ITHACA, N.Y. – With just three weekends remaining in the 2013 season, the Cornell men's soccer team will look to leave October's woes behind as it travels to Princeton to face the third-place Tigers.  

GAME INFORMATION
GAME #15: Cornell at Princeton  
DATE & TIME:  Saturday, Nov. 2 at 4 p.m.
SITE: Roberts Stadium (Princeton, N.J.)
SERIES RECORD:  Princeton leads 48-38-12
LAST MEETING: Oct. 27, 2012; Cornell won 1-0
2013 RECORDS: Cornell (6-4-4, 0-3-1 Ivy League), Princeton (5-7-1, 2-1-1 Ivy League)
LIVE STATS | IVY DIGITAL
 
ABOUT THE BIG RED
October was a rough month for the Big Red, which posted a 0-3-2 through five games. The team enters November still searching for its first Ivy League victory of 2013 and first win since a 1-0 shutout win Sept. 27 at Buffalo. The Big Red's only point against league opponents this season came in the form of a 0-0 tie with Yale on Oct. 19. Senior defenders Patrick Slogic and Jake Rinow lead the team with six points (2g, 2a), while fellow defender and classmate Jake Kirsch is tied with junior Conor Goepel with five points (2g, 1a). Goepel has recorded the most shots for Cornell so far this season with 36 (18 on goal).

HEAD COACH JARO ZAWISLAN
After taking over a program that was 1-15 the season before his appointment as head coach, Jaro Zawislan has steadily improved men's soccer at Cornell; transforming an eighth-place team into Ivy League Champions and coaching the Big Red to the program's best season in nearly two decades. Zawislan, a native of Poland, now holds a 39-22-20 record after the team's 1-0 loss to Brown last weekend. He played soccer for four years at Clemson and then spent time professionally in the United States and Poland.
 
ABOUT PRINCETON
Harvard handed the Tigers their first conference loss of the season last weekend as the Crimson scored two, late second-half goals to earn the 2-1 come-from-behind win. Cameron Porter scored Princeton's only goal early in the contest when he converted a penalty kick attempt in the 10^th minute. Porter's 13 points (5 goals, 3 assists) is second to teammate Thomas Sanner, who is currently the league leader in goals (7) and shares the league-lead in points (15).
 
THE SERIES WITH PRINCETON
Princeton has a 48-38-12 edge in the series with Cornell, which dates back to 1908. Prior to its win last season, Cornell had not beaten the Tigers since 2006. Since the 2000 season, six of the matchups between the teams have seen at least one overtime period, and Princeton has a 6-4-3 record against the Big Red in that time span.   
 
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The Big Red is currently experiencing its longest scoring drought of the season, spanning more than three games. The last time Cornell was held without a goal for more than three games was the end of the 2010 season, when the team failed to score in its final six contests. The 2010 season was also the last time the team was winless through its first four Ivy League games, as that squad finished 0-5-2 in conference place. Just last year, the Big Red had 34 goals for heading in to the Princeton game last season, compared to just 11 so far this season. Senior defender Jake Kirsch tallied the team's last goal on Oct. 12 in the 82^nd minute of a heartbreaking 2-1 overtime loss to Harvard.
 
AROUND THE IVY LEAGUE
Penn conceded its first two goals against a conference opponent this season in last weekend's thrilling 3-2 overtime victory over Yale. The Quakers are now in sole possession of first place in the Ivy League standings with 10 points. Harvard is second with nine points at 3-1 in league play, while Princeton and Yale are tied for third place with seven points. The Big Red is now four points out of fifth place.
 
BACK TO BACK TO BACK
The Big Red opened the 2013 season with three straight overtime games; the last time a Cornell men's soccer team played in three straight games needing more than 90 minutes was in September 2006 against Buffalo, Boston University and Columbia.  

SENIOR LEADERSHIP
For the second season in a row the Big Red has three captains, as Jake Rinow, Patrick Slogic and Benjamin Williams have assumed the role for their senior seasons. Slogic is coming off a First Team All-Ivy season in 2012 and was named to the MAC Hermann watch list and as a contender for the Senior CLASS Award in the weeks prior to the 2013 season.
 
FRESH FACES
Cornell added 13 newcomers to the roster for the 2013 campaign, many of whom will challenge the veteran players for playing time throughout the year. Goalkeeper Evan King, midfielder Madison Heck and midfield/forward hybrid Sebastian Scales all come to East Hill from Eastside FC in Washington State.
 
AIN'T THAT AMERICA
Nearly all of the players on this season's roster hail from one of 12 states, as California, New York and Washington each claim claiming four players. The Big Red has three players from New Jersey, two from both Colorado and Indiana and one each from Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan and Nebraska. Freshman JJ Black hails from Cambridge, England.  
 
UP NEXT
The Big Red will be on the road the next two weekend's before returning to Berman Field for its final conference game and Senior Day festivities. The first of the two road trips will be to Princeton for a 4 p.m. contest on Nov. 2.