Cornell-Yale lax W12-10

[billhoward]

Free video from Yale. Thank you, Yale Corporation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7cI0FDx5Ic

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Cornell  2  4  3  3  - 12
Yale     3  3  0  4  - 10


First period: Pep band thoughtfully makes a sidetrip from Quinnipiac. Yale goes up 1-0 in the first minute, Cornell ties up 3:00 in. Yale 2-1 halfway through period on EMO. Cornell ties on a shot by Bucksick (Yale announcer's pronunciation of Buczek) 11:00 in. Yale is definitely serious competition. We are not dominating faceoffs, Yale attack making some decent moves, Cornell does not seem to have found its groove on attack. Yale goes up 3-2 on a wraparound a few seconds later. Sloppy passing and ball handling by Cornell on attack, Yale scores off turnover, waved off by crease violation (phew). Panell to Mock, little flip feed,  hits the post last 45 seconds. Cornell goes man up with :09 left, holds ball to maintain possession. End of quarter, Yale 3-2.

Second period: Donovan makes it 3-3 on EMO shot. Peter Johnson pulls down Pannell en route to net, 30 second penalty. English goes solo for 4-3 lead 3:00 in. Cornell controls, loses, controls, loses faceoff, Yale goes on a nice 1-1 break to tie at 4. Pretty lax, too bad it wasn't us scoring. Pannell to Donovan waved off, crease violation, would have tied at 5. Great turnaround shot by Pannell ties game at 5 with 5:00 to play. Yale camerawork having trouble following the play several times. Yale catches Iles, sorry, Fiore away from the net, scores easily, up 6-5. Noble strips the ball with :30 to play, Pannell takes a turnaround jumpshot (not pretty) to tie at 6-6. Pannell hitting stride? End of quarter, 6-6.

Third period: Cornell scores 2 straight (3 counting last of period 2) in first 6 mins to go up 8-6. Now 9-6, coming back from a video freeze, sans audio. Some Yale turnovers. Game not in Cornell's firm grasp yet but Yale must wonder if it's slipping. End of period wiht no Yale goals: Cornell 9, Yale 6.

Fourth period: Yale breaks the drought, 9-7 with 12:18 to play. Then takes the faceff, runs down, and shoots wide, Phew. Ruh-roh, down to 1 goal margin with 11:21 left. Cornell goes back up by 2 7:00 in. Fiore makes a couple good saves. Yale closes to one, 10-9. Now 12-10 1:32 to play. Yale appears to have drawn an 1:00 penalty. End of game: Cornell 12, Yale 10.

Steve Mock finishes with 6 goals (on 10 shots): Cornell goals 1, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12. Rob Pannell was 2-3-5. We got walloped on faceoffs, winning 3x25, but Yale failed on 6 of 20 clears, we messed up only 3 of 17, and Yale had 19 turnovers to Cornell's 10. That kind of (?) made up for our mediocre faceoff showing. Yale won ground balls 30-28 but if that includes faceoff GBs (it should), then we dominated otherwise.

Game box score: http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-lacros/2012-13/boxscores/20130316_vqx7.xml
Cornell's take on the Cornell game: http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2013/3/16/MLAX_0316135530.aspx

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell has to get Pannell back behind the net and Lintner in replacing Donovan.

[phillysportsfan]

too many turnovers, we keep failing to get clears

[Al DeFlorio]

Pannell is much more effective feeding when he's behind the net, and Donovan seems to do nothing but dance around and then throw the ball to either Pannell or Mock.  Except when he gets the ball knocked out of his stick.

[billhoward]

Yale announcers talking about "small victories": Pannell held scoreless by D Peter Johnson in Q1

[billhoward]

Pannell is much more effective feeding when he's behind the net, and Donovan seems to do nothing but dance around and then throw the ball to either Pannell or Mock.  Except when he gets the ball knocked out of his stick.

Mock responds to concerns, nails the EMO shot to tie it at 3

[billhoward]

Maybe the coaching sees something in the matchup vs. Yale and its defender that works with Pannell out front.

[billhoward]

Yale color guy sounds a little like Howie Borkan - voice not knowledge

[Al DeFlorio]

Maybe the coaching sees something in the matchup vs. Yale and its defender that works with Pannell out front.

Hasn't worked here and didn't work against Virginia.

[mountainred]

Doug is getting killed on the x -- Yale has won 11 of 13, though Noble/Keith have forced a couple of turnovers.

[ugarte]

Noble strips the ball with :30 to play, Pannell takes a turnaround jumpshot (not pretty) to tie at 6-6. Pannell hitting stride? End of quarter, 6-6.

Looked pretty to me. Came from behind the net, shook his defender hard, turned and fired a laser top shelf over the goalie's left shoulder.

[Al DeFlorio]

emo sucking big-time

[billhoward]

Yale announcers calling the multiple penalties on Pannell defenders as weak. As opposed to what happens when a good defender is outmatched by a great attacker.

[ugarte]

8th goal was pretty. 9th was pretty soft. Good defense on the Yale EMO. Cornell might be pulling away but I'm not ready to start counting chickens. Also, someone unplugged the Yale audio.

[billhoward]

"The scoreboard tells the story" which is a 1-1 tie (video scoreboard) after 2, announcers say. Actually, it's 2-1 Cornell women over Mercyhurst.