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Men's Lacrosse Set For Inaugural Meeting With Utah
March 15, 2019 | Men's Lacrosse
Minutemen welcome first-year Division I Utes to Garber Field on Sunday
| University of Massachusetts Men's Lacrosse Game Notes & Information | |
| Game Eight | Massachusetts (4-3) vs. Utah (4-4) |
| Date | Time | Sunday, March 17, 2019 | Noon |
| Location | Garber Field | Amherst, Mass. | Directions |
| Live Statistics | StatBroadcast |
| Watch | UMass All-Access (Free) |
| Series History | First Meeting |
| Game Notes | Massachusetts | Utah | CAA |
| @UMassAthletics | @UMassMLacrosse | |
| UMass Men's Lacrosse | |
| Buy Tickets | UMass Athletics Ticket Central |
Staying Power
Head coach Greg Cannella reached career win No. 200 in the midst of his 25th season at the helm of the Minuteman program, one of the longest tenured coaches active in Division I men's lacrosse. He is the second-longest tenured head coach at one institution and fifth nationally in terms of total years spent as a Division I head coach. Cannella began his time as the leader of the team ahead of the 1995 season and, since then, won 10 or more games during seven campaigns. He guided the Minutemen to eight NCAA Tournament appearances and currently stands at 210-145 overall (59.2 win percentage). When Cannella was hired, the following had not been invented yet...
• Nintendo 64 (1996)
• The DVD player (1996)
• Google (1998)
• The iPod (2001)
• MySpace (2003)
...and the following events were yet to happen:
• 2018 NFL Hall of Fame class members Brian Dawkins (1996), Ray Lewis (1996), Terrell Owens (1996), Randy Moss (1998) and Brian Urlacher (2000) play their rookie seasons
• Spacecraft Pathfinder lands on Mars (1997)
• J.K. Rowling publishes the first Harry Potter book (1997)
• Tiger Woods wins his first major championship (1997)
• The International Space Station is launched (1998)
• SpongeBob Squarepants debuts on Nickelodeon (1999)
• Tom Brady is drafted by the New England Patriots (2000)
• Major League Lacrosse plays its inaugural game (2001)
The only current coach with a longer tenure at one institution is Notre Dame's Kevin Corrigan (31st season).
Mount St. Mary's head coach Tom Gravante was hired before the 1995 season, but missed all of 2005 due to illness and the team's official records attributes the 2005 season head coaching record to interim program leader Nick DeFelice. Due to that, 2018 tallies as Gravante's 23rd year with the Mount.
Cutinella Breaks Through
After he was held without a point through the first four games, midfielder Kevin Cutinella posted four points on two goals and two assists in the win over Albany on Tues., March 5, 2019. He split his goals and assists across the third (2) and fourth (2) quarters as UMass stretched its lead from 6-3 midway through the game to the 14-8 final margin.
Cutinella is in his first active season with the squad after he missed his freshman year in 2018 due to injury. He added his fifth collegiate point and third goal during the win at NJIT (3/9) before he totaled his sixth on an assist against UMass Lowell (3/12).
Welcome To The Gorillas
Freshman attack Gabriel Procyk started and posted five points on four goals and one assist during the season-opener against Army, his first collegiate game. It is the most by a rookie in his UMass debut in at least the last 20 seasons.
Procyk added a second five-point game at NJIT on as many goals scored, a career high through six games with the team.
He is tied for first on the team in points through seven games with 24 via 20 goals and four assists.
Meyers The X Factor
Tom Meyers reset his single-game career highs with 21 faceoffs won, 25 faceoffs taken and 13 groundballs against Army in the 2019 season-opener. Meyers won at least 75 percent of the faceoffs in each of the four quarters, including a 9-of-10 first quarter and all four in the third quarter. He was also 3-of-4 in the second and 5-of-6 in the fourth.
Meyers added a pair of games with 26 faceoffs taken at Yale and Albany while he also tied his career high for groundballs in the win over the Great Danes.
Disruptive On Defense
Isaac Paparo owns at least two caused turnovers in each appearance during 2019 with 18 total through seven games. Paparo had two in the win at Harvard, NJIT and NJIT and notched three apiece against Albany, Army, No. 13 Ohio State and No. 4 Yale.
Paparo leads all active Minutemen with 82 career caused turnovers, including six as a long-stick midfielder in 2016, 33 on defense in 2017 and 25 more in 2018.
