PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- No. 5 Yale outscored Cornell 3-0 in the second quarter, and that little separation was enough to hand the Bulldogs a 14-11 victory on Friday evening in the semifinals of the 2022 Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Tournament. Yale will play either Brown or Penn in Sunday's noon final, while the Big Red (11-4) will await its NCAA Tournament fate when the field is announced later that evening.

Michael Long posted five goals and an assist and John Piatelli recorded a hat trick on offense, while Gavin Adler was sensational on the defensive end. The All-America candidate caused four turnovers, won five ground balls and limited the nation's leading scorer, Yale's Matt Brandau to a goal and an assist. Chayse Ierlan made 13 saves in goal, including 12 over the final three quarters after a wild first 15 minutes. Angelo Petrakis was 11-of-26 on face-offs with six ground balls.

Leo Johnson led a balanced Yale offense with two goals and three assists, while Brad Sharp (two goals, two assists), Brian Tevlin (two goals) and Chris Lyons (two goals) each had multi-goal games. Nicholas Ramsey was 17-of-27 on face-offs with eight ground ball wins

Yale held a 52-46 edge in shots and was 18-of-29 on face-offs, though Cornell held a slim 35-34 edge in ground balls. Neither team scored on their sole man-up opportunities.

It was a wild first quarter with 10 goals scored over the first 11:38, but after Piatelli found the back of the net on a face-off win by Petrakis just seven seconds after the Bulldogs had taken a 5-4 lead, that would be the last of Cornell's scoring until the second half. Yale tallied three times in the second, including a nearly full-field goal from Chris Fake while Cornell attempted a 10-man ride, to go into the break with an 8-5 edge.

Cornell got on the board with 11:05 remaining in the third, but by that time the Bulldogs had scored six straight and the Big Red hadn't scored at all in 22:27. The Big Red cut into the 11-5 lead with six of the next seven goals, including two scores and an assist on a third by Long, to get within 12-11 with more than 10 minutes to play, but Cornell wouldn't get any closer. Leo Johnson stretched the lead to two midway through the fourth on a feed from Brandau, then the duo reversed roles two minutes later to cap the scoring.

Piatelli's three goals give him 53 this season, good for fifth on the school's season list, while his 181 career points jumped him to sixth. Ierlan also passed 350 career saves with his 13 stops (359). With his 11 face-off wins, Angelo Petrakis now has 176 this year - good for the fifth-most in a game in Big Red history.