Travisano won 50% of his face-offs yesterday.

Travisano won 50% of his face-offs yesterday.
by irishdoc01 (2018-03-11 17:02:54)

In reply to: Good win posted by Domer65

He went 9/18 yesterday against the best face-off man in the history of college lacrosse.

While I generally agree with your sentiment, I thought face-offs were a huge win for the Irish yesterday compared to what Baptiste did to the Irish in the playoffs last year.

Of the other 6:
Hyland went 0/4. He is the young face-off guy. His career has been plagued by injuries to date.
Sexton went 0/1 when sent up as a sacrificial lamb with two men in the penalty box.
Leonard went 0/1.

We could debate why Travisano doesn't take all the face-offs, but so far he's living up to his preseason all ACC billing.

I didn't keep track,but it was more wings winning groundball

than Travisano winning faceoffs. I think he was much better than against Maryland, he fought very hard, kept Baptiste tied up and gave time for help to arrive when the ball got loose, but I remember him winning only one faceoff outright despite what stats say (they only record the outcome)

I'm not dismissing what Travisano did, just pointing out it was more a team effort than actually winning at the "x". We still don't have that guy and will have a problem with possession against the better teams