Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell's Chris Cara Named Patriot League Men's Lax Player of the Week
4/12/2004 8:00:00 AM | Men's Lacrosse
April 12, 2004
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Chris Cara (Medford, N.Y./Patchogue-Medford), a junior attack on the Bucknell men's lacrosse team and the leading scorer in all of Division I, garnered a pair of awards on Monday after totaling a school-record-tying 11 points in Bucknell's 19-5 victory over Patriot League rival Lafayette on Saturday. Cara was named the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week and the Lewisburg Hotel Bison Athlete of the Week.
Cara registered six goals and five assists, all in the first three quarters, as the Bison improved to 5-5 overall and 3-2 in the Patriot League. Cara had a hand in seven of Bucknell's nine first-half goals. Cara, who had already had eight, nine and 10 points in a game earlier this season, raised his career-high again on Saturday and how has the four highest single-game point totals in the nation this season. His final point came on a goal with 2:24 left in the third quarter.
Cara, who entered the game with 21 goals and 27 assists for a national-best 48 points, became the third Bucknell player to log 11 points in one game, and the first in 24 years. The last to do it was Matt Fraser against Lafayette in 1980. Pete von Hoffmann, Bucknell's all-time leading scorer, also had 11 points in a game against Penn State in 1979.
Cara now has 59 points (27 goals, 32 assists) this season, already a career-high and the fifth-highest total in Bucknell history. He joined von Hoffmann as the only Bison players to record 30 or more assists in a season three times. Already second to von Hoffmann on Bucknell's career assist chart with 93, Cara, who still has at least three more games remaining in his junior year, moved up to fourth on the school's all-time points list with 164. Those assist and point totals are also third and fifth, respectively, in Patriot League history.
The Bison return to action on Friday night with a big Patriot League contest against defending league champion Army. Game time is 7 p.m. at Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium. Bucknell is just a half-game behind the Black Knights for third place in the Patriot League standings.
