ITHACA, N.Y. — The women's soccer team will honor its four seniors Saturday, when it plays its final game of the 2014 season against Dartmouth at 2:30 p.m. at Berman Field. Kelly Abrams, Sydney Cetrullo, Claire MacManus and Kerry Schubert will all be playing in their final game with the Big Red.
 
GAME INFORMATION
GAME #17: Dartmouth at Cornell
DATE: Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
SITE: Charles F. Berman Field – Ithaca, N.Y. (natural surface)
2014 RECORDS: Cornell 7-9 (1-5 Ivy); Dartmouth 7-4-4 (3-0-3 Ivy)
AUDIO: www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com/cornell/schedule?tid=8
LIVE STATS: www.sidearmstats.com/cornell/wsoc
 
ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell enters its final game of the season with a chance to register the program's highest win total in 12 years. A victory over Dartmouth would give the Big Red eight wins for the first time since 2002, and it would also give the program its first two-win Ivy season since the same season. Cornell enters the weekend after a pair of league losses to Brown on Oct. 26 and Princeton last Saturday. The Big Red had a slight territorial advantage against the Tigers before falling 2-1. Senior forward Kerry Schubert scored her career-high fourth goal of the season by cashing in a rebound of a shot by freshman forward Meera Dheer. The Big Red has dropped six of its last seven games, and four in a row in Ivy League play. Cornell is 1-5 in league games. … Sophomore midfielder Elizabeth Crowell leads the team in scoring with six goals and two assists for 14 points. Junior forward Caroline Growney and her four goals and team-high five assists rank second at 13 points, which is two off the career high she set last season (7-1—15). After her goal last week, Schubert is third in team scoring with four goals for eight points. … Cornell was 7-8-1 last season, which featured more than double the program's win totals from the 2011 and 2012 seasons combined. Cornell had at least five victories in its first six games for the first time since 2005.
 
ABOUT DARTMOUTH
The Big Green is the lone undefeated team remaining in Ivy League play and kept its Ivy League hopes alive with a 2-0 victory last weekend against league-leading Harvard. The win pulled Dartmouth to within one point of the Crimson, meaning a Big Green victory Saturday combined with a Harvard loss or draw against Columbia would give Dartmouth the outright title. … In its most recent game action, Dartmouth won in overtime, 2-1, at UMass-Lowell on Tuesday. Sophomore defender/midfielder Meredith Gurnee netted the winner with a header off a free kick service from 35 yards by junior defender Jill Dayneka. Senior defender Kate Castillo scored the team's first goal. … Senior goalkeeper Tatiana Saunders is the reigning Ivy League Player of the Week. She has started 14 games this season with a 6-4-4 record, 0.67 goals-against average, .844 save percentage and seven clean sheets. … Junior forward Lucielle Kozlov leads the team in scoring with five goals and two assists for 12 points. Junior forward Corey Delaney Is second with four goals and three assists for 11 points. Lindsay Knutson has a team-high four assists.
 
THE SERIES WITH DARTMOUTH
The Big Green holds a 22-7-5 lead and a 18-game unbeaten streak in the series. The last time Cornell defeated Dartmouth was a 3-0 victory in an ECAC Tournament semifinal on Nov. 11, 1995, though the Big Red also defeated the Big Green, 3-1, in their regular-season game on Oct. 22, 1995.
 
HEAD COACH PATRICK FARMER
Now in his 22nd season as a head coach in the NCAA, Patrick Farmer is in his third season as the Cornell women's soccer program's fifth head coach. Farmer came 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. Farmer has amassed a 276-128-42 record at Cornell, 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 fourth season as an assistant coach, and Dwight Hornibrook is in his third season as an assistant coach after serving as the head coach of SUNY Cortland men's soccer for eight years.
 
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT
Junior forward Caroline Growney was named Ivy League Player of the Week on Oct. 6 after helping the Big Red to a 3-2 victory over Penn the week before with a goal and an assist. Growney also earned the honor on Sept. 8, which makes her the first Cornellian to win the Ivy honor twice in the same season since 1997. A hard-nosed forward, Growney has also proven to be durable in her time with the Big Red. A three-year starter, the New Mexico export has appeared in all 44 of Cornell's games since her arrival on East Hill in 2012.
 
