Cornell lacrosse 2017

[billhoward]

big win by cornell
down 5-2 and then runs it out 10-2 to go up 12-7 late
late game issues with the penalties let harvard score at the end
would love that penn game finish back now

Much improved, especially on the defensive end. You're right that Penn game may really come back to bite us for the Ivy tournament. But we still have a reasonable chance, which did not look likely a few weeks ago.

Cornell is Penn's only win so far.

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Yale       4-0
Princeton  2-1
Brown      2-1
Cornell    2-2
Harvard    1-2
Penn       1-3
Dartmouth  0-3

Princeton plays @Dartmouth, Harvard, Cornell
Brown plays Yale, Cornell, @Dartmouth
Cornell plays @Brown, Princeton
Harvard plays Penn, @Princeton, Yale

It would be a near-miracle for Dartmouth to win a game against anyone except Penn. Losses to Harvard by 7, Cornell by 9, Yale by 7.
Brown beat Harvard 13-8, Penn 11-8, lost at Princeton 21-11.

[CU77]

If we can beat Brown, and Harvard beats Penn, we will most likely make the ILT.

[Johnny 5]

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Big game tomorrow night!

::cheer::

[scoop85]

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Big game tonight!

::cheer::

Actually tomorrow - but point well taken

[Johnny 5]

Thank you.
Doesn't pay to hurry.

::bang::

[Trotsky]

Doesn't pay to hurry.

::bang::

twss

[billhoward]

Just in time for Tuesday's game: Syracuse climbs from 2 to 1 in the Media Poll. http://www.insidelacrosse.com/league/di/polls/17 (Former #1 Penn State fell 15-11 to now #3 Maryland and dropped to #7).

Syracuse is #2 in the USILA poll. http://www.insidelacrosse.com/league/usila/polls/17/8

We are not, as yet, up into also-receiving-votes territory. Future opponents Lehigh and Brown are also unranked. Princetton is 14/13 in the coaches and media polls.

Cornell women are 8/8 in the coaches and media polls. http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/lacrosse-women/d1/iwlca-coaches Just behind Princeton.

[Johnny 5]

O.K,....if we don't get blown out I will definitely go to church Easter Sunday and give thanks.
Should (by some miracle) we win, I'll donate all my worldly possessions to the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Posthumously, of course.

::stupid::

[upprdeck]

syracuse has played a bunch of 1 goal games and let teams hang around. they are pretty good but also pretty easy to see them sitting around .500 right now with very little change in the games.

[MattShaf]

SU with three daggers to end an otherwise close first half. The CU shot which hit the pipe but led to a SU goal was vintage SU v CU. Plus the final goal of the half with 0.1 seconds left is just unexcusable.
Going to be very hard for Cornell to comeback since the Big Red only went 3-12 at the faceoff X in the first half and SU has been a better second half team much of the year.

[Al DeFlorio]

SU with three daggers to end an otherwise close first half. The CU shot which hit the pipe but led to a SU goal was vintage SU v CU. Plus the final goal of the half with 0.1 seconds left is just unexcusable.
Going to be very hard for Cornell to comeback since the Big Red only went 3-12 at the faceoff X in the first half and SU has been a better second half team much of the year.

I'm not sure why you say that goal was "unexcusable" [sic].  The defensive player was all over him and the Syracuse kid pulled off an amazing shot just in the nick of time.  

The shot that hit the crossbar and rebounded three-quarters of the field was the killer.

[Johnny 5]

I'm afraid that the faceoff X will prove to be the killer.
It is now a rout.

::panic::

[Johnny 5]

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t147/Coelacanth64/IMG_3128.jpg

::help::

[billhoward]

We play Lehigh this weekend, Princeton in two weeks. Tuesday unranked Lehigh at home built up a 10-1 lead on Princeton and rolled to a 15-10 victory. That seems to improve our odds of beating Princeton and reduce the odds of beating Lehigh.

[CU77]

Of course, beating Princeton is much more important. Princeton has been very streaky, but I would put them as favorites over Cornell, especially if the game has ILT implications for them. In between is Brown on the road, also a streaky team, lost to Princeton by a bunch.

If Cornell can beat both Brown and Princeton, they still have an outside shot at the #1 seed in the ILT. We need Brown to beat Yale, and Harvard to beat Penn, this weekend (and Princeton to beat Dartmouth, but that's almost certain) for this scenario to remain alive.