Cornell Big Red Lacrosse2011 Season hightlights:Rob Pannell Named a Tewaaraton Trophy Finalist..............................................................pg.2Mens Lacrosse Drops Hartford, Advances To NCAA Quarterfinals ......................................pg. 4 No. 2 CU Takes Ivy Tournament Title with Dominant Win Over No. 17 Harvard..............pg.6Defense Propels Mens Lax Into Ivy Championship Final.......................................................pg. 8 Pannell Named Ivy League Player of the Year, Headlines Six All-Ivy Selections............pg.10

Rob Pannell Named a Tewaaraton Trophy Fi-nalist

Rob Pannell Named a Tewaaraton Trophy Fi-nalist

he Cornell mens lacrosse won its first-ever Ivy League tournament title with a 15-6 win over No. 17 Harvard on Sunday afternoon

at Schoellkopf Field. The Big Red improved its win streak to 10 games with the triumph behind a suffocating defense and an offense that rolled through the final 32 minutes with 13 goals. Harvard fell to 10-6 with the loss. Cornell will learn its NCAA tournament first round NCAA opponent when the pairings are announced on ESPNU

tonight at 9 p.m. A three-minute unreleasable illegal stick penalty on Harvard late in the second quarter turned a tight 2-2 game into 5-2 Cornell advantage early in the third quarter. From there, the Big Red rolled, outscoring Harvard 11-4 after halftime. Cornell also dominated the face-off circle against one of the nations best groups, winning 15-of-23 draws to prove decisive. Junior Rob Pannell, the tournaments Most Valuable Player, scored five points with two goals and three assists despite being face-guarded most of the afternoon. All-tournament selection Steve Mock scored five times and David Lau was credited with two goals and two assists. JJ Gilbane also found the back of the net twice and Mitch McMichael had a goal and assist. In all, 10 different players registered at least one point and eight Big Red players caused at least one turnover. McMichael also won 3-of-5 face-offs and freshman Doug Tesoriero was incredible, winning 12-of-18 in the circle with eight ground balls. The Cornell defense caused 12 turnovers in front of sophomore AJ Fiore, who made eight saves and won three ground balls while allowing just five goals. Harvards Harry Krieger was solid in goal, registering 16 saves, nine of which came in the first half as he kept the Crimson within striking distance. Matt Hull led the offense with three goals and an assist and Ryan Stevens notched two scores. Kevin Vaughan posted eight ground balls and two caused turnovers from his midfield position. The Big Red jumped out to a 2-0 lead, but the Crimson rallied to tie the game early in the second quarter. The low-scoring affair saw Pannell score the first goal after holding off a defender on a crease roll,

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hesitating for a second and shooting the ball past Krieger. A broken play put the Big Red up 2-0, as Lau picked up a checked ball and threaded the needle to Mock, who put the ball in the back of the cage to make it 2-0 with 6:21 left in the first. The Crimson scored with 5:11 left in the first, then again with 11:45 remaining on the clock in the second to knot the game. Hull scored the first goal, with Stevens registering the second score. With both teams defenses and goalkeepers playing near-perfect games, the decisive play may have been the three minute unreleasable penalty with 2:46 to play in the half. The Big Red scored twice to turn a 2-2 game into a 4-2 advantage heading into the break. Both McMichael and Bremner scored on the extra-man, with McMichael assisting on Bremners goal. The Big Red was playing 5-on-4 on the extra-man, as Harvard decided to continue to faceguard Pannell in the man-down. The junior pulled himself out of the offense and stood in the corner, allowing Cornell even more space in the attacking zone. Cornell took possession in the third with 14 seconds left on the extra-man advantage and was able to cap the penalty with another score as Pannell took the ball in, skirted a double-team and found Mock to make it 5-2 just 10 seconds into the half. The Crimson earned its first extra-man opportunity with a one-minute chance at the 14:34 mark, but a Fiore save and a Big Red clear allowed the penalty expired. On the other end, Lau found Mike ONeil to make it 6-2 with 13:02 left. The Crimson got the last goal back on the extra-man when Stevens found Hull for a quick bounce shot that got the visitors back within 6-3, but JJ Gilbane extended the lead back to four goals with 8:26 remaining in the third, his second goal of the tournament and first of the day. Harvard got back on the board when Terry White fired a shot past Fiore on the move with more than five minutes left in the half, but Cornell went on a 4-0 run to blow open the contest early.

