd)….UM….O'Leary
(Lombardi)….UM 9, UCF 0
5:59 (2nd)….UM….Williamson
(Clark)….UM 10, UCF 0
Halftime: Michigan 10,
Central Florida 0
14:13 (3rd)….UM (EMO)….Hanna
(Clark)….UM 11, UCF 0
12:40 (3rd)….UM….Lombardi
(Clark)….UM 12, UCF 0
10:57 (3rd)….UM….Constantine
(Clark)….UM 13, UCF 0
8:43 (3rd)….UM (EMO)….Clark
(Hanna)….UM 14, UCF 0
7:43 (3rd)….UM….Williamson….UM
15, UCF 0
2:30 (3rd)….UM….Broad
(Clark)….UM 16, UCF 0
2:19 (3rd)….UM….Idzenga
(Williamson)….UM 17, UCF 0
0:01 (3rd)….UM….Williamson
(Rimmke)….UM 18, UCF 0
End of 3rd
Quarter: Michigan 18, Central Florida 0
13:48 (4th)….UM….Broad
(Rimmke)….UM 19, UCF 0
13:04 (4th)….UM….Best….UM
20, UCF 0
12:40 (4th)….UM….Silverman….UM
21, UCF 0
10:40 (4th)….UM….Grimberg
(Jaffe)….UM 22, UCF 0
5:00 (4th)….UM….Idzenga
(Williamson)….UM 23, UCF 0
3:29 (4th)….UM….Conway
(Idzenga)….UM
24, UCF 0
End of Regulation:
Michigan 24, Central Florida 0
Officials
Lehn Abrams, Dave Sackman
Attendance
123
Contact: Joe Hennessy (734) 276-8493,
jjhennes@umich.edu
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