Sports
Field Hockey Ends the Season in Boston
|
“We put it all out there and truly played our hearts out. … Before the game we knew we would have to play a really good game to keep up with Harvard,” said sophomore forward Ashley Plzak.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/field-hockey-2024/)
“We put it all out there and truly played our hearts out. … Before the game we knew we would have to play a really good game to keep up with Harvard,” said sophomore forward Ashley Plzak.
“I did not want us to completely ignore the pressure surrounding this game. … We wanted to use it to our advantage because it is a privilege to play with pressure,” said senior midfielder and captain Claire Wolfe.
“It felt amazing. … We knew this was our biggest game of the season,” Mueller said.
Still, Cornell struggled to create opportunities to score and finish on penalty corners. In total, the Red only took three shots, two of them on goal.
“Picking each other up [by] communicating and talking as much as possible –– those are the keys to winning more games,” Wolfe said.
Nearly halfway through its regular season, the Red’s field hockey has persevered, displaying great efforts on the offensive end, though not representative of its record (1-5, 0-1 Ivy). The Red’s Ivy opener against Columbia showcased this –– Cornell took nearly 20 shots, always crashing toward the goal. While Columbia’s keeper Katie Wimmer was definitely solid in goal for the Lions with multiple diving saves, head coach Andy Smith emphasized the lack of finishing throughout the game as an “attitude problem, not a skills problem.”
Columbia’s Lindsey Yu proved to be the star of the game. She scored the only goal of the game for the Lions and proved to be troublesome for Cornell’s defense as she alone took three of Columbia’s nine shots on goal.
“It starts with the backend. … We’ve got to start quicker and finish stronger,” said senior defender Gabby Volpe.