ITHACA, N.Y. — The women's soccer team will look to post a 10-win season for the first time in 21 years when it wraps up the 2015 campaign at 1 p.m. Saturday at Dartmouth.

GAME INFORMATION
GAME #17: Cornell at Dartmouth
DATE: Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015
TIME: 1 p.m.
SITE: Burnham Field – Hanover, N.H. (natural surface)
2015 RECORDS: Cornell 9-3-4, 2-3-1 Ivy League; Dartmouth 7-4-4, 0-3-3 Ivy League
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ABOUT CORNELL
The Big Red (9-3-4, 2-3-1 Ivy) reached seven points in the Ivy League for the first time since 1995 with a 1-0 victory three weeks ago at Yale, but then it suffered a heartbreaking 3-2 overtime defeat against Brown in its final home game two weeks ago and a 2-0 loss to league champion Princeton last Saturday. Junior goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney made a season-high seven saves against the Tigers. Charlotte Tate's performance highlighted Senior Day against Brown, with the fourth-year starter on defense netting her first collegiate goal early in the game before she set up sophomore forward Paige DeLoach's tally early in the second half. … Junior midfielder Elizabeth Crowell leads the team in scoring with nine points on four goals and one assist. She is tied with DeLoach for the team lead in goals, and Tate joins freshman midfielder/forward Carolyn Ruoff as the only two members of the team with two assists. Freshman midfielder Jessica Ritchie ranks third with five points on two goals and an assist. … The Big Red was the last team in Division I to suffer a loss this season, and it was also the final team in the country to surrender a goal (Sept. 27 vs. Wagner on a penalty kick).
 
DARE FOR DOUBLE DIGITS
Already armed with its most single-season victories since 2002, the Big Red will look to win a 10th game for the first time since it finished the 1995 with an 11-5-3 record and undefeated in the Ivy League. Cornell, which is in its 34th year of program history, has just four 10-win seasons to speak of — 10 in 1986 and 1991, 11 in 1987 and 1995. A win Saturday at Dartmouth would also give Cornell a third win in the league for the first time since 1995.
 
RARIFIED AIR
Dating back to last season, which ended with a 1-0 victory over Ivy League contender Dartmouth, Cornell had 10 consecutive shutouts and a program-record run of 1,059 minutes, 19 seconds without retrieving the ball out of its own net. That broke the previous shutout streak mark of 939:24 from Oct. 7, 1987 to Sept. 17, 1988. … Cornell has 12 shutouts in 16 games this season, which ties the program record originally set in 1987 for most clean sheets in a single season. … Cornell also got off to its best start in program history, having suffered no losses through 11 games. The previous record was eight, when the Big Red started the 1991 campaign 7-0-1.
 
TIERNEY'S TALE
Junior goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney, who has played every minute of the season to date, has been raking in both regional and national accolades for the team's defensive prowess. She led the nation in goals against average for the entire season, but now ranks 10th (0.47). She also ranks 19th in save percentage (.867). Tierney was consecutively named the Ivy League Player of the Week on Sept. 7 and Sept. 14, the ECAC Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 9, and she was named the lone goalkeeper on the Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Week for Sept. 6. The Ivy honors mark the first time Cornell has taken league player of the week accolades in consecutive weeks since 1988. … Tierney has more than doubled her career shutout total this season, with her current total of 18 clean sheets ranking third in program history behind Melissa Gambrell (22) and Sue DeLong (20). Tierney also ranks tied for fifth in career victories (19) and sixth in career goals against average (1.10).
 
NONE SHALL PASS
While junior goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney ranks among the nation's best in goals against average, she's also had a minimal workload in most of the Big Red's games. Of her 12 shutouts this season, Tierney was required to make more than two saves in just six of them. That's a credit to Cornell's back line, which has primarily featured junior Kailey Joyce and freshman Zoe McCormick as central defenders and senior Charlotte Tate on the flank. Junior Taylor Wright and Aimee Tavzel, and sophomores Whitney Farber and Kaylee Fitzgerald have played big roles, too, and — after graduating three-time All-Ivy selection Claire MacManus '15 — the Big Red has received terrific play in the defensive midfield from seniors Shanay Fischer and Brenna Mockler.
 
