Cornell lacrosse 2025

[CU77]

the one non contact injury is a bummer

Who is that?

[mike1960]

the one non contact injury is a bummer

Who is that?

Alex Holmes, senior, 2nd line middie. He pulled up from a leg injury and crumbled to the ground, stick and ball flying out of his hand. He was helped off and couldn't put weight on one leg. I fear the worst.

[ugarte]

... Rayhill ...

i know i could look this up but... related to Jimmy?

[mike1960]

I thought Denver was a powerhouse.  What happened to them?

It was a Red freight train.

[mike1960]

... Rayhill ...

i know i could look this up but... related to Jimmy?

Brothers.

[scoop85]

... Rayhill ...

i know i could look this up but... related to Jimmy?

Brother

[CU77]

the one non contact injury is a bummer

Who is that?

Alex Holmes, senior, 2nd line middie. He pulled up from a leg injury and crumbled to the ground, stick and ball flying out of his hand. He was helped off and couldn't put weight on one leg. I fear the worst.

Ouch, sorry to hear it.

[mike1960]

Harvard beat Syracuse 15-14 in a thriller.

[Iceberg]

I thought Denver was a powerhouse.  What happened to them?

No help from the refs this time

[dag14]

CJ beat Denver this year -- Kirst 6 Denver 5.  Looking at the stats he was 6 for 6 -- every shot was a goal!  How often does that happen with a player who scores multiple goals?

[mike1960]

CJ beat Denver this year -- Kirst 6 Denver 5.  Looking at the stats he was 6 for 6 -- every shot was a goal!  How often does that happen with a player who scores multiple goals?

Keeping Denver to 5 goals is very impressive. I notice we brought the double almost every time the ballcarrier was near the 5x5. We weren't going to get beat there. Lots of sticks on the shooting gloves/arms and some good trail checks. Very well done.

I don't know if the two long pole defensive mistakes that led to goals were player mistakes. If the two long poles were hot, then I think it's a coaching mistake to double from the topside. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[billhoward]

It felt really cold when we finally got to the start of the Denver game, a half-hour late or a half-hour early, take your pick on the orignal noon or modified 11 am start time. Temps got to the mid-30s in the second half and it seems warmer when you're putting together a lacrosse clinic and a beatdown on the school the kept us from the Frozen Four.

Senior CJ Kirst was amazing. He's so good we should start panicking about the 2026 season. (#TheCornellWay) The defense esp. goalie Wyatt Knust was really good. Knust's save percentage (13x18) was 72%.  I'm not sure how much statistics are meaningful here when it's 5-1 and 10-1 after the first two quarters.

I thought last week's opener and the 18-10 winning margin at Lehigh was okay-to-good, not great against a team with 2 games already played (Lehigh lost 9-8 to Richmond today; we play at Richmond Sunday March 2). Cornell against Denver was a level of performance that makes us a possible to be thought of as a final four team. I suspect teams that had a stop-Jeff-Teat defense will try to think of something to slow down Kirst. It's got to be a different defense: Teat was 5-foot-7; Kirst is 6-foot-2 and 210 pounds, same as Ed Marinaro.  

Photos: CJ Kirst. 6G, 2A. Yowzah.
Cornell defense (in white) (yeah, it was confusing)
644 fans and a whole lot of snow:

[CU77]

Great pics, thanks!

[billhoward]

Polls 2/24/25 has Cornell 2nd (USILA / coaches) and 3rd (media)

USILA poll: [corrected]
1. Notre Dame
2. Maryland
3. Cornell
4. UNC
5. Duke

Media poll: https://www.insidelacrosse.com/league/di/polls/2025
1. ND
2. Maryland
3. Cornell
4. NC
5. Army

There seems to be considerably variance, such as Army 14th in the USILA poll and 5th in the coaches poll. I almost thought I was looking at one poll from 2025 and one from 2024

[ugarte]

3. Syracuse (3-2 record and the only first-place vote ND didn't get)

You should lose your voting privileges for giving a 2-loss team a first-place vote in February.