CROWELL ON A ROLL
Sophomore midfielder Elizabeth Crowell has a pair of two-goal games to her credit this season and has topped her point total from her freshman campaign. Her first two goals this season were both banked off the woodwork and into the net during a 5-0 rout of Virginia Military Institute on Sept. 12. Two days later, Crowell assisted on the Big Red's lone goal in a double-overtime loss to Temple. She was not only named to the Big Red Shootout All-Tournament Team, but she was tied for most votes received. She led the tournament in scoring with five points.
 
TOPS IN THE TOURNEY
After finishing in second place in the Big Red Shootout on Sept. 12 and Sept. 14, the Big Red had three players voted to the event's all-tournament team — junior forward Caroline Growney, sophomore midfielder Elizabeth Crowell and junior defender Charlotte Tate.
 
ON TO THE NEXT CENTURY
In the same year Cornell University is celebrating its sesquicentennial, the women's soccer team has celebrated a slightly bigger number. The Big Red registered the 200th victory of the program's history of 32-plus years last Friday with a 3-2 victory against Buffalo at Berman Field. Opponents for some other milestones include Hamilton in 1982 (first), Yale in 1988 (50th), Colgate in 1994 (100th), Wagner in 2002 (150th) and now Buffalo in 2014 (200th).
 
QUICK STARTERS
Cornell has enjoyed great success in the 33 season openers in the program's history, picking up a 19-10-4 mark in the first game of the season. That trend continued this season with a dramatic 1-0 victory Sept. 4 at Massachusetts on the strength of junior forward Caroline Growney's 110th-minute goal. Sophomore midfielder Elizabeth Crowell assisted on the strike, and sophomore goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney made six saves for her third career shutout.
 
A CALL TO ARMBANDS
Senior midfielder Claire MacManus and senior defender Sydney Cetrullo are the Big Red's co-captains this season. It's just the second time in the last eight years that the Big Red has had fewer than three captains, with 2011 (Abigail Apistolas and Sidra Bonner) and 2009 (Katie Hayes and Lena Russomagno) being the other occurrences in that span.
 
ALOHA!
Last season, forward Dempsey Banks and midfielder Elizabeth Crowell gave the Big Red two freshmen with at least 10 points in a season for just the second time in program history and the first time since 1988. Banks' total of 12 points ranked ninth all-time in freshman scoring. She joined the Big Red by way of Honolulu, Hawaii, coming from the same strong Punahou School and Leahi SC programs that produced Jayann Gabrio '13, a key central defender for the Big Red over her collegiate career. Crowell joined the Big Red immediately after her sister, Megan Crowell '13, concluded her playing career at Cornell as a four-time letterwinner.
 
SHE'S HONORED
Senior midfielder Claire MacManus has been recognized for being one of the top defensive midfielders in the Ivy League, as she has been tabbed as an All-Ivy Second Team selection in each of the last two seasons. One of the team's best aerial threats, MacManus scored one goal in each of her first three seasons on East Hill. Her latest strike was the game-winner against Delaware State on Oct. 6, 2013. MacManus is also a midfielder on the women's lacrosse team, being named to the All-Ivy League Second Team in that sport as well.
 
YOUTH IS SERVED
The Big Red is carrying a roster of 27 players this season, but only four are seniors. All four of the fourth-year players — Kelly Abrams, Sydney Cetrullo, Claire MacManus, Kerry Schubert — have started at some point in their careers. There are also five juniors, eight sophomores and nine freshmen on the roster. Of Cornell's 66 points last season, 49 were produced by underclassmen and 54 were produced by returning players to the squad this season.

NATIONAL APPEAL
The Big Red has 13 different states and the District of Columbia represented on the team roster, with its home state of New York claiming eight players. Cornell has three players that hail from Pennsylvania and California, two each from New Jersey, Ohio and Illinois, and single representatives from Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Virginia and the District of Columbia.