Cornell - Colgate LAX

Currently 5-2 Cornell in Q2.

Cornell sounds good but not blowing out Colgate. 6-3 at the half.

billhoward
Cornell sounds good but not blowing out Colgate. 6-3 at the half.

Losing ground ball and faceoff battles. Lots of Cornell pushes on ground balls. Knight has been the difference with seven saves aganst three goals.

Need to tighten up and control the ball in the second half. An amazing goal by Lintner a la Canadian box.

Cornell opens it up in the third, now 10-5. Not yet a blowout. As Al notes, Cornell winninglosing some of the statistical battles. Oops, down from 10-4 to 10-6 in less than a minute. Colgate closes to 10-7, Cornell fails to advance, Colgate regains possession and holds for final shot of period. Shot wide, ends 10-7 Cornell.

billhoward
Cornell opens it up in the third, now 10-5. Not yet a blowout. As Al notes, Cornell winning some of the statistical battles. Oops, down from 10-4 to 10-6 in less than a minute. Colgate closes to 10-7, Cornell fails to advance, Colgate regains possession and holds for final shot of period. Shot wide, ends 10-7 Cornell.

No, Cornelll was LOSING the ground ball and faceoff numbers in the first half.

After opening a six-goal third period lead, they couldn't hold onto the ball and kept giving it back to Colgate. Three Colgate goals in last 4.5 minutes of third period will make for a tense fourth quarter, especially if we try to just kill the clock.

billhoward
Cornell sounds good but not blowing out Colgate. 6-3 at the half.

Colgate's 6-1 coming into this game (albeit against a soft schedule that has them below 1-4 Villanova and 1-5 Ohio State in Laxpower's computer rating), so I don't know that I'd necessarily expect to be blowing them out.

13-10 now with about four minutes left.

Josh '99

billhoward
Cornell sounds good but not blowing out Colgate. 6-3 at the half.

Colgate's 6-1 coming into this game (albeit against a soft schedule that has them below 1-4 Villanova and 1-5 Ohio State in Laxpower's computer rating), so I don't know that I'd necessarily expect to be blowing them out.

13-10 now with about four minutes left.

14-10 on a Huttner shortie. 2 min to go.

Colgate closes to 2 late. Cornell gets margin to 3 and then a man short goal gives Cornell the closing 14-10 margin. Actually 15-10 with ENG. Phew. Closer than it should have been.

Knight and the defense were looking directly into very bright sun in the last quarter; I don't think he was seeing the ball well at all -- literally. That plus some sloppy play at both ends made this game closer than it needed to be.

dag14
Knight and the defense were looking directly into very bright sun in the last quarter; I don't think he was seeing the ball well at all -- literally. That plus some sloppy play at both ends made this game closer than it needed to be.

Well said. Kind of like playing the fourth quarter at Princeton in a late afternoon or early evening game. "Sloppy play" and a rash of late penalties didn't help.

Still, 15 goals isn't too shabby against a team that hasn't allowed double digit goals - until today. (NCAA stats say Colgate had #2 defense in the nation, averaging only 6 goals a game.

margolism
Still, 15 goals isn't too shabby against a team that hasn't allowed double digit goals - until today. (NCAA stats say Colgate had #2 defense in the nation, averaging only 6 goals a game.

No question. What was not so good was giving up seven second-half goals to a team averaging less than nine per game.

He farts in their general direction, too.