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[QUOTE="DomeHolmes, post: 5428846, member: 10113"]
No, we probably don’t, but if their goalie doesn’t stand on his head and we don’t hit pipes, they lose by 5+.   They clearly played better in the first 40 minutes though.

We had 12 unforced turnovers, and they had I believe 7 more saves than us, so they made up 19 of the possessions we gained (by dominating face offs),  between their goalie and our sloppiness.   (Those 19 lost possessions for us had very little to do with Harvard’s other nine guys on the field out playing us). They also only had two more forced turnovers than us, so it was as much us beating ourselves as it was them beating us.

They clearly won three things. The first 40 minutes, ground balls (not including face offs) and goalkeeping.  We clearly won face offs, shots, shots on goal, dominated the last 20 minutes, and made better adjustments.  So in my eyes, we played fairly evenly, but we just made one more play than them.

We have also fought uphill battles with penalties all year, and were overdue to have a game where we were less penalized.

I read the three pages of the Harvard lacrosse forum. (They obviously don’t care about lacrosse as much as we do). There was not one post in three pages where someone felt that “they dominated the game but lost”.   Quite the opposite, it seems like they expected it and gave us credit for being more clutch than them.
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