Men's Lacrosse v Yale 3/28/26

[mike1960]

Great game by the Yale goalie. 20 saves and not many of them easy. He was the difference.

We had 32 shots on goal to their 24. Still, it felt like our offense was pretty one-dimensional and predictable. We moved the ball around with each player taking turns trying an iso until the clock wound down and we hurried a shot at the end (or turned it over). There wasn't a lot of movement off ball and very few cutters (if any). This kind of offense will work with a CJ Kirst to bail the team out, but not like today when only one of our guys has some success beating his guy one-on-one. I would like to see more movement, off ball screens, and more of a cutter offense to beat great goalies and tough defenses that we're going to face down the stretch.

Also, there are ways to get around the "locked off" attack. We can use v cuts, screens, or even shooting high and having Goldstein bring it in from the back line. We are a better team when the ball goes through X.

I'd say Andy Shay earned his pay this week.

[dag14]

I was unable to watch the game live and have not yet watched the archived version.  That being said, looking at the box score, we played pretty even with Yale in all categories but 2.  The first is faceoffs where we won about 2/3.  The other is goalie saves where we had 11 and they had 20 in a game where we outshot Yale 32-24.  I am a goalie parent so there is no way I am going to blame this statistic solely on poor play by Tully because the defense has responsibility for goals scored as well.

If we won significantly more faceoffs, outshot Yale, scored on 2 of 3 man-up situations, picked up our share of ground balls, and cleared very well, it is hard to be too critical of play in the offensive end.  Defensive play lost this game.

[upprdeck]

the first half scoring 9 goals and the 2nd struggling to get 2-3 and for most of the half not even getting shots off was the real issue