Just for reference I was at Homewood yesterday for the Charles Street Battle…
It was chippy and physical and the final score is deceiving…it was a tight game until Loyola started chasing in the last 3 minutes and Hop scored 3 essentially empty netters in the last 2:30 of the game
Game was tied 3-3 at half
Hop was up 7-5 at the end of 3rd qtr
Loyola scored to make it 7-6 with 12 min left in the game…
It was a 2 goal game 9-7 Hop as late as 6 min left in the game…
Loyola had multiple opportunities to tighten it up in the last 5 minutes to make it a 2 goal game…but couldn’t make the play they needed
Both team had excellent goaltending. Both Hopkins and Loyola have very good goalies
Again my only point is people are gonna look at the final score and say Hop blew out Loyola 13-7….that was not the case
Rutgers will be desperate and angry next week…but Loyola will be just as desperate…
Should be a very good game next week at Ridley.
I’ll be there…
PS…Army is just flat out elite right now. Legit top 5-7 team
There aren’t too many teams that can lose their top guys at two positions and the second best at another and be very impacted. It’s completely changed how we play. Gotta get better and the players who need to step up didn’t yesterday.With injuries to key players impacting the team this much (and of course losing some players hurts more than others) - it speaks to RU’s recruiting and lack of quality depth. This is been an issue for some time.
Season only gets harder. Loyola has lots of quality and UMass had Army on the ropes in ATL opening weekend.
Hope the guys are up for it.
Gonna need to find a way to grind out wins until then. Loyola, Princeton and UMass are going to be tough games. We’re have to win at least one or we are likely out of the tournament before conference play even starts. Two would be better. The B1G is going to be a grind as usual.The good news is looks like we will get all three injured kids back at some point this year.
Gonna need to find a way to grind out wins until then. Loyola, Princeton and UMass are going to be tough games. We’re have to win at least one or we are likely out of the tournament before conference play even starts. Two would be better. The B1G is going to be a grind as usual.
If we can somehow manage to stay in contention, we should be able to finish strong if we’re get those players back. Would be great if we can get one or two back before conference play starts.
I could definitely be wrong but I feel like we gotta go 2-1 here to expect any realistic post season play.Gonna need to find a way to grind out wins until then. Loyola, Princeton and UMass are going to be tough games. We’re have to win at least one or we are likely out of the tournament before conference play even starts. Two would be better. The B1G is going to be a grind as usual.
If we can somehow manage to stay in contention, we should be able to finish strong if we’re get those players back. Would be great if we can get one or two back before conference play starts.
I guess I’m going to have to recuse myself from discussion this week…
In a very rare situation, I realize I’m probably on the wrong side (at least for this board) this week 😏🤨
Sorry gang
Most likely, yeah. But going 0-fer pretty much puts us out of contention regardless of B1G results, short of winning the B1G tourney. Going undefeated in the B1G regular season and losing in the B1G championship game might not be enough to overcome losing 4 games OOC. And in reality if we lose those games there is almost no chance of going undefeated in conf play.I could definitely be wrong but I feel like we gotta go 2-1 here to expect any realistic post season play.
Let's hope you are right. No idea of how long they are going to be out and it's going to take a little time for them to get into game shape. Right now I think the biggest need is to get Kelly back. If he contributes like he did in that last scrimmage, it will allow for some much needed runs, and that helps prevent the D from getting gassed. Hopefully they can get him in to some games soon.Conference play is very important. We lost 1 game OOC and went 1-4 after a key injury and didn’t make it.
This year almost feels like the reverse of last year. Hopefully we get our guys back and go on a run. One at a time. Starts with Loyola this week. Knowing Brecht teams and the guys, I’d be really surprised if we don’t play much better and extremely hard Sat.
it speaks to RU’s recruiting and lack of quality depth.
I love when kids stay home. My coworkers kid committed to High Point and had a change of heart and stayed home for Monmouth.Speaking of depth- I went to the Princeton, Monmouth game on Sunday and one of the Monmouth players caught my eye as a prototypical BIG or ACC midfielder with size, speed, decent dodging and might look good in red. I looked him up (#2) and there is Matt Dollive, lol.
I don't know why he left RU but playing in only his fourth college game he was holding his own against Princeton and looked to have a skillset that would have served us well down the road.
That said #24 was Monmouth's best field player on the day.