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Connor Kelly Had A 10-Point Day For The Terps And Everything Else You Missed From College Lacrosse This Weekend

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Last year’s score of Maryland vs Notre Dame was a 5-4 win for the Irish. 9 goals total in the entire game. On Saturday in College Park, Maryland, Connor Kelly popped off for 10 points of his own in the Terps’ 12-10 win over Notre Dame. 3 goals and 7 assists for the new numero uno. Not a bad way to keep the legacy of that number at Maryland going. Now the 3 goals he had were definitely nice. You had this turn and bomb from about 12.

Was honestly probably for the best that the goalie avoided that shot at all costs. And then CK1 also had a buzzer beater to close out the 1st half from about 20 yards out.

But it was the 7 assists on the day that showed why Connor Kelly will probably be right up there as a Tewaaraton candidate until the end of the year. Connor Kelly, Connor Fields, Trevor Baptiste. All of them do shit on the field that I don’t think anybody else in the nation can do (although we’ll talk about another stud FOGO a little later in the blog). These assists from Connor Kelly are some looks that get most guys sat on the bench for the rest of the day after they get picked off. The fact that he puts these on the money is ridiculous. Like this one from behind the cage back up top across the field to Jared Bernhardt.

Or this one from a similar spot, over his shoulder, fade away 20-yard skip pass with John Sexton all up in his shit plus the double coming.

The kid fucks with the vision. Kind of selfish though for Connor Kelly to steal all the headlines from this game because Ryder Garnsey also had himself a day for the Irish. I mean this in the most complimentary way possible, but the kid plays the game like Gumby out there. The way that he’s able to twist and turn his body around and still get off low-to-high bullets like this top corn is absurd.

If Jell-O was a nasty ass attackman, it’s name would be Ryder Garnsey.

Cardiac Cuse, Back At It Again

Well would ya look at that. It’s the Syracuse Orange winning yet another 1-goal game in either overtime or the final 30 seconds of regulation. What else is new?

I went into this weekend feeling pretty confident that Lars Tiffany could get the Virginia Cavaliers their 1st win in the ACC since the 2014 season. Then they host Syracuse yesterday at 3 and the UVA offense decided to shoot high-to-high for 3 quarters and get stuffed like a bunch of bears. It was a pretty sloppy games on both ends for the majority of the game if we’re being totally honest, but then the 4th quarter happened. We had a little 4-goal comeback going for the Hoos which was capped off by a Pole Goal.

And then with like 40-some seconds left in the game, Cuse scored what would have been the go-ahead goal but they called a timeout right before the shot so this shit got waved off.

But as you saw above, Ball Don’t Lie and 30 seconds later it was freshman Tucker Dordevic scoring the actual game winner for Syracuse. Their second 1-goal win in a row and it looks like we could potentially be seeing a repeat of last year from Cuse. Those bastards never die.

Recurring Guest Ian MacKay With The Dagger

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Ian MacKay was on the latest episode of The Crease Dive on Friday, then he goes out and scores the overtime game winner against Jacksonville on Saturday. This is just a quick little open invitation to all you current college lacrosse players out there. It is scientifically proven that coming on the podcast leads to you scoring game winning goals so feel free to come on to discuss. P.S. – Ian MacKay’s nickname will now be the Japanese Fisherman since he just killed all those dolphins.

TD Ierlan Would Like To Have A Word With Trevor Baptiste…

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24-24. Twenty Four for Twenty Four. Are you fucking kidding me? We saw Trevor Baptiste go 100% last week against Cleveland State. We all knew that Denver was going to dominate Cleveland St so it wasn’t really that surprising. He could have lost all 22 of his 22 faceoffs and Denver would have still won that game. But yesterday in Albany vs Cornell? Well Cornell had the upset alert on (big) red yesterday by getting out to a 9-7 lead in the 4th quarter. If Ierlan loses a few of those faceoffs yesterday, who knows if the Great Danes would have had enough possession time to do this late in the game.

Albany remains undefeated and TD Ierlan continues to close the gap between him and Baptiste.

Is Hopkins Good Again Or What?

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The Johns Hopkins Blue Jays are the most unpredictable team in the nation. They can come out of the gates and wax a team like Towson. Then they can get their doors blown off by Loyola. Then lose a tight home game to UNC. And then they follow that up by owning the Princeton Tigers on Saturday night like they’re Mike Tyson or something. Sometimes they’re the best offensive team in the nation, other times they look like half the team made plans already for Memorial Day Weekend and they want no parts of playing lacrosse that late in the season. It’s all very confusing. But when the Blue Jays are on, it’s gotta be a horrible feeling to be an opposing goalie and/or defender. Here are a couple of crime scenes from Homewood on Saturday night.

UNC Might Be The Ugliest Undefeated Team Of All Time

North Carolina is 6-0 to start the season. You can’t take that away from them. The gap is starting to close between the blue blood programs and the rest of the nation so college lacrosse is at a point right now where almost anybody can beat anybody. It sounds cliche but whatever, fuck you. With that being said… UNC has gotten to 6-0 in the… grittiest(?) way possible. They have 1-goal wins over Furman, Lehigh, and now St. John’s. Furman and Lehigh were both in overtime, and then the win against St. John’s on Saturday came in the final 10 seconds. No disrespect to any of those programs but but the fact that a top 10 team came down to the wire against 3 unranked teams like that is ridiculous. They still haven’t lost a game yet, sure, but I’m seeing at least 4, possibly 5, losses coming in their final 8 games of the season.

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Loose Balls

– Villanova stays undefeated on the season after their 1-goal win against Delaware. If you listened to The Crease Dive this week, I said that game was going to be a lot closer than most people would anticipate. With Penn losing to Penn State this weekend, Nova has a nice little lead as the best Philly school in the nation.

– I’d love to talk about Marquette upsetting Ohio State in overtime on Friday night but then they followed that up by losing to Bellarmine yesterday in double overtime so Marquette is already dead to me.

– Salisbury went down again for a 2nd straight week in some DIII action. Nothing brings me more joy than seeing a down year for the Seagulls (please don’t use this against me when they’re playing on Memorial Day Weekend).

– I went 2-2-1 on my picks for the 2nd week in a row. Still haven’t had a losing weekend yet but coming out even is still a huge kick in the balls. I pride myself on bringing you guys winners so I’ll be better this upcoming weekend. Currently sitting at 14-9-3 on the season. Good not great.

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