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When Stephen Rehfuss started his shooting windup, Griffin Cook pressed his Albany defender away from the middle of the field. He needed to widen the shooting lane Rehfuss wanted to hit, clearing traffic that Rehfuss had initially tried to dodge around but couldn’t.
Rehfuss’ move left him and Cook as the two SU players working to create on their second possession of the third quarter. There was Rehfuss, the leading Tewaaraton Award candidate on Syracuse. There was Cook, the midfielder-turned-starting-attackman last season that settled back on the second midfield line after Owen Hiltz emerged. And together, they took Syracuse’s three-goal halftime lead and extended it further. Albany blocked Rehfuss’ initial shot, but Cook snuck through and scooped up the ball — running in alone and flipping a behind-the-back shot that sunk into the left corner.