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I'm posting this early because I gotta leave for Ithaca tomorrow. Yes, Ithaca -- not Baltimore. Groan.

If there's any way you can get to this game on Saturday night, do it. Unitas (most folks still call it Minnegan) Stadium is an underrated venue, and the atmosphere should be intense.

Here's a scouting report on Towson, prepared with the assistance of an acquaintance who lives a few blocks from the stadium.

Towson is a good team. Although they're very young, particularly on offense, they are NOT the undisciplined, fun-n-gun team that we've come to expect in recent years. In some ways they've started to look like Tony Seaman's Pennsylvania teams from the 1980s: lots of Longs Islanders (Seaman's roots), great faceoff guy, solid defense, relatively low scoring, lots of players with double-figure points -- and if they get a late lead, they go into Seaman's "Penn Zone" (one defender follows and pressures the man with the ball wherever he goes, the rest of the defenders play a rotating five-man zone that looks sort of like a man-down defense).

Most people focus on their two high-profile sophomore attackmen, Jon Engelke and Bobby Griebe -- partly because they are both from families in lacrosse's aristocracy. Jon's father is former Cornell superstar Norm Engelke '81 (I think), and Bobby's father is former Towson great Bob Griebe, a national lacrosse hall of famer and STX muckity-muck. Yet although Engelke and Griebe are the Tigers' leading scorers, they're somewhat one-dimensional. Towson's true catalysts are elsewhere on the roster.

The guys who really make the Tigers tick are brilliant goalie Sothoron (.617 save percentage), LSM Turnblacer, defenseman Cummins, FOGO Eckerl (small but effective), midfielder Bacon, attackman and feeder Mull, and junior short-stick defensive middie Casey Cittadino, who has been described as the best at his position in the nation.

This is a very hard game to get a handle on. My Towson contact predicted a 10-7 Cornell win, but he may have been sandbagging. He told me that Towson played Johns Hopkins tough as nails until the Tigers monster-load of a midfielder Nick Williams (5' 8" & 210 lbs!) got a stupid penalty and Hopkins pulled away on the EMO. (Final score was 8-4 Hopkins.) It was Hopkins' middies who led the way in that game, and that's where Cornell's strength lies.

If you're driving to Towson, I recommend checking out some of Towson's bitchin' diners. There are two pretty famous ones fairly near campus, the Bel-Loc Diner and the Towson Diner. One of them, I think it's the Bel-Loc, has this really cool scalloped, custard-yellow lunch counter.

I'm jealous of anyone who's going. Looking forward to your reports.

Watched a good bit of the Hop-Towson game--played at Towson.  For three periods Towson played Hopkins dead-even.  Very impressive performance.  They made Hopkins play a very deliberate game.  Score was 3-3 after three with shots even at 21.  Hop goalie credited with 21 saves in total.

[Q]Hillel Hoffmann Wrote:
... monster-load of a midfielder Nick Williams (5' 8" & 210 lbs!) ...[/q]I think the term to use here is "Hornby-esque".  :-D

http://www.syracuse.com/localcolleges/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/111599265790850.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

So there's no TV coverage, right?

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 So there's no TV coverage, right?[/q]
As far as I can tell.  It's not clear if the Towson radio station is broadcasting the game.  There's a "listen" link next to most of their regular-season games--so they may have  been webcast, but nothing on the station's schedule about tonight.

The TV game today at 1pm is Hopkins-Marist.  ::yark::  

Syracuse-UMass tomorrow, I think.

and here's a link to the rest of the first round analysis: http://www.laxpower.com/laxnews/news.php?story=1235

The band is going.

I wish I were.  :`(

LET'S GO RED!!

Duke crushes Fairfield 23-4 to await the Cornell-Towson winner.

Similarly, Hopkins breezed past Marist 22-6.

Navy in a close one over Delaware, 9-7.

[Q]Tom Pasniewski 98 Wrote:

 Duke crushes Fairfield 23-4 to await the Cornell-Towson winner.

Similarly, Hopkins breezed past Marist 22-6.

Navy in a close one over Delaware, 9-7.[/q]
Navy was up 8-2 at one point.  Delaware scored two in the last three minutes to make it close.  Stats were reasonably even, but I don't think the result was in doubt in the second half.

Let's hope there's at least one first-round "upset."  ::help::

[Q]Al DeFlorio Wrote:

 [Q2]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 So there's no TV coverage, right?[/Q]
As far as I can tell.  It's not clear if the Towson radio station is broadcasting the game.  There's a "listen" link next to most of their regular-season games--so they may have  been webcast, but nothing on the station's schedule about tonight.

The TV game today at 1pm is Hopkins-Marist.    

Syracuse-UMass tomorrow, I think.[/q]

The audio is running http://wwwnew.towson.edu/wtmd/listen_live2.htm

A gem from the radio broadcast:

"I don't think Cornell has played a goalie in [Towson's goalie]'s caliber."

