[Lax] Cornell 13 @ Penn 5 (Final)

First Quarter:

1-0 CU Hurley (Glynn)
2-0 CU Hurley (Romero)
3-0 CU Finn (Hurley)
4-0 CU Ritchie (unassisted)
5-0 CU Hurley (Finn)

Hurley scores off the opening faceoff feed from Glynn. He completes the 1st Period Hat Trick in the final minute. Hurley, Finn, and Ritchie sound dominant.

Second Quarter:
6-0 CU Romero (Espey)
7-0 CU Glynn (Seibald)

Barry Leonard with an interview with Mike French during halftime (recorded last night)

Third Quarter:
8-0 CU Hurley (unassisted)
8-1 CU Weber (?)
8-2 CU Andrzejewski (Winkoff)
9-2 CU Finn (Hurley)
10-2 CU Seibald (unassisted)
11-2 CU Espey (unassisted)

Slow start to the half. Penn breaks through on an unsettled situation. That must've made CU angry. Seibald scores off a Glynn faceoff win, Espey gets the 11th with 0:02 left in the quarter.

Fourth Quarter:
12-2 CU Seibald (Ritchie)
13-2 CU Hurley (Finn)
13-3 CU Winkoff (Hughes)
13-4 CU Weber (Andrzejewski)
13-5 CU Kohart (Andrzejewski)

Tambroni calls off the dogs after Hurley's 5th. Martinez replaced Myers, bench emptied.

"Statement game" says Barry. Score is closer than the game was. All indications are that it wasn't a perfect game, but a very strong game on both sides of the ball. Myers seemed to be seeing the ball the best he has all year. Breaks a 2-game losing streak at Franklin Field.

Myers - 13 saves, 2 GA.

Defensive player of the game: Myers
Offensive players of the game: Hurley & Finn

Glynn won the opening faceoff, passed to Hurley, goal after nine seconds. Several chances for Penn since then.

Hurley, then Finn make it 3-0

is there any free audio?

redhair34
is there any free audio?

No. The audio-only or "lite" version of the PennCast costs $5 for a subscription, but if it's not on their media schedule...

I think not.

Myers clears it into the offensive box himself. Yikes.

thanks

Ritchie on a rebound, 4-0

Hurley 5-0 last minute of 1st

nice...it seems like the attack is finally starting to click. Maybe Ritchie was the missing piece?

Romero 6-0

Last I saw it was Princeton 4-Yale 2 at the end of 1.

Maryland leading UVa 6-2 in the second.

Edit: now 7-2. Maryland has won 9 of 11 faceoffs.

MD 5, UVA 2 early 2nd

Princeton now 5-2

Glynn scores.

Glynn 7-0

Hope I don't jinx him, but Myers has been a wall so far.

MD now up 8-2 over #1

5 saves for Myers, 2 for Casey of Penn

Al DeFlorio
MD now up 8-2 over #1

Make it 9-2. MD absolutely dominant in the faceoff circle.

Al DeFlorio
Hope I don't jinx him, but Myers has been a wall so far.

5 official saves in the first half. Not including a pipe hit by Penn late in the 2nd.

Cornell survives a 1:00 man-down to start the half, Myers with another save, and Cornell going to Man-up situation.

Livestats now showing 7 saves

Sloppy passing

C'mon Red. Don't take your foot off.

Hurley 8-0

Penn averaging 10 goals per game

Al DeFlorio
Penn averaging 10 goals per game

Let's keep them below that average.

40 minutes of shutout lax broken with a Penn goal.

We need to settle things down. Too many turnovers.

Finn 9-2

Seibald 10-2

UVA closing to 9-5

Espey 11-2

MD 10
UVA 5
7:30 left in 3rd


Princeton 7
Yale 3
4:30 left in 3rd

I'm watching MD - UVA and wondering why ESPN doesn't have lax scores on the ticker during a lacrosse game. Not like the audience would care. Certainly people tuning in to a lacrosse game only want to see tonight's schedule in other sports...

I'm liking all the assists. Wish I could watch the damn game.

ugarte
I'm watching MD - UVA and wondering why ESPN doesn't have lax scores on the ticker during a lacrosse game. Not like the audience would care. Certainly people tuning in to a lacrosse game only want to see tonight's schedule in other sports...

Yeah, that bugs me too. At least they've got the hockey games in the crawl - even if there are no scores.

Penn sends in their backup goalkeeper to start the 4th

11 saves for Myers, according to livestats

Hurley 13-2

Keep it going. Run it up.

Brown now 3-1 over Delaware. Army 4-2 over Colgate.

Md 11 - UVa 6, End of 3.

