Lax: 4/3 at Penn

[Greg Berge]

Cornell (1-0, 4-1) is at Penn (1-1, 4-3) today.  Full Ivy standings here: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/standings.asp?intSID=15

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Greg Berge Wrote:

 Cornell (1-0, 4-1) is at Penn (1-1, 4-3) today.  Full Ivy standings here: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/standings.asp?intSID=15

[/q]
Penn lost their season-opener to pre-season top dog Hopkins by only 10-9, missing several last minute chances to tie it.  This will be a good test.  Brown's off to a 6-0 start, with a big win over Loyola.  The host Syracuse today, so we'll see how good they really are.

[Greg Berge]

Switchboard page: http://members.cox.net/gregberge/cornellLax/cornellLax2004.html

[DeltaOne81]

2-0 Red... Greenhalgh from Collins
and Rosenberger from ??

[DeltaOne81]

Penn responds, 2-2 at the end of the 1st quarter.

[DeltaOne81]

went to 3-3, then 4-3 Penn...

The Red ties it up at 4, goal by Redd using "tremendous speed" right off a play that started with 15 seconds left... 6 seconds left in the half

4-4 at the half

[DeltaOne81]

5-5, Quakers tie it up, early in the 4th

[DeltaOne81]

6-5 Penn...

now 6-6, just under 12:00 left in the 4th

[DeltaOne81]

6-6, just under 12:00 left...

Cornell to go a man up on a hard, high slash on the shot that caused the goal... Penn off-sides, so Cornell gets possession

[DeltaOne81]

7-6 Red!!! who was actually up 2-men

save by Ross, and Cornell has the ball

mid-4th

... and now 8-6 Red on the "bazooka by Boulukos"

[DeltaOne81]

8-7, Penn timeout with 6 min left

[DeltaOne81]

Damnit, 9-8 Penn with 4:44 left in the 4th

[DeltaOne81]

10-8 Penn with seconds left, and that should do it

[DeltaOne81]

Game over

Penn erased an 8-6 deficit with 4 goals on 4 shots

[Chris \'03]

The game was lost at the faceoff x. Scott Raasch looked lost a lot of the time. He had at least three or four illegal procedures on the face. A bunch in a row. Joe Bouloukos took over the faceoff job late and was passable.

Shot selection by the Red was terrible early as they kept shotting right at the Penn goalies stick. He hardly had to do anything to make a stop.

Some of the officiating was pretty bad, like a marginal push penalty on cornell and a few missed offside calls, but that's not what cost Cornell this winnable game. They have to get it together on those face offs...