While the Cornell Review writers were busy getting home to start their spring breaks, Cornell wrestling and men’s ice hockey completed their post-season campaigns.
The Big Red wrestlers were outpointed by Penn State on Saturday as the Nittany Lions won their first NCAA wrestling championship in 58 years. Despite the team loss, Cornell’s Kyle Dake won his second national title at the 149 lb. weight class.
The men’s hockey team started the weekend with a dominating 3-0 semifinal performance against a good Dartmouth team. The ECAC final against Yale was sure to be a difficult task for Cornell, but not an impossible one. Unfortunately Yale’s offense did not fail to live up to the hype, completing their historic year with a 6-0 blitzing of the Big Red.
Yale advanced to the NCAA tournament bracket as the top seed (with “unfinished business”) while Cornell did not earn a postseason berth. While this year’s successes certainly did not match those of the previous two years, I’d say a 16-15-3 record and an ECAC final appearance are good results for a young and rebuilding team.
