Cornell-Yale lax W12-10

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Cornell  2  4  3  3  - 12
Yale     3  3  0  4  - 10

First period: Pep band thoughtfully makes a sidetrip from Quinnipiac. Yale goes up 1-0 in the first minute, Cornell ties up 3:00 in. Yale 2-1 halfway through period on EMO. Cornell ties on a shot by Bucksick (Yale announcer's pronunciation of Buczek) 11:00 in. Yale is definitely serious competition. We are not dominating faceoffs, Yale attack making some decent moves, Cornell does not seem to have found its groove on attack. Yale goes up 3-2 on a wraparound a few seconds later. Sloppy passing and ball handling by Cornell on attack, Yale scores off turnover, waved off by crease violation (phew). Panell to Mock, little flip feed, hits the post last 45 seconds. Cornell goes man up with :09 left, holds ball to maintain possession. End of quarter, Yale 3-2.

Second period: Donovan makes it 3-3 on EMO shot. Peter Johnson pulls down Pannell en route to net, 30 second penalty. English goes solo for 4-3 lead 3:00 in. Cornell controls, loses, controls, loses faceoff, Yale goes on a nice 1-1 break to tie at 4. Pretty lax, too bad it wasn't us scoring. Pannell to Donovan waved off, crease violation, would have tied at 5. Great turnaround shot by Pannell ties game at 5 with 5:00 to play. Yale camerawork having trouble following the play several times. <Insert Lynah joke here.> Yale catches Iles, sorry, Fiore away from the net, scores easily, up 6-5. Noble strips the ball with :30 to play, Pannell takes a turnaround jumpshot (not pretty) to tie at 6-6. Pannell hitting stride? End of quarter, 6-6.

Third period: Cornell scores 2 straight (3 counting last of period 2) in first 6 mins to go up 8-6. Now 9-6, coming back from a video freeze, sans audio. Some Yale turnovers. Game not in Cornell's firm grasp yet but Yale must wonder if it's slipping. End of period wiht no Yale goals: Cornell 9, Yale 6.

Fourth period: Yale breaks the drought, 9-7 with 12:18 to play. Then takes the faceff, runs down, and shoots wide, Phew. Ruh-roh, down to 1 goal margin with 11:21 left. Cornell goes back up by 2 7:00 in. Fiore makes a couple good saves. Yale closes to one, 10-9. Now 12-10 1:32 to play. Yale appears to have drawn an 1:00 penalty. End of game: Cornell 12, Yale 10.

Steve Mock finishes with 6 goals (on 10 shots): Cornell goals 1, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12. Rob Pannell was 2-3-5. We got walloped on faceoffs, winning 3x25, but Yale failed on 6 of 20 clears, we messed up only 3 of 17, and Yale had 19 turnovers to Cornell's 10. That kind of (?) made up for our mediocre faceoff showing. Yale won ground balls 30-28 but if that includes faceoff GBs (it should), then we dominated otherwise.

Game box score: [www.yalebulldogs.com]
Cornell's take on the Cornell game: [www.cornellbigred.com]

Cornell has to get Pannell back behind the net and Lintner in replacing Donovan.

too many turnovers, we keep failing to get clears

Pannell is much more effective feeding when he's behind the net, and Donovan seems to do nothing but dance around and then throw the ball to either Pannell or Mock. Except when he gets the ball knocked out of his stick.

Yale announcers talking about "small victories": Pannell held scoreless by D Peter Johnson in Q1

Al DeFlorio
Pannell is much more effective feeding when he's behind the net, and Donovan seems to do nothing but dance around and then throw the ball to either Pannell or Mock. Except when he gets the ball knocked out of his stick.

Mock responds to concerns, nails the EMO shot to tie it at 3

Maybe the coaching sees something in the matchup vs. Yale and its defender that works with Pannell out front.

Yale color guy sounds a little like Howie Borkan - voice not knowledge

billhoward
Maybe the coaching sees something in the matchup vs. Yale and its defender that works with Pannell out front.

Hasn't worked here and didn't work against Virginia.

