GAME INFORMATION
GAME #11: Cornell at Saint Joseph's
GAME TIME: Sunday, Oct. 13 at 1:30 p.m.
GAME SITE: Ellen Ryan Field (Philadelphia, Pa.)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 1-0
LAST MEETING: Cornell won, 3-2, Sept. 12, 2010 (Philadelphia, Pa.)
2013 RECORDS: Cornell (5-5); Saint Joseph's (3-8)
LIVE STATS: www.SJUHawks.com
LIVE VIDEO: www.SJUHawks.com  

THE MATCHUP: The Big Red field hockey team will once again travel to the Keystone State to take on Saint Joseph's on Sunday, Oct. 13 at 1:30 p.m. Cornell will look run its winning streak to three games after defeating a pair of Patriot League foes – Holy Cross and Colgate – this past week.

THE SERIES WITH SAINT JOSEPH'S: Cornell won the only previous meeting against the Hawks, earning a 3-2 victory during the 2010 season.

SCOUTING THE HAWKS: After opening the season with five consecutive losses, SJU has gone 3-3 over its last six games to take a 3-8 record into its Atlantic 10 opener against La Salle on Friday, Oct. 11. Of their eight losses, five have come by one goal, including three that went to overtime and one that was decided by shootout. The team is led by Jordan Martin's 12 points and six assists. She also has a team-high three goals, along with Nicole Gerdes. In goal, Rachel Barnett has started 10 games and has posted a 2.30 goals-against average to go along with a .732 save percentage. Amelia Deibler has played in three games, making one start, and has a 2.47 GAA and a .739 save percentage.

LAST TIME VS. SAINT JOSEPH'S: The Big Red erased an early 1-0 deficit and then held off a surging Saint Joseph's squad to defeat the Hawks, 3-2, on Sept. 12, 2010 at Drexel's Buckley Field in Philadelphia, Pa. Catie De Stio had a hand in all three Big Red goals with one tally and two assists, while Kat DiPastina and Hannah Balleza both found the back of the net for Cornell. Defensively, the Big Red got eight saves from goalkeeper Alex Botte, as well as a crucial defensive save by Elizabeth Schovee in the 57th minute of action. Cornell held the advantage in shots (26-16), shots on goal (19-11), and penalty corners (10-6), but the Hawks were kept in the game by the stellar goalkeeping of Kelly Swanick, who stopped 16 shots. SJU got on the board in just the sixth minute of the contest when Therese Doyle took a shot from the top of the arc that ricocheted off Botte and into the goal. Back-to-back goals by De Stio and DiPastina in a two-minute span gave the Big Red a lead it would not relinquish as the teams went into the intermission with Cornell up, 2-1. Less than three minutes after Schovee's defensive save, Balleza gave the Big Red what would be a necessary insurance goal when she redirected a pass from De Stio into the net at the 59:55 mark. The Hawks turned up the heat in the final 10 minutes of the contest and saw their efforts pay off when Jen Wrublesky scored off a pass from Caitlyn Crane, but SJU could not find the equalizer.

A WIN OVER THE HAWKS WOULD:
* give Cornell a winning record for the first time this season (6-5).
* be the 275th win in Big Red field hockey history.
* keep Cornell undefeated in the series against SJU (2-0).
* improve the Big Red to 9-6 all-time against the Atlantic 10.

VS. THE ATLANTIC 10: Cornell is 8-6 all-time vs. the current members of the Atlantic 10 with six victories coming against the conference's two newest members – Lock Haven (3-4) and Saint Francis (Pa.) (4-0). The Big Red has a winning record against Saint Joseph's (1-0), but a losing mark against Massachusetts (0-1) and Richmond (0-1), and has never faced La Salle, Saint Louis or Virginia Commonwealth … Coach Hornibrook is 8-4 all-time against the A10.

THE KEYSTONE STATE: Of Cornell's 17 opponents during this season, six come from the state of Pennsylvania – Lock Haven, St. Francis (Pa.), Penn, Drexel, Saint Joseph's and Lehigh – the most by any one state on the schedule. So far, the Big Red is 1-3 against the Keystone State.

THE HEAD COACH: Cornell head coach Donna Hornibrook is in her 10th season at Cornell (82-75, .522) ... Hornibrook became the sixth coach in Cornell field hockey history in January 2004 ... She has a 253-122-10 (.670) record as a head coach, including a 111-39-4 mark at Houghton and a 60-8-6 record at New Brunswick.

250 WINS: The Big Red's 3-1 victory over Georgetown on Sept. 15, 2013 was the 250th win of head coach Donna Hornibrook's career.

ONE OF THE BEST: Head coach Donna Hornibrook ranks among the best when it comes to winning. Among active Division I head coaches, she ranks 14th overall for winning percentage (.427) and 20th for career wins (193), rankings that would be higher if the NCAA counted her 60-8-6 record at Canada's New Brunswick.

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK: After helping the Big Red to even its record at 2-2 with a pair of wins over St. Francis (Pa.) and Georgetown, freshman Georgia Lord was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Sept. 17, sharing the honor with Harvard's Sarah Finnemore. Lord registered one goal in each contest.

