Cornell lacrosse 2019

[upprdeck]

tough schedule to play 3 games in 7 days and almost do it 2 weeks in a row with 3 of them on the road

[TimV]

tough schedule to play 3 games in 7 days and almost do it 2 weeks in a row with 3 of them on the road

Based on the way Towson looked smashing Hopkins, agree that a two day turnaround after facing a tough Penn State team will be a challenge.  Still, it's the same deal on championship weekend with tougher opponents.  And those two followed by Natty Champ Yale are actually three games in 9 days.  Harvard-Syracuse-Notre Dame is also 9 days but less travel. If all goes well we get another three games in nine days with the Princeton-Ivy semifinals-Ivy finals, although that, at least, starts with a home game.

Weird schedule this year.

[CU77]

Report on yesterday's scrimmages against Drexel and Binghamton in Philly:

Attended both scrims yesterday. Coooooooold and windy. While I don't have a final score for either, Cornell dominated Drexel from start to finish in the first game, and, well, got dominated in the second (playing only backups and young guys). McCulloch did not play with what I was told a shoulder injury but should be back for the Hobart game. Paul took the draws, Bullen manned the cage. No lock-off of on Teat (as expected, though it would have been nice to see how they handle it). Scoring was pretty spread out, but the shot of the day was an absolute rocket from Fletcher that nicely pinged the top bar. If he can be accurate with his shot he will be one of the best middie's in the country. As far as looking forward to Hobart, it appears this is the offensive depth chart:

A1: Teat, Petterson, Piatelli
A2: Rupp, Coyle, Texeira, Lockhart

M1: McCulloch, Fletcher, Donville
M2: Licciardi, Ward, Telesco
M3: Wolf, Lombardi, Duggan

Karey, Doria, Wallace and Sal were the poles. Defense I thought looked fantastic for this early in the year and battled off a super physical Drexel team. Although they didn't get much run because it seemed Cornell had the ball for about 20 minutes straight at one point.

All in all, should be an awesome year if that scrimmage is any indicator.

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[ugarte]

Still, it's the same deal on championship weekend with tougher opponents.

well, sure, but unless your regular season opponent has the same turnaround, it's not like the tournament

[CU77]

This report was furnished to me by an attendee to yesterday's scrimmages:

The weather was brutal, temperature about 30 with a continuous 15-20 mph crosswind.  Wind chill in the high teens. Players wore uniforms with lower legs exposed.  Not sure if a fair evaluation can be given under such adverse conditions, but suffice to say the players deserve kudos for their courage - they played as if ignoring the weather.  The first scrimmage was against Drexel.  Caelahn Bullen started in goal and played 3 quarters. His save % was about 50%. Cornell, playing first line players led 9-2 at the half.  The final score was Cornell 14, Drexel 10.  Jeff Teat had 4 assists & 1 goal.  I'm sure the Big Red coaches were disappointed that Drexel did not try to lock off Jeff.  No doubt, they would have liked to work on whatever solutions they think might work.  Clarke Petterson had 2 goals as did Colton Rupp. John Piatelli had 3.  Cooper Telesco looked great, scoring the 9th goal and Connor Fletcher scored on a rocket.  Zach Ward and Joe Wolf had 1 each and Jonathan Donville chipped in 2.    Great scoring distribution. The starting defense looked pretty good, holding Drexel's starters to 2 goals in the first half.  As subs sprinkled in in the 2nd half, Drexel closed the gap, outscoring Cornell 8-5.  Chayse Ierlan replaced Bullen in the 4th quarter and saved about 50% as well.

Chayse started the second scrimmage against Binghamton and played a half. He was relieved by Parker Henderer for the 2nd half.  Both looked effective, again saving about half the shots.  Would have liked to see Teddy Strzetelski between the pipes but he did not play.  Colton Rupp played most of the second scrimmage, one of the few top line players to do so.  He scored 4 goals.  Binghamton led at the half 6-4 - it was 3-0 before Cornell first scored.  The Big Red finally caught up late in the 4th quarter 8-8 and with about a minute left, JJ Lombardi scored to win the scrimmage 9-8.  There was a clock at the field for the first scrimmage but not for the 2nd scrimmage that was played on a different field.

Faceoffs: Paul Rasimowicz and Tim Graham (from Australia) shared faceoff duties against Drexel.  Against Binghamton, Graham shared duties with Hunter Hughes (the 27 year old Marine).  I don't think Paul took any faceoffs in the second scrimmage.  The faceoff unit needs work and they have 2 weeks to get ready for Hobart.

