Christian Knight was again a wall, Jeff Teat orchestrated a buttoned-up offense and Jake Pulver's longpole goal highlighted a 9-1 Cornell run as the Big Red won the 2018 Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Tournament with a dominant 12-8 win over No. 1 Yale on Sunday afternoon at Columbia's Wien Stadium. The Big Red won its second Ivy Tournament title and claimed the conference's automatic bid to NCAAs while improving to 12-4. Knight made 16 saves, giving him a tournament record 35 stops in Cornell's two wins, on his way to tournament MVP honors. He also moved within three saves of jumping into the top four in school history in saves, improving his number to 585. Teat had a goal and five assists to lead a Big Red offense that assisted on nine of its scores and moved into a fifth-place tie for career assists with 98. His 96th point of 2018 matches the great Eamon McEneaney for fifth on the single-season list. Clarke Petterson, meanwhile, had three goals and an assist, becoming the 43rd player in school history to reach 100 career points. But while the offense was clicking, particularly with its six goals in the fourth quarter, it was the defense - and the defense's offense - that made the difference. On the seven-year anniversary of having his large intestine removed, senior captain Jake Pulver made his first career goal count. Leading 8-6 early in the fourth but with Cornell struggling against Yale's 10-man ride, Pulver wound up from beyond midfield and fired a laser into the goal. That score did more than give Cornell a three-goal lead - it also deflated a Bulldog team building some momentum and put the Big Red in the driver's seat. The second-seeded Big Red would up its lead to as many as six and cruise in the final minutes.