Dartmouth 11, Princeton 9

Source: Princeton Athletic Communications

The Dartmouth men's lacrosse team celebrated as if it had won a championship. The Princeton men's lacrosse team still might. Princeton's 11-9 loss to Dartmouth Saturday afternoon at Scully-Fahey Field carried with it a huge consolation prize for the Tigers: The Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament is still Princeton's to lose. With one week to go in the regular season, it's a pretty good prize to still have.

Princeton never led in the loss to the Big Green, and Philip Killian's goal with 10:31 remaining snapped a tie game and thwarted a big comeback attempt as the Big Green defeated the Tigers for the first time since 2003 and the eighth time in 56th all-time meetings.

Cornell, meanwhile, defeated Brown 11-7 in Ithaca, giving the Big Red a share of the Ivy League championship with the winner of next week's game between Princeton and Brown in Providence. A win by Brown would give Cornell the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament; a win by Princeton would give the Tigers the automatic bid. Brown cannot win the automatic bid to the tournament.

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