Time Clock:  It did not appear the 80 second time clock had a significant impact on play.  I only recall 2 times when a team lost possession on a clock violation. A shot determined by the refs to be on cage resulted in another 80 seconds being awarded.  If yesterday's action was any indication, if the Rules Committee wanted the time clock to change something, it didn't.

Overall perception: Cornell has two solid attack lines and two solid midfield lines. The defensive middies did OK. Kason Tarbell looked good & his leadership as a 5th year Senior will be helpful.  Colton Rupp's game has improved - rather than sniping from a fixed position, most of his goals were closer in with dodging.  Jake McCulloch didn't play but I understand he is OK and ready to go.  Joe Wolf looks much improved and will contribute.  The Big Red has two solid goalies in Bullen & Ierlan. Fleet Wallace, Brandon Salvatore, Harrison Bardwell & Dom Doria did well.  Big shoes to fill with Jake Pulver's graduation but they did well.

With all the tall trees being chopped down, Duke, Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, the Big Red needs to stay down on the farm, ignore preseason rankings and play as if they are ranked 30th as they were at the beginning of 2018.  Stay hungry BIG RED! GBR!

[mike1960]

Someone has probably already mentioned this, but every game except the two for the Crown Lacrosse Classic will be televised this year one one of the various ESPN channels. ESPN+ has most of them, but it's only about 5 dollars a month. It's going to be a very fun year for those of us living far from Ithaca.

[djk26]

Did anyone watch episode 1 of "The Season" (featuring Cornell's men's team and Florida's women's team) last night (2/14) on ESPNU?  I didn't see it so I'm wondering if it was any good--according to cornellbigred.com:

The episode will also be available on at www.TheSeason2019.com beginning on Monday, Feb. 18.

Does anyone know if that is a paid subscription?  I see that "The Season" episodes from 2018 are on YouTube, but I don't know how long that takes.

[upprdeck]

for a huge company the presentation layer of the watchespn app is just awful.   its so hard/slow/painful to find things

[upprdeck]

the website for the season has no real info either..  the first episode is being replayed at 12:30 today on espnu

[upprdeck]

watched the Season tonight.. Did a good job of trying to show the commitment the team has to hard work.. some really nice drone shots of campus and the city.  featured Coach, Teat, and the Aussie really well.

about half and half with the Florida team and how their SRs want to win a title.

very watchable.

Cornell Men practicing in snow and Florida "Women" in sun was a nice contrast.

[upprdeck]

colgate handled Bingo pretty easily
yale with a huge comeback to tie Vill and go to OT and Loses
Brown drilled Quin

[CU77]

And Penn takes Maryland to OT and loses. Harvard loses to UNC. Princeton crushes Monmouth, Dartmouth crushed by BU.

Why is Cornell the only Ivy not playing this week??

[Swampy]

And Penn takes Maryland to OT and loses. Harvard loses to UNC. Princeton crushes Monmouth, Dartmouth crushed by BU.

Why is Cornell the only Ivy not playing this week??

Because Ithaca is awfully cold in February?

[CU77]

Harvard played in North Carolina.

[Swampy]

OK. Here's a more serious (guess at an) answer.

Milliman has put together an ambitious schedule, with several short turnarounds between games against some very good teams. Here I've grouped games separated by less than a week apart and boldfaced those with 2 days separation and italicized those with 3. The numbers are rankings in the Inside Lacrosse preseason poll.

F 2/22: @ Hobart
Su 2/24: Lehigh
Sa 3/2: Albany 14
F 3/8: Penn State (in Charlotte) 9
Su 3/10: Towson (in Charlotte) 7*#
Sa 3/16: @Yale 1
T 3/19: St. Bonaventure
Sa 3/23: Penn#

Sa 3/30: Dartmouth

Sa 4/6: @Harvard
T 4/9: @Syracuse 10
Su 4/14: @Notre Dame 11
Sa 4/20: @Brown

Sa 4/27: Princeton

Now look at this tournament, and you'll see a remarkable resemblance to the schedule Coach Milliman wants our boys to get used to. What do you suppose he has in mind?

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*Towson was unranked preseason but jumped to 7 after crushing JHU Week 1.
#Both Penn & Towson received preseason votes but did not make top 20.