VIRGINIA LACROSSE 2020

[tech37]

Has HP won any face offs (missed the 1st half)?

Not one DMac

[DMac]

Gotta love it, tech.

[Cooter]

15-15 7:25 to go. Buckshot 5 goals.

[Matnum PI]

wow, cooter, thank you. i turned it off...

[Cooter]

Virginia seems to have it in hand 17-15 with a minute to go. Time out UVa ball.

[Mr3Putt]

Nothing on Lasalla playing w a soft crab net?

[Cooter]

Final 18-15 UVa.

[Matnum PI]

well, that was exciting for a second...

[DMac]

Heck of a game.

[tech37]

well, that was exciting for a second...

Nolting scores on that last shot, this could have been a very different outcome.

Save of game by Rode

[Matnum PI]

Save of game by Rode

One of many. Rode is good.

[Typical Lax Dad]

Save of game by Rode

One of many. Rode is good.

Poor decisions down the stretch costs HPU a chance to win. At least three TOs in last 4 possessions. Good game. UVA responded to a gut check.

[Cooter]

Poor decisions down the stretch costs HPU a chance to win. At least three TOs in last 4 possessions. Good game. UVA responded to a gut check.

I thought HIgh Point's freshman goalie, Parker Green, played really well. With the score tied 15-15, his decision to come out and defend behind the goal - allowing Laviano to catch a pass for an empty netter, seemed rather poor.

[Typical Lax Dad]

Poor decisions down the stretch costs HPU a chance to win. At least three TOs in last 4 possessions. Good game. UVA responded to a gut check.

I thought HIgh Point's freshman goalie, Parker Green, played really well. With the score tied 15-15, his decision to come out and defend behind the goal - allowing Laviano to catch a pass for an empty netter, seemed rather poor.

Yes. That was a killer as well. 3 TO's in your last 4 settled possessions is a killer.

[wgdsr]

Has HP won any face offs (missed the 1st half)?

Not one DMac

stats guys actually had it 11-8 uva on fo @ half.
high point lost their fogo and went with a pole in the 2nd half
then it was 14 to 2 in the 2nd, for 25 to 10 overall.
pole would let uva's fogo win, and then rag/strip. lasalla and schwenk combined for 5 to's, and it seemed like more for the group.
torpey also decided to pull a stick check on the fogo (illegal), high point got a goal out of it.
all in all, faceoffs ended up pretty even if you're not just counting who gets the first gb. high point played it hard and smart.

[tech37]

Has HP won any face offs (missed the 1st half)?

Not one DMac

stats guys actually had it 11-8 uva on fo @ half.
high point lost their fogo and went with a pole in the 2nd half
then it was 14 to 2 in the 2nd, for 25 to 10 overall.
pole would let uva's fogo win, and then rag/strip. lasalla and schwenk combined for 5 to's, and it seemed like more for the group.
torpey also decided to pull a stick check on the fogo (illegal), high point got a goal out of it.
all in all, faceoffs ended up pretty even if you're not just counting who gets the first gb. high point played it hard and smart.

Right wgdsr. Despite his interesting FO theory, DMac posted the question tongue-in-cheek I believe...I was just playing along.

Great game by two very talented teams.

[MDlaxfan76]

Save of game by Rode

One of many. Rode is good.

Rode is good, but last two games under 50%. This one 42.3%. 11 saves.
Correct?

[DMac]

Actually, tech, it wasn't tongue-in-cheek. I forgot about the game (wish people would do game threads like we used to), was flipping through the channels and saw it was on so I tuned in, it was early in the third period. HP was making a run and the game was getting mighty tight but they hadn't won one (not exaggerating) face off and were sending a pole out pretty much conceding the face off. I didn't realize you were just BSing, cuz it wasn't hard to imagine that they hadn't won one based on what I was seeing. What's interesting is that Va sure as hell wasn't scoring on their face off wins possessions either, they didn't really mean jack as the ball would go up and down the field a couple of times before they'd score, face offs played no part in many/most of their goals. You mention winning the face off but losing the ball a couple seconds later, wgdsr, and that's another thing that muddies the water in the face offs wins games theory. Face off stats and their relevance to winning are very deceiving, IMO. Based on the second half FO stats, Va should have blown HP out and just run away with the game but that sure as hell didn't happen. Same thing in the Cuse-Army game, Army shouldn't have even been the game as Cuse went 16 of 19 on faces offs but only won by 2. So as to give the wlaxers equal time, in Cuse's Monday night game v Gate, Gate won the draw battle 14-11 but Cuse won the game 21-4. A couple of good examples of why I think face off wins is highly over rated.

[Typical Lax Dad]

Actually, tech, it wasn't tongue-in-cheek. I forgot about the game (wish people would do game threads like we used to), was flipping through the channels and saw it was on so I tuned in, it was early in the third period. HP was making a run and the game was getting mighty tight but they hadn't won one (not exaggerating) face off and were sending a pole out pretty much conceding the face off. I didn't realize you were just BSing, cuz it wasn't hard to imagine that they hadn't won one based on what I was seeing. What's interesting is that Va sure as hell wasn't scoring on their face off wins possessions either, they didn't really mean jack as the ball would go up and down the field a couple of times before they'd score, face offs played no part in many/most of their goals. You mention winning the face off but losing the ball a couple seconds later, wgdsr, and that's another thing that muddies the water in the face offs wins games theory. Face off stats and their relevance to winning are very deceiving, IMO. Based on the second half FO stats, Va should have blown HP out and just run away with the game but that sure as hell didn't happen. Same thing in the Cuse-Army game, Army shouldn't have even been the game as Cuse went 16 of 19 on faces offs but only won by 2. So as to give the wlaxers equal time, in Cuse's Monday night game v Gate, Gate won the draw battle 14-11 but Cuse won the game 21-4. A couple of good examples of why I think face off wins is highly over rated.

You think Syracuse still wins that game if they went 3 of 19 on faceoffs?

[wgdsr]

syracuse beat army because they won faceoffs.
that's one game in the faceoff column.
same for loyola-rutgers.