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Sports Weekend Update 11-6-2009: M. Hockey Buries Dartmouth With Three Third-Period Goals
November 7th, 2009Check Monday's edition of The Cornell Daily Sun for additional coverage Men's hockey 5, Dartmouth 1 Cornell opened its ECAC Hockey season with a convincing statement, piling on three third-period goals to seal the 5-1 victory in a chippy, physical game against Dartmouth. Forwards Blake Gallagher scored twice, Colin Greening had one goal and two assists; and goalie Ben Scrivens made 21 saves. Cornell's special teams shone on the opening night of league play. The Red took advantage of 49 Dartmouth penalty minutes, going 4-of-7 on the power play. Cornell's penalty kill turned away all but one of Dartmouth's seven man-advantage opportunities, including a 5-on-3 in the second period. Women's hockey 4, Union 0 Princeton 3, Volleyball 0 Read More
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Crimson Comes to Town for First League Weekend
November 6th, 2009Forget saving the best for last; face-off time for Cornell hockey fans' favorite game of the season is 7 p.m. Saturday. The No. 5 men's hockey team has a 2009-10 schedule littered with tough games against big-name hockey programs like Boston University and North Dakota, but those will be largely forgotten when Harvard takes the ice at Lynah Rink in the 131st installment of the rivalry. Read More
Injury-Free, Dale Ready to Rock
November 6th, 2009He might be listed as the smallest player on the Cornell roster, but Louis Dale, a 5-11 starting point guard, has been one of the biggest reasons for the team’s rise to the top during his first three years at Cornell. The 2007-08 Ivy League Player of the Year is one of the most dynamic players in the Ancient Eight. In 2008-09, Dale finished among the league leaders in several categories, tallying 13 points per game, 3.6 assists per game, 1.2 steals per game and a .463 field-goal percentage. Despite his diminutive stature, Dale can also play a big man’s game, ranking in the top-15 rebounders in the league with 4.2 boards per game. Last season, Dale became just the second player in school history to record 1,000 points, 300 rebounds and 300 assists. Read More
Final Game for Field Hockey
November 6th, 2009Cornell field hockey closes out the fall on the road against Dartmouth at noon tomorrow. The Red's final contest of the season will determine its overall standing in the Ivy League as beating the Green would tie both Cornell (9-5, 3-3 Ivy) and Dartmouth (9-7, 4-2 Ivy) at the third spot. While Dartmouth will be looking to carry the momentum of its recent three-game winning streak, the Red has come away victorious in its last three meetings versus the Green and looks to leave Hanover, N.H., on a high note after a tough loss to Princeton last Saturday. Read More
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Power Play Expected to Be Key To Red’s Success
November 6th, 2009For a traditionally low-scoring Cornell team — a squad that last year averaged just 2.56 goals per game — a prolific and efficient power play could be the difference between victory and defeat. Indeed, 34 percent of the team’s goals last year came with the man advantage, indicating that the power-play unit was an integral part of the Red’s success. This year’s team features many returning players from the 2008-09 power play lineup, including Riley and Brendon Nash, Colin Greening and Blake Gallagher. Head coach Mike Schafer ’86 saw those four players develop exceptional chemistry playing together last year, and expects that experience to translate into even more success this year. Read More
No Pushovers Here
November 6th, 2009ECAC Hockey has a problem, though it’s more a problem for the teams themselves than for fans who want to see good hockey — the problem is that no team in the league is clearly awful. Some are on the upswing. Some are consistently strong programs. Some are legitimate national contenders — Cornell, Princeton and Yale made it to the NCAAs last year, and they all have a shot at making it even further in the tourney in 2010. Brown Bears 2008-09: 5-23-5 3-15-4 ECAC Hockey (12th) Read More
Foote Returns To Push Red On Defense
November 6th, 2009Senior Jeff Foote, 265 pounds, 84 inches, and 2 Ivy League titles, will continue to lead the Red this season from center. The big man was last year’s Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year and NABC second-team All-District. So what’s next for one of the Red’s most integral players on both sides of the court? Foote will admit, though tall, he wasn’t the most ripped man on the court. But that changed in the offseason when Foote and senior Ryan Wittman played summer league in Minn., where Foote put on 25 pounds of raw muscle. Read More
Last Chance for Women’s Soccer To Pick Up Ancient Eight Win
November 6th, 2009Tomorrow, the women’s soccer team will conclude its season when it travels to take on Dartmouth. The Red (1-12-1, 0-6 Ivy) has failed to produce a Ivy victory so far this season, so this will be the final chance for the team to pick up a League win and end on a high note. “Our last few games have been heartbreakers…we just want to get some points to show that we’re that good team that we know we are,” said junior forward Lena Russomagno. [img_assist|nid=39555|title=Kickin’ around|desc=The women’s soccer team has faced a combination of bad luck and tough matchups en route to its thus-far winless Ivy season.|link=node|align=left|width=336|height=262] Read More
New Faces Ready to Fortify Penalty Kill Unit
November 6th, 2009Last season when the NCAA instituted new rules to crack down on obstruction, a premium was put on special teams execution. On the defensive side, Cornell performed admirably under the new rules, posting a NCAA 13th-best penalty-killing rate of 87.2 percent. However, some of the stalwarts from the Red’s penalty killing unit last season graduated in the Spring. “We do have a lot of guys not coming back on the penalty kill,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “Evan Barlow, Mike Kennedy, Derek Punches, they killed a lot of penalties for us last year.” However, Schafer is confident in the returning players’ ability to fill in when the team finds itself a man down, and he expects some new contributors to emerge. Read More
The Best Of the Rest
November 6th, 2009The Red has established itself as a true Ivy powerhouse, poised to match Penn’s three-peat from 2005-08. While the Red is expected to take the League title again, Brown is expected to continue its fall from grace, with preseason polls puting the Bears at No. 7 in the league for the 2009-10 campaign. Princeton is expected to continue to challenge the Red this season, with a strong lineup of veterans suiting up in black and orange. Penn is expected to return to the top of the table with a tigther defense. Penn Quakers 2008-09: 10-18, 6-8 Ivy (T-6th) Read More