DEFENSIVE SAVES: The Big Red posted a pair of defensive saves against Yale – one each from Mallory Bannon and Taylor Standiford. Cornell had three defensive saves all of last season. 

MOVING ON UP: Senior Hannah Balleza ranks third overall in Cornell history with 34 career goals. She needs just two more tallies to move into a tie for second place with Catie DeStio (2007-10). She also currently ranks fifth in Big Red history for career points with 82. She needs just two more points to move into a tie with Emily Robb (1995-98), who sits in fourth place overall with 84 points. She is also ninth overall in career assists (14) and needs just one more to move into a four-way tie for sixth place with Abbi Horn (2005-08), Heather McCormick (1994-96) and Ellen Graap (1985-88).

PLAPPERT PILING ON: Senior Elly Plappert is having the best season of her career, currently leading the Big Red with 10 points (four goals, two assists). Her four goals and 10 points are already a career high, and she is one assist off her career best.

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE (A NEW) HOME: The Big Red is 29-16 all-time on Marsha Dodson Field. Collectively, the team has outscored its opponents by a margin of 100-75 and has taken significantly more shots (809-484) than its opponents. The defense has been equally solid in the circle, allowing just 268 penalty corners (5.9 per game).

BALANCED OFFENSE: The Big Red currently has nine players that have registered at least one goal on the season. Head Coach Donna Hornibrook has had at least nine players register one goal in all but two seasons with the Big Red (2004, 2012).

FAST STARTS: Scoring first has been a big part of the Big Red's success in recent years. Since Coach Hornibrook has taken over the program, Cornell has posted an impressive 70-13 record in games in which they have scored first. Conversely, the team has won only 11 games in which they have had to come back from an early deficit to win. The first was Coach Hornibrook's very first victory with the team, a 6-3 win over Lehigh in 2004, with the latest coming on Oct. 8, 2013 as Cornell overcame an early 1-0 deficit to defeat Colgate, 3-2, in Ithaca, N.Y.

KNOCK THREE TIMES: When the Big Red fell to Penn, 4-3, on Sept. 21, 2013 it marked only the fourth time in Coach Hornibrook's career with Cornell that the team scored three goals and lost the contest. Under Coach Hornibrook, the Big Red earned its 52nd victory in a game in which it scores at least three goals when it defeated Colgate (3-2) on Oct. 8, 2013.

CLOSE CALLS: Cornell's 3-2 victory over Colgate on Oct. 8, 2013 continued the Big Red's trend of playing in one-goal games. Since the start of the 2006 season, the Big Red has lost 53 games, with 32 of those coming by a single goal, including 15 in overtime. During that same span, Cornell has won 66 games, with 34 coming in one-goal games, including 10 in overtime … This season, six of Cornell's games have been one-goal decisions.

WINNING!!: With her 12 career wins, Carolyn Horner ranks 11th in Cornell history. She needs just one more to move into 10th place overall with Karen Kuhn (1975-77).

HORNER SHUTOUTS: Carolyn Horner ranks fourth overall in Big Red history with six career shutouts, along with Kaitlin Tierney (2000-03). She needs just one more shutout to move into a tie for third place with Kelly Clark (1985-87).

SAVES A LOT: Carolyn Horner has 188 career saves to her credit, good for 12th overall in Big Red history. She needs 20 more to surpass her predecessor, Alex Botte '12, who sits in 11th place with 207 career saves.

OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN:  Carolyn Horner and Hannah Balleza have been named captains for the 2013 season.

SISTER ACT: Since the beginning of the 2007 campaign, Cornell has had at least one set of sisters on its roster each season. This year, the team features one set of sisters – twins Keelin and Mallory Bannon.

TWINS AND MORE TWINS!: While fans of the Big Red know that seniors Keelin and Mallory Bannon are twins, many might not know that another member of the team has a twin, who also plays a collegiate sport. Senior Carolyn Horner's twin, Gabby, plays lacrosse at Tufts.

U-S-A; U-S-A: Hannah Balleza has been a member of the US Indoor National Squad for the past four years.

LANGUAGE 101: Senior Carolyn Horner is fluent in Chinese.

ON THE BLOCK: Ann DiPastina is a member of Cornell's Block and Bridle Club and has trained beef heifers by halter breaking them.

ALL-IVY ACCOLADES: Cornell had five players named All-Ivy in 2012, four of whom are back for the 2013 season – seniors Hannah Balleza (first-team) and Carolyn Horner (first-team), junior Ann DiPastina (honorable mention) and sophomore Marisa Siergiej (second-team).

SMARTY PANTS: The Big Red placed five student-athletes on the 2012 Gladiator by SGI/NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad. Cornell has had at least four players earn the honor in sight of the past nine seasons. Additionally, the 2012 squad earned the NFHCA Collegiate National Academic Team Award for the fifth time during head coach Donna Hornibrook's tenure.

UP NEXT: The Big Red opens a three-game home stand next weekend when it welcomes Harvard and Lehigh to Marsha Dodson Field. Cornell will take on the Crimson on Saturday, Oct. 19 at noon, before playing host to Lehigh on Sunday, Oct. 20 at 1 p.m.