#9 IRISH EMBARK ON THREE-GAME, SPRING-BREAK ROAD TRIP: In continuing a season-opening four-game road stretch, the ninth-ranked University of Notre Dame men's lacrosse team (1-0) will embark upon its spring-break trip this weekend, a 10-day jaunt that will cover 5,644 miles and see the Irish play three games, including a pair against top-10 foes. Notre Dame will first play at #9 Cornell (0-0) on Saturday at 1 p.m. (EST) before heading to Villanova (1-1) for a 4 p.m. (EST) game on Tuesday and then making the cross-country trip to Carson, Calif., for The First 4, an elite invitational in which the Irish will play #7 North Carolina (1-0) on Saturday, March 12 at 5 p.m. (PST) in the Home Depot Center in a contest to be shown live on College Sports Television.

#9 Notre Dame (1-0) vs. #10 Cornell (0-0)
Saturday, March 5, 1 p.m. * Schoellkopf Field
- Real-Time Stats: www.cornellbigred.com (also linked on und.com)
- Live Audio: www.cornellbigred.com (also linked on und.com)

#9 Notre Dame vs. Villanova
Tuesday, March 8, 4 p.m. * Villanova Stadium
- Live Audio: www.villanova.com

#9 Notre Dame vs. #7 North Carolina
The First 4 * Saturday, March 12, 5 p.m. (PST)
Carson, California * Home Depot Center
- Live Television: College Sports Television
- Real-Time Stats: www.collegesports.com (also linked on und.com)

THE TV PLANS: Both games in The First 4 -- Notre Dame and North Carolina at 5 p.m. (PST/8 p.m. in South Bend) and Syracuse and Georgetown at 7:30 p.m. -- will be shown live to a national audience by College Sports Television (CSTV), with Joe Beninati (play-by-play), Quint Kessenich (analysis), and Sheehan Stanwick (sideline). CSTV is available on most cable systems nationwide, as well as via DirecTV (channel 610).

THE RADIO PLANS: The first two games of the road trip will feature live internet audio broadcasts provided by the host schools. Saturday's game against Cornell will have a broadcast available to subscribers of College Sports Pass, which can be accessed via Cornell's official athletic site, www.cornellbigred.com, or through a link on Notre Dame's site, www.und.com. Tuesday's games against Villanova will feature live audio available to Yahoo! Sports subscribers and accessible via the Wildcats' official site, www.villanova.com.

REAL-TIME STATS: Live in-game statistics, courtesy of College Sports Online's GameTracker, will be made available for both the Cornell and North Carolina games, via the Notre Dame athletics web site, www.und.com.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS NOTES PACKAGE: Below are some of the top points from this notes package. For more details on any topic, consult the remainder of this release.

* Notre Dame opened the season with a 14-6 victory at #21 Penn State on Feb. 27. The Irish held the Nittany Lions scoreless in the final 25:17 of the contest, scoring the game's final six goals. Fifth-year senior G Stewart Crosland (Bethesda, Md./Landon School) led the defensive effort with 17 saves (.739), while junior All-American A Pat Walsh (Wantagh, N.Y./Wantagh H.S.) had three goals and three asissts, and senior A Jim Morrison (Fulton, Md./Mount St. Joseph H.S.) and junior A Matt Karweck (Penn Yan, N.Y./Penn Yan Academy) added three goals apiece.

* Notre Dame is coming off a 2004 season in which it was 7-5, finished second in the Great Western Lacrosse League (4-1 record, behind Ohio State), and was 12th in the final USILA national rankings.

* The Irish returned 17 monogram winners, including six starters, from last year's team. Among those are junior A Pat Walsh (Wantagh, N.Y./Wantagh H.S.), a USILA third-team All-American in 2004 after being honorable mention as a rookie. After being one of the 15 nominees for the Tewaaraton Trophy (awarded to the top player in college lacrosse) last season, he is again among the 37 selected for the watch list for this year's award.

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