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Game Thread- #15 Lacrosse starts NCAA tournament play vs. Jacksonville, Friday, 2:00 PM MT

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Preview article - http://cubuffs.com/news/2018/5/8/buffs-lacrosse-seeks-first-ncaa-win-friday-vs-jacksonville.aspx

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Buffs Lacrosse Seeks First NCAA Win Friday Vs. Jacksonville

BOULDER — Now in its fifth year of existence, the Colorado women's lacrosse program has made solid, steady improvement every year.

Last year, Ann Elliott's Buffs earned their first NCAA Tournament berth, but lost to UMass in the opening round.

This year, the Buffs claimed their first regular season conference title, posting a 9-1 record en route to winning the Pac-12.

This week, they have a chance to add the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament win. The opportunity comes Friday when 15th-ranked Colorado faces Jacksonville at 2 p.m. in Gainesville, Fla. The winner faces Florida at 10 a.m. Sunday in the second round.

The game will be live streamed on the University of Florida's YouTube channel.

"(A win) would be amazing," said CU senior defender Sarah Brown. "It was definitely unfortunate last year. It was amazing to have CU make it, but this year we're hungry. We're ready to get that win."

The Buffs should no doubt be motivated, particularly in light of their most recent game, a 15-6 loss to Stanford in the Pac-12 tournament championship game in Boulder.

But a win won't be easy. Jacksonville won both the Atlantic Sun regular season and conference tournament title, and brings a 16-3 record into the game, along with an NCAA-best 18.47 goals-per-game average.
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CU Game Notes - http://cubuffs.com/documents/2018/5/8//2018_Lacrosse_Notes_5_8.pdf

Full Tournament Bracket - http://cubuffs.com/documents/2018/5/8//Women_s_lax_bracket.pdf

Live video stream (hopefully stream will appear or be obviously linked on the Gator's Youtube channel.) - https://www.youtube.com/user/FLGatorsAthletics

Live stats - http://www.sidearmstats.com/florida/wlax/
 
Official preview article on tomorrow's opening round game - http://cubuffs.com/news/2018/5/10/buffs-open-ncaa-lacrosse-vs-dolphins.aspx

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Buffs Open NCAA Lacrosse Vs. Dolphins

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Win or go home.

From this point on, the Colorado Buffaloes' lacrosse season is a simple equation.

Friday afternoon, Ann Elliott's Buffs will make their second NCAA Tournament appearance in program history in a 2 p.m. first-round game against Jacksonville at the University of Florida's Dizney Stadium. (The game will be live-streamed on the University of Florida's YouTube channel).

A year ago, CU's first trip to the NCAA Tournament was short-lived, consisting of a 13-7 loss to UMass in the first round. This time around, the Buffs' immediate goal is to make their second NCAA appearance a little more memorable — and longer lasting — than the first.

"It's a huge opportunity," said CU senior Darby Kiernan, the program's all-time leader in goals (201) and assists (71). "This year we definitely want to go further in the tournament."

If the Buffs can collect that first-ever NCAA win Friday, they will earn a Sunday morning rematch with sixth-seeded Florida. CU lost to Florida, 16-9, in the second game of the season this year on the Gators' home turf.

But the Buffs, ranked 15th in the latest coaches poll, aren't looking past the 16-3 Dolphins, and neither are they spending much time thinking about last year's NCAA appearance.

More than anything, they have spent the last 10 days working on correcting the mistakes that led to a stunning 15-6 loss to Stanford in the April 29 Pac-12 tournament title game. After beating the Cardinal twice in the regular season, the Buffs were dominated by Stanford in a game that ended CU's six-game win streak.

The Buffs have done their best to address those mistakes and make sure they aren't repeated against the Dolphins, who won the Atlantic Sun Conference regular season and tournament title.

"We made things really hard on ourselves," Elliott said. "We missed a lot of first-opportunity ground balls, first-opportunity passes. … When you're not executing offensively, which we really weren't, and making some mistakes, having some trouble on draws, you give a team a lot of opportunities and it's easy to get down on yourself. It's deflating when you don't execute and then you have to go back and play defense again. It's deflating when you turn the ball over one out of four times in our transition. We just have to do a better job of controlling what we can control."

The Buffs know they will see a high-powered offense from Jacksonville. Led by attacker Ashtyn Hiron, the Dolphins lead the nation in goals per game (18.47) and shots per game (39.16), and they are second in assists (9.68) and forced turnovers (12.95).

"They're fast and they're aggressive in transition," Elliott said. "Being able to limit their opportunities and on the flip side capitalize on ours is a huge momentum thing."
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Now 5-1 Buffs as the dolphins take an early timeout (still over 24 minutes left in the 1st half).
 
Buffs kicking ass now. Altitude advantage works two ways. Can tell our speed and stamina are tough for the Dolphins to keep up with.
 
Poor stretch and Jacksonville has a good offense.

14-9 Buffs at 1:08
 
Wow!

Carly scores with 1 second left in the half to make it 15-10.
 
Beautiful last goal that hopefully gets the Buffs some momentum back! (Buffs got the ball back near their goal with only 11 seconds, but a nice run towards the center line, followed by a couple passes gave the Buff's Cox a point blank shot she converted with 2 seconds to spare.)



Per the announcer, the 15 Buff goals at the half set or tied (I forgot already which) the team record.
 
16-13 at 24:52.

Come on, Buffs!

I think it's going to take over 20 goals to win this.
 
17-13 with a Darby goal at 22:46. Much needed.

Jacksonville keeps winning the draws lately, though. Can't have that. Luckily forced a turnover after giving the last one up and Buffs are on O.
 
Darby's got 6 goals and 4 assists so far in this one. All-American type performance.
 
Keep giving up draw controls and it's killing them.

18-15 at 18:39

Buffs call a much needed timeout.
 
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