Semifinal 2 -- Syracuse v. Northwestern

[tothedraw]

Sydney Pirecca (Florida) assistant coach.

[8meterPA]

Sydney Pirecca (Florida) assistant coach.

thanks - i may be mixing this but didn't he have a daughter that played at syracuse?

[njbill]

Yes, Taylor.

[totc]

Sydney Pirecca (Florida) assistant coach.

thanks - i may be mixing this but didn't he have a daughter that played at syracuse?

Taylor Gait is now assistant coach at San Diego State.

[8meterPA]

Sydney Pirecca (Florida) assistant coach.

thanks - i may be mixing this but didn't he have a daughter that played at syracuse?

Taylor Gait is now assistant coach at San Diego State.

thank you! thought I read she was a coach somewhere

[totc]

NU just can't help themselves with their dirty play. Completely outclassed & outcoached today.

8 cards is ridiculous. They should use the high school rule where after the fourth one the team has to play a man down for the rest of the game. Eight cards. Play four men down.

I do not remember as many as eight yellow cards on one team in an NCAA Tournament game. I'm sure it happened in the wooden-stick era when there wasn't a team penalty for having too many yellows, but I don't remember. I seem to remember maybe five or six in a Virginia vs. Maryland game when both teams were in the ACC.

[DMac]

SYR needs to get to 17 goals...haven't scored in forever

Needed that one. Jesus. I'm sweating.

OK. 17.

I couldn't watch it, just finding out the result.
Will sure watch it now though.

[8meterPA]

Feels like Syracuse won DC's by 5 or 6, pretty surprised given how NU typically dominates the draw. The box score on the NCAA site are pretty bad in terms of content so don't know exact DC count.

Tyrell sisters had a combined 8 goals
Gilbert only 1 goal for NU
Izzy 4 goals 3 assists
NU goalie - 8 saves and 21 goals against - ouch.
As mentioned earlier 8 yellow cards for NU and I'm guessing 30/35 fouls

[Bart]

Feels like Syracuse won DC's by 5 or 6, pretty surprised given how NU typically dominates the draw. The box score on the NCAA site are pretty bad in terms of content so don't know exact DC count.

Tyrell sisters had a combined 8 goals
Gilbert only 1 goal for NU
Izzy 4 goals 3 assists
NU goalie - 8 saves and 21 goals against - ouch.
As mentioned earlier 8 yellow cards for NU and I'm guessing 30/35 fouls

Agreed, Thought the orange did a nice job an the circle. Will be interesting to see how it goes In the next go around.

SU offense looked poised and confident. NW looked confused attacking the zone.

[Matnum PI]

i was impressed with SU's #44, Emma Ward. Freshman. I thought she was the best player on the field. Also, enjoyed the SU bench. good spirit.

i was not impressed with NU's goalie. why was she joining the D and riding during SU's clears? She gave up 2 empty net goals early on. Why?

[seacoaster]

i was impressed with SU's #44, Emma Ward. Freshman. I thought she was the best player on the field. Also, enjoyed the SU bench. good spirit.

i was not impressed with NU's goalie. why was she joining the D and riding during SU's clears? She gave up 2 empty net goals early on. Why?

Syracuse got a lot from freshmen today. In addition to Ward’s 3 or 4, two from Markey and one from Baxter. Clan Tyrell kind of killed it too.

[Matnum PI]

Syracuse got a lot from freshmen today. In addition to Ward’s 3 or 4, two from Markey and one from Baxter. Clan Tyrell kind of killed it too.

And Ward's assists. Even assists where the shooter didn't score. She did a lot for the O...

[Cletus]

Syracuse fans be like...

[Cletus]

Sydney Pirecca (Florida) assistant coach.

thanks - i may be mixing this but didn't he have a daughter that played at syracuse?

[DMac]

Never knew that Ward asked for #44, sure gotta say she's representing that number well on a lacrosse field. She's escalated from being a very good player who stepped up big very early to being a QB, Carney like. It's good to get the ball in her stick. Her confidence and feeling of belonging has skyrocketed too. This whole team is just impressive. This is the first I've seen Northwestern play, thought they were going to be a much tougher opponent for Cuse but Cuse handled them rather handily. Just can't say enough about this group and how well they play together.
Weather didn't turn out to be as bad as predicted...nice.

[LarryGamLax]

Simply put...the worst game I have seen NU play since their 2019 Final Four loss to Maryland. 3 Empty net goals, 3 2-man down situations, 8 Yellow cards, a plethora of bad passes and bad turnovers. And the goaltending was sub-par.

Syracuse played very well and I love the consistency of Kerry Defliese, underrated but delivers on the regular. Emma Ward, Jenny Markey, Emma and Meghan Tyrrell and Sam Swart all played very well.

Syracuse earned the win and they deserved it.

[Cletus]

waiting for cletus to post his reggie miller choke video...

The video is appropriate—true. Both Carolina and Northwestern threw up on themselves yesterday. Both teams were supposed to do more. Both weren’t prepared.

Yep—that Wildcat no show was pretty bad. The whole team never knew what hit them, including the entire coaching staff. The Wildcats were completely unprepared for Gait’s game plan and the way his team executed and kept their composure. The purple team was Pathetic. All the toughness questions about Northwestern were proved correct. They were exposed as soft in the face of a much more battle tested Syracuse squad.

[njbill]

So where would Northwestern have ended up if it had played in the ACC this year? I say no better than third, and maybe not even that high.

If they played two games each against the top four teams in the ACC, I could see them going anywhere from 5-3 to 3-5, but probably no better than that.

But this doesn’t take into account that the team might have improved over the course of the season had it played tougher competition. Not sure how to calculate that.

[8meterPA]

Never knew that Ward asked for #44, sure gotta say she's representing that number well on a lacrosse field. She's escalated from being a very good player who stepped up big very early to being a QB, Carney like. It's good to get the ball in her stick. Her confidence and feeling of belonging has skyrocketed too. This whole team is just impressive. This is the first I've seen Northwestern play, thought they were going to be a much tougher opponent for Cuse but Cuse handled them rather handily. Just can't say enough about this group and how well they play together.
Weather didn't turn out to be as bad as predicted...nice.

That was a neat story about why she chose #44 and to know that history at that age is special. I have not heard a Floyd Little reference in many years and certainly brought back memories. I've become such a big Ward fan this year - the way she has stepped up to play with complete composure and without fear is amazing.

[UnderArmourOdor]

Is it just me, or, does KAH always look confused when losing big?

She needed more from the NWU Yelling Coach!