[LAX] Cornell vs Navy NCAA QF Game thread

[Greg Berge]

Game on, second half.  McMonagle has 11 saves, Russell (Navy) has 6.

[Greg Berge]

4-2, Navy. Man up goal from inside.

[Greg Berge]

4-3, and naturally we score off a huge open ice (er, grass) hit. :-)

[Greg Berge]

4-3 Navy through 3 quarters.

[Greg Berge]

Navy 5-3 on a great effort, 9:28 in regulation.  McConagle still looks great, but we need some goals.

[Greg Berge]

5-4!!!! Nice bounce shot.  7:24 to go in regulation.

[Greg Berge]

6-4 one man effort for Navy.  7:17 to go.

[Greg Berge]

Cornell timeout, 7:03 remaining, 6-4 Navy.

[Greg Berge]

6-5, COLLINS!!!!!!  1:55 to go.

[Greg Berge]

6-5 final.  

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell had the chances.  Too many turnovers.  Faceoffs killed us on possession time.

Kessenich's comment about not turning players like Redd, Greenhalgh, and Collins loose earlier to try to get some scores on the board was very insightful.  

Terrific effort.  They certainly showed they belonged with the "big guys."  An amazing season overall.  Tough to come so close and see it slip away.

[billhoward]

As with the hockey team, this was not a team destined to go all the way. A final four berth would have been an amazing cap to the season and Cornell fell one goal short of that. Who would have thought, going in, that if you held Navy to six goals, you wouldn't win.

Got to hand it to Princeton. They made the comeback Saturday that Cornell almost did Sunday.

And fantastic that three of the four quarterfinal games were won by one goal.

Did I see it right that only about 4,000 saw the south regional quarterfinals?

[KeithK]

Rules clarification (still trying to pick up the details of lacrosse).  Cornell got called for some kind of violation on the clear a couple of times in the second half.  I didn't see any obvious reason for the calls and the announcer didn't really explain.  Can anyone help me out here?  Time limit to get across midfield maybe?

[Greenberg \'97]

[Q]KeithK Wrote:

 Rules clarification (still trying to pick up the details of lacrosse).  Cornell got called for some kind of violation on the clear a couple of times in the second half.  I didn't see any obvious reason for the calls and the announcer didn't really explain.  Can anyone help me out here?  Time limit to get across midfield maybe?[/q]

Yeah... I believe you have 10 seconds to clear the midfield line, and then another 10 seconds to get it into the box.

There were also a couple of interesting dead-ball calls in the second game.  At one time, Syracuse won the ball when Georgetown failed to clear midfield in time, then lost the ball when they took too much time to set up.  And earlier in the game, Georgetown got a delay of game penalty for being within 5 yards of the Syracuse player.

Comments from the game:

Much better turnout by Syracuse fans than Cornell fans -- probably because their townies are bigger fans than ours.  Luckily, we both get credit for the 11,000+ attendance, even though much of that didn't get there until 3.

The scoreboard failure was a bit embarrassing.  Couple that with the fact that the concession stands hand nothing left but water and gum by the second game, and you wonder if Cornell was really prepared to host such an event.

Also, it was general admission throughout the stadium, but the side you chose at the beginning was where you had to stay the whole day.  At least they stamped our hands so we could eat lunch in Collegetown during the break.

[peterg]

There were less than 3000 in Virginia according to posts elsewhere.  

Given how many local folks walked in yesterday, I suspect that the crowd here was closer to 13000.

BTW, the concessions were a mess yesterday.  Not enough of anything.  Hard to imagine they didn't anticipate a decent crowd.  Concession problems and the scoreboard going dark for the entire second half of the Georgetown-Syracuse game didn't make CU look very good as hosts.