Lax: NCAA 1st round vs. Ohio State (pre-game)

Tom Pasniewski 98 · May 10, 2008, 05:59:25 PM

I'm only slightly more hopeful about Cornell's chances given UMBC's rally last week from 11-2 down.

Tom Pasniewski 98 · May 10, 2008, 06:01:28 PM

Of course UMBC had cut it to 11-4 by halftime last week.

Al DeFlorio · May 10, 2008, 06:02:56 PM

I don't think I can remember a worse half for Cornell lacrosse. No O, no D, no clearing,no goaltending, and I'm guessing Cornell's behind on faceoffs, too. Yikes.

Tom Pasniewski 98 · May 10, 2008, 06:04:58 PM

[quote Al DeFlorio]I don't think I can remember a worse half for Cornell lacrosse. No O, no D, no clearing,no goaltending, and I'm guessing Cornell's behind on faceoffs, too. Yikes.[/quote]

Given Al's vast historical knowledge, that is unfortunately saying a lot right there.

scoop85 · May 10, 2008, 06:11:36 PM

So, time to vent. I got a bad feeling when Schroder scored to open the game, and the nausea has only increased. Hard to imagine a worse performance. It looks like we are in quicksand as OSU blows by our D, and we are getting absolutely no open looks on O. The comparative speeds of the two teams is stunning. We are losing the vast majority of ground balls. And the goaltending (can the kid from Ithaca High get his diploma a year early?)

Today's game really brings to mind how remarkable our in-close passing was last year; even though we've had a pretty good season (exceeding many expectations), I have never seen us with anbywhere near the crisp passing from 2007. All half it seemed that our offensive strategy was to simply try to bull our way from behind the net; the few passes made off the slide were innefective. How the heck did we score 20 on Denver and 15 on Hobart (and how did OSU only get 2 against Notre Dame)?

Let's see how they come out the second half.

Tom Pasniewski 98 · May 10, 2008, 06:17:50 PM

Gametracker has us up 8-6 in faceoffs at the half and tied in groundballs - the other stats are horrible.

Trotsky · May 10, 2008, 06:18:57 PM

12-2.

Trotsky · May 10, 2008, 06:20:30 PM

12-3.

Trotsky · May 10, 2008, 06:51:49 PM

14-5, time running out (9 mins to go).

Trotsky · May 10, 2008, 07:03:06 PM

15-6, under 3 mins to go.

Trotsky · May 10, 2008, 07:03:58 PM

15-7, in a last bid to make it respectable, 2:01 to go.

Trotsky · May 10, 2008, 07:07:34 PM

15-7 final, Cornell season ends.

David Harding · May 11, 2008, 05:30:36 PM

The New York Times started a pre-tournament blog by Danny Nathan, but it seems to have only lasted a day.

As sample, from right after the selection show:

Quote from: Danny Nathan blog10:05 p.m. — Interview with the Ithaca Journal's Brian Delaney. I respond with cookie cutter non-controversial answers as our team has been brilliantly trained to do by our fantastic sports information director, Julie Greco. I blatantly lie to Delaney, telling him that I wasn't thinking about the possibility of playing Duke in the second round, the team that ended our road to the championship in the Final Four last season. Revenge would be sweet, but truth be told, I couldn't be more focused on playing a dangerous Ohio State team. Our upperclassmen learned a hard lesson in 2006 when we looked past UMass and lost at home in the first round. When playing a high-caliber team like Ohio State, the moment you lose focus is the moment you get upset on your home field.