NWS: [Q]A SECOND PERIOD OF STEADY RAIN FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON INTO TUESDAY
NIGHT WILL LIKELY BRING AN ADDITIONAL ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF
RAINFALL TO THE AREA. IT IS THIS RAIN...FALLING IN ADDITION TO THE
RAIN FALLING TONIGHT...THAT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BRING SOME MINOR
FLOODING TO THE WATCH AREA...ESPECIALLY TO CREEKS AND SMALLER RIVERS.
Tuesday: Periods of rain, mainly after noon. Chance for precipitation is 90%. Mostly cloudy, with a high around 57. East wind between 6 and 9 mph becoming calm. [/Q]
Welcome back, 'cuse! :-D 3 straight meetings!
maybe we'll see the return of the horizontal hurricane like downpour we had 2 years ago. btw ... that was like no rain I have *ever* seen in my life! here’s hoping it makes an encore appearance.
Let's go RED!!! :-)
This is probably a stupid question, but is there any free online audio coverage of this game, for those of us who can't make it up?
http://www.syracuse.com/orangelacrosse/
We had an absolute downpour here from about 2:00 until 4:00. The Ithaca High School game was cancelled because the high school field was under water. Really. Under water. Right now it is raining very lightly, if at all, but the radar doesn't look promising if you don't have an umbrella or access to the Hall of Fame room.
A quote from JerseyJoe over on the LaxPower forum -
"Still raining? You know Moran has a direct line to God which he can invoke any time the 'Cruisers hit town even if his coaching days are behind him. I've heard he's thinking of asking for a spring hurricane to hit Schoellkopf (sic?) tonight."
Go Red!
Sox-O's game called off tonight. Real men play in the rain except if your field is under water I suppose. I really would like to see this kind of weather for the marathon here on Monday. I mean it's always a nice pleasant day in my experience and the forecast is for mild temps again. Let them see the real April weather.
Check out the link mentioned above. Here's a quote from part of the article dealing with the rain[Q]Planning a trip to Ithaca to catch today's game? Pack the rain gear.
Tambroni said forecasters called for clouds to clear by tonight, but the Orangemen remain skeptical.
The last two times Syracuse visited Ithaca to play the Big Red, SU has been greeted by apocalyptic conditions. Clouds hang dark and ominous. Rain pounds Schoellkopf Field.
And the Orangemen lose lacrosse games. SU is 0-2 at Cornell in its last two tries.
"We expect it to be rainy and cold and damp. It always is in Ithaca," Desko said. "We've just gotta go down and play. The better that we can mentally prepare our team for that, the better off we are."
Powell, like the rest of SU's senior class, has never won at Cornell. He said the biggest problem he encounters in rainy conditions is selecting the proper footwear. Should he choose molded cleats or turf shoes? With all the pivoting he does, he needs to ensure traction.
The Orangemen expect the Big Red to slow the game with long, careful possessions, something that generally happens when it rains. SU players hate playing in the rain, partially for that reason. They're also used to playing and practicing as they do in the climate-proof Carrier Dome.
Will weather be a factor this time?
"I don't think we're going to let it bother us this year," Pfeifer said. "We haven't won there in the past two times we played there and I think we just have a good enough team that we won't lose there." [/Q]:-D
Also the game is being broadcast on Time-Warner sports, Ch 26 in Syr.; so those with TW cable "might check their local listings". Got to leave now.
Game feed is up and running :-)
Cornell feed is running, too. Very solid broadcast team.
Indeed it is. Thanks muchly for the link, Ben!
Sounds rainy, too. Good deal. B-]
Four saves for the Syracuse goalie so far and no Cornell goals.
One of the problems with holding the ball is that if you pass it around long enough, sooner or later you drop it and turn it over.
Great to hear the pep band play right after the Cornell goal. :-D
ok, SU 2 - CU 1..it sounds like Cornell's been good on faceoffs and has had pretty good possession.
Lindsey's (16) second of the night
Am I the only one who tries to chat for events other than Cornell hockey?
we have to stop turning the ball over ::rolleyes::
I looked a little while ago but there was nobody there.
