M Lax @ ND (in Chicago)

Game starts at 1PM EST. Doesn't look like there's radio for either team for this game. Gametracker will allegedly be available. We'll see...

Chris '03
Game starts at 1PM EST. Doesn't look like there's radio for either team for this game. Gametracker will allegedly be available. We'll see...

The absence of a radio broadcast is disappointing given the initial All-Access press release that said: "The package will also include all audio broadcasts of the Big Red at home and on the road for football, men's basketball, men's ice hockey and men's lacrosse with other sports to follow."

And the blurb for today's game says: "All of the Big Red's [lacrosse] contests this season will be broadcast live locally on WNNY 1470 AM."

Mitchell picks up where he left off. 2-0 with 6 to play in the first. Both goals Mitchell's. Cornell outshooting the Irish 6-4.

All info from gametracker of course.

You didn't think they were serious did you, Al?

3-0, Seibald

Oops. 3 minute penalty to Mitchell for illegal equipment.

Al DeFlorio
Oops. 3 minute penalty to Mitchell for illegal equipment.

Penalty killed. Still 3-0

Now 3-1. 11 min left in the half.

Cornell now a big 0-5 at the X.

Looks like we've lost every face-off so far.

Late Irish goal makes it 3-2. Under a minute left in the half.

Eric Pittard with :01 left makes it 4-2 Red at the half.

Cornell has one one FO so far...Clagett has taken all of them according to gametracker
Shots 18-18
Saves- 7-6 Red
GBs are 19-17 Red
EMO's - CU 0/0, ND 0/2
Clears- CU 9/13, ND 8/10.

Two quick goals to open the second half. Boulukos for Cornell.

Shots 36-25 Red
13 saves for the ND goalie
8 for McMonagle
FOs now 10-3 ND

Seibald is 3-3 on face-offs; Schmicker 0-5.

Boulukos has taken 17 shots!

9-6 final after two late goals by ND.

Al DeFlorio
9-6 final after two late goals by ND.

Good result in the first real test for Cornell this season. ND could be pretty good this season. On to Army next week. They're another up and coming team. They played SU tight in a game at the dome that has been replayed to death on CSTV. Maybe there will even be a webcast of that game.

JHU's 38 game home winning streak ends.

Also in the Ivies, Harvard beat Stony Brook, UMass beat Yale, Hofstra destroyed Brown, Penn beat Villanova, and Dartmouth/Fairfield is ongoing I believe.

Other games: Princeton 6, Hopkins 4; Maryland 8, Duke 7 (OT?); UVa leading 'Cuse, 13-8 in the 3rd

Chris '03
[On to Army next week. They're another up and coming team. They played SU tight in a game at the dome that has been replayed to death on CSTV.

Army was upset by Lehigh today. Game is at Schoellkopf next weekend.

Al DeFlorio
Boulukos has taken 17 shots!

Making up for the ones he should have taken earlier against Duke. Not to flog a dead horse, but we could have WON that game.

Good to see that Cornell can win against a big-time opponent even when playing what was, by many accounts, a sloppy game.

There's a report posted at [www.lax.com], including some nice pictures by Tom Paulius. The text is clinical, but at least it was written by someone who saw the game (as opposed to the Athletics and Sun articles, which seem to have been written by folks who mainlined GameTracker). Check out the picture of Notre Dame's giant attackman Hubschmann; he looks like a stork next to Mike Pisco.

Some big wins for the Ivy League last weekend, and some upsets that might boost Cornell's RPI rank down the road. The big shocker was Binghamton edging Towson at Unitas, holding them to 6 goals. I'm glad Lehigh beat Army, if only to remind Cornell that the weekday game against the Mountain Hawks later this month is freakin' dangerous. And Princeton upsetting Hopkins at Homewood was huge -- the Tigers needed to have their stealth coating rubbed off.

Two games in, the big stories for Cornell are:

* Bone-crunching D. Mitch Belisle has been wasting guys. He and Nathan aren't big, but they give the Cornell defense a nasty streak that has been missing for years. Decades.

* David "Moose" Mitchell just might fill the Greenhalgh/Nee role as finisher/opportunist.

* The face-off crisis is far, far from over. Bloody hell, enough already.

Hillel Hoffmann

* The face-off crisis is far, far from over. Bloody hell, enough already.

You'll have to excuse me for sounding like Bill Howard, but does Addison Sollog have a brother?

Freshman Pat Kirwan should help when he gets healthy - plus remember that we have freshmen taking the f/o and, I believe, they are just getting used to the NCAA rules. My understanding is that, incredibly, when the NCAA changed, high schools did not.