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Apr 10, 2024
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By John Nichols P’09

D-I

BEARS vs BEARS

#15 HARVARD (Joey Graham) 13

DARTMOUTH (Will Cohen, Cameron Brown, Zak Oehlerking) 7

Harvard pulled away from Dartmouth methodically, scoring twice for each goal scored by Big Green. Dartmouth responded with their only back-to-back goals of the day then the teams had one more round of two for the Crimson, one for Dartmouth.

Will Cohen took one shot and scored on it while Cameron took three shots, one of which was on goal. Joey played in the game for Harvard.

#11 YALE (Jake Cohen) 12

#13 PENN (Stephen Bou) 9

The teams traded pairs of goals before Penn broke formation and scored three in a row. Yale did them one better by finishing out the first half with four unanswered goals. Twice in the second half the Quakers pulled within two, but each time the Bulldogs were able to push their lead back out to three. Yale then scored twice early in the fourth quarter, extending their lead to five. Penn netted two then Yale controlled possession over the last six minutes of the game.

Yale and Penn are now 3-1 in Ivy League play, joining Cornell at the top of the league standings.

OTHER GAMES

#9 DENVER (Ryan Giles) 18

Saint John’s 8

Saint John’s scored first midway through the first quarter then the Pioneers got rolling. Denver ran off ten straight scores before Saint John’s closed out the period with a pair of goals. In the second half, Denver and Saint John’s went back and forth with alternating sets of two scores each before the Pioneers netted four straight goals in the fourth quarter.

Ryan scooped up one ground ball for Denver.

Hobart (Jackson Galiani) 8

#18 Richmond 21

Richmond breezed by Hobart, outscoring Hobart 7-1 in the first and second quarters. Faceoffs were even, but Richmond dominated all other possession stats.

#16 MICHIGAN (Hunter Taylor, Graham Hertzberg) 7

Rutgers 9

Michigan and Rutgers traded single scores in a slow paced first quarter. Rutgers closed out the quarter with a pair of goals in the final minute of the quarter, then pitched a 2-0 shutout in the second quarter to lead by four at halftime. The Scarlet Knights opened the second half with a goal and extended their lead to five. Michigan found their scoring punch in the third quarter and with three straight scores cut Rutgers’ lead to two. Rutgers ran their lead back out to three with a single score, then Big Blue pulled within one with a pair of quick scores in the middle of the fourth quarter. Rutgers closed out the scoring two minutes later and held on until the final buzzer.

Hunter had twelve saves versus nine goals allowed.

NAVY (JT Thomas III, Preston Lugar) 10

Lafayette 9

Lafayette led early, but with a three-goal run in the second quarter, Navy got the lead and managed to hold on through three subsequent ties until they got their final go ahead goal late in the fourth quarter.

OHIO STATE (Cullen Brown) 7

#9 Maryland 8

Neither team could develop much of an advantage in the first half when the game was tied three times and neither team led by more than a single goal. That all appeared to change with the start of the second half as the Terrapins netted three straight third quarter scores. However, the Buckeyes matched that and tied the game up for the fourth time midway through the fourth quarter. Maryland fired back and scored twice but the Buckeyes were only able to net one more before time ran out.

Cullen had three ground balls and caused one turnover.

USILA TOP TWENTY (4/8)

1. Notre Dame

2. Virginia

3. Duke

4. Maryland

5. Johns Hopkins

6. Georgetown

7. Denver

8. Yale

9. Syracuse

10. Cornell

11. Penn State

12. Army

13. Princeton

14. Penn

15. Harvard

16. Boston U.

17. Richmond

18. Colgate

19. Saint Joseph’s

20. Towson

THIS COMING WEEK

Ivy covered Bears vs. Bears: #8 YALE (Jake Cohen) at DARTMOUTH (Will Cohen, Cameron Brown, Zak Oehlerking) and #15 HARVARD (Joey Graham) at #14 PENN (Stephen Bou)

D-III

THIS WEEK’S GAMES

#15 AMHERST (Nicholas Kopp, Oscar Smink) 11

#20 Wesleyan 12

Wesleyan kicked off the game with a pair of scores then wrapped up the first half with three straight goals to lead 8-3 at halftime. The teams swapped single goals to start the second half, then Amherst rallied with four straight in the middle of the third quarter to cut their deficit to a single goal. Wesleyan halted that run with the last goal of the third quarter and first of the fourth quarter. The Mammoths picked up two late goals and Nicholas won the faceoff after the last of those two, but Amherst could not get a shot.