Pannell got the ball rolling with a great look to Lau, who buried the shot and was hit after the play to draw a penalty. Cornells initial shot was saved, but the clear was checked away and Mock picked up the loose ball. He beat a retreating Krieger to the goal and fired it in to make it 9-4. After winning the ensuing faceoff, Cornell made it three in a row when Laus quick crease roll led to a fast shot and a 10-4 Big Red advantage heading into the final quarter. Jack Dudley capped the run when he scored on a bullet shot off a pass from Lang to make it an 11-4 game with just 13:15 remaining to play. Just over two minutes later, Hull responded for the visitors before Cornell again took control. Another Harvard failed clear led directly to the Big Reds 13th goal, as Gilbane picked up a blocked pass and hit on a tough-angle shot. Less than 10 seconds later, the Big Red won a face-off and streaked in for a goal as Pannell found Mock for the sophomores fifth score of the contest to make it 14-5 with just under eight minutes to play. n

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fter Hartford took an early lead, the Big Reds defense held the Hawks scoreless for a span of 41:55 as Cornell advanced

to the NCAA quarterfinals with a 12-5 win on Saturday evening at Schoellkopf Field. The second-seeded Big Red improved to 14-2 with the victory, while Hartford ended the most successful lacrosse

season in school history at 11-7. David Lau had four goals and an assist and Tewaaraton Trophy finalist Rob Pannell had two goals and two assists to lead the offense, but it was the Big Reds defense that took center stage. Cornell surrendered three goals in the first 2:07 of the contest as

the visitors took a 3-1 edge, but responded with nine straight scores while holding the Hawks scoreless for nearly two full quarters. The Cornell defense was led by Max Feely and Mike Bronzino, who held the Hawks two main offensive threats to a combined two goals. Feely caused two turnovers and won four ground balls, while Bronzino picked up two ground balls and forced one turnover. Thomas Keith had an exceptional game, scoring a goal, chipping in four ground balls and causing three turnovers. Jason Noble was also great off the ground with five ground ball and one caused turnover. In between the pipes, AJ Fiore notched six saves, all of which came on Hartfords final eight shots, and allowed a career-low five goals. The sophomore netminder also had an active game outside the net with a team-high seven ground balls and causing one turnover. The Big Red held a decisive 44-24 edge in shots, including 32-16 over the final three quarters. Cornell also held advantages in ground

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balls (44-33) while forcing 22 Hartford turnovers. The Big Red defense held the Hawks to 0-for-3 on the extra man and forced six failed clears with their ride. It is Cornells fourth quarterfinal appearance in the last five years. Much of the talk leading up to the game was how Hartfords advantage at the face-off x could make a difference in a possible upset, but Big Red freshman Doug Tesoriero was up to the task. The rookie won 10-of-19 restarts against Tim Fallon, and the virtual deadlock was a huge plus for the home team. Doug Tesoriero assisted on the Big Reds first goal after a clean face-off win, and also won six ground balls. Hartford, making its first NCAA tournament appearance, got a strong performance from goalkeeper Scott Bement, who made 16 saves to keep the unseeded Hawks in the contest. Carter Bender had a pair of scores as one of four Hartford players to score. A wild first three minutes seemingly pointed to a shootout, but the Big Red settled in and took control with their athleticism on the defensive end. Hartford scored three times in a span of 58 seconds (a span that produced four total goals), with Martin Bowes getting the visitors on the board just 1:09 into the contest. Pannell tied the game just seven seconds later to settle Cornell, but Hartford won the ensuing face-off and Fallon went the entire way for his fourth goal of the year, putting Hartford up 2-1 with the third goal in just 13 seconds. Hartfords lead extended to 3-1 when Bender scored at the 12:53 mark, unsettling the Cornell fans.

From there, it was all Big Red.