4-1 SU after 1. I don't understand the game, but we aren't playing well.
Rosenberger (4)
Greenhalgh
Discussing the "fog" issue and if the game will go on ...
Yellow balls to combat the fog ... :-D
Vallone (Powell) beats Ross up high
Goal Pittard!
Hattie for Lindsey (17)
Boulukos ... seem to be playing better
Brian Nee
Cornell TO, 31 secs left in the 2d quarter.
7-5 'cuse at the half. Save by 'cuse on an alley-oop with 2 secs left to keep Cornell down by two.
EOM
[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:
Am I the only one who tries to chat for events other than Cornell hockey?[/q]
Where is the chat? Warped doesn't work for me anymore.
GOAL Boulukos!
Goal! Boulukos from Collins.
Big next goal. Each time we have come within 1 Syracuse has scored almost immediately.
Wish we'd stop throwing the ball away. Sounds like Saturday all over again.
Big SAVE by Ross!!!
What the hell is a "gound ball"? A contested pick-up?
Damn. 8-6 SU, 9:25 to go in third.
Damn.
Hattie for Vallone (Nee)
[Q]Greg Berge Wrote:
What the hell is a "gound ball"? A contested pick-up?[/q]Just think "loose puck".
Thanks. Just translate everything into hockey terms. ;-)
9-6. Ugh.
What's an "unsettled situation"? An odd man rush?
Goal Powell
[Q]ugarte Wrote:
Damn.[/q]
Damn again. 9 to go in the 3d.
yes, it is what it says ... unsettled;-)
GOAL Boulukos! Hattie for him
[Q]ugarte Wrote:
[Q2]ugarte Wrote:
Damn.[/Q]
Damn again. 9 to go in the 3d.[/q]
Better. Hat trick for Boulukos.
9-7.
Cornell a man up. Does the man return if we score?
Cornell going on the Extra Man Opportunity. Um ... power play. :-P
in most cases ... yes
Another man up for Cornell -- 30 seconds. Hardly seems like much of a penalty.
"Riding"?
9-8!!
GOAL!!!
Yes!!!
forechecking ...
Under 3 to go in the 3d.
Thanks Ben. ;-)
Aaargh. Cornell pulls a Webber. (sort of)
Goal Zink
Grrrr. Syracuse gets one just before the end of the half.
End of 3d.
We've gotta be on for the next 15 minutes
A little run for the good guys would be nice.
EMO Cornell
11-8, Powell
Powell with his second. Blech.
Goal Powell (he's nasty good)
Wow. That was fast. Reardon comes in right off of the face off.
Riordan Scores!!!
Harvard gives Brown its first Ivy loss, 12-10.
fog is back :-D
FIGHT ...MAIM ... KILL
C'mon convert on this damn EMO!
We've gotta take some risks and go get it!
Powell is crazy good. Gets the hat trick.
sick
2:19 left ... we're within 2.
C"mon boys ... you can do it!!!
We're gonna beat the hell out of you.....
1 minute remaining.
Damn. Close game. Good job, Red.
Great game by both teams ... WAER Syracuse webcast was excellent, much appreciated boys.
[Q]ben03 Wrote:
Great game by both teams ... WAER Syracuse webcast was excellent, much appreciated boys.[/q]
They better be good, that's where many of your next national sportscasters are learning their trade. It is a trade and not a profession, isn't it?;-)
[Q] Great game by both teams ... WAER Syracuse webcast was excellent, much appreciated boys.[/Q]
I've just passed on the compliments to Jason Benetti, WAER sports director and lacrosse play-by-play guy, who is a real good friend of my son Adam (who ironically attends a different trade school, where the team which previously beat us in lacrosse before Syracuse is). Unfortunately, I wasn't able to listen to the webcast nor did I realize Jason was doing it until checking the WAER site after reading this thread.
