Cornell lacrosse 2014

[billhoward]

The skinny: The Big Red has some practice at replacing Rob Pannell, and the result in 2012 when he went down with a season-ending injury was a missed NCAA tournament.

That has to be on the table again in 2014, as there's no easy way to replace the NCAA's career scoring leader — not to mention a 60-goal crease attackman (Steve Mock), a nearly 30-goal midfielder (Max Van Bourgondien), a first-team All-America defenseman (Jason Noble), a turnover-creating pole who can spark transition (Thomas Keith), a three-year starter at goalie (A.J. Fiore) and 10 other seniors as well.

After an uneven second half of the 2012 season, the Big Red reasserted itself as a relentless, ferocious and prideful bunch this year, especially after being unseeded at the start of the postseason. Playing Cornell will not be a pleasant experience next year, but it won't have the presence of the best player in the country to make the 60 minutes quite so excruciating for foes. A step back is almost inevitable; it's just a matter of how substantial it is.

http://www.laxmagazine.com/college_men/DI/2012-13/news/053013_way_too_early_rankings_for_2014_mens_division_i_nos_11-15 Lacrosse magazine rates Cornell #13 in 2014. Each team is summarized by senior starts lost (100 of 180 for Cornell, 56%) and scoring departed (255 of 401 points, 64%).

It rates Princeton No. 9, Yale No. 6. It's doing the top 20 in groups of five, hasn't released 1-5 yet.

[jeff '84]

http://www.msgvarsity.com/optimum/RetrievePremiumContent?id=1PqSE2WAU2fRZOFs0BjMyPqBl5lor9jeN9UKDL%2BmXlw%3D

2013 All Tri-state boys lacrosse first team: Dan Nemirov.


FIRST TEAM
GOALIE
DAN NEMIROV
Ward Melville, Long Island, 5-7, 170 (committed to Cornell)
The Cornell-bound keeper was rock-solid between the pipes as Ward Melville allowed double-digit goals just once all year en route to a 22-0 season and a NYS Class A title.

[billhoward]

"He applied on his own to Cornell, he got in. [Nemirov] is going to Cornell as a preferred walk-on." Language constantly evolves.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Strunk and White are rolling over.

[rss77]

How many keepers are they going to have next season?

[margolism]

Dan Nemirov's Ward-Melville finishes 22-0 and ranked #1 in the country.

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I believe Cornell has had a history of attracting stellar-performing late bloomers.  Some guy named Rob?

[billhoward]

Dan Nemirov's Ward-Melville finishes 22-0 and ranked #1 in the country.
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I believe Cornell has had a history of attracting stellar-performing late bloomers.  Some guy named Rob?

Thanks. That is useful context. Ward-Melville beat West Genesee 16-4, 15X state champ, for the NYS Class A title.

[margolism]

Was trying to find his stats for the season, but to no avail thus far.  (Then again, I didn't try all that hard.)

[TimV]

How many keepers are they going to have next season?

Looks to me like there's four: [list=1]

• Joyce, Jr from Landon HS
• Donville, So Hill School
• Knight, fr, Boys Latin
• Nemirov, fr, Ward Melville

Doesn't take into account a fifth, West, if he decides to return.  All sound like potential stars, all from powerhouse programs. Sounds like too many to me.  Maybe somebody is leaving.

Also, we have a great defense recruit, Scott D'Antonio from Garden City.  Big kid who plays physical as shown in this clip, Number 31 in white.  Yeah, he got flagged for it, but I thought it was a good hit.  Watch the second flag come down on the goaltender, who also mugs a guy. That hit deserved the flag.

This link takes you to a page of highlights, mostly football- scroll down to the bottom and click on the icon for "2011-12 lacrosse season."

 [video]http://www.hudl.com/athlete/1332394/#highlights/10042324[/video]

[Jim Hyla]

Lacrosse is well represented in Cornell's selections for Academic All-Ivy.

[TimV]

3 from Men's lacrosse.  Rest of the league had a TOTAL of 3: one each from Penn, H and Y.

Zero Hockey players. I'm shocked.

[ursusminor]

3 from Men's lacrosse.  Rest of the league had a TOTAL of 3: one each from Penn, H and Y.

Zero Hockey players. I'm shocked.

It isn't clear to me at all why I bothered to look at the list, but a good reason that no hockey players were included is that it is the Spring Academic All-Ivy list. :-D

[onetime]

the single year highest scoring combo in NCAA history: 1974: Trenz 6.5 ppg, French 6.71 ppg; and highest goals ppg

[jtn27]

I haven't been able to confirm this, but I heard a rumor that the 2014 Cornell-Princeton lacrosse game will be held at Bethpage High School on Long Island as part of the 4th annual "Battle of Bethpage." The mother of a friend of mine works for BHS in an administrative capacity and she tends to hear about events held at the school before they're officially announced, so that's how I found out. The 2013 version was St. Johns vs. Georgetown. If this is true, it's a huge step down from playing at MetLife Stadium (although I'm not complaining because I can walk to the game from home). Now that I think of it, she didn't specify whether it was the men's team or the women's team and it would make more sense for it to be a women's game. Last year, at least, they had two games, one for each gender.

[billhoward]

the single year highest scoring combo in NCAA history: 1974: Trenz 6.5 ppg, French 6.71 ppg; and highest goals ppg

Would've been even higher as a trio: Freshmen were still a few years from being eligible in the Ivies. Otherwise the third attackman would have been Eamon McEneaney, who won the Turnbull Award (best attackman) the next year as a sophomore, so he would have been respectable even as a sophomore. McEneaney is sixth all-time in NCAA assists.