ITHACA, N.Y. — The men's soccer team will look to get its first Ivy League win of the season at 1 p.m. Saturday when it hosts Yale at Berman Field.
 
GAME INFORMATION
GAME #13: Cornell Big Red vs. Yale Bulldogs
WHEN: 1 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016
WHERE: Berman Field – Ithaca, N.Y. (natural surface)
2016 RECORDS: Cornell 1-9-2 (0-2-0 Ivy League), Yale 1-5-2 (0-1-1 Ivy League)
VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
LIVE STATS: CornellBigRed.com
LIVE UPDATES: @CUBigRedGameday
 
ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell is coming off of its first win of the season on Tuesday night against Colgate. Early in the second half, the Big Red received goals from Ryan Watters and Jonathan Cullom less than four minutes apart to take a 2-1 lead. After Colgate answered back to tie the game at 2-2, Jack Ferguson converted a penalty kick in the 87th minute to give Cornell the 3-2 victory. … Cornell has played two Ivy League matches coming into today, losing at Harvard, 4-0, last weekend, and dropping an overtime heartbreaker to Penn, 2-1, on Oct. 2. … Cornell played a challenging non-conference schedule in 2016 – one that included several ranked opponents and four games in six days. Cornell opened up the season at home against Central Connecticut State and tied, 2-2, in overtime then hit the road for four games. After playing then-ranked No. 14 Connecticut to a tough, 2-0, loss, the Big Red then headed to the Capitol Cup where it lost to George Mason, 1-0, in overtime, and dropped a game, 5-2, to American, a team that was ranked No. 20 at the time. Cornell took on Binghamton on Wednesday, Sept.14, and tied the Bearcats, 1-1, in extra time. The Big Red then returned home for the CU Inaria Classic and played Saint Francis on Friday, Sept. 16 – going to a second overtime period before ultimately falling, 2-1 – and then took on New Hampshire on Sunday, Sept. 18, dropping the game, 2-0. Cornell finished out the four game week against No. 3 Syracuse and gave the Orange a tough test but ultimately fell, 3-1. After a week of rest, the team headed to Charlottesville on Sept. 27 to take on then-ranked No. 16 Virginia, dropping the game 4-0. … Cornell has received goals from six different players. Brady Dickens, George Pedlow, Jonathan Cullom, Jack Ferguson, and Ryan Watters have two goals each, while Madison Heck has one. Dickens and Tommy Griffin have to helpers each.
 
ABOUT HEAD COACH JOHN SMITH
Smith comes to East Hill after spending four years at Stanford, two as associate head coach. In 2015, Smith helped lead the Cardinal to its first national title in program history and an 18-2-3 record, the team's most wins since 2002. Smith, who worked primarily with Stanford's strikers, was named NSCAA Far West Region Assistant Coach of the Year in 2014. Prior to his time in Palo Alto, Smith amassed a 62-26-10 record in six seasons as the head coach of Division II power Incarnate Word and spent time as an assistant coach at CSU Bakersfield. Smith is a graduate of Rollins, where he was two-time All-American. He was selected 13th overall by the Columbus Crew in the 1997 MLS Draft and played for two years in the A-League. He was named the Cornell men's soccer program's 12th head coach in March 2016.
 
IRONMEN
Junior captain Eric Nuss and classmate Spencer Kopko are the only two Big Red players to have played every single minute this season. The defenders have logged 1,144 minutes each – including two, 110 minute efforts in double-overtime games against Central Connecticut State and Binghamton – through the first 12 games.
 
AN ABUNDANCE OF OVERTIMES
The Big Red has played in five overtime games so far in 2016. In the first seven games that Cornell played this season, four of them went to overtime. The last – and only other time – the Big Red played in four overtime games through the first seven games played in a season came in 1995. Cornell went on to play in eight overtime games that year, the most in program history. The last season in which Cornell did not play in a single overtime game was 2008.
 
SAVES BY SHELLOW
Freshman goalkeeper Ryan Shellow set a program record when he made 13 saves in the game against Syracuse on Oct. 13. The 13 saves is the second-most made in a single game this year in the NCAA. Shellow has made 48 saves in 2016 and his average of 5.33 saves per game ranks him 10th in the country.
 
CAPTAIN'S ARMBANDS
Head coach John Smith has selected senior Zach Bialik and junior Eric Nuss to serve as the Big Red's captains for the 2016 season. Bialik, a midfielder, logged more than 60 minutes on 10 occasions in 2015. Nuss has started on defense in all 44 games he's played over the last two seasons and logged a team-leading 1,450 minutes in 2015.
 
THE SERIES WITH YALE
Yale holds an all-time series lead of 41-27-15, but Cornell has won the last two meetings between the teams. Last year, the Big Red topped the Bulldogs in New Haven, 2-1, in overtime on a goal from Allen Michael Capo.
 
ABOUT YALE
Yale comes into the game with a 1-5-2 record and a 0-1-1 record in Ancient Eight play. … In its last outing, Yale lost to No. 13 Connecticut, 1-0, at home. In its first Ivy League game against Harvard, the Bulldogs played a tough Crimson team to a 3-3 overtime draw. The lone win came in 2-0 win over Sacred Heart. The Bulldogs offense is led by Nicky Downs, who has one goal and four assists for six points. John Leisman and Henry Flugstad-Clark each have two assists while Kyle Kenagy has one goal and one assist. In goal, Kees Schipper has played every single minute for Yale and owns a 1.78 goals against average and a .595 save percentage.
 
UP NEXT
Cornell will travel to Brown next weekend Sunday to take on the Bears in the penultimate road game of the season.