Virginia @ Cornell lax 3/8/14 - Cor 12-9 final

Cornell playing HS-school sloppy lax, horrible turnovers, but Virginia isn't very crisp either, 2-1 Virginia lead on two Pannell (James) goal at end of Q1. Nice goaltending by Cornell {edit add: freshman Christian Knight).

4-2 Virgina midway in the second. Cornell has 13 turnovers. Color man Tom LaFalce worries that Cornell may wear itself out. Cornell cuts from 5-2 to 5-4 with 2:25 to play -- 2 goals in 5 seconds after Virginia scores. If pipes count as half goals, Cornell would be up 7-5. Buczek ties it at 5 with :30 to play in half. Donovan's second with :16 to play completes 4-goal run, makes it 6-5 Cornell. Halftime.

Who'd have thought?

Cornell runs off 5 more in the third, 9 total since the first half, then Virginia gets 1 late. Cornell 10-6. We rolled up the goals Virginia like this in 2009 and they couldn't come back. That was in the 2009 NCAA semis when we in the title game when we got a decent lead on Syr -- I can't go on, the memories are still so horrible.

Cornell survives a 3:00 no-release penalty, holds on to win 12-9. Amazing. If we're 15th, Virginia is 2nd, this has to move both teams up. Michigan must feel pretty good about the OT loss to Cornell last week in a relative sense.

Box score: [www.cornellbigred.com]
Lintner 3G (season: 18)
Buczek 3G
Donovan 2G - 3A
Christian Knight 15 saves for Cornell

We had slightly more shots and ground balls, faceoffs were even, neither was deadly on EMO (Virginia 1x4 and failed on a 3:00 non-release foul in the fourth, Cornell 2x7). This was interesting:

Turnovers 
VIR  8 3 3 3 -- 17
COR 11 2 2 5 20

... that and our going 6x10 on first quarter clears (15x21 the entire game). That helped Virginia get that early first quarter lead and outscore us 3-1 in the fourth. It looked as if we throwing the game away at first, but both teams had 9 TOs each the final 3 quarters.

billhoward
Cornell playing HS-school sloppy lax, horrible turnovers, but Virginia isn't very crisp either, 2-1 Virginia lead on two Pannell (James) goal at end of Q1. Nice goaltending by Cornell.

4-2 Virgina midway in the second. Cornell has 13 turnovers.

Virginia's pressure has something to do with the TO's, but a lot have been unforced.

Freshman GK Knight has been excellent for the Red.

Fancy graphics and REPLAYS for lax?

Rita
Fancy graphics and REPLAYS for lax?

It's the direct feed from the stadium scoreboard.

Looks like they gave the crowd Waldo toques as a gift.

1:42 remaining, looks like 12-8 (but scoreboard is nearly unreadable)

12-9 final. Wow.

Well, that felt really good.

Larger margin of victory than last year, too. FWIW.

Trotsky
1:42 remaining, looks like 12-8 (but scoreboard is nearly unreadable)

I thought I had a bad new HDMI cable. But no, I switched cables and found that some segments it was HD-sharp and others it was like the very first color monitor (320 pixels across). If you had it, too, might it be something to do with Cornell's end of things. I also saw shooting flames on the Goal! graphic but I think that was intentional. Lord help us.

I think we have found a goalie!

margolism
Larger margin of victory than last year, too. FWIW.

Yep. And FWIW, I think this UVA team is better than last year's team.

Knight was fantastic.

mountainred

margolism
Larger margin of victory than last year, too. FWIW.

Yep. And FWIW, I think this UVA team is better than last year's team.

Knight was fantastic.

62.5% save %!

mountainred

margolism
Larger margin of victory than last year, too. FWIW.

Yep. And FWIW, I think this UVA team is better than last year's team.

Knight was fantastic.

True. True.

That was an impressive win.

Swampy

mountainred

margolism
Larger margin of victory than last year, too. FWIW.

Yep. And FWIW, I think this UVA team is better than last year's team.

Knight was fantastic.

62.5% save %!

That's one beautiful stat.

50% on FOs and +50% on ground balls is also pretty darn good.

Swampy

mountainred

margolism
Larger margin of victory than last year, too. FWIW.

Yep. And FWIW, I think this UVA team is better than last year's team.

Knight was fantastic.

62.5% save %!

Wow. That's insane.

Jeff Hopkins '82

Swampy

mountainred

margolism
Larger margin of victory than last year, too. FWIW.

Yep. And FWIW, I think this UVA team is better than last year's team.

Knight was fantastic.

62.5% save %!

Wow. That's insane.

Lot of goalies have a .625 save percentage game. What's amazing is Christian Knight in his first college start getting the right saves at the right time that added up to .625 in beating the #2 team when you're sitting at #15.

billhoward

Jeff Hopkins '82

Swampy

mountainred

margolism
Larger margin of victory than last year, too. FWIW.

Yep. And FWIW, I think this UVA team is better than last year's team.

Knight was fantastic.

62.5% save %!

Wow. That's insane.

Lot of goalies have a .625 save percentage game. What's amazing is Christian Knight in his first college start getting the right saves at the right time that added up to .625 in beating the #2 team when you're sitting at #15.

That and we're so unused to seeing that high a save percentage out of a Cornell goalie.

A Cornell goalie hasn't played that well against good competition since Freshman AJ Fiore had 15 saves against Loyola in a 3OT 12-11 NCAA playoff win in 2010.

Currently, Bryant goalie Gunner Waldt leads MD1 w/ 67.9%. Knight is eighth @ 62.9%. (Somebody has to do something about the way the table is mislabeled.)

This from the Virginia fan base:

Streaking the Lawn
In the long run, a game like this will likely do more good than harm. ... The biggest issue for the Cavaliers has to be the turnovers. They coughed the ball up 17 times (Cornell had 20!! 20!), and went an abysmal 16-21 on the clears. For a team that prides themselves on protecting the ball and executing flawless clears, Coach will certainly not be happy with those numbers. [www.streakingthelawn.com]

billhoward
This from the Virginia fan base:

Streaking the Lawn
In the long run, a game like this will likely do more good than harm. ... The biggest issue for the Cavaliers has to be the turnovers. They coughed the ball up 17 times (Cornell had 20!! 20!), and went an abysmal 16-21 on the clears. For a team that prides themselves on protecting the ball and executing flawless clears, Coach will certainly not be happy with those numbers. [www.streakingthelawn.com]

Lets hope we can do some more good for Yale.

Our win over Virginia seems a bit less lustrous and the Cavs a bit overrated. Notre Dame is all over Virginia 8-3 (halftime, ESPNU). Notre Dame playing in an indoor facility like Michigan's. Built for football but available for the minor sports.