TOPS IN THE TOURNEY
The Big Red won the Alumni Classic, which was hosted by St. Bonaventure from Sept. 4-6, with victories over Cleveland State (3-0) and Akron (2-0). As a result, Cornell placed four players on the all-tournament team — freshman forward Carolyn Ruoff scored her first collegiate goal, junior Elizabeth Crowell scored goals in both games, junior goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney made five saves and senior defender Charlotte Tate was a key part of both shutout victories.
 
HEAD COACH PATRICK FARMER
Now in his 22nd season as a head coach in the NCAA, Patrick Farmer is in his fourth 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. Prior to his stint at Wisconsin, Farmer served as a head coach at Ithaca College, Penn State, Tennessee Tech and Syracuse, and his career record as NCAA head coach now stands at 282-143-44. 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. Dwight Hornibrook is in his fourth season as an assistant coach after serving as the head coach of SUNY Cortland men's soccer for eight years and Houghton for nine years, and 2012 D3Soccer.com Goalkeeper of the Year Becca Salant has joined the staff as an assistant coach for the 2015 campaign.
 
A CALL TO ARMBANDS
Senior defender Charlotte Tate and senior midfielder Shanay Fischer are the Big Red's co-captains this season. Fischer is in her third season with the Big Red after starting her collegiate career at Saint Peter's, and Tate is a four-year starter who earned All-Ivy League honorable mention in 2014.
 
YOUTH IS SERVED
The Big Red is carrying a roster of 28 players this season, but only four are seniors. There are also eight juniors, nine sophomores and seven freshmen on the roster. Of Cornell's 127 points over the 2013 and 2014 seasons, 99 were produced by players who are still on the team, and 81 were produced by underclassmen.

NATIONAL APPEAL
The Big Red has 11 different states and the District of Columbia represented on the team roster, with its home state of New York claiming seven players. Cornell has five players that hail from California, three each from Illinois and Ohio, two each from Maryland and Oregon, and single representatives from Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas.
 
ABOUT DARTMOUTH
While the Big Green is still winless in Ivy League play, it mustered a 1-1 draw at Harvard last Saturday to eliminate the Crimson from contention to defend its Ivy title. Lindsay Knutson scored Dartmouth's goal in the 56th minute on a cross from senior forward Lucielle Kozlov, though Harvard countered a little more than three minutes later to create the stalemate in Cambridge, Mass. … Dartmouth breeze through its non-conference schedule with a 6-1-1 record and was ranked in the top 10 regionally by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. All of the Big Green's Ivy games have been draws (Harvard, Brown, Penn) or one-goal losses (Princeton in OT, Yale, Columbia). ... Kozlov, who has twice earned All-Ivy League honorable mention, is one of the league's leading scorers with 10 goals and two assists for 22 points. Sophomore forward Melanie Vangel is second on the team with 13 points on four goals and five assists, and junior forward Jessica Lukas has four goals and two assists for 10 points in primarily a reserve role. … The Big Green has scored 25 of its 32 goals in the second half. … Junior Casey Cousineau has a 6-3-4 record, 0.82 goals against average and .810 save percentage as the team's primary goalkeeper. … Cord Farmer, son of Big Red head coach Patrick Farmer, is one of Dartmouth's assistant coaches.
 
THE SERIES WITH DARTMOUTH
While the Big Green holds a 22-8-5 lead in the all-time series, the Big Red broke an 18-game winless streak with a 1-0 victory to close last season. Brenna Mockler scored the lone goal late in the first half. Cornell's last win at Dartmouth was in 1986.