Cornell went on an extended 9-0 run, as Lau outscored the Hawks by himself, 4-2. Keith cut the Cornell deficit to one with his second goal of the season with 11:11 showing on the clock, then Lau scored a man-up goal just over a minute later to knot the game at

3-3. When Roy Lang found the back of the cage on a dodge with 5:33 left in the first, Cornell took the lead for good.

It wasnt done.

The Big Red put three more goals on the board in the second while holding Hartford scoreless, then went into the final minute of the third before Aidan Genik scored on a broken play with 58 seconds left in the quarter. By then, the Cornell lead was still 10-4. Cornell added a pair of scores in the first seven minutes of the fourth to make it 12-4, before another broken play allowed Hartford to get its final goal with just under five minutes to play to cap the scoring.

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he Cornell mens lacrosse won its first-ever Ivy League tournament title with a 15-6 win over No. 17 Harvard

on Sunday afternoon at Schoellkopf Field. The Big Red improved its win streak to 10 games with the triumph behind a suffocating defense and an offense that rolled through the final 32 minutes with 13 goals. Harvard fell to 10-6 with the loss. Cornell will learn its NCAA tournament first round NCAA opponent when the pairings are announced on ESPNU tonight at 9 p.m. A three-minute unreleasable illegal stick penalty on

Harvard late in the second quarter turned a tight 2-2 game into 5-2 Cornell advantage early in the third quarter. From there, the Big Red rolled, outscoring Harvard 11-4 after halftime. Cornell also dominated the face-off circle against one of the nations best groups, winning 15-of-23 draws to prove decisive. Junior Rob Pannell,

the tournaments Most Valuable Player, scored five points with two goals and three assists despite being face-guarded most of the afternoon. All-tournament selection Steve Mock scored five times and David Lau was credited with two goals and two assists. JJ Gilbane also found the back of the net twice and Mitch McMichael had a goal and assist. In all, 10 different players registered at least one point and eight Big Red players caused at least one turnover. McMichael also won 3-of-5 face-offs and freshman Doug Tesoriero was incredible, winning 12-of-18 in the circle with eight ground balls. The Cornell defense caused 12 turnovers in front of sophomore AJ Fiore, who made eight saves and won three ground balls while allowing just five goals. Harvards Harry Krieger was solid in goal, registering 16 saves, nine of which came in the first half as he kept the Crimson within striking distance. Matt Hull led the offense with three goals and an assist and Ryan Stevens notched two scores. Kevin Vaughan posted eight ground balls and two caused turnovers from his midfield position. The Big Red jumped out to a 2-0 lead, but the Crimson rallied to tie the game early in the second quarter. The low-scoring affair saw Pannell score the first goal after holding off a defender on a crease roll, hesitating for a second and shooting the ball past Krieger. A broken play put the Big Red up 2-0, as Lau picked up a checked ball and threaded the needle to Mock, who put the ball in the back of the cage to make it 2-0 with 6:21 left in the first.

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The Crimson scored with 5:11 left in the first, then again with 11:45 remaining on the clock in the second to knot the game. Hull scored the first goal, with Stevens registering the second score. With both teams defenses and goalkeepers playing near-perfect games, the decisive play may have been the three minute unreleasable penalty with 2:46 to play in the half. The Big Red scored twice to turn a 2-2 game into a 4-2 advantage heading into the break. Both McMichael and Bremner scored on the extra-man, with McMichael assisting on Bremners goal. The Big Red was playing 5-on-4 on the extra-man, as Harvard decided to continue to faceguard Pannell in the man-down. The junior pulled himself out of the offense and stood in the corner, allowing Cornell even more space in the attacking zone. Cornell took possession in the third with 14 seconds left on the extra-man advantage and was able to cap the penalty with another score as Pannell took the ball in, skirted a double-team and found Mock to make it 5-2 just 10 seconds into the half. The Crimson earned its first extra-man opportunity with a one-minute chance at the 14:34 mark, but a Fiore save and a Big Red clear allowed the penalty expired. On the other end, Lau found Mike ONeil to make it 6-2 with 13:02 left. The Crimson got the last goal back on the extra-man when Stevens found Hull for a quick bounce shot that got the visitors back within 6-3, but JJ Gilbane extended the lead back to four goals with 8:26 remaining in the third, his second goal of the tournament and first of the day. Harvard got back on the board when Terry White fired a shot past Fiore on the move with more than five minutes left in the half, but Cornell went on a 4-0 run to blow open the contest early. Pannell got the ball rolling with a great look to Lau, who buried the shot and was hit after the play to draw a

