Kniffin's 6 Goals Leads #10 Brown Lacrosse to 25-9 Win Over Quinnipiac
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Kniffin's 6 Goals Leads #10 Brown Lacrosse to 25-9 Win Over Quinnipiac
Freshman Jack Knifin netted six goals in his first collegiate game to lead #10 Brown lacrosse to a 25-9 blowout win over Quinnipiac on Sunday afternoon at Stevenson-Pincince field. The best player in America Dylan Molloy had four goals and four assists.
"This felt good, but I would by lying to you if I said that I saw this coming. Quinnipiac is a good team, but we played for the full 60 minutes and our team has embraced our style to play even faster," said head coach Mike Daly, who made his coaching debut at Brown. He replaces Lars Tiffany who left to take the University of Virginia job. Daly came from Tufts. Last season Brown beat Quinnipiac 20-7.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTBrown returns a loaded line-up including Dylan Molloy, the 2016 Player of the Year, 2016 Tewaaraton Award Recipient, 2016 USILA Outstanding Player, 2016, and USILA Outstanding Attackman.
He led the nation in scoring with 118 points (62 goals, 54 assists), fourth all-time in NCAA History, led the nation in assists, was First Team All-American, Ivy League and New England Player of the Year for the second straight year.
Brown Rolls Past Quinnipiac
Quinnipiac’s Brian Feldman found the back of the net in the first quarter to cut Brown’s lead to 2-1 with 11:40 left to play in the quarter.
Just 8 seconds later, Knifin scored his second goal of the game to give the Bears their two goal lead back. Knifing would add a third goal to put the Bears up 4-1 with 3:24 left to play in the half.
Brown would take a 5-1 lead at the end of the first quarter on a goal by Molloy with 45 seconds to play. The goal would be Molloy’s second of the game.
In the second quarter, Quinnipiac’s Foster Cuomo cut the Bobcats deficit to 5-2 with 13:58 to go, Brown would score the next four goals and five of the next six to take a commanding 10-3 lead at the half.
Knifin and Molloy would score back-to-back goals to open the third quarter, giving Brown a 12-3 lead with 13:16 to play and Brown would cruise to a win.
Safe to say...@BrownLacrosse still likes to play fast. Bears scored 25 goals on 67 shots in win over Quinnipiac. @LaxSportsNet pic.twitter.com/DZJ3qU2FSd
— Travis Eldridge (@tgeldrid) February 19, 2017
Next up
Brown returns to action on Saturday, February 25 when they host Stony Brook.
Game time is set for 1 p.m.
RI Teams To Win National Championships
PC Basketball 1960-61 NIT
The Providence College Friars won the National Invitation Tournament(NIT) in 1961, defeating St. Louis 62-59 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
At this time, the NIT was considered to be the National Championship of College Basketball.
The Friars were led by Vinny Ernst and James Hadnot that season.
PC 1962-63 NIT Champions
The Friars won their second NIT Championship two years after the first one. Led by Ray Flynn, John Thompson Jr. and Vinnie Ernst, the Friars won 15 straight games to claim the title.
Providence finished the season with a 24-4 record.
URI Men's Sailing 1965
The URI Rams won their first small boat National Championship in 1965.
The Rams were led by Art Payne and Peter Greene, both of whom were from Rhode Island.
Photo courtesy of urisailing.org
URI Men's Sailing 1975
The URI Rams won their second small boat National Championship and also won the National team race that season.
Photo courtesy of urisailing.org
URI Men's Sailing 1977
The URI men's sailing team won the National Championship in small boat sailing in 1977.
The team was led by two time all Americans Gary Knapp and Ed Adams.
Photo Courtesy of urisailing.org
Brown Men's Crew '93
The Brown Bears won the triple-crown, winning the Eastern Sprints, the IRA and the National Championship.
Brown Men's Crew '94
The Bears repeated their triple-crown performance from the season before, once again winning the Eastern Sprints, the IRA and the National Championship.
The Bears went undefeated on the season.
Photo Courtesy of brownbears.com
Brown Men's Crew '95
Coach Scott Roop leads the Bears to a third straight IRA and National Championship.
Photo courtesy of Brownbears.com
PC Women's Cross Country
The 1995 Providence Friars won the programs first NCAA title. On the way, PC won their first BIG EAST and ECAC Championships.
Head Coach Ray Treacy was named NCAA Division I Women's National Coach of the Year, BIG EAST Men's and Women's Coach of the Year, Rhode Island Words Unlimited Women's Coach of the Year and NCAA District I Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year.
Brown Women's Crew '96
Under head coach John Murphy, the Brown women's crew team won the 1996 eastern Sprints, the IRA's and the Collegiate National Championship.
The team became the first women's crew to win the "Triple Crown" of collegiate racing.
Photo courtesy of Brownbears.com
Brown Women's Crew '97
Brown's varsity four team wins the first NCAA Championship by defeating the University of Washington on Lake Natoma in California.
The Bears finished third as a team overall.
Brown Women's Sailing '98
The Brown Women's Sailing Team won the College Sailing Women's National Championship in 1998.
The championships were held at Tulane University in New Orleans Louisiana.
Brown Women's Crew '99
Brown women's crew won the first NCAA Division I Championship in Brown University History by defeating the University of Virginia by a three-second margin at lake Natoma in California.
Brown also won the Eastern Sprint Championship and the Ivy Championship, setting a new course record in the process.
Photo courtesy of Brownbears.com
Brown Women's Crew 2000
Brown repeated as national Champions in 2000, beating the University of Washington by 3.9 seconds four points.
In addition, Brown's varsity and second varsity won the Eastern Sprint Championship and the IVY league Championship.
Both teams went undefeated on the season.
Brown Women's Crew '02
The Bears won their third National title in four years defeating the defending champion Washington by four points in Indianapolis.
Brown was the only school to qualify all of it's crew for the grand finals.
The Bears went undefeated during the regular season.
Brown Women's Crew '04
Brown won thier fourth title in six years on Lake Natoma in California.
The win made Brown the winningest program in NCAA Championship history.
Brown Women's Crew '07
Brown won their fifth National Championship in 2007 at Melton Hill Lake in Tennessee.
The Bears beat Ohio State and Yale who came in second and third place respectively.
Photo courtesy of taxref/flickr
Brown Women's Crew '08
The Bears won their sixth National Championship on Lake Natoma in California.
The Bears beat Washington by eight points and third place Cal by 14 points to repeat as champions for the first time since 1999-2000.
URI Women's Sailing 2011
The URI Women won the programs first National Championship in small boat sailing in the 79 year history of the program and hoisted the Gerald C. Miller Memorial Trophy at the Sperry Top-Sider/Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women’s National Championship.
The Rams won the title as a club team and were one of two club teams competing for the title. The other club team was Western Washington, who finished 17.
Photo courtesy of uri.edu
Brown Women's Crew 2011
The Bears won their seventh NCAA National Championship in 15 years under head coach John Murphy.
The Bears racked up 45 points in the final race and beat Stanford by five seconds.
The title was their first since 2008.
Photo courtesy of brownbears.com
PC Women's Cross Country
The Providence College Women's Cross Country team won the 2013 National Championship with 141 points.
Emily Sisson was the Friars top finisher as she finished in seventh place at Wabash Valley Family Sports Center.
This was Providence's first title win since 1995.
PC Hockey 2015
The Providence College Friars won the 2015 NCAA Ice Hockey National Championship, defeating Boston University 4-3 at the TD Garden.
The Championship is the first in the program's history and only the third NCAA National Title in Providence College History.
PC goatender Jon Gillies was named Most Outstanding Player.
