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Penalties Hurt Red In Home Weekend

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The women’s hockey team started its regular season play this weekend with two frustrating home games — a 6-3 loss to Princeton on Friday and a 2-2 tie with Quinnipiac on Saturday. In both games, penalties seemed to be the downfall for Cornell.
“The penalties really killed us in both games,” said freshman forward Catherine White. “We had the advantage when we were five-on-five, but right when we started taking penalties and we were penalty killing, that’s when both [Princeton and Quinnipiac] scored their goals and that’s when they hurt us.”

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Welcome Back, Coach Schafer

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Never before has Cornell hockey opened a season in such dramatic fashion. Junior goalie Ben “Mr. 0” Scrivens turned away all 68 shots he faced this weekend to shutout both No. 9 Princeton and Quinnipiac. Yet Cornell managed just one goal on the road trip and the Red rode home with three points in perhaps its most difficult test of the year.

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Stellar Goaltending Leads to Three-point Weekend

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PRINCETON, N.J. — Balanced team play, solid defense and a well-placed shot by senior forward Tyler Mugford helped the men’s hockey team to a successful, three-point opening weekend of conference play on the road. The Red knocked off defending ECAC Hockey and Ivy League champ Princeton, 1-0, on Friday before battling to a scoreless tie against Quinnipiac on Saturday.
The Red (1-0-1, 1-0-1 ECAC) started off its 4 p.m. matchup with the Tigers (2-1, 1-1) with plenty of energy and enthusiasm in its first meaningful game of the season, but struggled in the first period with maintaining consistent, mistake-free play. Head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said that excitement and nerves probably contributed to the occasionally hectic atmosphere on the ice.

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M. Icers Open Season Against Defending Champ Princeton

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Although the hockey team is the last Division I program to begin its regular season, the Red will do so in impressive fashion, facing off against the reigning ECAC champion Princeton Tigers today at 4 p.m. — the earlier start time is due to the fact that the Red’s season debut will be nationally televised on ESPNU. Tomorrow evening, Cornell will complete its weekend road trip against Quinnipiac.
The Tigers (1-0-0, 0-0-0 ECAC Hockey) swept the season series last year against the Red (0-0-0, 0-0-0), but Cornell is excited to finally face an opponent in a different uniform, according to senior co-alternate captain Tyler Mugford.

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W. Hockey Opens ECAC Play at Home Against Tigers

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The women’s hockey team will begin league play this weekend when it faces Princeton today and Quinnipiac tomorrow, both at home.
“We’re pretty excited,” said junior forward Liz Zorn. “They’re the start of our league games and Princeton’s an Ivy game too, so they’re extra important. Coming off of last weekend’s loss, we really want to get at least one but hopefully two wins in.”
Cornell’s first ECAC opponent, Princeton (3-3-1, 0-2-0 ECAC), has failed to pick up a league win so far this season. The Tigers are coming off of two close losses last weekend, falling to Dartmouth, 3-2, and to Harvard, 6-4.

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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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Volleyball Drops to Fourth After Two Losses

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To have something so close and then have to watch it slip away is often harder than if you had never hoped to be able to achieve it in the first place. The volleyball team came very close to defeating a strong Penn team this weekend, but despite stellar play that was at times spectacular, the Red couldn’t come up with the big plays when it needed them most, falling in the fifth set, 3-2. Cornell also competed against Princeton, but was outplayed by a balanced Tiger defense and attack that refused to let Cornell steal a set, supported by a boisterously supportive home crowd.

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Red Struggles in Red Zone, Efficient Tigers Succeed

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Senior co-captain quarterback Nathan Ford had no problems mobilizing the Red’s powerful passing attack, accumulating 431 yards in the Red’s 31-26 loss to Princeton Saturday afternoon. The rhythm of the offense was thrown off balance once it reached the red zone, only scoring on four of six opportunities. In the red zone, Cornell only scored two touchdowns and settled for two other field goals. The inability to put seven points on the board as opposed to three served to be crucial in the team’s five point defeat.
“[When] you get down there, its all about making plays,” said head coach Jim Knowles ’87. “They made plays, we didn’t.”

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Late Comeback Bid Not Enough

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Sometimes, it just doesn’t make sense. Sometimes it just doesn’t add up quite right. Sometimes, you do a lot of things right and still lose. Princeton’s 31-26 win over Cornell Saturday was exactly one of those times.
Head coach Jim Knowles ’87 stared at the stat sheet after the game, a look of bewilderment on his face, while he ticked off one stat after another — 555 total yards of offense, an early, 13-0, lead, 29 first downs, an edge in possession time and third-down conversion rate.
“[To do all that] and still lose the game shows that you are doing a lot of things right,” Knowles said.

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Football Looks to End Skid

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Most teams mired in a three-game losing skid tend to play tentatively. Don’t tell that to senior tight end Alex Spooner, who was frolicking bare-chested in the 40 degree weather yesterday during stretching exercises as Cornell prepares to host Princeton tomorrow afternoon at Schoellkopf Field. Spooner, or “Chewbacca” as one his teammates shouted out, and the rest of the Cornell offense will attempt to redeem itself after posting a season-low seven points at Brown last Saturday.