ualbany mlax MLAX - Game 7 - Conference Game 2 Mar 25 (Sat) 12:00 PM Burlington, VT Virtue Field

[cwdickens]

Winning this match-up on Saturday, would be understating the importance of this conference game. 

Mar 25 (Sat) 12:00 PM

AE

at 

Vermont

Burlington, Vt.

 

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Edited March 22, 2023 by cwdickens
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[cwdickens]

Weather Forecast for Burlington VT: Saturday

A chance of snow before 1pm, then a chance of rain and snow between 1pm and 2pm, then rain after 2pm. High near 39. Light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

 

At least the Great Danes have played in far worse weather this year.

Edited March 22, 2023 by cwdickens
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[cwdickens]

UALBANY LACROSSE

 

Men, women vs. Vermont

Danes’ teams had their seasons ended by Catamounts in 2022

 

By Mark Singelais

James Franco / Times Union

Junior Katie Pascale leads UAlbany into Saturday's home game against Vermont, which beat the Danes in the 2022 America East championship.

Jim Franco / Times Union

Coach Scott Marr said that the Danes could get back defenseman Wil Pepe, a senior from Shaker who hasn’t played this season because of a broken collarbone.

ALBANY — “Beat Vermont” could be the rallying cry for the University at Albany lacrosse teams on Saturday. The men and women each play the Catamounts, who ended their seasons a year ago.

The UAlbany men (2-4 overall, 1-0 America East) take on Vermont (3-4, 1-0) in Burlington at noon, the same time the Great Danes women (4-5, 0-0) face the Catamounts (4-4, 1-0) at John Fallon Field.

“Oh yeah, for sure,” UAlbany women’s junior midfielder Katie Pascale said. “Really looking forward to watching (the men), too, obviously. That’s a huge opponent for them this season, too. But they’re rooting for us, too.”

On the men’s side, Vermont has beaten UAlbany seven straight times, most recently a 17-7 rout in the America East semifinals in Burlington last year. The Catamounts have knocked the Great Danes out of the past three conference tournaments.

UAlbany coach Scott Marr said the Danes need to “play within ourselves” to change the outcome against Vermont.

“Sometimes when you end up losing a couple of games and the playoff games we’ve lost to them sometimes guys try to do too much to make it happen,” Marr said. “I think we just need to play within ourselves, within our own game, within our system and hopefully we do things the right way. A lot of those games have been one goal, two goals, so we’re right there with them. They’re a little different of a team this year and so are we.”

The UAlbany women defeated Vermont 16 straight times until the Catamounts edged the Great Danes 12-11 in last year’s America East championship game at John Fallon Field.

“Those feelings are still there, but we’re a new team,” Pascale said. “We have new girls on it. We’re ready to attack them with this new group and we’re really looking forward to it.”

Vermont and UAlbany were picked to finish 1-2 in the America East women’s preseason coaches’ poll with the Catamounts receiving four first-place votes and the Great Danes getting the other three.

The Vermont men were chosen by the America East coaches to win their third straight title, getting all seven available first-place votes. Coaches can’t vote for their own team. UAlbany tied UMBC for second in the men’s poll.

But the Catamounts experienced significant turnover with star midfielder Thomas McConvey transferring to Virginia and goalie Ryan Cornell, the 2022 America East Defensive Player of the Year, graduating. Attack Michael McCormick (40 goals) also graduated.

Now Vermont is led in scoring by senior Brock Haley and graduate student David Closterman, who have 13 goals each. Junior goalie George Egan has started the past two games, a 12-4 loss to UMass and a 16-10 league-opening victory over NJIT.

“They lost some pretty good pieces,” Marr said. “They’ve kind of lost a little bit of what we would call their ‘stretch’ on offense. They don’t have quite the same shooters they had last year, so their offense kind of changes a little bit that way. Obviously, the goaltender’s a huge part because (Cornell) was a very good player and kind of their energy guy. They had to deal with some transition and losing some guys and we really didn’t. We’ve kind of maintained our same group we’ve had for the last year or so and we added some good pieces in our freshman class.”

UAlbany could get back a valuable player on Saturday in defenseman Wil Pepe, a senior from Shaker who hasn’t played this season because of a broken collarbone. Marr said Pepe practiced this week and will travel to Vermont, though it was uncertain whether he’ll play.

Marr, whose team beat UMass Lowell last week, said Saturday’s game won’t necessarily decide home field in the America East Tournament, which is hosted by the No. 1 seed.

“I think Bryant and UMBC will have something to say about that, too,” Marr said. “Those are really good teams right now. ... I think it’ll be more wide open than being a two-man race.”

UAlbany vs. Vermont

■› Women: Saturday, noon at John Fallon Field, Albany

■› Men: Saturday, noon at Virtue Field, Burlington, Vt.

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[HOF2013]

Same old close D.  We NEED A defensive Coordinator............................How can they just walk around our D so easily and score/???? Rhetorical Q.

[nysteve661]

Like many of you , UA athletics are getting worse by the week.  Lax down 5 zip in 1st quarter already.  Even the baseball team getting blown out game after game.  Benson has to go, how many times do we have to say this.  

[cwdickens]

Five goals - five minutes begs the question how did they prepare for this game?

[HOF2013]

2 minutes ago, cwdickens said:

Five goals - five minutes begs the question how did they prepare for this game?

WHY are we playing zone Def. against them>  Last two years they killed it against our zone and they are again today.  We have played FAR better in a man D against better teams...???????????????????????????

[jimbo]

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[cwdickens]

4 minutes ago, nysteve661 said:

Like many of you , UA athletics are getting worse by the week.  Lax down 5 zip in 1st quarter already.  Even the baseball team getting blown out game after game.  Benson has to go, how many times do we have to say this.  

If the game continues in the way of the first quarter, many of us will asking why did Benson extend Scott's contract.  As much as I appreciated our past success by Scott, our future is looking like we are headed for the bottom of the canyon.

[HOF2013]

10 minutes ago, cwdickens said:

If the game continues in the way of the first quarter, many of us will asking why did Benson extend Scott's contract.  As much as I appreciated our past success by Scott, our future is looking like we are headed for the bottom of the canyon.

I think it is mostly a Def issue...  Went to more man and stopped them.

Edited March 25, 2023 by HOF2013

[HOF2013]

Unforced errors all day...................

[HOF2013]

Time for Marr or SOMEBODY to kick some asses....................

[UA1882]

32 minutes ago, HOF2013 said:

I think it is mostly a Def issue...  Went to more man and stopped them.

I going to say that 2 goals in the first half is more then a defensive issue.  

[HOF2013]

Can't watch anymore.   There come a time when a coach HAS to go off on the team.  This play is terrible - turnovers. unforced errors.  Off can't score, Def is slow laterally, can't slide......nothing else to say!

[Laxdawg20]

How are you not up to play these guys??? Have beaten you 7 straight and they look like still on the bus!