Lax Cornell 8 @ UNC 13 [final]]

[billhoward]

Game thread

First
UNC 1  Cor 0  Michael Burns U
UNC 2  Cor 0  
UNC 2  Cor 1  Finn (Doctor) 8:29 to play
UNC 3  Cor 1  Petracca 
UNC 4  Cor 1  Wagner 
UNC 5  Cor 1  [and Cornell takes TO]
Second
UNC 6  Cor 1  Bitter man-up 
UNC 6  Cor 2  Chris Finn (U) again
UNC 6  Cor 3  Seibald (U) from a long way out
UNC 6  Cor 4  Hurley (assisted) trickles in
UNC 7  Cor 4  Wagner (Driscoll) man up
Third 
UNC 7  Cor 5  Glynn off faceoff about 10 secs in
UNC 8  Cor 5  Driscoll (A)
UNC 9  Cor 5  
UNC 9  Cor 6  Hurley (Corbolotti)
UNC 10 Cor 6  Bitter 
Fourth 
UNC 11 Cor 6  Burns (Petracca)
UNC 12 Cor 6  Bitter (U)  
UNC 12 Cor 7  Glynn (U) plus penalty after the goal
UNC 13 Cor 7  MP Burns open net 3:01 left
UNC 13 Cor 8  Doctor triple man up :11 left

Pregame: 26 degrees in Ithaca, about 60 in Chapel Hill. UNC students in the stands at the game in shirt sleeves. Sheesh, how did I forget this basic fact when applying to college?

Didn't hear much sound when the band played "rocket's red glare ..." Maybe not many people drove down overnight after the Harvard game?

Awesome video feed. How come the Ivy League can't do this? [edit add:] widescreen video. Cool. And what's this thing - when a goal is scored, you can see it a second time. What's the technical term for that? "Instant replay?" Wonder if Cornell video knows this term.

[add] Attendance announced as a old-Lynah-like 3866.

[add] Game stats you might not believe from watching the game:

Shots, Cornell 51-34 (a bit hard to believe the margin given the outcome)
Saves, UNC Grant Zimmerman 15 (believable, and amazing)
Saves, Cornell Jake Myers 6 (12 GA in 51 minutes, plus Mat Martinez 1S, 1GA in 9 minutes relief) (believable - we didn't stop a lot)
Faceoffs, Cornell 13x24 (unbelievable if you watched the first half)

[Al DeFlorio]

Number of red hats in the crowd, however.

[TimV]

And he sounds fairly professional.

[Jacob '06]

[quote Al DeFlorio]Number of red hats in the crowd, however.[/quote]

Could hear a lot of cheering for the red during warmups too. I'm guessing its mostly the parents and they don't usually do the RED during the anthem.

[billhoward]

[quote TimV]And he sounds fairly professional.[/quote]

... and then he said, "15 minute quarters. Four of them make up a men's lacrosse game."

[Jacob '06]

1-0 UNC on a sloppy turnover on a clear. I don't think they really got settled on the D after that even though they had some time.

[Al DeFlorio]

Stupid shot by Calvert.

They are likely to kill us on face-offs.  Have to do something intelligent with each possession.

[Jacob '06]

And 0-2 at the X

[Jacob '06]

Chris Finn puts it away on a transition play with some good defense to force the turnover.

[ech32]

Lots of cheering for that goal! I think there's a pretty decent Cornell crowd.

[Al DeFlorio]

Too many mistakes so far.  Unnecessary penalty.

[Jacob '06]

Wow. Meyers is not playing well, the defense is not playing well, and we can't get the ball on offense b/c we can't win a faceoff.

[Al DeFlorio]

I think Tambroni's gotta put Seibald in on face-offs.  If nothing else, he can knock the little UNC shit on his ass.  Trailing by four and not able to win a face-off is about the worst possible scenario.

[billhoward]

So our game play vs. ACC teams is: Fall way behind, catch up in final minute, see who wins the final faceoff fo the game?

[Jacob '06]

Things start to look better when we can actually get possession of the ball.