 He then mentions how he compares to Syracuse's goaltender  ::help::

1-0 Towson 2mins in


1-1 BOULUKOUS!!

1-0 towson after some ball control, CU on the attack.

1-1 Boulukos

Cornell Goal.  tied 1-1

These announcers are gonna drive me nuts.

2-1 Nee

 NEE...2-1 transition goal

[Q]Al DeFlorio Wrote:

 These announcers are gonna drive me nuts.[/q]

"It's May, so it's probably still snowing in Ithaca."

3-1 Haswell

3 shots 3 goals... their goalie is awesome! ::rolleyes::

4-1 Haswell

4-2

Every Towson goal is "unbelievable." ::rolleyes::

4-3

Gotta win some faceoffs.

4 4

This color person is truly awful.  ::yark::

Yikes, the Cornell 'cast is waaaaaay behind the Towson 'cast.

4 4 end 1

5 4 towson

5 5 clayton(?)

Penn State game at Maryland being delayed by lightning.

Greenhalgh I thought(?)

6-5 rosenberger

I'm surprised they're playing at Towson.  Just down the road at my house the lightening is freakynasty.

Rosenberger, 6-5.

[Q]Trotsky Wrote:

 Greenhalgh I thought(?)[/q]

That's what I thought intially, but they definitely said Clayton.

Towson man up...

Cornell kills the man up ::banana::

That banana is vaguely disturbing...

Lots of slipping and stumbling.  Pace has slowed down.

[Q]Trotsky Wrote:

 I'm surprised they're playing at Towson.  Just down the road at my house the lightening is freakynasty.

Rosenberger, 6-5.[/q]

You can't hear any thunder in the background, and you can hear the crowd reasonably well.

7 5 nee

Yes!  Nee, 7-5!

I'm doing double duty... posting the score here and texting it to the band who has been at a car dealership for over an hour with a bus leaking gas.  :-O

[Q]Tub(a) Wrote:

 I'm doing double duty... posting the score here and texting it to the band who has been at a car dealership for over an hour with a bus leaking gas.   [/q]

Are they playing Davy at the dealership for each goal?

[Q]Tom Pasniewski 98 Wrote:

 [Q2]Tub(a) Wrote:

 I'm doing double duty... posting the score here and texting it to the band who has been at a car dealership for over an hour with a bus leaking gas.   [/Q]
Are they playing Davy at the dealership for each goal?[/q]

I don't know, but I'm sure they are a sight to see :-)

7 6

7 7

Need some kind of faceoff adjustments.  Can't let them keep this up.

halftime

Just picked up the Towson cast before halftime.  These guys are indeed a couple of tools.  And I think they're queer for each other too.

[Q]Greenberg '97 Wrote:

 Just picked up the Towson cast before halftime.  These guys are indeed a couple of tools.  And I think they're queer for each other too.[/q]

"Do you have a date for tonight?"

I didn't make that up.

And this studio guy's no better.

This sports update guy sounds high/drunk/occupied in the toilet/occupied in other ways

Tambroni made some nice defensive adjustments at halftime of the Brown game and we pretty much shut Brown down in the second half.  Hope he can do the same here.  Towson's middies are doing the damage.  

Need some faceoffs, though.

[Q]Greenberg '97 Wrote:
  And I think they're queer for each other too.[/q]

"Not that there's anything wrong with that."

Lightning?

[Q]Tom Pasniewski 98 Wrote:

 Lightning?[/q]

Yup, it's a delay.

And just as the band got on the lacrosse team's bus.

[Q]Tom Pasniewski 98 Wrote:

 Lightning?[/q]
Lightning.  Waving long sticks over your head and all that.  ::uhoh::

Now we get to find out if this station is worth its public radio weight.

[Q]Al DeFlorio Wrote:

 [Q2]Tom Pasniewski 98 Wrote:

 Lightning?[/Q]
Lightning.  Waving long sticks over your head and all that.[/q]
I was thinking more in terms of the bus with the gas leak.

American Roots... same thing I could be listening to on WFUV, although I think right now is Pete Fornatelle's Mixed Bag.

Apparently they saw more lightning.. that means resetting the 30 minute delay, right?

You can hear the thunder in the background now, there are a lot more lightning strikes as they are waiting. Every new flash resets the 30 minute clock.

Anyone recall if Boulukos has taken any faceoffs?  He won a few at Brown.

I know he took at least one and lost

Penn State at Maryland still yet to get under way.

Radar certainly looks nasty in the B-W area.

Any idea how late they'll wait to try to get our game restarted?

UVA and Albany are playing at Charlottesville after an initial delay.  11-1 UVA, by the way.

Update.... NCAA officials say the game will be finished tonight. We'll see if they keep saying that at like 11:00.

