Delaware plays at Penn today at noon on ESPN+.
Penn comes into the contest with a 1-1 record after losing 12-9 to #5 Georgetown (in a game that was closer than the score) and getting a 15-10 win on Tuesday against #15 Albany. Didn't watch the Albany game, but Penn looks solid...except for losing sight of G'town's star player, who lit them up for 7 goals in Penn's season opener last weekend.
Penn's Davis Provost (a career path?) has been active scoring 4 goals on 10 shots against Albany (with an assist) and 3 goals on 6 shots and an assist against G'town. Griffin Scane (not making these names up) scored 2 goals at Georgetown and 4 against Albany, while Ben Beacham added 2 goals in each game and Jackson Maher had a goal against the Hoyas and 2 against Albany.
Ethan Costanzo is their main FO guy, going 11-16 against Albany and 7-10 against G-town. I believe the Hens have faced him before, but that was with our veterans. Have to do a decent job at FO in order to stay in this game. Their goalie as about a 50-50 guy, but he had little chance against G-town's Conner, who was left wide open for several easy shots.
Penn pressured Georgetown (18-22 on clears), but Albany was 18-19, so not sure how Penn played the ride in that game.
Gotta' clean up our clears and put the ball on goal.
Wonderful weather today, so no excuses.
Penn - today at noon
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Penn - today at noon
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Re: Penn - today at noon
Lots of the same issues that were already discussed in previous games. Down 8-2 at the half and Penn is better in every phase right now. Just work on getting better and go from there.
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Re: Penn - today at noon
Another ugly game.
Holy smokes, we can't clear and we went 0-12 on face offs in the second half. Still misfiring. The D gets lost sometimes. Poor communication on this team.
And...we are slow...several Penn guys simply went around our defenders with little trouble.
This is looking to be a very challenging year and some of our new conference mates look to be tough. Richmond is #6 and looking impressive. UMass is 3-1. St. Joe's has two wins against ranked teams.
The good news regarding our opponents?
St. John's has won two games, including Hofstra today.
Drexel continues to win and is now 3-0.
Maryland is now 1-2 after losing 13-12 to #12 Princeton.
The bad news?
We lost badly to Penn.
nova, our next opponent, who beat #10 Penn State earlier, gave #19 Rutgers a game before losing 8-7.
St. Joe's beat #14/16 ranked Villanova last week and just beat #16/17 Towson.
Richmond goes to 4-0 with a 16-7 win over Lehigh.
Next weekend's home tilt against nova looks to have beautiful weather with mid-50's and sun. Of course, we could be buried in 18 feet of snow with the panic forecasts for Sunday/Monday.
Holy smokes, we can't clear and we went 0-12 on face offs in the second half. Still misfiring. The D gets lost sometimes. Poor communication on this team.
And...we are slow...several Penn guys simply went around our defenders with little trouble.
This is looking to be a very challenging year and some of our new conference mates look to be tough. Richmond is #6 and looking impressive. UMass is 3-1. St. Joe's has two wins against ranked teams.
The good news regarding our opponents?
St. John's has won two games, including Hofstra today.
Drexel continues to win and is now 3-0.
Maryland is now 1-2 after losing 13-12 to #12 Princeton.
The bad news?
We lost badly to Penn.
nova, our next opponent, who beat #10 Penn State earlier, gave #19 Rutgers a game before losing 8-7.
St. Joe's beat #14/16 ranked Villanova last week and just beat #16/17 Towson.
Richmond goes to 4-0 with a 16-7 win over Lehigh.
Next weekend's home tilt against nova looks to have beautiful weather with mid-50's and sun. Of course, we could be buried in 18 feet of snow with the panic forecasts for Sunday/Monday.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain(?)
Mark Twain(?)