Men’s Lacrosse Bested by Wheeling Jesuit,
11-1 by Channing Joseph
In a
disappointing continuation of recent events, the Oberlin men’s
lacrosse team came away with another defeat, 11-1, this past
Tuesday, in a home game against Wheeling Jesuit University.
During the first half of the match, the Yeomen suffered a
pounding by the visitors, who scored 10 goals to Oberlin’s zero. Yet
by the second half, Oberlin had mustered enough defensive chutzpah
to push their opponents into check, allowing the Jesuits to score
merely one more goal for the remainder of the match. It may have
been, however, that too much of the Oberlin team’s newly-found
energy during the second half was diverted to defense, preventing
the team from scoring more than a single goal during this
period. Senior Brian Lange, who scored the lone goal for the
Yeomen, said, “We transitioned into a zone type defense for the
second half to better answer the two men they had at the exposition
[or behind the goal]. When that happened, they employed a more
perimeter type game. With that, [senior] Dave Smolev was able to
make some pretty good saves. We got the ball up-field. I got a pass
from [sophomore] Logan Hegg and found the upper right side of the
net, which is pretty much the only place that shot could have
gone.” Commenting about the game as a whole, junior Sam Bryar
said, “We were trying to get ourselves together. They were a tough
team. They were a good team. We didn’t know how we were going to
fare against them. And that’s what we were trying to figure out
during the first half. We [only] found a rhythm during the second
half, [which was] a really strong performance by our defense. We owe
a lot to our goalie Smolev. It’s too bad we didn’t have the same
energy for the first half.”
The
Yeomen play their penultimate game this Saturday, May 4, against the
College of Wooster at 1:30 p.m. in Dill Field. Regarding the
upcoming event, Bryar further said, “I was glad to see Brian getting
that goal this time. He’s been a help this year. Hopefully we’ll see
some more of that this Saturday.” |