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Men's Lacrosse Continues Rivalry With Brown On Saturday
March 22, 2019 | Men's Lacrosse
Minutemen host the Bears at Garber Field for a 1 p.m. game
| University of Massachusetts Men's Lacrosse Game Notes & Information | |
| Game Nine | Massachusetts (5-3) vs. Brown (3-3) |
| Date | Time | Saturday, March 23, 2019 | 1 p.m. |
| Location | Garber Field | Amherst, Mass. | Directions |
| Live Statistics | StatBroadcast |
| Watch | UMass All-Acces (Free) |
| Series History | Brown leads, 30-26-1 |
| Game Notes | Massachusetts | Brown | CAA |
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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 211-145 overall (59.3 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 owns nine points overall via five goals and four assists.
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 seven games with the team.
He is second on the team in points through eight games with 25 via 21 goals and four assists.
Meyers The X Factor
Senior faceoff specialist Tom Meyers won at least 60 percent of his draws in six of eight games this season, and more than 70 percent in five of those outings. That includes against Army (21-25; .840), at Harvard (16-25; .640), at UAlbany (19-26; .731), at NJIT (13-16; .813), against UMass Lowell (15-19; .789) and vs. Utah (14-17; .824).
On the year, Meyers in 113-for-173, a 65.3 percent win rate. He has already reset his single-season career highs for faceoffs won, faceoffs taken and groundballs (67).
Disruptive On Defense
Isaac Paparo owns at least two caused turnovers in each appearance during 2019 with 22 total through eight games. Paparo had two in the wins at Harvard, at NJIT and versus UMass Lowell, notched three apiece against Albany, Army, No. 13 Ohio State and No. 4 Yale, and added four in the win over Utah.
Paparo leads all active Minutemen with 86 career caused turnovers, including six as a long-stick midfielder in 2016, 33 on defense in 2017 and 25 more in 2018.
Paparo's 24 caused turnovers in 2019 rank as the most in the CAA. He is eight ahead of the next competitors, Delaware's Austin Haynes and Drexel's Sean Quinn (16).
