Saturday, April 26, 2008 - #18 Denver at Air Force, 1 p.m. - Cadet Lacrosse Stadium (1,000)

Game Overview

Denver enters the weekend after having their season-high six-game winning streak come to a halt to No. 11 Ohio State on Saturday, April 19, with a 20-13 loss. Freshman Jamie Lincoln (St. Cathariens, Ontario) recorded four goals in the loss, making him the all-time leading freshman goal scorer in Pioneer history. The Pioneers and Buckeyes battled in front of a NCAA regular season record crowd of 29,601.

Air Force has lost three straight games, including a 13-5 loss to Great Western Lacrosse League foe No. 7 Notre Dame on Tuesday evening. Air Force has just one win in GWLL play.

The Series vs. the Falcons

This is the 31st meeting between the two teams and 13th consecutive season they have played, with the Pioneers trailing the all-time series 14-26. DU has dominated the series 8-1 since both squads turned Division I in 1999.

Freshman on Top

Freshman Jamie Lincoln (St. Cathariens, Ontario) recorded his 12th multi-goal game against No. 11 Ohio State, when he scored four. Lincoln has 39 goals on the season, the best effort by a Pioneer freshman and the Division I record by a DU player. Lincoln is the leading freshman scorer in the national.

Upping His Efforts

Sophomore Dillon Roy (Denver, Colo.) is arguably DU’s top defender with 38 ground balls and 19 caused turnovers. Roy also leads the team with 12 penalties for 10 minutes.

Streak Ended

The Pioneers saw their season-high six game win streak come to an end against No. 11 Ohio State, when DU lost 20-13. It was the longest win streak by a DU team since the 2006 squad pieced together a seven-game winning streak.

Getting on the Board…Quickly

Senior Jon Paulson (Flemington, N.J.) recorded a goal 13 seconds into the game against Bellarmine, marking the 10th fastest goal scored in NCAA Division I history.

National Exposure

The Pioneers are ranked in the top-56 in all seven of the NCAA categories. Denver is ninth in scoring offense, averaging 11.29 goals per game and in the top-20 in man-down defense (16th-75.6%), win percentage (17th-64.3%), man-up offense (18th-34.2%) and face-off win percentage (20th-52.9%).

Individually, four pioneers are ranked in the top-50, led by Lincoln, who is seventh in the nation in goals per game (2.79) and 34th in points per game (3.07). Sophomore Ben Wahler (Denver, Colo.) ranks second nationally in ground balls per game (6.86) and 21st in face-off win percentage (54.7%). Junior Austin Konkel (Aurora, Colo.) and sophomore Charley Dickenson (Dallas, Texas) rank among the top-50, as well.

Game Winners

The Pioneers have gotten game-winning goals from five different players this season. Junior Cliff Smith (Surrey, B.C.) leads the team with three, while sophomore Charley Dickenson (Dallas, Texas) and Ilija Gajic (Burnaby, B.C.) have two apiece.

The Assist Goes to

Sophomore Charley Dickenson (Dallas, Texas) is the team leader with 16 assists on the season, part of 21 points on the year. Dickenson had six assists in all of 2007.

Overtime Thrillers

DU is 2-0 in overtime games this season after the 10-9 win over Harvard on March 29, when junior Cliff Smith (Surrey, B.C.) recorded the game-winner with 1:03 remaining in the overtime period. Senior Brett Koll (Fort Collins, Colo.) scored the game-winner against Penn on March 9.

Ranked Opponents

Denver is 2-4 against ranked opponents this season, defeating then-No. 16 Colgate and then-No. 7 Notre Dame, and losing to then-No. 9 North Carolina, then-No. 20 Towson, then-No. 7 Cornell and then-No. 11 Ohio State.