They just said on the Cornell 'cast, that they've gotten word that they *will* finish the game tonight. Rain seems to have cleared off of the Towson area within the last couple minutes according to weather maps (Towson being pretty much directly north of Baltimore). Not sure when they last saw lighting, anyone keeping track?

15-3 Virginia at the half

Hopkins 22, Marist 6

Duke 23, Fairfield 4

Haven't reached parity yet, eh?

Edit:  Maryland 4, PSU 0 early

Lightning has finally ended here, about 40 mi west of Towson, so hopefully the game will be back on in about 45-60 mins.

Teams are back on the field for warm-up.  Game should start again fairly soon.

Towson station said restart at about 10:15.

Edit:  PSU ties Maryland at 5

1:42 delay complete,  teams coming back to resume.

Long possession; need a score

8-7 Towson

Too many turnovers

A lotta possession time too, and a few shots, but nothing to show for it.

Cornell's first manup, 1:00

Apparently it was only :30, they lied to us... Red doesn't convert, still has possession... whoops, not anymore

and now Towson man up for :30

they convert, 9-7

This has been a terrible period.

Another man up for Towson

Agreed, they've had their shots, but they can't get it home. Turned into an ugly quarter

Haven't scored in more than 20 minutes.

i hear davy :-D

Edit: yeah...that was supposed to go way down there...sorry, threaded people :)

Finally! Redd! 9-8 Towson

Nee! 9-9

and Nee from Redd! Tied it up, 9-9

Greenhalgh!

and, it should be noted, after a great takeaway in the defensive end, sounded like an intercepted pass... Knoepfli-esque if you will ;)

Bad looseball push call on Cornell (even Towson announcers agree) allows Towson to keep possession

Boulakas!  11-9

Taking advantage of transition; five goals on transition, IIRC

Boulukos!!!

11-9 cornell

Boulukous!!! 4 goal run for Cornell

Tigers get a :30 man up

McMonicle (sp?) with a huge save on Engelke

McMonagle, but we'll forgive you :)

What freakin whiners the announcers are. ::cry::

6:00 minutes left.  Still 11-9

11-10

11-10

11-10 Red, 5 minutes left

It sounds like Towson is getting the majority of the ground balls

Threw it away :-(

Terrible turnover on Cornell; 3:36 left, Towson ball

WTF... turnover with 3:36 left... towson ball

"The Cornell Band must have a high-tech Starbucks, they have a lot of energy"

Considering how awful we are on faceoffs, it shows how strong the rest of our game is. If we are fortunate enough to advance, it will be sure hard to defeat the caliber of teams which would be facing us with such a faceoff deficiency.

11-11

tie game, saw that coming after the horrible turnover

2:27 left

TO 2:11 left, Cornell ball

Cornell gets the ball, 2:11 left, timeout Cornell

My guess is we hold the ball for quite awhile here.

Gotta hold onto the ball; no more bad turnovers

42 seconds

20 seconds

12-11 CORNELL!!!! 11 seconds left!

CLAYTON!!! With 11 seconds left!

Clayton!!! 11 seconds left.  12-11 Red!

6 seconds, flag on the field against Cornell

Stupid penalty by CU... 6 seconds left for Towson to take a TO and try one last shot.

Worst case scenario.  Clean face off loss, penalty.  6 seconds left with Towson man up.

not so stupid,  better than letting up a rush... 6 seconds isn't a ton of time for the man up, it's plenty to score though...

IT'S ALL OVER!!!!!

CORNELL WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Game Over!

Duke is up next :-)

GAME OVER!! McMonagle with a HUGE save at the end and tosses it in the air!! Bring on Duke!

Maryland tied us in the 1976 championship game when they were given the ball on a strange call with 6 seconds left.  Felt like deja vu all over again.  Thankfully NOT.

wow! great game! my browser was loading slowly so i was able to read each - it was quite suspenseful :-)
LGR!
when is the second round?

Cornell plays Duke on Sunday, May 22, at either noon or 3:00, at Princeton.  I haven't seen which time yet.

UMass leading Syracuse 7-4 at the half.

Georgetown defeated Army 16-6

Cornell and the Syracuse-UMass winner will be the only two teams north of Baltimore left in the tourney.

So far, it does look like we are the only ones that pulled the 'upset'.  But you gotta believe Syracuse isn't going down without a fight in the second half.

UMass 13, SU 11 end of third

[Q]peterg Wrote:

 UMass 13, SU 11 end of third[/q]
Syracuse put up a fight--tying it at 15--but a late goal wins it for UMass.  The streak is over--and Hopkins fans breathe a sigh of relief.

So did anyone actually go the game? Please dish.

It seems that Tambroni is shortening the bench and giving the first-line middies more and more time. Can anyone confirm? Don't know if I like that.

Nevermind...didn't see the other thread.