Lax Cornell 14 vs Canisius 4 FINAL Postgame

Cornell wins first home game 14-4 in very rainy conditions. Great first half going up 9-1. But, again we hit a scoring drought in the third. Hopefully we will play a full 60 in the Duke game.

It's hard for me to get too worked up about a decrease in scoring in the second half when we're soundly beating a lesser team. At least when the opponent isn't storming back (it doesn't look they did from the final score).

Yeah, I mean it was mostly a remark that in the past 3 games we've gone for stretches in the second half of not scoring. In the Army case they caught up. In the Virginia case they pulled ahead and as expected against Canisius it just didn't matter. However, against Duke we can't afford to let up.

Nice to get the solid win at home. Even with the bad weather and weak opponent, the offense must have been clicking nicely to build a 9-1 halftime lead. Of course the Griffiths are not much of a test, but we handled them better than the Princes did (Canisius was ahead in that game 3-2 at the half).

Now it's back to Durham--again--to face the Duke Dukes. We've had two very big wins down there recently: 11-7 in '06 and 7-6 in '07. Strong defense was a key in those two contests. And in both cases, we rode good second-half performances to victory. Given the character of this year's team and our results to-date, I'm hoping for two things next Tuesday: (1) at least decent goaltending and (2) no prolonged scoring droughts. If we can combine that with the stengths we've shown so far, we should have a solid chance.