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ITHACA, N.Y. — Junior midfielder Elizabeth Crowell scored her team-leading third goal of the season on the first career assist from junior defender Kailey Joyce, and the women's soccer team defeated Binghamton for its third consecutive 1-0 victory on Sunday afternoon at Berman Field.
 
With the win, Cornell (6-0-2) continues its historic start to season and remains one of just two teams across the 335-team Division I landscape which has yet to concede a goal (Rutgers, which next plays Thursday at Illinois, is the other).
 
Coming off a bruising victory Thursday on the turf at Seton Hall, the Big Red seemed to struggle to find its legs at times during a fairly benign first half which yielded minimal scoring opportunities for either side.
 
"I think it's a nice win and a nice way to end the non-conference part of our schedule before the Ivy League. I think they did well in controlling the game. I'm disappointed, to be honest, that we didn't score more goals. The focus today was to try to dominate a game instead of sort of just control the game. I didn't really think that we did that."
 
But what the Big Red did do was make the necessary adjustments to get the goal it needed — and it continued to yield precious few opportunities for the opposition behind the staunch back line of senior co-captain Charlotte Tate, Joyce, sophomore Whitney Farber and freshman Zoe McCormick.
 
Crowell's goal came in the 62th minute, exactly 21 seconds after she took a corner kick from the left side. While the ball caromed through the box, freshman midfielder Rowan Glass was there to collect the ball and work it back to Joyce toward the middle third of the field. Joyce alertly used the width of the field and found Crowell with ample space coming out of the corner on the opposite side. Coming toward the middle just inside the top of the 18-yard box, she got a half-step on her defender and curled a low shot inside the far post.
 
"We wanted people to get the ball a little wider to see if we could stretch them out a little bit and find some spaces," head coach Patrick Farmer said. "(Crowell) found some nice spaces. She has a really nice little shot from that side, and she trusts it to curl in and bend it. … Nice to see her in command and doing that."
 
Junior goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney recorded her eighth shutout of the season, needing to make just two saves in the process. After a Binghamton (1-7-1) cross into the box was headed back into a dangerous area about 10 yards in front of goal, Julianne Johnston toe-poked a shot that Tierney comfortable corralled.
 
Cornell's shutout streak has now ballooned to 884 minutes, 5 seconds, spanning 10 games back to Nov. 1, 2014. That ranks second in program history to a streak of 939:24 from 1987-1988. Tierney has moved into sole possession of fourth on the program's all-time shutout list with 14 career clean sheets.
 
The Big Red opens Ivy League play at 7 p.m. Friday against Columbia at Berman Field before resuming non-league play at 3 p.m. Sunday with a trip downstate to Wagner.