Doug is getting killed on the x -- Yale has won 11 of 13, though Noble/Keith have forced a couple of turnovers.

billhoward
Noble strips the ball with :30 to play, Pannell takes a turnaround jumpshot (not pretty) to tie at 6-6. Pannell hitting stride? End of quarter, 6-6.

Looked pretty to me. Came from behind the net, shook his defender hard, turned and fired a laser top shelf over the goalie's left shoulder.

emo sucking big-time

Yale announcers calling the multiple penalties on Pannell defenders as weak. As opposed to what happens when a good defender is outmatched by a great attacker.

8th goal was pretty. 9th was pretty soft. Good defense on the Yale EMO. Cornell might be pulling away but I'm not ready to start counting chickens. Also, someone unplugged the Yale audio.

"The scoreboard tells the story" which is a 1-1 tie (video scoreboard) after 2, announcers say. Actually, it's 2-1 Cornell women over Mercyhurst.

Great D to close the 3d quarter. Yale couldn't get a good look, someone finally thought he found a lane to make a run at Fiore but whoever it was got stripped on his way in before he could load up to shoot.

ugarte
Great D to close the 3d quarter. Yale couldn't get a good look, someone finally thought he found a lane to make a run at Fiore but whoever it was got stripped on his way in before he could load up to shoot.

Closde defenders plus Fiore is a solid goaltending combination.

unnecessary doubles not smart

Faceoff mess. 2-17!!!!!!

need some faceoffs

Eep. Not a good start to the 4th.

A FOGO, A FOGO, MY KINGDOM FOR A FOGO!

Now 2-19 on face-offs What is going on????

I give up. This is some show by the Yale face-off guy! 2-20

Yay Finally!

THAT'S A WRAP! 12-10, good guys.

19 goals, win by 8
11 by 5
19 by 16
18 by 11
12 by 1
12 by 2
Competition is getting better

Yale's faceoff guy was good before this game; the contest at the X was one of the keys to the game for both teams. I don't think our overall faceoff play was as bad as the statistics would indicate because we forced some turnovers after possession was established as a result of relentless wing play. Our guys do not quit and that made a big difference overall.

dag14
Yale's faceoff guy was good before this game; the contest at the X was one of the keys to the game for both teams. I don't think our overall faceoff play was as bad as the statistics would indicate because we forced some turnovers after possession was established as a result of relentless wing play. Our guys do not quit and that made a big difference overall.

Maybe, but if we were better at the X this game isn't close. The lack of possession made it impossible to pull away even though they didn't defend against us well once we got the ball.

Pannell had 2 goals on 10 shots at Yale. That seems pretty poor. Except the shots seem to either go in or they go just wide and play continues with Cornell in possession. Maybe he has a small visual window he's shooting at and the inside corner of the window is on goal and the rest is wide, and usually not grabbed by the goalie. After 6 games he's got 39 points: 17G (of Cornell's 91; Mock has 20), 22A (of Cornell's 44), .270 shooting percentage.

Be interesting to see a stat, Shots Not Resulting in a Turnover (SNORT?).

Archived video available here: [www.yalebulldogs.com]

billhoward
Pannell had 2 goals on 10 shots at Yale. That seems pretty poor.

On at least two and maybe three of those he beat his defender coming around from behind the goal but pulled the trigger while he was still a step too low (flat to the goal mouth.) We were mercifully spared the Quintism "He had to take a Step to Greatness."

In a previous life Kessenich was a motivational speaker. Now he says stuff like "elongated yellow fruit." Bob Costas weeps.

Faceoffs were definitely a mess. Tesoriero was 2 of 17, and took a couple of frustration penalties after losing faceoffs in the second half to boot. Noble did win one big one in relief. Still, Tesoriero has been one of the better faceoff guys in the country so far this season, and anyone can have a bad day at the office. Just glad the team has enough talent to overcome it.

Still #2 in the polls. 3 first place votes in Coach's poll. (Syracuse #4)

[insidelacrosse.com]

jeff '84
Still #2 in the polls. 3 first place votes in Coach's poll. (Syracuse #4)

[insidelacrosse.com]

Women's lacrosse is 11th and 6-0. Next up is #3 UNC.

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