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Cornell Faces Tough Mid-Major Siena

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The Cornell and Siena men’s basketball teams have a lot in common — both are New York mid-majors, which won their leagues last year (Ivy League and Metro At­lantic Ath­letic Con­fe­rence, respectively) and are the unanimous picks to repeat on the strength of largely returning starting rosters.
“We probably do have a better handle on what to expect from [Siena] since we played them last year,” said senior co-captain Jason Battle. “We know they’re a good team, they made the NCAA tournament last year and even won a game.”
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Loss to Lions Caps Season for M. Soccer

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The 2008 season for the men’s soccer team ended with fanfare on Saturday. Unfortunately for Cornell, the celebration was honoring its opponent Columbia, as the host Lions shut out the Red, 2-0, on the Lions’ Senior Day.
Cornell (1-15, 0-7 Ivy) finished the season with the dubious distinction of a winless record in conference play. Columbia (4-12-1, 2-5) limited the Red’s offense to just two shots before halftime, and seven total.
“We had a pretty rough season, so we wanted to win our last game,” said sophomore Cornell midfielder Scott Caldwell. “But it didn’t happen.”

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M. Cagers Host Coyotes For Opener

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After months of basking in post-title glow, the men’s basketball team will now raise its 2007-08 Ivy League championship banner at Newman Arena — the ceremony will take place just before tip-off tonight in the Red’s season opener against South Dakota, recently moved up from Division II.
“[Starting the new season is] actually kind of nerve-wracking,” said senior center Jeff Foote. “I really just want to be out there and finally play [another team] … It’s good to have the crowd behind you.”

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Experienced Red Will Compete for ECAC Title

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The passing of college hockey legend Ned Harkness brought up certain emotions in the Lynah Faithful. One of these may be respect for the consistency of the Cornell hockey tradition, largely established by Harkness himself.
Last year, the message of the men’s hockey team was simple: play 60 minutes.
A full 60 minutes.
The Red was searching for consistency from a group of talented, but relatively young, players. The experience as a team wasn’t there yet, and it showed.
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Greening, Kennedy Lead Icers

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They’re all Canadian. All but one played junior hockey with the Nanaimo Clippers of the British Columbia Hockey League, and they have all starred on the ice at Lynah Rink, yet 2008-09 co-captains Michael Kennedy and Colin Greening and co-alternate captains Tyler Mugford and Jared Seminoff will lead the Red in very different ways this season.
“Some people talk more, some people lead more on the ice,” Greening said. “One thing that we have all learned is that you kind of need to have both. You can’t necessarily be a person that just says ‘I lead by example on the ice.’ I think you need to be able to talk to guys, as well. Also, you can’t [just] be a guy that yells at guys in dressing room or talks to them all the time, you have to be able to perform on the ice.”

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Conditioning Will Help Bigs Dominate

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Though the guard/big man relationship has often taken center stage in elite basketball — Cornell has grasped the importance of chemistry in the post. The men’s basketball team has developed its own oversized combo in senior center Jeff Foote and junior forward Alex Tyler.
A key component of last year’s success was the play of Tyler, who started in 27 of 28 games, and Foote, who came off the bench in 22 games.
Tyler is known to pounce on opportunities. This aggressive style led to 11 steals last year, but also the third-highest turnover total (45). Along with classmate Louis Dale, he led the team with 2.9 fouls per game, fouling out three times.
“I think I just need to be a little bit smarter at the beginning of games,” Tyler said.

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Bouraee Scores Twice In Loss to Dartmouth

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Maybe it was the emotion of Senior Night — a Berman Field send-off for the 10 seniors of the men’s soccer team — or maybe it was the adrenaline the athletes got from facing a top team like Dartmouth. Whatever the reason, the Red upped the intensity in its last home game of the season, intensity not reflected in the loss’s final score of 5-2.
“Dartmouth is a very good team and they deserved to win,” said head coach Bryan Scales, “but I also give our guys credit for showing up tonight and competing like crazy. They got it back to 3-2, [we were] starting to get some bodies forward to try to equalize and ended up giving up the fourth goal.”
“I can’t be disappointed with the effort,” Scales added. “The guys put everything they could into that game.”

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M. Soccer Can’t Handle Speedy Tiger Forwards

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Shouts of joy rang out three times at Berman Field on Saturday. Unfortunately for the men’s soccer team, hosting Princeton in an afternoon matchup, it was the visiting players who ran to congratulate each other after each of their goals, as Princeton defeated Cornell, 3-0, in the Red’s second-to-last home matchup of 2008.
Searching for its first win in the Ancient Eight, the Red (1-13, 0-5 Ivy) is still hunting after the Tigers (5-9-1, 2-2-1) snatched an early two-goal lead and added an insurance score in the second half to notch their second Ivy win. Princeton presented a different kind of opponent for Cornell — the Tigers’ team speed was too great an advantage for the Red to overcome.

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Still Costume-less? Baseball’s Got You Covered

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After a year of waiting (im)patiently, this day has finally come … IT’S HALLOWEEN!
As some of you faithful readers may remember, last Halloween I wrote a column with costume suggestions based on the NBA’s most intriguing characters. Now maybe I didn’t get my fill of baseball because I saw almost none of the postseason (I just died a little inside when I wrote that) or maybe it’s just that the weather conspired to keep baseball around longer for the express purpose of interfering with basketball season, but I’m not ready to say good bye and move on so quickly this year.

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M. Soccer Loses to Brown Away, Questions Referees’ ‘Baffling’ Calls

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Having struggled through a frustrating 2008 season, the men’s soccer team was looking for some providence of its own as the team traveled to Providence, R.I., this weekend to face perennial Ivy contender Brown. Instead of guidance or a change of luck, the Red (1-12, 0-4 Ivy) encountered the Bears (9-4-1, 3-1) at full force in an arena where the Bears have been the most successful — the team is 5-1 at home this year. Brown eventually overpowered Cornell Saturday night, 2-0.
“[Brown is] athletic, of course, they always are,” said senior defender Kevin Vieira. “[On Saturday] they took more advantage of their opportunities. … We were really attacking, and we finally did put away one of our opportunities, but it was [called offsides].”