The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/full-court-press/page/7/)
The Ivy League made headlines this week when the conference announced that the eight head football coaches voted unanimously to ban full tackling during in-season practices.
The Cornell men’s lacrosse team travelled down to West Palm Beach, Fla. this past weekend to play its annual match against Hobart. The Red came away with 10-8 victory in front of 2,000 fans to extend its winning streak against the Statesmen to 12 straight games. Freshman attack Colton Rupp had two of the Red’s 10 goals in the match. “Since we’re a very young team, it was great getting the win,” Rupp said.
Moments away from securing a hard-fought, high-intensity victory, the men’s hockey team (13-9-7, 8-8-6 ECAC) saw a shot deflect high off junior goaltender Mitch Gillam, hitting a second Cornell player and bouncing into the back of the net. It was a heartbreaking end to regulation on a night when the Red seemed desperate for a victory against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (16-13-7, 8-7-7).
The Cornell men’s basketball (9-15, 2-8 Ivy) team suffered another pair of losses against conference opponents Dartmouth (9-15, 3-7) and Harvard (9-15, 3-7) at home. Weathering a six-game losing skid, the Red hopes for better luck when they travel to Penn and Princeton this weekend.
In two defensive battles, the Red was able to redeem two disappointing performances and muster a three-point weekend, tying Harvard on Friday and narrowly beating Dartmouth, 1-0, on Saturday.
Will the real Cornell lacrosse please stand up? Was it the sloppy, inexperienced team that gave up five unanswered goals in the third quarter against Penn State? Or the resilient and efficient squad that fought back late in the game?
No. 16 Cornell men’s ice hockey (12-8-5, 7-7-4 ECAC) will look to bounce back after a disappointing one point weekend with road games coming up against Harvard (14-8-3, 10-5-3) and Dartmouth (13-11-1, 10-8-0).
Following the graduation of a number of critical players from last year’s Ivy League Championship squad, head coach Matt Kerwick remains confident that this year’s team will find players to step up and fill the voids left by the talented members of the class of 2015.
Sometimes all it takes is a little momentum, a spark of energy and hope, to get a team going. Even though last Friday’s game against No. 1 Quinnipiac was a tie, the men walked away with their heads held high, knowing they scraped away a point against the current paragon of college hockey. Now, they return to Lynah with hopes of building on the progress made this past weekend.
Randy Johnson, Peter Crouch and Shaquille O’Neal. What do these three men have in common? All three were extremely tall professional athletes. Randy Johnson, the 6-foot-10 pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks, used his giant stride to generate more momentum for his fastball. Crouch, the ironically named 6-foot-8 striker for Stoke City, has scored the most headed goals in British soccer history.