Nicholas won fifteen of twenty-six faceoffs, took two shots and collected six ground balls.

#15 AMHERST (Nicholas Kopp, Oscar Smink) 12

#17 Williams 4

Amherst kept Williams from scoring for almost thirty minutes in the middle of the game. During that blackout, scored seven goals. Both goalies stood tall in this match, with Wiliams goalie stopping 63% of Amherst’s shots on goal and Amherst’s goalie bettering that with nearly 75% saved.

Nicholas won twelve of seventeen faceoffs and got to five ground balls.

#9 BOWDOIN (Nico Schermer) 16

Bates 14

After an extended bit of give and take in the first half, Bowdoin closed out the half with four straight scores to go up by four at the break. Bowdoin extended their lead in the third quarter with three straight scores, then Bates struck back. With a five-goal run (the last three of the third quarter and first two of the fourth) Bates pulled within one of the Polar Bears. Bates stayed close but could close the gap.

At 5-0, Bowdoin is the only NESCAC team still undefeated in conference play.

COLBY (Colin Flood) 11

MIT 9

The Mules were playing from behind early as MIT shut the Mules out 4-0 in the first quarter. Colby righted the ship and with a five-goal run that covered the end of the first half and start of the second and went up by one. Colby extended their lead with short scoring runs while not allowing successive scores for MIT until the final minute of the game.

COLBY (Colin Flood) 5

#19 Middlebury 7

Colby’s last line of defense, their goalie, kept this match from being a lopsided blowout. Middlebury dominated the shooting statistics in the game, but the Mules’ netminder stopped nineteen of the twenty-six shots he faced.

Colin played in this game.

DENISON (Anthony Savoy) 22

Transylvania 6

Denison had two seven-goal runs in the game, one in each half, and limited Transylvania to a goal a quarter over the first three periods, then three single scores in the fourth. Denison out-shot Transylvania at a rate of three-to-one in the game.

DENISON (Anthony Savoy) 20

Wabash 9

Denison took the game over right away, scoring six straight goals to start the game. They then backed that up with a string of five that ran from the end of the second quarter into the start of the third.

Anthony got his first point of his college career with a fourth quarter assist.

#7 DICKINSON (Will Single, Andrew Atkins) 12

Washington College 7

Neither team held an advantage throughout most of the first half until Dickinson closed out the period with a three-goal run. The Red Devils added one more to start the second half plus another four to round out the game. Washington notched just two goals between those scoring runs.

Will covered two ground balls for Dickinson.

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY (Owen Hegadorn) 8

Roanoke 14

After the teams traded goals to start the game, Roanoke ran off six straight scores. The Tigers responded with their own run of five to close out the first half and cut Roanoke’s lead to one at the game’s midpoint. Roanoke controlled things after that, scoring seven goals in a run that lasted into the first minute of the fourth quarter. After that seventh goal, scoring died down until Hampden-Sydney got two late goals.

OHIO WESLEYAN (Quinn Coughlan) 14

DePauw 5

The Battlin’ Bishops remain undefeated in North Coast play. With a slow and steady rally in the middle of the game, Ohio Wesleyan took command of a game that was evenly played in to the second quarter. DePauw stopped that run, but Ohio Wesleyan reeled off three more to stretch their lead to ten.

#10 WASHINGTON & LEE (Will Bou, Will Abramson) 18

Shenandoah 8

Washington and Lee ran off six straight scores to start the game and five more after Shenandoah scored their only goal of the first half. Shenandoah stopped that second run with their first score of the second half, then, after the teams traded single scores, the Generals put together another run-this time four straight—to stretch their lead to thirteen at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, the teams swapped single scores twice before Shenandoah got in a final run of three in a row to finish the game.

Will Bou won four of eight faceoffs, scooped up two ground balls, and put one shot on the cage. Will Abramson had one ground ball for the Generals.

#10 WASHINGTON & LEE (Will Bou, Will Abramson) 10

#11 Lynchburg 9

Both teams used short scoring runs to take slim leads, but no lead was secure. The game was tied five times and the Generals broke the final tie with two minutes left in the game. W&L got a one-goal lead with two minutes left in the game and managed to run out the clock with the aid of a late penalty on Lynchburg.

D-III USILA POLL (4/8)

1. Salisbury

2. RPI

3. RIT

4. Saint Lawrence

5. Dickinson

6. Tufts

7.Union

8. Christopher Newport

9. Washington & Lee

10. Wesleyan

11. Swarthmore