2024 Ivy League Champions
June Sun
21
Winner Yale YALE 12-1 (6-0 Ivy)
8
Cornell COR 7-7 (2-4 Ivy)
Winner
Yale YALE
12-1 (6-0 Ivy)
21
Final
8
Cornell COR
7-7 (2-4 Ivy)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Yale YALE 8 6 5 2 21
Cornell COR 2 3 1 2 8

Game Recap: Women's Lacrosse | | Sam Rubin

IVY CHAMPS! Win at Cornell Clinches at Least a Share of Title for No. 10 Bulldogs

ITHACA, N.Y. – With a share of the Ivy League title at stake, the No. 10 Yale women's lacrosse team wasted little time in taking control of Saturday's game vs. Cornell at Schoellkopf Field. The Bulldogs scored the game's first five goals, including one by junior midfielder Sky Carrasquillo 21 seconds in, and got the lead to nine by halftime. They then scored the first four goals of the third quarter en route to finishing off a 21-8 win.
 
Yale had clinched a spot in the Ivy League Tournament last Saturday with a win vs. then-No. 22 Harvard. The win at Cornell moves Yale to 6-0 in league play, all alone in first place with one league game to go. The Bulldogs, who beat second-place No. 17 Princeton (5-1 in Ivy play) earlier this year and thus have the head-to-head tiebreaker for the No. 1 seed, will host the Ivy League Tournament May 3 and 5. 
 
With the win Yale improves to 12-1 overall for the first time in school history. Cornell falls to 7-7 overall and 2-4 in Ivy play.
 
STATISTICAL LEADERS
  • Junior attacker Taylor Everson (5-1-6) and junior midfielder Fallon Vaughn (3-3-6) and had a game-best six points each.
  • Junior midfielder Sky Carrasquillo (4-1-5) and senior attacker Chloe Conaghan (2-3-5) added five points each.
  • Conaghan and Vaughn had a game-best three assists each.
  • Carrasquillo and Vaughn had a game-best (tie) five draw controls each. 
  • Vaughn had a game-best three ground balls.
  • First-year goalkeeper Laura O'Connor made three saves. Junior goalkeeper Cami Donadio came on to play the second half and made three saves as well.
 
TURNING POINT
  • Yale scored the game's first five goals – and won four of the first five draw controls. Cornell never got closer than within four goals the rest of the way.
 
KEY STAT
  • This was Yale's most goals in a game since a 24-14 win vs. Columbia Apr. 23, 2022.
 
NOTES
  • Yale had nine different goal scorers.
  • A total of 32 players saw action in the game for the Bulldogs.
  • Yale is 12-1 for the first time in school history.
  • The Bulldogs' five turnovers were a season low. 
  • The Bulldogs are two wins away from tying the school record for wins in a season (14).
  • This was the fifth time this season that Yale has won a game by at least 10 goals.
  • This is Yale's third Ivy League title. The others came in 1980 and 2003.
  • The Ivy League Tournament semifinals are scheduled for Friday May 3 (4:00 p.m. No. 2 seed vs. No. 3 seed, 7:00 p.m. No. 1 seed vs. No. 4 seed) and the tournament championship is scheduled for Sunday May 5 (12:00 p.m.). The tournament field includes Yale, Princeton, No. 24 Harvard and No. 14 Penn. The winner gets the league's automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.
 
WHAT'S NEXT
  • The Bulldogs play No. 12 Denver in a neutral site game Monday at 2:30 p.m. at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
   

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