Start the thread. Looks like Dartmouth has some potent offense but have collapsed in 2nd half last 2 games.
Tully making a number of good saves early while Cornell looks like they still havent shaken off that bus ride to NH
Cornell leads 2-0 with Goldstein scoring from 20feets out up top and then Firth getting a nice tally after dropping the ball and scrumming for a recovery
Casscaden also got a rocket off from way outside on a restart that went off the crossbar and ricochet almost to midfield
Dartmouth scores 3 unanswered to take the lead as the Q1 comes to an end.
Strong faceoff and goalie play masking how poor Cornell offense is playing
Coach B barking at the officials for not calling a push that sent Firth sprawling after the ball had left his vicinity
Cornell scores (Goldstein from Robinson) on the EMO to pull back to 3-4
Firth with a quick release from 15ft beats the goalie to lead 5-4
casscaden dominating the X for possession
Goldstein comes around from behind the net and scores... 6-4
3minutes till halftime
Cornell in lacrosse looks like BU in hockey. Incredible individual talent.
Cascadden has won almost every single faceoff.
Quote from: BearLover on April 18, 2026, 04:18:43 PMCornell in lacrosse looks like BU in hockey. Incredible individual talent.
Cascadden has won almost every single faceoff.
Inside Lax says he's 9 of 11. That's insane.
Luzzi hits the pipe off an excellent strong move to the front of the net
Long Dartmouth possession, Tully with a nice save and outlet
clear, Cornell timeout to draw something up with 15secs left in half
forced pass to the crease and a length scrumm in front of the goal before the Dartmouth goalie gets the ball as time expires
halftime
Cornell is clearly the stronger team, but Dartmouth is maxing its talent on offense with good cutting and passing. Tully made two point blank saves early to keep Cornell close. This also points to our sometimes questionable cutter defense. We allowed three good passes to the cutter, with one going in. I'm sure Dartmouth scouted it this out about us.
Viewers can't see the entire field, but it looks like Dartmouth kept a man on offense near the sideline at one point to play 5 on 5 lacrosse so they have more space to operate. I'm not sure how successful they were. We are sliding early and on everything up top and forcing the ballcarrier to pass. It's working pretty well.
Early on we had several passes that kind of went awry of our sticks. More wall ball needed with gamers? Some slippage on the field too. We lost the ball a couple of times because of it.
Split screen coverage? What a wonder!
Dartmouth with 3 unanswered takes the lead 7-6
Cornell wins another FO, good offensive possession getting the ball to Nurry above the crease, but goalie turns shot away
Robinson hits a pipe
Several not great shots that Cornell at least had backed up
Another shot from up top 20+ feet out (with plenty of shot clock remaining)
Saved and cleared by Dartmouth
Cornell forces shot clock violation
5mins left in the 3rd... still 7-6 Dartmouth leading
absolutely atrocious sequence of passes/turnovers below GLE
Dartmouth coughs it up entering the offensive box and Gilmartin sprints it out
Ball gets worked around an Nurry scores
7-7
Tully with a great save at the end of the 3rd, stoning a cutter that slipped out of the pack
still 7-7.
prior Cornell offensive possession again just terrible
not sure if Robinson has the greenlight from well outside or the coaches have an audible for him to rifle it very wide to get a restart from behind the goal LOL
Dartmouth gets possession to start the 4th on a Casscadden violation
Cornell gets a goal from Goldstein in transition
8-7
Quote from: Cornell95 on April 18, 2026, 04:59:14 PMDartmouth gets possession to start the 4th on a Casscadden violation
Cornell gets a goal from Goldstein in transition
8-7
Transition goals are saving us today.
Nurry with a nice aggressive dodge to the net scores
Goldstein scores in transition off another faceoff win
10-7 Cornell lead
That's twice Dartmouth decided not to slide on the ball carrier down the alley after he beat his guy.
The Dartmouth goalie is repeatedly getting beat high.
