Ivy League Release

ITHACA, N.Y. – For the second consecutive week, the Ivy League has named Daniel Haber as its player of the week. The junior had a hat trick against Buffalo on Sunday along with an assist on Cornell's other goal to help keep the Big Red undefeated at 4-0.

This is the fourth time Haber has won the Ivy League's Player of the Week honors. He earned it twice last season and won seven days ago on the first Monday of the conference's year.

Haber is the first player to win back-to-back Player of the Week honors from the league in nearly eight years. Dartmouth's Mark Limpert was the last player to do so on Nov. 1 and Nov. 8, 2004.

Haber is also the first Cornellian to ever win back-to-back Player of the Week awards as far back as the Ivy League records go (1984). Cornell has not had teammates win Player of the Week in consecutive weeks since 1995 when Rob Elliott and Erik Kusseluk won on Nov. 7 and Nov. 14.

Haber's honors also made Cornell the first team to have back-to-back players of the week since November 2010 when Princeton's Matt Sanner and Benjamin Burton won the award.

Haber started Sunday's game against the Bulls with an assist on Patrick Slogic's header goal. Slogic floated the ball into the net off a Haber corner kick.

Haber then rattled off three consecutive goals for the Big Red, scoring in the 26th, 61st and 85th minutes to cushion the team's lead and seal a 4-0 win. Haber has six goals through four games this year and is three shy of his total of nine from all of 2011.

Haber and the Big Red will be back in action on Friday night against Vermont for the first game of the second CU Inaria Classic. The Big Red and Catamounts kick off at 7 p.m.