Cornell lacrosse: Yale, Friday 5/5/23, 6 PM.

Alright. The thread is started.

LGR!

Massey gives Cornell a 61% chance of winning, by a most-likely score of 14-13:

[masseyratings.com]

I will be there.

CU77
Massey gives Cornell a 61% chance of winning, by a most-likely score of 14-13:

[masseyratings.com]

And Massey has Princeton beating Penn, 12-11. So basically the Ivy games are both toss-ups.

ESPN+ says the game starts at 7:00pm.

It started at 6

Singer beat twice.

The third goal was great but CJ must pass the ball. That was a little too “hero ball” for my taste.

Exciting game! The poles need to lock down on Chris Lyons. Yale has a game plan Cornell hasn't seen a lot this year. Attack all the time.

Kyle Smith is playing solid shortie defense out there. Good job.

End of 1. Yale 4 Cornell 3

Better job on Chris Lyons in those last minutes. The Yale goalie is playing well.

Bozzi was ball watching.

We have won maybe 1 face off all game

Yale is winning the faceoffs and basically scoring on every possession. We haven’t had possession at all this quarter.

two early infractions at faceoff and not able to counter
Cornell tied it up, and I cant believe there was a no call on that crosscheck to the neck. Yale scores to make it 4-3 going in to the 2nd

Irelan just stopping nothing right now... if he and the FOGO team dont wake up it is going to be a VERY long evening

8-3. Yale has scored 4 goals in less than a minute.

Cornell is playing some beautiful offense.

8-6 Yale
CJ side left.

8-7. The tide is turning.

Lombardi went low from top center way downtown.

Has our goalie made a save?

Poor defense. No other way to say it. The midfielder ran right by Davis and then past the pole help Wallace.

Staub turned an ankle and was helped off the field.

He just made a couple good ones. Lol

Yale is running right by Walker Wallace. He needs to step it up.

Faceoffs 16-6 Y; saves 7-3 Y; shots 31-18 Y

Ierlan has been awful. Not seeing anything. Make the change

12-8 Yale at the half.

No way Yale can keep up this scoring pace. I think we'll get back in this one.

It looks like the freshman Dooley went in for Walker Wallace in the final minute. We need to get our defense and our goalie play figured out here.

And Yale has 31 shots in first half.

woodpile
Ierlan has been awful. Not seeing anything. Make the change

It seems that in football or basketball players declare for the draft or portal and then don't play well. But I think he'll be better in the second half. He has to.

I want to believe Yale can't keep up this pace in the second half. I want to believe Ierlan will revert to his RS, All-Ivy form. I hope we can do better on faceoffs. This is NOT a rerun of the RS Yale game. I went into this game thinking Yale is the toughest of the three other teams right now

Yale has had the lead the whole game and it’s not even close. We may come back but don’t expect magic.

We need lot of stops this half. Defense will win or lose this one for us.

Yale goalie is playing really well today.

mike1960
Yale goalie is playing really well today.

Reverse of March game.

Al DeFlorio

mike1960
Yale goalie is playing really well today.

Reverse of March game.

Is it possible for a team to play “rope a dope” over the course of a season?

Maybe not that, but they definitely flipped a switch late in the season.

Al DeFlorio

mike1960
Yale goalie is playing really well today.

Reverse of March game.

Yep. Our defense has picked it up a little bit. We need a run here.

A little hesitation there by Graham and froze the goalie. Well done.

What the heck. How does the defense turn their back on Lyons and lose him on the cut?

17-10. We are lost in the sauce.

How many is that -- 5 goals off the faceoff?

Ok. When you get a penalty flag, that does not mean you get to take a crappy shot.

cornell may as well play without the goalie and immediately give the possession back to yale without faceoff

Ierlan is having a nightmare game.

19-13

Cornell has not given up. That's good character.

Yale was much better than us at the faceoff X and at goalie, two positions we felt pretty good about going into the game. It's a tough day, but we usually come back pretty strong after a loss.

They were much better than us at everything. Seeing it live, it looked like we were sleepwalking.

ER
They were much better than us at everything. Seeing it live, it looked like we were sleepwalking.

We definitely did not match their intensity. We needed to play all game the way we played in the late fourth quarter.

Any idea why they didn’t use Petrakis more on FO? Especially after how he dominated last week.

I looked at the game stats and outside of the faceoff and shot percentage dominance the stats did not reflect the score. I was surprised to see the ground balls dead even and for Cornell to have more shots on goal and Yale turnovers at a 3:1 ration over Cornell's. One wonders if Petrakis was hurt? Possession is everything in the game of lacrosse and the time and room that Yale had for shots was unnerving even on long stick defenders. Ierlan was definitely off (24% save percentage adding in a couple of Goalie free goals) and the Goalie in the lacrosse has to come with a couple of unbelievable saves like Pacquette (19 saves and 56% save percentage) had last night to fire up of the defense. There were 4 or 5 goals right off the faceoff and one can say that was the difference in the game for Yale. One cannot blame the loss on the officials but it was pretty weak last night missing some calls and screwing up a couple of faceoffs.

One thing we learned is that for Cornell to be successful in the postseason, they'll need to be fired up all the way to 11 from the first whistle. Andy Shay knew which buttons to press to make this happen. I expect the loss will energize this team quite a bit.

rss77
I looked at the game stats and outside of the faceoff and shot percentage dominance the stats did not reflect the score. I was surprised to see the ground balls dead even and for Cornell to have more shots on goal and Yale turnovers at a 3:1 ration over Cornell's. One wonders if Petrakis was hurt? Possession is everything in the game of lacrosse and the time and room that Yale had for shots was unnerving even on long stick defenders. Ierlan was definitely off (24% save percentage adding in a couple of Goalie free goals) and the Goalie in the lacrosse has to come with a couple of unbelievable saves like Pacquette (19 saves and 56% save percentage) had last night to fire up of the defense. There were 4 or 5 goals right off the faceoff and one can say that was the difference in the game for Yale. One cannot blame the loss on the officials but it was pretty weak last night missing some calls and screwing up a couple of faceoffs.

Yeah, I mean, I’m just an amateur observer, but Cornell was within striking distance almost the entire game despite getting decimated on faceoffs and in goal. So that suggests the rest of the stats were even or advantaged Cornell. If Cornell was at parity on faceoff and save percentage, they would likely have won the game. Sometimes a loss is as simple as not getting enough possessions. It stinks because it seemed like Cornell was past losing games this way.

jjanow99
Any idea why they didn’t use Petrakis more on FO? Especially after how he dominated last week.

To answer the question, I would guess the reason was that Petrakis was 1-3 and he has a tendency to get procedure penalties. Things were bad enough at the faceoffs anyway, and Cornell could ill afford to go man down on faceoffs in the second half as they did in the first half.