ITHACA, N.Y. --- After forcing overtime with Cleveland State and holding no. 12 Oregon State scoreless into the 80^th minute this weekend in the Duquesne Invitational, the Big Red will be searching for their first tally in the win column as they return to Berman Field for the first time this season Tuesday at 7 p.m. Cornell will host Binghamton in the opening matchup of a three-game home stand.  
 
GAME INFORMATION
GAME #5: Cornell Big Red vs. Binghamton Bearcats
WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, 7 p.m.
WHERE: Berman Field — Ithaca, N.Y.
2015 RECORDS: Cornell 0-4, Binghamton 3-2
LIVE STATS: CornellBigRed.com
 
ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell shut down no. 12 Oregon State for much of the first half and kept the Beavers scoreless until the 80^th minute in the 2-0 loss, the Big Red's final game of the Duquesne Invitational. Cornell opened the tournament with a 2-1 overtime loss to Cleveland State. The Vikings got the first tally, but the Big Red answered in the second half with a goal from sophomore Jonathan Cullom, before a penalty kick in overtime sealed the victory for Cleveland State. … Cornell fell twice on the road to Patriot League opponents to start the season. The Big Red got on the board first at Lafayette, but the Leopards scored two unanswered goals to take the 2-1 victory before Lehigh beat Cornell, 1-0. … Freshman goalkeeper Rhys Moller made his collegiate debut at Lehigh and has now made three consecutive starts. … Juniors Madison Heck and Jack Ferguson lead the team with seven shots each.
 
ALL-TOURNAMENT
Sophomore Jonathan Cullom and junior Chris St. Germain were named to the Duquesne All-Invitational Team at the conclusion of the tournament on Sunday. In the effort that sent the game to overtime, Cullom scored the Big Red's goal against Cleveland State off a cross from St. Germain, who picked up his second assist of the season. Cullom also had three shots against Cleveland State.
 
BEAVER DAM
In the team's first game against a nationally ranked opponent, Cornell held no. 12 Oregon State to just a single shot in the first half and kept the Beavers off the scoreboard until the 80^th minute. The Big Red had the better of the scoring chances in the opening frame and finished the game with a 13-12 advantage in shots.
 
QUICK START
Madison Heck got the Big Red's season started quickly, scoring the team's first goal of 2015 in the seventh minute of the season opener, an eventual 2-1 loss to Lafayette. Last season, Cornell's first goal of the year also came against Lafayette, but it came 311 minutes into the season in the Big Red's third game, a double overtime 1-0 win against the Leopards at Berman Field. Cornell tied then-no. 2 Louisville, 0-0, in the 2014 season opener and fell to Xavier, 1-0, in overtime. 
 
SAVES GALORE
In his collegiate debut, freshman goalkeeper Rhys Moller made 11 saves, tied for second-most in a single game by a Big Red keeper in the past decade. Several of the stops were big time plays to keep Cornell in the game, a 1-0 loss to Lehigh. Moller picked up seven more saves in the Duquesne Invitational, including five against no. 12 Oregon State. Sophomore keeper Mitchell Meyer also made an impressive seven saves in his first collegiate start in the season opener at Lafayette. 
 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
The Big Red has been a force to be reckoned with defensively over the past three seasons. In 2014, the team allowed just 11 goals, tying the program record set the previous year. Cornell also set a new program mark with 11 clean sheets on the season. 
 
JUNIOR ARMY
After graduating seven seniors after last season, the Big Red has just two seniors on the team, Ben Feldman and Stevin Bienfait. The team includes 13 juniors, meaning the Class of 2017 makes up exactly half of this season's roster.  Five sophomores and six freshmen round out the squad.
 
ACROSS STATE LINES
Cornell men's soccer is a diverse group, with players hailing from 13 different states and England. Six players come from New York, while five make the trip to Ithaca from the west coast — two from California and three from Washington state. JJ Black is a transatlantic transplant, coming to the Big Red from Cambridge, England.
 
ABOUT HEAD COACH JARO ZAWISLAN
Zawislan, now in his seventh season at the helm of Big Red men's soccer, posted a winning record for four consecutive seasons entering 2015, earning him a spot among the top coaches in the Ivy League.  He has led Cornell to 10+ wins in two of the past three seasons and also directed the Big Red to its first Ivy League title since 1995 and first outright title since 1977 in 2012. The Class of 2015, under Zawislan, posted the second-most career wins (41) of any senior class in program history. Heading into 2015, Zawislan held a 51-29-10 coaching record at Cornell, good for a .622 winning percentage, the second best in school history … Zawislan is a graduate of Clemson University '93, where he was a four-year starter in goal. Before pursuing a career in coaching, he played professionally both in the United States and his native Poland. After spending time as an assistant coach at Stanford, Creighton and Syracuse, Zawislan was named Cornell's 11th head coach in 2009.
 
ABOUT BINGHAMTON
The Bearcats opened their season with a 2-0 loss to Wright State University before going on a three-game win streak, picking up 1-0 victories against Ohio State (then no. 28 in the College Soccer News poll) and Manhattan and a 3-2 win over St. Peter's. This past weekend, Binghamton fell to Marist, 1-0. … Freshman Kristian Piippo and senior Tucker Sandercock lead the team with a goal and an assist each. Freshmen Conrad Nowowiejski and Florian Orth and graduate student Pascal Trappe also have a goal each. … Junior goalkeeper Robert Moewes (3-2) holds a 1.00 goals against average and a .80 save percentage. … The Bearcats are a young team this season, with 15 true freshmen on the roster.
 
THE SERIES WITH BINGHAMTON
Cornell holds a 12-4-1 advantage over the Bearcats all time. The last time the teams met was on Sept. 13, 2014, when the Big Red won, 1-0, off a goal from graduated midfielder Conor Goepel.

UP NEXT
The Big Red continues its three-game home stand with a pair of games on Homecoming Weekend as part of the CU Inaria Classic. Cornell welcomes Duquesne to Berman Field on Friday night at 7 p.m. before Air Force visits at 1 p.m. on Sunday. The games are also a part of men's soccer's alumni weekend and Sunday's contest will include a halftime ceremony to honor the 20^th and 40^th anniversaries of the 1975 and 1995 Ivy League Champion teams.