I spoke with Jason during spring break his freshman year (he's now a junior) and remember him saying that he didn't know anything about lacrosse (there are no teams out here in the Chicago area - or at least in the south suburbs) and that he was going to have to get up to speed real fast. Apparently he has.
Last year on marathon Monday it was cold and threatening to rain the whole time. Not much fun, but great running weather. It started getting warm towards 11 or so, which for most marathoners is about 15 miles into the race.
[Q]I spoke with Jason during spring break his freshman year (he's now a junior) and remember him saying that he didn't know anything about lacrosse (there are no teams out here in the Chicago area - or at least in the south suburbs) and that he was going to have to get up to speed real fast. [/Q]
When I was in high school in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago in the eighties I had never heard of lacrosse. Now my high school has a boys and girls lacrosse team. There are over thirty high schools playing lacrosse in Illinois, see http://www.ihsla.org/teams.shtml
You are right that none seem to be in the true south suburbs.
Lacrosse is a growing sport outside the Eastern seaboard.
Jay Fisher '90
[Q]
Lacrosse is a growing sport outside the Eastern seaboard.[/q]
Cornell was a lacrosse powerhouse in the late 1960s under -- zero degrees of separation from Cornell hockey here -- Ned Harkness. But the old boy network always awarded the championship to a southern school: Hopkins, Maryland, NC, Virginia, occasionally Navy took turns. Finally, and perhaps about 3 years too late for Cornell to have started running up some Princeton-in-the-1990s streak, the NCAA instituted a playoff in 1971. Cornell edged Army 17-16 in a thrilling semifinal game at Army and then romped 12-6 over Maryland. The big gun for Cornell was Alan Rimmer from (surprise) Canada, a precursor to the arrival of Mike French four years later. Cornell's Rimmer-led NCAA title solidified the notion that a) Long Island HS lacrosse (Cornell was full of them) was equal to southern lacrosse, b) upstate NY lacrosse (Cornell recruited heavily upstate; at this point Syracuse was a joke in lax, Jim Brown having moved on some years previously) would have to to be reckoned with, c) lacrosse was Canada's national sport (you can look it up) and thus there were good players to be had, and d) when Ned Harkness and then Richie Moran (Maryland '60 or '59) argued the Cornell teams were as good as the ones who won the polls in the late 1960s, they were right.
And now lacrosse is spreading. It's huge here in NJ public schools. Illinois is pickng it up. It's big in Massachusetts schools and UMass has done amazingly well yet never won it all. Just wait until California logs on to the program. Lacrosse is both violent and yet not so dangerous as football, so parents who'd never want their kids on the gridiron are okay with them picking up lacrosse. I believe I saw it was the HS sport with the biggest runup in number of schools adding it (HS) from 1990 to 2000, albeit the huge increase was due to the small starting numbers nationwide.
Lacrosse has been certified as a high school varsity sport in Florida and the number of teams there is growing. It is big and growing in Colorado and I recently saw a discussion on the LaxPower forum about a team from San Diego defeating a Maryland team during a trip east. The sport is growing very rapidly and if you look at the rosters for just about any major program you'll see players from places that have never been considered "hotbeds" for lacrosse before.
[Q]peterg Wrote:
Lacrosse has been certified as a high school varsity sport in Florida and the number of teams there is growing. It is big and growing in Colorado and I recently saw a discussion on the LaxPower forum about a team from San Diego defeating a Maryland team during a trip east. The sport is growing very rapidly and if you look at the rosters for just about any major program you'll see players from places that have never been considered "hotbeds" for lacrosse before.[/q]
OMG - imagine what happens if Miami (Fla) picks up lacrosse. So much for the genteel sport played by young gentlemen from the Maryland suburbs and Long Island. To paraphrase Sports Illustrated, the Hurricanes' team photo is taken from the front and both sides.
More seriously, as the sport grows, the degree of violence could also grow among those who think of lacrosse as spring football, plus sticks. Violence is ruining my appreciation of hockey even as it fans its broader appeal. It becomes a sport of gladiators and something I wouldn't want my kids playing as the get into and certainly not beyond high school.