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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeXtreme, post: 3320617, member: 41"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.uslaxmagazine.com/college/men/espns-anish-shroff-shake-the-polaroid[/URL] [B]1. Cornell (5-0)[/B] Sunday’s game against Penn State was worthy of a Memorial Day weekend redux. Cornell’s half-field offense is a masterclass in movement and precision. Watching from field level, every player cuts and moves with purpose, and the ball rarely stops. The rules were simple on Sunday. The team that had the ball scored. Cornell jumped out to a 12-3 lead. Penn State tied the score less than a minute into the fourth quarter. Jeff Teat, who was regarded as one of the best attackmen in college lacrosse a season ago, was an afterthought entering 2020. Let’s stop treating him like a late-90s version of Dr. Dre. Teat was spectacular on Sunday, and Cornell has dynamic pieces around him. Teams can’t just shut off Teat anymore. Cornell won the faceoff battle in the first half. Angelo Petrakis was excellent at X. Expect more opportunities for him in the weeks to come. He and the rest of the face-off unit get a staunch test this weekend when Yale faceoff record-setter TD Ierlan comes to Ithaca. [B]2. Syracuse (5-0) [/B] Where have all the one-goal games gone? Syracuse has won games by seven, 13, eight and six. A two-goal win against Army has been the season’s only close call. Syracuse has elite players at every level and reinforcements are coming. All-American defenseman Nick Mellen should return for the ACC opener at Duke in two weeks. Peter Dearth, one of the top shorties in D-I, didn’t play on Saturday, but his injury isn’t considered serious. Goalie Drake Porter has played like an All-American. The Orange trumpet the nation’s best midfield, a more than competent faceoff unit, a crafty scorer in Chase Scanlan and the Orange own the middle of the field. The challenge now is to handle the road. Saturday’s game marked the first of three straight road games (and five of the next six). [/QUOTE]

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