ITHACA, N.Y. — The women's soccer team will honor its six seniors Saturday, when it plays its final game of the 2016 season against Dartmouth at 2:30 p.m. at Berman Field. Elizabeth Crowell, Dana Daniels, Kailey Joyce, Aimee Tavzel, Kelsey Tierney and Taylor Wright will all be playing in their final game with the Big Red.
 
GAME INFORMATION
Dartmouth at Cornell
DATE: Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
SITE: Berman Field – Ithaca, N.Y. (natural surface)
RECORDS: Cornell 4-9-2, 1-4-1 Ivy League; Dartmouth 7-6-2, 0-4-2 Ivy League
VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
LIVE STATS: CornellBigRed.com
 
ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell enters its final game with a 4-9-2 record overall and 1-4-1 in Ivy League play, but with a victory on Saturday can match its best point total in an Ivy League season since 1995. The Big Red will also celebrates its senior class, which has posted 28 wins as a group heading into the game against Dartmouth — the highest total for a four-year group at Cornell since the Class of 1997. … The Big Red lost, 6-1, to 2015 Ivy champion Princeton last Saturday at Berman Field. Junior forward Paige DeLoach scored her team-leading third goal of the season in the second half, flicking a ball into the net off an assist from sophomore defender Zoe McCormick. … Cornell's lone Ivy League victory to date came on Oct. 15 against visiting Yale, 2-1. Sophomore midfielder Jessica Ritchie scored in the first half to give the Big Red the lead, converting a rebound on a save after a shot from senior midfielder Elizabeth Crowell. The Bulldogs equalized on a penalty kick early in the second half, but freshman midfielder Juliana Comer's first collegiate goal in the 77th minute proved to be the winner. Freshman forward Kennedy Yearby and junior midfielder Whitney Farber earned assists on the goal, which also propelled Comer to Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors. She is the first Big Red playing to win the award since 2013, when now-seniors Crowell and goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney won it on consecutive weeks. … A dearth of offense has plagued the Big Red for much of the season, with the team scoring just seven goals to date. Behind DeLoach on the scoring list, junior forward Tess Pullano, Comer and Yearby each have three points on one goals and one assist.
 
BIG RED REWIND
Cornell is coming off a memorable season in which it accomplished a host of heights the program has not recently seen. The Big Red was the last Division I women's team in the country to concede a goal in 2015, recording 10 consecutive shutouts and a program-record shutout streak of 1,059 minutes, 19 seconds dating back to November 2014. Cornell's undefeated mark through 11 games was also a first in program history, and the team's final record of 9-4-4 marked its best finish since 1995.. ... Senior midfielder Elizabeth Crowell led the team in scoring for a second straight year with nine points. The All-Ivy League first team selection had four goals and one assist, with her goal total tying for the team lead with junior forward Paige DeLoach. … Cornell went 2-4-1 in the Ivy League last year to earn seven points against Ancient Eight opponents for the first time since 1995. The Big Red can match that point total with a victory against Dartmouth.
 
HEAD COACH PATRICK FARMER
Now in his 24th season as a head coach in the NCAA, Patrick Farmer is in his fifth season as the Cornell women's soccer program's 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 amassed a 261-97-40 record at 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. Dwight Hornibrook is in his fifth season as an assistant coach after serving as the head coach of SUNY Cortland men's soccer for eight years, and the Big Red has added two new coaches for this year. Longtime Le Moyne head coach Tracey Leipold has joined the Big Red staff as an assistant coach, and Megan Giles is the volunteer assistant coach after winning two All-Southland Conference honors during her four-year career at Oral Roberts.
 
KENNEDY EMERGING
Sophomore goalkeeper Meghan Kennedy has appeared in nine games for the Big Red and continues to impress. Her .864 save percentage ranks 20th in the nation, and her goals against average (0.95) and average saves per game (5.67) are both in the top 100. Kennedy has a 2-4-2 record and three shutouts.
 
TIERNEY'S TALE
Senior Kelsey Tierney played every minute of the historic season in goal for the Big Red last year, helping the team tie a program single-season record with 12 shutouts and earning All-Ivy League first team honors. Tierney led the nation in goals against average for much of the season and finished the year ranked seventh (0.50), and she also ranked 13th in save percentage (.868). Her 12 shutouts ranked fourth in the nation, and she started this season on a similar note with a four-save blanking of Siena on Aug. 28. Tierney now has a career total of 20 shutouts, which is tied for second in program history with Sue DeLong and trails only Melissa Gambrell (22). Tierney also ranks tied for fourth in career victories (21), sixth in career goals against average (1.22) and seventh in total saves (180). Tierney and classmate Elizabeth Crowell gave the Big Red its first All-Ivy first-teamers since 1995.
 
A CALL TO ARMBANDS
Seniors Kelsey Tierney, Kailey Joyce and Elizabeth Crowell are serving as the Big Red's tri-captains this season. The group has three All-Ivy League selection between them, providing the Big Red with leadership that has logged significant minutes over their collegiate careers.
 
BALANCING ACT
For the first time in Patrick Farmer's tenure as the head coach, the Big Red has a balanced roster in terms of age and production. Cornell is carrying a roster of 30 players, including seven seniors. There are also nine juniors, six sophomores and eight freshmen on the roster. Of Cornell's 108 points over the last two seasons, 63 were produced by players who are still on the team.

NATIONAL APPEAL
The Big Red has 12 different states and the District of Columbia represented on the team roster, with its home state of New York claiming nine players. Cornell has three players each that hail from California and Maryland, two each from the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and one each from Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, Oregon and Texas. The nine players from New York marks the most on a Cornell roster since it had 15 Empire State natives on the 1997 squad.
 
ABOUT DARTMOUTH
The Big Green broke a six-game winless skid Tuesday night with a 2-1 win at UMass-Lowell, which also marked the first time since Sept. 16 that the team scored multiple goals in a game. Senior midfielder Holly Patterson scored both goals for Dartmouth in the 19th and 78th minutes, bookending the lone strike from the River Hawks. Dartmouth is now 7-6-2 overall and 0-4-2 in Ivy League play. … Patterson now leads the team in scoring with nine points on a team-high four goals and one assist. Freshman forward Charlotte Esty has eight point on three goals and two assists, and senior midfielder/defender Meredith Gurnee has two goals and two assists for six points. Senior Casey Cousineau has played every second of the season in goal, posting a 7-6-2 record, 0.70 goals against average and .853 save percentage with six shutouts. … Dartmouth assistant coach Cord Farmer is the son of Big Red head coach Patrick Farmer.
 
THE SERIES WITH DARTMOUTH
While the Big Green holds a 23-8-5 lead in the all-time series, the Big Red broke an 18-game winless streak with a 1-0 victory the last time it hosted Dartmouth during the 2014 season. The Big Green won last year's meeting, 1-0, in Hanover, N.H.