Lacrosse April 2012

[Redscore]

Unbelievable!  What a way to mess things up.

[BearLover]

Brown wins it 10-9 with a goal in last five seconds.  Now it all depends on winning the Ivy tournament.

Cornell is out if they don't win the Ivy Tourney?

[Redscore]

I'm no expert but I would guess so.  Another bad outcome for us today when Georgetown beat Syracuse.  UVA losing yesterday also sucked for us.  If I was the committee, I couldn't point to a single impressive win on Cornell's resume and I could make the case that we lost to the only decent team we played, and that team is no longer the world beater they looked like a couple of weeks ago.  Despite all that, it felt well and good as long as our only loss was to a pretty good UVA team, but UVA's back to back losses hurt, and our record got beat up very badly today.  I think we are still a damn good team and so lets just get the AQ.  Go Red!!! He says weakly..

[Johnny 5]

I'm no expert but I would guess so.  Another bad outcome for us today when Georgetown beat Syracuse.  UVA losing yesterday also sucked for us.  If I was the committee, I couldn't point to a single impressive win on Cornell's resume and I could make the case that we lost to the only decent team we played, and that team is no longer the world beater they looked like a couple of weeks ago.  Despite all that, it felt well and good as long as our only loss was to a pretty good UVA team, but UVA's back to back losses hurt, and our record got beat up very badly today.  I think we are still a damn good team and so lets just get the AQ.  Go Red!!! He says weakly..

Everyone needs to pray to the Lax Gods that #3 feels really healthy next weekend!

::help::

[billhoward]

Winner of next Saturday's Cornell at Princeton game (7 pm) hosts the tournament, no other possibilities per Cornell or the standings (below): http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2012/4/21/MLAX_0421121100.aspx Cornell must win to share Ivy title else it's Princeton's. Either way, no Cornell-Princeton first-round matchup in the Ivy tournament.

Ivy standings going into final week  http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/mlax/2011-12/standings

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1. Princeton .... 5-0
2. Cornell ...... 4-1
3. Yale ......... 3-2
4. Brown ........ 2-3
5. Harvard ...... 2-3
6. Dartmouth .... 1-4
7. Penn ......... 1-5 (Ivy season finished)

Next week Harvard at Yale (pick 'em) 2 pm and Dartmouth at Brown (Brown) 3pm. Harvard and Yale have beaten Brown in OT. Princeton has won every Ivy game by 7 or more except a 5OT 10-9 OT win at Yale.

[kingpin248]

Winner of next Saturday's Cornell at Princeton game (7 pm) hosts the tournament, no other possibilities per Cornell or the standings (below): http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2012/4/21/MLAX_0421121100.aspx Cornell must win to share Ivy title else it's Princeton's. Either way, no Cornell-Princeton first-round matchup in the Ivy tournament.

Ivy standings going into final week  http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/mlax/2011-12/standings

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1. Princeton .... 5-0
2. Cornell ...... 4-1
3. Yale ......... 3-2
4. Brown ........ 2-3
5. Harvard ...... 2-3
6. Dartmouth .... 1-4
7. Penn ......... 1-5 (Ivy season finished)

Next week Harvard at Yale (pick 'em) 2 pm and Dartmouth at Brown (Brown) 3pm. Harvard and Yale have beaten Brown in OT. Princeton has won every Ivy game by 7 or more except a 5OT 10-9 OT win at Yale.

Possibilities for the two lower seeds in the tournament:
If Harvard wins, they're the 3 seed and Yale is the 4.
Yale and Dartmouth win, Yale is the 3 and Harvard is the 4.
If Yale and Brown win, Yale is the 3 and Brown is the 4.

[billhoward]

Pannell is not the only thing missing from college lacrosse this season. No Lax Swami either http://www.laxswami.com/. Note on site says to check back April 14. Probably unrelated to Navy being 6-6 and not even able to make the top four for the Patriot League playoffs.

[Cornell95]

I think that date has been up since last Spring actually

[billhoward]

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Ivy standings going into Saturday night
1. Princeton .... 5-0
2. Cornell ...... 4-1
3. Yale ......... 4-2 def. Harvard 10-8
4. Brown ........ 2-3 leading Dartmouth 8-5 at the half
5. Harvard ...... 2-4
6. Dartmouth .... 1-4
7. Penn ......... 1-5 lost Friday to Virginia 10-8


Princeton or Cornell hosts the Ivy tournament, Yale is the 3-seed, Brown is the 4-seed if it beats Dartmouth, else it's Harvard. (Edit add: Brown wins 10-8.)

Loyola #1 and previously unbeaten, loses 10-9 to Hopkins in OT. UMass #2 clobbered Delaware 17-6.

[scoop85]

12-7 PU after 3. Not looking very good right now.

[billhoward]

Very good job by Princeton against Cornell. I still like Cornell's chances next week in the tournament. (Cornell-Yale 5 pm, Brown-Princeton 8 pm Friday; title game Sunday 12 noon.) Freshman Matt Donovan launched a cannon from outside that cut it to 11-7 and then, IIRC, Cornell twice turned the ball over, then Princeton scored, and the game swung from what could have been a manageable 3-goal deficit to 5. Another game where we have trouble scoring from the inside without Pannell feeding.

[Ivyman]

You're right, C95. Swami may be back next spring, when he may get a "Good Behavior" release from his unfortunate....detention.  And if Wombat can be pried away from his defense dept duties and his monkey.  You still can get access to the classic prose and great insights by adding some code to the url.  For example: to get here Why does God hate Cornell so much?

you use "www.laxswami.com/tw10-01"

just add the characters after the backslash: twxx-yy where xx is the last two digits of the year you want and yy is the issue number, in this case the first of the year.  You're welcome.::banana::::banana::::banana::