ualbany mlax MLAX - Game 6 / Conference Game 1 Mar 18 (Sat) 12:00 PM Albany, N.Y. Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium

[cwdickens]

Mar 18 (Sat) 12:00 PM

AE

vs 

UMass Lowell

Albany, N.Y. Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium

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Weather for Saturday

Showers likely, mainly before 9am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

[HOF2013]

I likely can not attend, at least the 1st half.  May not be worth driving down for 2nd half.  Have to get it on the Computer - with no sound.   Have several appointments tomorrow that cam up.....

I certainly hope we play well.  Should note taking anything lightly or for granted.....

[alum73]

I can't make it tomorrow.  If someone wants 2 gold tix and a parking pass, message me.

[cwdickens]

NWS Forecast for:  Today

Partly sunny, with a high near 46. West wind around 9 mph.

[cwdickens]

Men's Lacrosse Defeats UMass Lowell 15-7

[nysteve661]

Wow, the indifference here for the Mens Lax team 😁.  All we got was a weather report, lol.  They beat a really bad UMass-Lowell team. Whoopee I guess.  UVM next who are not as good as last year.

[jimbo]

I was busy. Watched pretty much the whole game. They really looked like the Dane Train for a while. Really good ball movement and not a lot of silly errors. Maybe it was the competition or maybe they are coming together. I like Gash, but the guy has to learn to dial it back sometimes. Owned the face offs. 

[dslyank]

OK, I'll make a few comments about yesterday's game; even though you are absolutely correct "indifference" seems to prevail. Though, we all know that indifference is NOT limited to lacrosse. No need to restate Benson's failures extends to ALL SPORTS. Teams that dominated the AmEast are not even play-off consideration, etc etc blah blah😂.

So anyhow, back to yesterdays game:  UA played well in all aspects. Granted UmassL is pretty bad, but NOT as bad as many may think. They are young and very quick and their quickness did give UA some issues at first. But surprise what GOOD in game coaching can do; a couple switches were made on defense and UA was off and running.

The offense shot much better than previous games and did have more movement & passing which DID result in a good % of the goals being assisted. Silas besides his four goals, had an assist and Hogg had his first two assists of the season. Pfeiffer got quite a few minutes and Kesselring [who I mentioned seemed to be getting pushed around a lot] did not play at all [injured??] Salit got the start at attack and played well, even though the no goals, he did get two assist and in watching the replay, it seemed he was all over the field in constant motion, which I think helped in ways not often seen in the stats. Two way middies Decker and especially Moran [who the commentators on the replay also called out] played extremely well. Reminded me of some of our excellent two ways of old {maybe not as quick?};  Both can score and Moran very tough on defense.

Speaking of Defense, got to disagree with the statement that Gash needs to dial it back a bit. I will agree that I did comment to my friend at the game, Gash could be going for the all time penalty record🙄. Of course, penalties can and often are costly; but IMHO Gash's play and toughness seems to have inspired and is reflected in the UA Defense overall. Being honest, last year I did not think Gash had a very good season. This year he seems to be a MAN on a mission and the entire D seems to have picked up on it. Yesterday, he got penalized and righty so for hammering a much smaller player 3 times. It was almost like he was saying, you may be quicker than me, but you are NOT going to get threw me no matter what; or I have a job to do and knocking you silly goes with the job. Right now, the whole team especially the D, seem to following his lead. Can too much toughness/roughness cost for sure; but I for one hope the whole team BRINGS IT next week vs VT, when the real test begins. 

[cwdickens]

In America East action:

Saturday, March 18, 2023 Men's Lacrosse

	Away	Home	Result	Location	Links
	Vermont16	NJIT10	Final	Newark, NJ (Conf.)	Box Score Full Game Archive
	UMBC13	Bryant17	Final	Smithfield, RI (Conf.)	Box Score
	UMass Lowell7	UAlbany15	Final	Albany, NY (Conf.)	Box Score Full Game Archive
	Binghamton14	Merrimack7	Final	North Andover, MA (Conf.)	Box Score

[jimbo]

4 hours ago, dslyank said:

OK, I'll make a few comments about yesterday's game; even though you are absolutely correct "indifference" seems to prevail. Though, we all know that indifference is NOT limited to lacrosse. No need to restate Benson's failures extends to ALL SPORTS. Teams that dominated the AmEast are not even play-off consideration, etc etc blah blah😂.

So anyhow, back to yesterdays game:  UA played well in all aspects. Granted UmassL is pretty bad, but NOT as bad as many may think. They are young and very quick and their quickness did give UA some issues at first. But surprise what GOOD in game coaching can do; a couple switches were made on defense and UA was off and running.

The offense shot much better than previous games and did have more movement & passing which DID result in a good % of the goals being assisted. Silas besides his four goals, had an assist and Hogg had his first two assists of the season. Pfeiffer got quite a few minutes and Kesselring [who I mentioned seemed to be getting pushed around a lot] did not play at all [injured??] Salit got the start at attack and played well, even though the no goals, he did get two assist and in watching the replay, it seemed he was all over the field in constant motion, which I think helped in ways not often seen in the stats. Two way middies Decker and especially Moran [who the commentators on the replay also called out] played extremely well. Reminded me of some of our excellent two ways of old {maybe not as quick?};  Both can score and Moran very tough on defense.

Speaking of Defense, got to disagree with the statement that Gash needs to dial it back a bit. I will agree that I did comment to my friend at the game, Gash could be going for the all time penalty record🙄. Of course, penalties can and often are costly; but IMHO Gash's play and toughness seems to have inspired and is reflected in the UA Defense overall. Being honest, last year I did not think Gash had a very good season. This year he seems to be a MAN on a mission and the entire D seems to have picked up on it. Yesterday, he got penalized and righty so for hammering a much smaller player 3 times. It was almost like he was saying, you may be quicker than me, but you are NOT going to get threw me no matter what; or I have a job to do and knocking you silly goes with the job. Right now, the whole team especially the D, seem to following his lead. Can too much toughness/roughness cost for sure; but I for one hope the whole team BRINGS IT next week vs VT, when the real test begins. 

Valid point. I think the overall aggressive play by Gash is good and can inspire others. On the other hand, he might go a bit too far at times…it’s a fine line. What most impressed me was the ball movement.