ITHACA, N.Y. – The Cornell men's soccer team, riding a wave of success that makes them the hottest team on East Hill, heads to St. Bonaventure for an afternoon game on Monday. The Red's four-game winning streak will be tested at 3:30 p.m.

MATCH INFORMATION
MATCH #8: Cornell at St. Bonaventure
MATCH TIME: Monday, Sept. 26, 4:00 p.m.
MATCH SITE: McGraw-Jennings Field (Olean, N.Y.)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 4-2
LAST MEETING: Cornell won 2-1 on Sept. 13, 2009
2011 RECORDS: Cornell (4-1-2); St. Bonaventure (4-5)
LIVE STATS: http://livestats.prestosports.com/stbonaventure/
LIVE VIDEO: None

ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell continues to ride a winning streak unseen in five years. The team last won four straight games over the last two games of the 2006 season and the first two of 2007. After a 4-0 drubbing of Binghamton on Wednesday, the Red's week stayed flawless with a 1-0 win at St. Joseph's in rainy Philadelphia. Daniel Haber has two assists and a goal over the last two games, and goalkeeper Rick Pflasterer has recorded four consecutive shutouts. Cornell is on a six-game unbeaten run.

HEAD COACH JARO ZAWISLAN
The 2011 season is Jaro Zawislan's third at the helm of the Big Red. He racked up a 10-14-10 record in his first two seasons, improving a team that finished 1-15 in 2008 to 6-6-5 in 2009. He earned his first Cornell victory on Sept. 7, 2009 against Hartwick and his 10th on Oct. 12 at Colgate. Zawislan, a native of Poland, played soccer for four years at Clemson and then spent time professionally in the United States and Poland. His first college coaching job was at Creighton in 1999.

ABOUT ST. BONAVENTURE
The Bonnies, based in Olean, enter Monday's home game with a 4-5 mark on the season. In their last game, on Wednesday at Cleveland State, the Bonnies pulled out a 2-1 win thanks to a 77th-minute goal. James Reed is St. Bonaventure's striker, scoring five goals and adding an assist this year. Coach Mel Mahler, a graduate of High Point, is in his seventh year heading the Bonnies. St. Bonaventure plays its conference soccer in the Atlantic 10.

THE SERIES WITH ST. BONAVENTURE
Cornell and St. Bonaventure have met six times, with the Big Red holding a 4-2 lifetime advantage. The teams last played in 2009, with the Big Red coming out on top 2-1. Cornell holds a 10-8-1 lifetime mark against Atlantic 10 teams.

PROLIFIC SCORERS
When Haber converted his goal against St. Joseph's on Friday, it was the team's 13th of the season. That total matches the offense's entire output from the 2010 campaign. With less than half the season complete, the Big Red is on pace to more than double its number of goals from last year. Through Saturday's games, Cornell had scored as many goals as any Ivy League team, sharing first place in that category with Penn and Yale.

TOUGH STRETCH
Cornell is at the end of its most crowded period of the season, playing five games in 11 days and holding 4-0 mark through it so far. After the Monday's game, the Big Red plays just one game per week the rest of the season except for the second week of October.

SPREADING THE LOVE
Of the 29 players on Cornell's roster, 25 have seen playing time in the first six games and 19 different players have started. Of the 19 starters, only six have started every game: Patrick Slogic, Jake Rinow, Peter Chodas, Jimmy Lannon, Benjamin Williams and Rick Pflasterer.

A WIN WOULD…
...give Cornell its first five-game winning streak since the last two games of the 2006 season and first three of 2007…give the Big Red its first seven-game unbeaten streak since the last six games of 2001 and the first of 2002…put the Big Red four games over .500 for the first time since Oct. 16, 1999…bring Jaro Zawislan's career winning percentage to .500…surpass the team's win total from all of last season.

TAKING THEIR SHOTS
Cornell continues to dramatically outshoot its opponents, more than doubling their combined efforts with a 131-54 edge. Cornell also holds a 58-25 edge in shots on goal. That number puts the Big Red second in the Ivy League behind Penn's 131 through Saturday's games. Haber leads the team with 26 shots – good for third in the Ivy League – 13 shots on goal, three goals and three assists for a team-high nine points.

PUT THEM IN A CORNER
The Big Red is getting plenty of practice at corner kicks so far this season, with 51 reps in its seven games compared to the competition's 22. The team has converted one directly into a goal, with Stephen Reisert's bending kick landing on Patrick Slogic's head and going into the net against Binghamton on Wednesday. The team has taken more corner kicks than any Ivy League school.

THROWING OFF OPPONENTS
Jimmy Lannon continues to be dangerous with long throw-ins into the penalty area. Lannon's throw in the season opener against Niagara lead to a goal by Slogic, and Lannon earned an assist from a throw-in on Conor Goepel's game-winning goal against Hofstra on Sept. 17.

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
For scoring the game-winning goal against Hofstra just four minutes into the contest, Goepel was named the Ivy League's Rookie of the Week for the week of Sept. 10-17. Goepel, a midfielder from Chatham, N.J., has played in all seven games for the Big Red this year, starting in three. He has racked up five shots, including two on goal, and looks to be a promising contributor to Cornell soccer for years to come.

MINDING THE NET
Rick Pflasterer is backing up his terrific 2010 campaign with another great run in 2011. His goals against average of 0.68 is best among the Ancient Eight teams, and Pflasterer earned clean sheets in his last four outings. The team has not allowed a goal in 414 minutes, and Pflasterer has played all but nine minutes this year. He earned Defensive MVP honors in the CU Inaria Classic in mid-September.

HANDLING THE HAWKS
Cornell's three-game winning streak was extended to four thanks to a Friday-night win at St. Joseph's. The start of the game was delayed two hours by rain, but that couldn't keep Haber and the Red off the board. Haber's 42nd-minute strike low and to the right of the Hawks' goalie was all Cornell needed to get past St. Joseph's.

BRING IN THE YOUNG GUNS
The 2011 Cornell squad features 10 new players, including nine freshmen and one transfer. All together, the 10 newcomers make up more than one third of the 29-player roster. Justin Orden, who spent his freshman year at Wake Forest, is the lone transfer. All 10 have now seen playing time this year, with goalkeeper Zach Zagorski and midfielder Matt Leach earning their first minutes in the Binghamton game.

UP NEXT
Ivy League play starts next week with another road trip to Philadelphia to take on Penn on Friday at 7 p.m.