2007 men's lacrosse schedule released

[Hillel Hoffmann]

Cornell Athletics released the 2007 men's lacrosse schedule. I added the scrimmages at Syracuse this weekend.


Scrimmages

Sat, 10/14: vs. Hobart, LeMoyne, Syracuse (at Syracuse), 10 a.m.
Sun, 2/4: at Drexel, noon
Sat, 2/10: Loyola, 1 p.m.
Sat, 2/17: at Johns Hopkins, 1 p.m.

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Regular season

Sat, 2/24: Binghamton, noon
Tue, 2/27: Colgate, 4 p.m.
Sat, 3/3: vs. Notre Dame (at Hewlett HS, Hewlett, NY), 1 p.m.
Sat, 3/10: at Army, 1 p.m.
Tue, 3/20: at Duke, 7 p.m.
Sat, 3/24: at Yale, 2 p.m.
Sat, 3/31: Pennsylvania, 3 p.m.
Sat, 4/7: Harvard, 1 p.m.
Tue, 4/10: at Syracuse, 7 p.m.
Sat, 4/14: at Dartmouth, 1 p.m.
Sat, 4/21: Princeton, 3 p.m. (broadcast live on CSTV)
Sat, 4/28: at Brown, 1 p.m.
Fri, 5/4: Hobart, 7 p.m.

Only one change of note on the regular season schedule: Colgate in February replaces Lehigh in March. They're comparable -- both up and coming programs, perhaps with a slight edge to Colgate.

The Notre Dame game is at a "neutral" site again, this time at Hewlett High School, Max Seibald's alma mater. (Last year the game was in suburban Chicago.)

Nice to see a scrimmage in Philadelphia.

[Trotsky]

Will they be invited to the Duke after-game party?  B-]

[David Harding]

The Hewlett trip should be a good recruiting opportunity for both teams.  I wonder how big the stadium is there.

[jkahn]

At Duke two years in a row.  If it were hockey an away OOC win would give us bonus RPI points, but it's not.

[je08]

[quote David Harding]I wonder how big the stadium is there.[/quote]

There's no "stadium" there.  Hewlett HS has a grass field with a pretty small amount of bleachers on one side of the field.  Last year's Cornell v. Notre Dame LAX game had 3523 in attendance.  Given the popularity of lacrosse on Long Island, I would expect the bleachers to be very packed.

[ugarte]

[quote je08][quote David Harding]I wonder how big the stadium is there.[/quote]

There's no "stadium" there.  Hewlett HS has a grass field with a pretty small amount of bleachers on one side of the field.  Last year's Cornell v. Notre Dame LAX game had 3523 in attendance.  Given the popularity of lacrosse on Long Island, I would expect the bleachers to be very packed.[/quote]I'm certainly going to try and make it.

[Hillel Hoffmann]

[quote je08][quote David Harding]I wonder how big the stadium is there.[/quote]

There's no "stadium" there.  Hewlett HS has a grass field with a pretty small amount of bleachers on one side of the field.  Last year's Cornell v. Notre Dame LAX game had 3523 in attendance.  Given the popularity of lacrosse on Long Island, I would expect the bleachers to be very packed.[/quote]

A local news item today offered some insight on the venue.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17412356&BRD=1601&PAG=461&dept_id=479855&rfi=6

In a nutshell: Hewlett's venue has a swanky FieldTurf surface, which seems to have been a critical factor in the choice of venue. Capacity is described as 800-850, but they hope to install temporary bleachers.

je08 is right. If the weather is nice, it will be hard to meet demand.

[David Harding]

I wonder where they got the idea that the March 2006 game was at a high school.  :-P

[Hillel Hoffmann]

Schedule updates: Binghamton and Pennsylvania game times added, Yale game time changed (see first post).

[Hillel Hoffmann]

Great news: The Princeton at Cornell game on 21 April -- likely to be the biggest game of the Ivy season -- will be broadcast live on CSTV (available to most satellite and some cable subscribers). To accommodate the broadcast, faceoff has been moved to 3 p.m.

[Al DeFlorio]

http://cornellbigred.cstv.com/sports/m-lacros/spec-rel/020107aaa.html

Scrimmage noon this Sunday at Drexel.

[Hillel Hoffmann]

[quote Al DeFlorio]Scrimmage noon this Sunday at Drexel.[/quote]
Yes, I believe Al has the right time (noon). It had been listed as 1 p.m. in earlier iterations of the schedule posted by Cornell Athletics, but I hadn't noticed the switch. Sorry for the confusion.

[Hillel Hoffmann]

A demi-report from the Drexel scrimmage in Philadelphia this afternoon:

Bitter cold. Nice FieldTurf venue in the middle of a transitional West Philly neighborhood. Amazing how drainage technology has become so good that fields don't need any kind of crown anymore.

Cornell and Drexel scrimmaged for five quarters today. Time was kept, but not score -- the following box score is reconstructed from sketchy observations. The totals in the fourth and fifth quarters are especially suspect.

CU  1  2  0  4  5 - 12?
DU  1  2  1  0  0 - 4?

Evaluating CU was difficult because the teams played in their pinnies, and numbers were changed in the usual attempt to thwart scouting. But I can say this: Cornell's offense was sluggish, at best. Drexel deserved their third quarter lead. Only after the starters were removed was the Dragons' lack of depth exposed. Both teams played mostly starters until the middle of the fourth quarter. Several injured players, including a few stars, were rested on both sides.

McMonagle played the whole game, I think, and was brilliant.

Best sights to see: a healthy Glynn, an explosive Hurley (although against reserves).

Worst sights to see: Lack of fire, EMO paralysis.

[billhoward]

Nice report. Thanks.

>>> Worst sights to see: Lack of fire, EMO paralysis.

That would be what in hockey is called the "power play." Hmmm. Maybe it's catching. The rap on Cornell going back to Ned Harkness and Richie Moran is that Cornell started real slow and became world-beaters as the season wound down. Let's hope that's the case again this year ... and we don't run into the 2007 version of UMass, a team that deserved to go all the way based on decades of incredible lacrosse and not much NCAA glory to show for it.

[jkahn]

[quote billhoward] The rap on Cornell going back to Ned Harkness and Richie Moran is that Cornell started real slow and became world-beaters as the season wound down. [/quote]

Ned's 3 Cornell lacrosse seasons, 12-0, 11-1, 12-0.