Cornell lacrosse 2022

[mike1960]

I love the drive down the alley. I know a lot of people think it's predictable but it puts a lot of stress on the defense. The ball will draw a double and so someone should be open somewhere. If it doesn't, the ballcarrier will have a decent shot, as Coyle did there.

[Al DeFlorio]

I love the drive down the alley. I know a lot of people think it's predictable but it puts a lot of stress on the defense. The ball will draw a double and so someone should be open somewhere. If it doesn't, the ballcarrier will have a decent shot, as Coyle did there.

Agree.  And somehow take advantage of the double.

[mike1960]

Gavin Adler is a beast.

[scoop85]

Gavin Adler is a beast.

A fantastic player. Davis is having a terrific game too.

Nice to have this thread to avoid the childish banter right now on our Fanlax thread.

[Al DeFlorio]

Can't pick up a ground ball.  Now a fumbled clear.  If somehow we pull this out , it will be... I don't know what. Another shot clock lost possession.

[mike1960]

Missing by inches on our shots.

[mike1960]

Missing the cage.

[Al DeFlorio]

Wasting possessions with ill-advised passes.

[Al DeFlorio]

Princeton, meanwhile, buried Brown in Providence.

[mike1960]

The loss of Aiden Blake was very apparent today. The offense ran out of ideas on a lot of possessions. It certainly missed Blake's cannon from outside. They'll need to figure something out for Harvard and then Syracuse. We also need to shoot better. As the old saying goes, if you don't shoot it in the square, it won't go in.

The defense played just great. Beautiful slides and recoveries all day. The Dartmouth ballcarriers saw hard double-teams anytime they had a notion to move toward the goal.

Enough has been said about the FOGO position. I'll just leave it there. On second thought, I will add that Petrakis came up huge at the end of the game. Great job there!

[CU2007]

Are any of the important injured players expected back this season?

[rss77]

Credit also the Dartmouth goalie-by stats the top Goalie in the Ivies.  He made some incredible stops and the Dartmouth defense was not allowing too much interior passing.  Yes the Red to miss Blake and Lombardi but one must readapt and thinking the 2nd midfield line is showing some progress with Wolf, Wirtheim, and Sheehan (Good to see two Central New Yorkers).  Adler is incredible.

[RichH]

5-5 game now, Cornell 3 for 11 on face-offs.

This was the last time the score or FO stats were mentioned. I couldn't even tell who won. Lax eLF is maddening in this regard — we'll never will be accused of giving out too much detail to those casual thread-readers. (Except for when billhoward does his good recaps.)

Final score was 8-7 Cornell, and CU ended the day 11 for 18 on faceoffs according to the Athletics write-up.

[dag14]

I didn't read the Athletics writeup but the box score reports Cornell won 7 of 18 faceoffs and Dartmouth was 11 of 18.

[Al DeFlorio]

I didn't read the Athletics writeup but the box score reports Cornell won 7 of 18 faceoffs and Dartmouth was 11 of 18.

This is correct.  At one point D had won 7 of 8.