Maryland 11
UVA 6 (start of 4th)

Princeton 8
Yale 3 (start of 4th)

Hobart 3-0 over Fairfield; nice to see Cornell's opponents winning.

Martinez relieves Myers.

Yale closes to 8-6 with 12 to play

Hey Mr. Timekeeper, how much time is left?

Jeff Hopkins '82
Hey Mr. Timekeeper, how much time is left?

Never mind.

Jeff Hopkins '82
Hey Mr. Timekeeper, how much time is left?

No time left. Final, 13-5 Cornell.

13-5 Cornell final

Princeton over Yale 9-6 but time remaining has not been updated.

Al DeFlorio
13-5 Cornell final

Princeton over Yale 9-6 but time remaining has not been updated.

4:23 left but Yale keeps taking penalties. Yale just got posession.

Princeton up 10-6 now with 3 mins left. I doubt Yale comes back.

11-6

11-8 Princeton, last minute

UNC over Hopkins 5-1 at the half

Now 11-3 late third; maybe they'll drop Hop to a fourth seed this year

Al DeFlorio
UNC over Hopkins 5-1 at the half

Now 11-3 late third; maybe they'll drop Hop to a fourth seed this year

Remember, it doesn't matter if you win or lose, it's that you played the game.

Awesome offensive performance by Cornell and a combination of smothering defense by Cornell and a troubled Penn offense.

Cornell fans nicely outnumbered Penn fans but the total turnout, under 1,000, is another reminder of how a stadium such as Franklin Field can be too large.

Navy-Georgetown lax on CBS Sports (formerly CSTV) at 5EDT...after the Cornell-Princeton women's lax game.

G'Town 8 v. Navy 4 ~ 6 minutes left in the 3rd.

Navy looked impotent in the offensive zone first half. Now 8-5 in the third.

Syracuse 13, Loyola 8 - final

Denver 10, Harvard 9 - final

Brown 9, Delaware 6 - final (I think it was 6-1 end of three; Jordan Burke is a tough G)

Make that 8-7 Gtown now on a behind the back transition shot.

G'town beats Navy 11-10 in overtime

Navy gave that one away in OT.

Duke 16, Dartmouth 9 - final; Duke write-up boasting about how Danowski, O'Hara, etc., are now tied for having the most wins of any NCAA players. Boo.

Al DeFlorio
Navy gave that one away in OT.

Duke 16, Dartmouth 9 - final; Duke write-up boasting about how Danowski, O'Hara, etc., are now tied for having the most wins of any NCAA players. Boo.

Yeah, I love how Duke carries on the stats of the 2006 season, giving their players more games than anyone else.

What a great day.

All the sloppy play in the second half couldn't ruin my post-buttkicking buzz. Other than beating Harvard in hockey, is there anything more satisfying than throttling Penn at La Franklestra for the Cornell fan? So many horrible things have happened to Cornell football, lacrosse and basketball on 33rd Street over the years.

It also was a pleasure to finally meet Fred and the fabulous Em.

All the pieces are settling into place for Cornell.

Derkac looks super at his new position (starting close defenseman) and on the wing for faceoffs. What a brilliant move by the coaching staff. He's easily the biggest surprise success story of the season. I'm so glad he didn't follow his brother to Brown (like every other freaking Virginia-bred player in the prep universe -- what's up with that?). MacDonald is a better fit at LSM. Ritchie is clearly the best choice as the third starting attackman as well. And after some skepticism, I'm realizing that having Glynn face off is genius (as long as it's done with some moderation), because he can best take take advantage of the new faceoff substitution rules -- and because he's a damn good defender when necessary. Even Myers looks more comfortable.

I still think the Syracuse game could get very, very ugly. That team is built to prey on Cornell's weaknesses, and you can't count on Myers getting some verbal abuse given his history as a Syracuse transfer. It will be challenging for him to stay composed if he doesn't make a few early saves. I absolutely love Syracuse's new guys, especially Galloway, White and Smith -- how ironic that they're so much more productive than the Inside Lacrosse cover boys of 2006.

Even if Cornell doesn't survive the Syracuse visit, I'm starting to really like this team -- unforced errors epidemic or not.

It was a pleasure meeting you finally too, Hillel.

Btw, this reminded me of our discussion (well, my questioning) of mundane details of the 'closest' rule, so I just looked this up in 2008 NCAA lax rulebook:

Rule 4, Section 6b:

Loose ball—When a loose ball touches a boundary line, the ground or
any object outside a boundary line, or when a shot crosses the plane of
the end line or sideline (when determining which player is closest only),
it is out of bounds; and the following rules apply:

So, it depends. On a 'closest' call it's 'crossing the plane' that matter, but on any other play it's 'touching the ground'.