PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The women's soccer team will play its final road game of the season at 2 p.m. Sunday when it takes on Brown at Stevenson Field.
 
GAME INFORMATION
GAME #14: Cornell at Brown
DATE: Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012
TIME: 2 p.m.
SITE: Providence, R.I. — Cliff Stevenson Field
2012 RECORDS: Cornell 1-11-1 (0-3-1 Ivy League); Brown 6-6 (0-4 Ivy League)
LAST MEETING: Brown won, 2-1, on Oct. 23, 2011 in Ithaca, N.Y.
ALL-TIME SERIES RECORD: Brown leads, 19-7-4
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ABOUT THE BIG RED
The long wait for Cornell's first victory finally came to an end Oct. 2, when it secured a 4-1 decision over visiting Lafayette, then the team followed up with a 1-1 deadlock Saturday at Harvard, the reigning Ivy League champion. The Big Red then suffered a hard-luck 1-0 loss to Yale in its last game on Saturday, Oct. 13 when the winner came on an own goal off a corner kick. With four goals and two assists for 10 points, senior forward Maneesha Chitanvis is tied with classmate Xandra Hompe (3g-4a—10p) for the team lead in points. Senior defender Jayann Gabrio has two goals on free kicks for four points, and junior Tori Christ has been the keeper of record in all 13 games to date.
 
ABOUT BROWN
The Bears have lost five straight — including its first four Ivy League game — dating back to a 1-0 victory over UMass on Sept. 20, which marked the 300th career win for 36-year head coach Phil Pincince. A lack of scoring is the big reason for the sudden dearth of victories, with Brown scoring just twice over the five-game slide. Chloe Cross, who has four goals for eight points, has been kept off the scoresheet over that stretch. She shares the team scoring lead with Mika Siegelman (3g-2a—8p), who is the only other player with at least two goals on the team. But on the other side of the coin is Brown's staunch defense, which has kept a clean sheet in all six of its victories. Oddly enough, none of the team's goalkeepers have credit for any of the shutouts because of the team's tandem goalie rotation. Amber Bledsoe (3-1, 0.62 goals-against average, .886 save percentage) has started all 12 games, and reigning All-Ivy First Team pick MC Barrett (3-5, 1.82, .773) traditionally comes on at halftime.
 
THE SERIES WITH BROWN
While the Bears hold the advantage in the all-time series, the Big Red has secured a victory and a tie in the last two meetings held at Brown — holding the host team off the scoresheet on both occasions. The teams played a scoreless draw on Oct. 24, 2010 in Providence, and Cornell won its previous visit to the Ocean State on Oct. 21, 2008, by a score of 2-0. The Big Red's first victory against Brown came in 1987, when it won a share of the Ivy League title.
 
HEAD COACH PATRICK FARMER
Now in his 20th season as a head coach in the NCAA, Patrick Farmer was selected as the Cornell women's soccer program's fifth head coach. Farmer comes to the Big Red via the University of Wisconsin, where he served as an assistant coach with the Badgers' women's soccer team for three years. Prior to his stint at Wisconsin, Farmer has amassed a 261-97-40 record at Ithaca College, Penn State, Tennessee Tech and Syracuse. He also served as a head coach at the professional level for two seasons, heading the New York Power of the Women's United Soccer Association. Megan Ramey returns to Cornell for her second season as an assistant coach, and Dwight Hornibrook has also joined the staff as an assistant coach after serving as the head coach of SUNY Cortland men's soccer for the last eight years.
 
MOVING UP THE RANKS
With a 4-1 pummeling of Lafayette on Oct. 2, senior forwards Xandra Hompe and Maneesha Chitanvis have moved into exclusive company in program history. Chitanvis now has 16 career goals, ranking 10th on the program's all-time list, and Hompe is now tied for 10th in Big Red history with 11 assists over her four seasons on East Hill.
 
SISTER ACT
Sunday's game could feature a matchup between sisters. Brown junior goalkeeper MC Barrett is the older sister of Cornell freshman defender/midfielder Joanna Barrett.
 
TURNAROUND
After losing its first four games by a combined 11 goals, the Big Red has effectively improved in more recent times. Six of the team's last seven losses were decided by a single goal, and the squad also secured a three-goal victory over Lafayette and a tie with Harvard. Cornell has been shut out just three times in 13 games after having been blanked eight times in 16 games last season.
 
A YEAR OF FIRSTS
All three of the Big Red's goals during the season-opening D.C. Invitational were the first of the scorer's respective collegiate careers. Sophomore forward Jaclyn Katz tallied Cornell's goal in the opener against nationally ranked Georgetown, then senior defender Jayann Gabrio and sophomore midfielder Clara Gallagher scored on Labor Day at George Washington.
 
TWO-SPORT STARS
The Big Red roster features two players that have competed in other varsity sports on East Hill. Senior forward Xandra Hompe was a three-year member of the women's hockey team, which advanced to the NCAA Women's Frozen Four in all of those seasons, and sophomore Claire MacManus is a midfielder with the women's lacrosse team. Both Hompe (9) and MacManus (16) have worn the same number in both sports.

YOUTH IS STILL SERVED
After dressing just two seniors in 2010 and six last season, the Big Red still has a decidedly young slant to its roster. Nineteen of the team's 30 players are underclassmen, including 10 sophomores and nine freshmen.
 
SHE'S HONORED
Senior forward Maneesha Chitanvis was named the Ivy League Player of the Week on Oct. 8 after scoring twice against Lafayette and assisting on a goal against Harvard the week before. Chitanvis is no stranger to league recognition, having earned All-Ivy League honorable mention in each of the last two seasons, despite often drawing double-teams from opposing defenses. Chitanvis had five goals and two assists for a team-leading 12 points in both the 2010 and 2011 seasons, scoring two of those goals in Ivy League play both years.
 
GOOD THINGS COME IN THREES
The Big Red will have tri-captains for the fourth time in six years with seniors Maneesha Chitanvis and Jayann Gabrio, and junior goalkeeper Tori Christ wearing the armbands. Chitanvis (Los Alamos, N.M.) is the program's first captain to come to East Hill via the Land of Enchantment. Christ (West Seneca, N.Y.) and Gabrio (Honolulu, Hawaii) are the first Big Red captains from their respective states since 2005, when the team's co-captains were Shannon Fraser (Hamilton, N.Y.) and Kara Ishikawa (Mililani, Hawaii).

NATIONAL APPEAL
The Big Red has 14 different states represented on the team roster, with its home state of New York having five players on the roster. Cornell has four players that hail from New Jersey, three from Michigan, two each from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Minnesota, California, Virginia, Connecticut and New Mexico, and single representatives of Hawaii, Ohio, Maryland and Colorado.

UP NEXT
Cornell will play out the rest of its season at the friendly confines at Berman Field in Ithaca. The Big Red will play the second game of a doubleheader with the men's team against Princeton at 6 p.m. on Oct. 27, then it will hold its annual Senior Day at 3 p.m. on Nov. 3 when it takes on Dartmouth in the season finale.