penalty. Cornells initial shot was saved, but the clear was checked away and Mock picked up the loose ball. He beat a retreating Krieger to the goal and fired it in to make it 9-4. After winning the ensuing faceoff, Cornell made it three in a row when Laus quick crease roll led to a fast shot and a 10-4 Big Red advantage heading into the final quarter. Jack Dudley capped the run when he scored on a bullet shot off a pass from Lang to make it an 11-4 game with just 13:15 remaining to play.Just over two minutes later, Hull responded for the visitors before Cornell again took control. Another Harvard failed clear led directly to the Big Reds 13th goal, as Gilbane picked up a blocked pass and hit on a tough-angle shot. Less than 10 seconds later, the Big Red won a face-off and streaked in for a goal as Pannell found Mock for the sophomores fifth score of the contest to make it 14-5 with just under eight minutes to play. Pannell made it 15-5 with a low bounce shot to give him yet another five-point day with 6:24 remaining to ice the game. Harvard scored its final goal on the man advantage when Hull completed his hat trick with 2:09 left on the clock. n

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ornell shook off an early first half deficit thanks to an outstanding defensive performance, advancing to the

Ivy League championship final at Schoellkopf Field for the second straight year after an 11-7 victory over Yale on Friday evening. The conference semifinal win will pit the league champion Big Red against No. 3 seed Harvard on Sunday at noon for the conferences automatic bid. Cornell improved to 12-2 on the year, while Yale fell to 10-4. The Crimson won the earlier semifinal with a 12-8 victory over second-seeded Penn. The two teams met on April 9 in Cambridge, Mass., with the Big Red escaping with a 13-12 triumph en route to an unbeaten conference slate. First of all, I want to congratulate Coach Shay and the Yale Bulldogs on a wonderful season, said head coach Ben DeLuca. I really want to compliment our senior leadership and how they led this team through some adversity today. This was a very competitive game but we gritted it out and showed some toughness in getting this win. For the second game in a row, Cornell watched the visitors jump out to an early lead, but used a ferocious defense to hold the Bulldogs scoreless for a span of 29:06 from the end of the first until the tird quarter to turn a 4-1 deficit into an 8-4 lead. Despite the Bulldogs brilliance in the faceoff circle, the home team was never threatened the rest of the way. Cornell earned credit for 15 caused turnovers, including three by Jason Noble and two apiece by Mike Bronzino and Roy Lang. Bronzino added six ground balls and three other players posted four each. AJ Fiore made 10 saves over the final three quarters and posted 11 for the game in picking up

the win between the pipes. All-American Rob Pannell had a goal and five assists to lead the offense, while Lang, Mike ONeil and Steve Mock registered hat tricks. Lang added an assist, while David Lau had a pair of assists. Cornell held a 37-29 shot advantage, including a 20-11 edge in the middle two quarters. For Yale, Matt Gibsons three goals made him the only multi-point scorer. Cole Yeager (10-of-14) and Dylan Levings (6-of-7) helped the visitors dominate faceoffs, winning 16-of-22 restarts on the evening. Johnathan Falcone made nine saves. Yeager and Patrick Coleman each won six ground balls, with Coleman and Peter Johnson each recording a pair of caused turnovers. Cornell scored first after a Yale goal was waved off due to an offsides call, but the Bulldogs battled back with consecutive

