Cornell lacrosse 2022

[Swampy]

Good game overall. The offense was efficient most of the time and sometimes looked pretty great when they found the open guys in the face of the goal. It was an opportunity to players to work together with first and second line midfields in the absence of Blake. Upward and onward!

Yes, but still having trouble on ground balls, which we must improve against stronger competition.

Watching Petrakis, I had the impression he won the majority of clamps, but when the ball rolled or bounced at a distance he wasn't quick enough to get to it first. Also, the most effective way to get a ground ball is to run though the ball while scooping it up, but there was too much raking and other slowness to the ball. Finally, Colgate wings seemed to see or know where the ball was, whereas Cornell wings were looking for it. OTOH, when Colgate won possession on the FO, Cornell's defense often put on a hard ride, causing the ball to turnover.

[Al DeFlorio]

Not getting much from the middies with Blake and Lombardi out.  Doesn't bode well.

[scoop85]

Not getting much from the middies with Blake and Lombardi out.  Doesn't bode well.

Agreed. Now they'll have a few days of practice to see who among guys like Wirtheim, Holmes, Sheehan, and Dalton might step up. Wirtheim seems to be getting more comfortable at midfield and I think he'll get lots of minutes. Holmes played with some verve yesterday in his first action, and scored a goal. Dalton, who apparently had been injured, finally got on the field and he's a big body who was well regarded coming out of high school in Canada.

[billhoward]

Cornell 7-1 at Dartmouth 4-3, the one Ivy League team unlikely to make the NCAA tournament. 1 pm game then Harvard at home next Saturday and at Syracuse Monday night.

[mike1960]

WHCU is not carrying the game right now.

[Ken711]

7:02 in the 1st Period
Dartmouth 3 Cornell 1

[Al DeFlorio]

Shots 11-3 Dartmouth; saves 3-0 Dartmouth: dreadful start.

[scoop85]

Shots 11-3 Dartmouth; saves 3-0 Dartmouth: dreadful start.

None of the shortcomings we've seen of late seem to be improved, and Ierlan is off to a slow start to make things wors.

[Ken711]

Shots 11-3 Dartmouth; saves 3-0 Dartmouth: dreadful start.

Don't forget, only 1 for 5 on face-offs so far.

[Ken711]

4-1 Dartmouth in the 1st.  Losing face-offs is killing the team so far.

[scoop85]

Shots 11-3 Dartmouth; saves 3-0 Dartmouth: dreadful start.

Don't forget, only 1 for 5 on face-offs so far.

Now 1 for 7. I'm flabbergasted that we're at this point.

[mike1960]

Faceoffs are just bad right now. Dartmouth has made great passes to score. Credit to them so far on the offense.

[mike1960]

The Dartmouth goalie is not seeing them right now.

[Ken711]

Cornell closes trailing 4-3 still in the 1st.

[scoop85]

Cornell closes trailing 4-3 still in the 1st.

We're getting plenty of good looks when we have the ball. The problem is the lack of possessions resulting from the abysmal faceoff situation.