Dartmouth Drops Conference Contest to Cornell

Saturday, April 2

Hanover, N.H.

1:00 PM

Dartmouth College

1-8, 0-2Ivy

Cornell

4-4, 1-2Ivy

Cornell

Dartmouth

Dartmouth Drops Conference Contest to Cornell

4/2/2016 3:08:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse

Box Score

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. – Playing its first Ivy League game on home field, the Dartmouth men's lacrosse team fell to Cornell by a score of 19-4 on a sunny, yet chilly, Saturday afternoon at Scully-Fahey Field. The Big Green fell to 1-8 and 0-2 in conference play, while the Big Red improved to 4-4 and 1-2.

"You have to give a lot of credit to Cornell for coming in here and playing a great game," head coach Brendan Callahan said. "We knew that they were going to be aggressive and put a lot of pressure on us to see how we would handle it and we did not do a good job with that. We struggled to get anything going and they were quicker with every ground ball. Our game is all about possessions and they dominated us in the possession battle. The effort was there, but the execution was not. We are back to work for the next one against Yale."

A pair of Cornell goals scored a minute apart in the early stages of the first quarter gave the visitors an early lead, but Dartmouth soon closed that gap to tie the game with two of its own from sophomores Richie Loftus and Evan Key, with both assists going to junior Wiley Osborne. The teams remained tied for the next five minutes, but Cornell scored three consecutive markers in the final minutes to make it a 5-2 game.

The Big Red dominated the second, scoring seven more unanswered goals to give the visitors a 12-2 lead courtesy of a 10-0 run that had started halfway through the previous quarter. With 2:41 left on the clock, sophomore Jack Korzelius ended the Big Red's run to give the Green its only goal of the quarter, but another one by Cornell made it 13-3.

A minute into the third, the Red found the back of the net again, but Key's second of the game with 11:03 to play gave the Green their fourth of the day (14-4). Cornell scored just once more, being held to two goals in the third. The Big Red outscored the Big Green, 4-0, in the fourth to lead the visitors to victory.

Cornell outshot Dartmouth, 51-20. All three Green goalies saw time in net: freshman Joe Balaban played the first 32 minute and had seven saves, senior Blair Friedensohn played the next 26 and had six stops, and rookie Griffin Miller appeared between the pipes for the final minute.

Next Saturday, April 9, Dartmouth will host Yale – which is the number one team in the country – in a conference game slated for 1 p.m.