Dartmouth stops the run at 5... Casscadden wins ensuing FO out the front and charges down to score on a bouncer
13-8
Great broadcast and announcing from what I was able to watch. Dartmouth defense was phenomenal until they ran out of steam in the fourth quarter.
Dartmouth goes on the EMO following a push by C Box
Number 13 has had a good day overall with a couple CTOs I think
Cornell holds, still 13-8 with just under 3minutes remaining
I hope Gilmartin is OK. We can't afford to lose him.
Stop the ball on the fast break! Make him pass it.
Dartmouth with a pole goal
Casscadden ith another win.
Firth killing clock running the entire zone before scoring on empty net
14-9
Casscaden wins again... 19/23
Nice win against Dartmouth in Hanover. We've got to get our set offense figured out if we want to make noise in May.
Quote from: mike1960 on April 18, 2026, 05:28:07 PMNice win against Dartmouth in Hanover. We've got to get our set offense figured out if we want to make noise in May.
agreed, not a lot of assisted goals today
all those shots from 20'+ are not going to work in torunament play
It also helped today that Dartmouth's top faceoff guy (who was second team All-Ivy last year) didn't play. Cascadian dominated the faceoff circle.
Quote from: Cornell95 on April 18, 2026, 05:25:41 PMDartmouth with a pole goal
Casscadden ith another win.
Firth killing clock running the entire zone before scoring on empty net
14-9
Casscaden wins again... 19/23
And we thought Castagna was the best faceoff man at Cornell...
Quote from: stereax on April 18, 2026, 05:37:54 PMAnd we thought Castagna was the best faceoff man at Cornell...
Not anymore. He's gone. Oh, wait, you said "was." It feels so good after struggling so many years going back a decade to be .500 on faceoffs.
I'm thinking of TD Ierlan of Albany 2017, 2018, then Yale 2019, 2020 (Covid shortened), then Denver 2021, college career FO% 75.1%, best season 2018 at Albany 79.1%, went 26x26 against Harvard. There was talk (hope?) that when Ierlan wanted out of Albany, he might come to Cornell, him being from nearby Victor, NY. Instead he choose the Bulldogs and we lost to Yale 16-11 during the season (Ierlan 24x30 FO for Yale) and then were ousted by Yale in the first round of the Ivy tournament 15-10 (Ierlan 21x27) and that ended our season.
Ierland was so dominant there was talk (some) of a quarter-opening faceoff and then after a goal, the ball goes to the team just scored on.
The video was excellent: good camera angles and the video director (if there is such in college lax) tellng the camera to zoom in, rather that going with a camera covering from the end line almost out to midfield. I watch on an 85" TV (hey, the one I have is $1000 now) and it's still not showing enough.
The announcers were okay to good. I really wish the announcers really were neutral even if they're linked to the home team.
Tully was again terrific. Cornell has allowed an average of only 10 goals per game this season, 9.18 if we erase the Penn State debacle. Only single digit goals against in the last four games.
Also the weekend of 4/18, some close calls for the top teams:
- #1 Notre Dame beat #16 Duke 7-6.
- #2 Princeton beat #9 Harvard 15-14
- #3 North Carolina beat #11 Virginia 16-15 in OT
- #4 Richmond beat unranked St. Joseph's (Philadelphia) 13-11
- #5 Syracuse (which elected not to play Cornell in 2026) beat Colgate 14-7.
RPI for NCAA lacrosse purposes is based on the team's winning percentage (25% of the total), their opponents' winning percentage (50% of the total), and on their opponents' opponents' winning percentage (25% of the total). Margin of victory is not a factor. Published rankings also publish (informationally) a team's strength of schedule, and record versus teams ranked in bands of 1-5, 6-10, 11-20, and 21+.
After the Dartmouth game is 1-1 against the top 5 (beat Princeton, lost to Richmond), no results versus 6-10, 2-2 versus 11-20, 6-0 verus 21+.