Lax vs. Army

1pm Saturday at Schoellkopf. Inside Lacrosse staff unanimously picks Cornell, but Army looked very tough against Syracuse.

[insidelacrosse.com]

Army has a 130-yard-long indoor practice field. That has to help a NYS team get ready in January-February. Army was certainly ready to play a year ago up there.

18-7 Big Red rout. Mock and Donovan were the big scorers. There's some concern, though, because Pannell went down untouched at the end of the 3rd with an apparent leg injury. He limped off the field and did stay on the sideline for the duration of the game. Hopefully he's ok.

Inside Lacrosse in-game blog:

It looks like Pannell is OK on the sidelines. He's taking a knee and cheering on his team. I'm assuming he isn't coming back in because the Big Red are up by so much.

Al DeFlorio
1pm Saturday at Schoellkopf. Inside Lacrosse staff unanimously picks Cornell, but Army looked very tough against Syracuse.

[insidelacrosse.com]

I think today's game may say more about SU this early in the season, than about Army being good.
(Lousy sentence, but you get the drift, I hope.)

UNC beaten by Lehigh today, 9-8.

The Syracuse Post-Standard story on Army/CU.

We have to hope Pannell's injury isn't serious, especially with UVA next weekend.

TimV

Bad cop

Jim Hyla

Al DeFlorio
1pm Saturday at Schoellkopf. Inside Lacrosse staff unanimously picks Cornell, but Army looked very tough against Syracuse.

[insidelacrosse.com]

I think today's game may say more about SU this early in the season, than about Army being good.
(Lousy sentence, but you get the drift, I hope.)

SU has blown a 6-3 lead and now trails UVA 7-10. Lerman can't stop anything at his feet.

10-8 after three, UVA. I think I just heard faceoffs were 17-4 UVA. Big advantage.

ithacat

Jim Hyla

Al DeFlorio
1pm Saturday at Schoellkopf. Inside Lacrosse staff unanimously picks Cornell, but Army looked very tough against Syracuse.

[insidelacrosse.com]

I think today's game may say more about SU this early in the season, than about Army being good.
(Lousy sentence, but you get the drift, I hope.)

SU has blown a 6-3 lead and now trails UVA 7-10. Lerman can't stop anything at his feet.

UVa has dominated on faceoffs. And their outside shooters are something else.

Al DeFlorio
10-8 after three, UVA. I think I just heard faceoffs were 17-4 UVA. Big advantage.

It was 14-7, but still, that's huge.

UVA showing a lot of zone D. Need to prepare for that next weekend.

Jeff Hopkins '82

Al DeFlorio
10-8 after three, UVA. I think I just heard faceoffs were 17-4 UVA. Big advantage.

It was 14-7, but still, that's huge.

It's now 18-6.

Al DeFlorio

Jeff Hopkins '82

Al DeFlorio
10-8 after three, UVA. I think I just heard faceoffs were 17-4 UVA. Big advantage.

It was 14-7, but still, that's huge.

It's now 18-6.

I stand corrected. Maybe my brain couldn't wrap around that kind of dominance.

If UVA gets a 2+ goal lead they'll go into that packed in zone and eat clock.

We don't have a big outside cannon to break that up. With the inside finishers we have, I'd attack that with a 1-4-1 setup with Mock, Bremner, English, and Lang up somewhat, maybe 12 yards from the crease and widely spaced. Then pop those guys into the gaps on the move to get quick feeds from Donovan/Pannell and high percentage dunks. It might be interesting to make the two middle guys Stenrud (6'5) and Lang (6'4) and drop some high feeds down on UVA goaltender Fortunato, 6'1" in the program but doesn't look that tall standing in the cage.

TimV
If UVA gets a 2+ goal lead they'll go into that packed in zone and eat clock.

We don't have a big outside cannon to break that up. With the inside finishers we have, I'd attack that with a 1-4-1 setup with Mock, Bremner, English, and Lang up somewhat, maybe 12 yards from the crease and widely spaced. Then pop those guys into the gaps on the move to get quick feeds from Donovan/Pannell and high percentage dunks. It might be interesting to make the two middle guys Stenrud (6'5) and Lang (6'4) and drop some high feeds down on UVA goaltender Fortunato, 6'1" in the program but doesn't look that tall standing in the cage.

My suggestion is don't let them get a two goal lead.

1. @Virginia 14-10 over Syracuse
2. Johns Hopkins 10-8 over @Princeton
3. @Cornell 18-7 over Army

The top 3 teams appear pretty close esp. knowing what we did to the Cadets after losing by just 1 at Syracuse the week before.

Two questions for ya:

1. Did you see the UVA-Syracuse game?
2. Which of our goaltenders do you think we can rely on to prevent UVA from getting a 2 goal lead at any point?

ugarte
My suggestion is don't let them get a two goal lead.

That didn't work too well for SU. Of course, maybe if they had held their own at the X the result would have been different.

ithacat

ugarte
My suggestion is don't let them get a two goal lead.

That didn't work too well for SU. Of course, maybe if they had held their own at the X the result would have been different.

If Tesoriero can continue doing well at X and keep giving us a huge advantage with time of possession, that will go a long way on Saturday.