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goals to take a 2-1 lead three minutes in. A face-of victory by Yeagher answered ONeils score seven seconds after the Big Red made it 1-0. A minute later, Gibson buried a shot on a feed from Brian Douglass to give the visitors a 2-1 lead. Yale extended the run to four goals before Cornell got a great finish from ONeil on a thread-the-needle pass from Pannell to make it 4-2. Cornell had a late flurry looking to get back within one, but the period ended with the visitors up two goals. Pannells feed to ONeil made it 4-3 with 5:14 gone in the second quarter, giving the freshman a career high in scoring, and a couple of rapid-fire goals, one by Pannell and another assisted by the junior attacker made it 5-4. The equalizer was a great find of Pannell in transition by Scott Austin, and the All-Americans shot riccocheted off a defenders leg and crawled over the line. Pannells feed to Mock on the crease was cashed in to give Cornell its first lead since the opening minutes. Cornell added to the lead when a quick pass sequence from Pannell to Lau to a wide open Mock with seven seconds left in the half made it 6-4. The Big Red defense continued to dominate after the early hiccup, holding Yale without a goal for the final 17:28 of the half to go into the break leading by two. The top-seeded home team dominated the second quarter, out-shooting Yale 10-3 and outscoring the Bulldogs 4-0. ONeil, who entered the game with nine scores on the year, netted the first three tallies of the day for the Big Red. Pannell had a goal and three assists at the break. Lang got the scoring underway after halftime with an unassisted goal more than five minutes into the contest, and Pannell found JJ Gilbane with 6:59 left on the clock in the quarter. Yale finally ended a 7-0 Big Red run by scoring its first goal in 29:06 when Jack Flaherty cut the deficit to 8-5 with 3:22 left in the third.

Cornell goals closed the third quarter and opened the fourth, with Pannell picking up his fifth assist of the day on a Steve Mock score early in the final quarter to double up the visitors at 10-5. The teams traded goals in the final two minutes after Yale got back within 10-6, including a spectacular man-down goal by Lang to cap Cornells scoring with 1:30 to play. It was the Big Reds first man down goal of the season. n

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or the second straight year, Cornells Rob Pannell has been selected as the unanimous Ivy League Player of the

Year and a first-team All-Ivy selection, as was voted on by the conferences seven head coaches. Joining Pannell on the first team is junior midfielder Roy Lang and senior defender Max Feely, while senior attackman David Lau was named second team. The sophomore defensive duo of Jason Noble and Mike Bronzino are both honorable mention All-Ivy

selections. Pannell is the 16th Big Red player in mens lacrosse program history to earn Player of the Year honors and is just the second Cornellian to win the award twice in his career, joining Eamon McEneaney (1975, 77). The Tewaaraton Trophy nominee currently leads the nation in points per game (5.46) and assists per game (2.85), while ranking fifth overall in goals per game (2.62). Pannell was named the Ivy League Player of the Week four times and is

on the verge of moving into Cornells top-10 lists for single-season points, goals and assists. He is also the first Big Red player since 2001 to lead Cornell in points, goals and assists in the same season. Lang earns his first-ever All-Ivy selection as a unanimous choice for the first-team. He is the leading scoring midfielder in the conference and ranks third on the team in both goals (22) and points (28). A solid two-way player and a crucial part of the Big Reds face-off unit, Lang has also picked up 24 ground balls and

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has caused four turnovers. Lang also leads the team with four game-winning goals, including a dramatic overtime tally against Penn on March 26. A preseason All-American, Feely earns the first All-Ivy first-team honor of his career, after being an honorable mention selection a season ago. One of the top one-on-one defenders in the nation, Feely is the cornerstone of Cornells young defensive unit. He has picked up 20 ground balls and has caused nine turnovers on the season. Lau, also an honorable mention selection a year ago, was named second-team All-Ivy following a breakout senior campaign. After making the move from the midfield to the attack in Cornells fifth game of the season, Lau has gone on to record career highs in goals (22), assists (13) and points (35). A shifty player with great speed, Lau was named the Ivy League and the Nike National Player of the Week after leading Cornell to a 13-12 victory at

Harvard on April ninth. Noble and Bronzino both earn the first All-Ivy accolades of their careers, as the pair were named honorable mention. Together with Max Feely, they make up one of the top defensive units in the country, allowing just 8.38 goals per game. Both Noble and Bronzino rank 25th in the country with 1.69 caused turnovers per game, with Noble ranking 34th overall in ground balls per game (4.62), while Bronzino is 64th overall (3.46). The Big Red ended the regular season with an 11-2 record overall and a mark of 6-0 in the Ivy League, achieving the 16th undefeated conference season in program history. Cornell earned the top seed in the upcoming Ivy League tournament and will play host to fourth-seed Yale on Friday, May 6 at 8 p.m. n

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