PRINCETON, N.J. – Dartmouth’s Matt Danilack earned Ivy League Player of the Week, while Penn freshman Jake Kohlbrenner took home Rookie of the Week.
LEAGUE NOTES
- Dartmouth clinched its fourth consecutive and 13th overall Ivy League title with a 1-0 win at Cornell, becoming the first Ancient Eight school to do so in 32 years when Columbia captured five straight.
- With its win at Cornell, the Big Green clinched its fifth outright title and first since 2015. Dartmouth shared the title with Columbia in 2016.
- For the first time since 2012, the Ivy League will have two teams advance to the 2017 NCAA Men’s Soccer Tournament. Dartmouth received the 15th-seed and a first-round bye, while Columbia earned one of the 24 at-large bids.
- Columbia will travel to William & Mary in the opening round on Thursday, Nov. 16 and Dartmouth will host the winner of the New Hampshire-Fairfield on Sunday, Nov. 19.
- Cornell and Brown were the last pair of Ancient Eight teams to appear in the tournament in the same year. Since 2001, the league has had multiple teams compete 10 times.
- The Big Green has made 11 postseason appearances in the last 14 seasons, moving on to the second round eight times and the third round of action in 2008 and 2010.
- The Lions return to the postseason for the first time since 1993 when the Lions fell to league rival Princeton, 2-0, in the opening round.
- The Big Green finished the regular season 12-3-1 and 6-0-1 in league action, while Columbia (11-2-3, 5-1-1) finished second. Brown, Princeton and Yale finished tied for third with matching 2-3-2.
- Dartmouth boasts the 22nd-best offense in the nation, averaging 1.94 goals per game. Junior Eduvie Ikoba leads the team with 19 points (eight goals, three assists).
- In net, Christopher Palacios owns an 11-2-1 record with only nine goals allowed to post a 0.60 goals-against average. Palacios registered 24 saves and a .727 save percentage with nine shutouts.
- Columbia finished the regular season on a 5-game winning streak, outscoring opponents 14-0 during the stretch. During league play, the Lions scored 16 and only conceded two tallies to Ivy League champion Dartmouth.
- Senior Arthur Bosua continues to pace Columbia with a league-best 12 goals and five assists for 29 total points. His 1.81 points per game ranks eighth nationally, while his 0.75 goals per game is good for ninth.
- Goalie Dylan Castanheira ranks second in the country in goals-against average (.360) and sixth in save percentage (.857) and third with 11 total shutouts.
- Dartmouth’s second-round NCAA match on Sunday, Nov. 19 will be available on the Ivy League Network free of charge. The Ivy League Network is available on Apple TV and Roku. The network can be found at IvyLeague.TV and IvyLeagueNetwork.com
2017 NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Championship
The 48-team NCAA Championship field is made up of the champions of 24 conferences, who qualified automatically, in addition to 24 teams that were selected at-large. The top 16 teams were seeded and receive first round byes. All second-round games will take place Sunday, Nov. 19. The third round will be played Nov. 25 and 26, while the quarterfinals will be played Dec. 1 and 2. The Men's College Cup will be held Dec. 8 and 10 at Talen Energy Stadium in Philadelphia with live coverage on ESPNU for the semifinals and ESPN2 for the national championship game.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, NOV. 16
Columbia at William & Mary, 7 p.m.
SUNDAY, NOV. 19
Dartmouth vs. New Hampshire/Fairfield, 1 p.m.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Dartmouth’s Matt Danilack scored the game-winner in the 74
th minute of action to lift Dartmouth past Brown, 1-0. With the win, Dartmouth clinched the Ivy League title outright, becoming the first school in 32 years to win four consecutive titles.
In the 74
th minute of action, a Brown foul set up the Big Green with a free kick. Freshman Dawson McCartney took the kick, sending the ball into the box where Danilack headed home the game-winner.
Danilack, who has registered six goals this season, picks up his fifth career Ivy League weekly award and second this season. This marks Dartmouth’s fourth honor this season.
Danilack’s Weekly Statistics
1 GP, 1 G, 2 Pts., 1 Sh, .273 Sh%, 1 GW at Brown
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Penn freshman Jake Kohlbrenner concluded his freshman year campaign with a three-point performance in a 3-0 victory at Harvard. The 3-0 win for the Quakers was the largest margin of victory in Cambridge since 1962.
Kohlbrenner tallied a goal and an assist in the road win. His goal came in the 68
th minute, on a pass from Joe Swenson. Kohlbrenner collected the ball with a defender at his hip and fired a shot into the back of the net to make the score 2-0. Seven minutes later, Kohlbrenner found teammate Jerel Blades open to the left of the goal, setting up the third and final goal of the match.
This marks the second weekly award for Kohlbrenner in 2017. The East Syracuse, N.Y., native finished his freshman year with three goals and three assists for a total of nine points to rank second on the team. Kohlbrenner’s nine points mark the most by a freshman at Penn since Alec Nuemann tallied 14 his first year in 2013.
Kohlbrenner’s Weekly Statistics
1 GP, 1 G, 1 A, 3 Pts., 4 Sh, .143 Sh% at Harvard
HONOR ROLL
Francisco Agrest, Columbia (Jr., M – Riverside, Conn.)
1 GP, 1 G, 1 A, 3 Pts., 5 Sh, .074 Sh% at Cornell
Kyle Parks, Harvard (Sr., GK – Plano, Texas)
1 GP, 90:00 min., 3 GA, 1.69 GAA, 7 saves, .769 save% vs. Penn
Dawson McCarthy, Dartmouth (Fr., F – Voorhees, N.J.)
1 GP, 1 A, 1 Pt., 1 Sh, .133 Sh% at Brown
Aldo Quevedo, Yale (Fr., F – Dallas, Texas)
1 GP, 1 G, 2 Pts., 4 Sh, .143 Sh%, 1 GW at Princeton