GAME INFORMATION
GAME #13: Cornell vs. Brown
GAME TIME: Saturday, Oct. 21, at 11:30 a.m.
GAME SITE: Marsha Dodson Field (Ithaca, N.Y.)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 20-16-2
LAST MEETING: Cornell won, 6-1, Oct. 21, 2016 (Providence, R.I.)
2017 RECORDS: Cornell (7-5, 1-3 Ivy); Brown (1-12, 0-4 Ivy)
LIVE STATS: http://www.sidearmstats.com/cornell/fhockey   
LIVE VIDEO: http://www.ivyleaguenetwork.com/  
 
THE STORY LINE: The Big Red field hockey team will look to stop a two-game skid when it welcomes Brown to Marsha Dodson Field for a Homecoming contest on Saturday, Oct. 21 at 11:30 a.m. Cornell has won four straight against the Bears and will look to keep that streak alive against a 1-12 Brown squad in the midst of an eight-game losing streak.
 
THE SERIES WITH BROWN: The Big Red had a six-game winning streak against the Bears snapped in the 2012 season when Brown won 4-3 in double overtime, but Cornell rebounded with wins in each of the past four outings to regain the 20-16-2 lead in the all-time series  ... Head coach Donna Hornibrook is 10-3 vs. the Bears.
 
SCOUTING THE BEARS: Brown, sitting at 1-12 overall and 0-4 in the Ivy League, brings an eight-game losing streak to Ithaca. Offensively, the Bears are averaging a respectable 1.2 goals per game, but the defense is allowing 4.7 goals per contest to its opponents. Both marks are worse in Ivy League play, with Brown scoring just 0.75 goals per game and allowing 6.2 goals per contest against conference opponents. Of the team's 16 goals on the season, 10 have come from junior Rachel Lanouette and freshman Anagha Nayak, who lead the team with five goals apiece. In goal, junior Katie Hammaker has made all 13 starts. Despite leading the Ivy League in saves with 7.92 stops per game, she has posted a 4.41 goals-against average to go along with a .652 save percentage.
 
LAST TIME VS. BROWN: The Big Red scored six times in a span of less than 10 minutes, including the first career hat trick from Krysten Mayers, to roll to a 6-1 victory over Brown on Oct. 21, 2016 in Providence, R.I.  Cornell overcame a slow start to finish with the edge in shots (12-8), shots on goal (8-5), and penalty corners (4-2). In her first collegiate start, goalie Maddie Henry stopped four shots to earn the win, while Brown's Katie Hammaker made just two saves and allowed all six goals in the loss. In addition to Mayers' three goals, both Katy Weeks and Sam McILwrick finished with one goal and one assist apiece.  As lopsided as the victory was, the first 30 minutes were tightly contested with the Bears carrying the play for long stretches of time. Brown (6-7; 2-3 Ivy) spoiled Henry's shutout bid with a penalty corner goal from Katarina Angus with just 41 seconds remaining in the contest.
 
THE HEAD COACH: Cornell head coach Donna Hornibrook is in her 14th season at Cornell (126-100, .558) ... She is the winningest coach in Big Red field hockey history, having passed Shelby (Pontz) Bowman, who registered 115 wins over 19 years … Hornibrook became the sixth coach in Cornell field hockey history in January 2004 ... She has a 297-147-10 (.665) record as a head coach, including a 111-39-4 mark at Houghton and a 60-8-6 record at New Brunswick.
 
THE 300: Head Coach Donna Hornibrook is closing in on 300 career wins, with 297 victories to her credit.  To date, she has 126 wins with Cornell, 111 at Houghton, and 60 at New Brunswick.
 
SETTING THE STANDARD: With her goal and assist vs. No. 13 Harvard on Oct. 14, senior Krysten Mayers tied the Cornell school records for points (94) and goals (40) in a career.  She currently shares the points record with Catie De Stio (2007-10) and shares the goal record with Linda Miller (1980-83). Miller's mark has stood for 34 seasons and was set 13 years prior to Mayers being born in 1996.
 
SLIM MARGIN: The Big Red has had 10 games decided by a single goal so far this season, going 6-4 in the process.
* The most one-goal games in a season under Coach Hornibrook is 10, reached twice before (2007, 2012).
* The Cornell record for single-goal games in a season is 11, reached three times (1992, 1996, 2001), with the 1992 season also featuring two ties, as the Big Red went 4-7-2 during that stretch
 
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: The Big Red is 50-28 (.641) all-time on Marsha Dodson Field. Collectively, the team has outscored its opponents by a margin of 179-121 and has taken significantly more shots (1,329-813) than its opponents. The defense has been equally solid in the circle, allowing just 409 penalty corners (5.2 per game).
 
THAT'S A FIRST: Freshman Grace Royer scored the first goal of her collegiate career against Yale on Oct. 7. The tally proved to be the game-winner against the Bulldogs.
 
NCAA RANKINGS (TEAM):
* 5th – Save Percentage (.807)
* 11th – Shutouts Per Game (0.33)
* 13th – Goals Against Average (1.33)
 
NCAA RANKINGS (INDIVIDUAL):
Maddie Henry
* 2nd – Save Percentage (.810)
* 8th – Goals Against Average (1.26)
Kirsten Pienaar
* 12th – Defensive Saves (3)
Katie Carlson
* 81st – Assists Per Game (0.42)
Isabel Josephs
* 114th – Assists Per Game (0.33)
Krysten Mayers
* 117th – Goals Per Game (0.40)
* 111th – Points Per Game (1.10)
 
CAREER RECORD LIST:
Krysten Mayers
* Ranks first in goals (40).
* Ranks first in points (94).
* Ranks third in game-winning goals (10) … Needs one more to move into a tie with Linda Miller (1980-83) in second place and two more to match Catie De Stio's (2007-10) school record.
* Ranks 14th in assists (14) … Needs one more to move into the top 10.
Kelly Johnson
* Has set the Cornell record for wins (24), surpassing Alex Botte '12, Kaitlin Tierney '04 and Yanaka Bernal '91, who all previously held the record with 19 career wins.
* Ranks fourth in shutouts (7) … Needs one more to move into a second place tie with Carolyn Horner '14 and Karen Kuhm '78.
* Ranks 14th in saves (134) … Needs 17 more to tie Lori Blutinger (2001-04) in 14th place.
Katie Carlson
* Ranks 12th in points (52) … Needs six more to move into a tie with Beth Paciello (1985-88) in 11th place and 10 more to move into the top 10.
* Ranks 12th in goals (18) … Needs four more to move into a tie with Katy Weeks (2013-16) in 11th place and eight more to move into the top 10.
* Ranks 13th in game-winning goals (5) … Needs one more to move into a tie with Abbi Horn (2005-08) and Kelly Boutin (1996-99) in 11th place and two more to move into the top 10.
* Ranks eighth in assists (16) … Needs one more to move into a tie with Carissa Mirasol (2000-03) in seventh place.
Sam McILwrick
* Ranks fifth in defensive saves (4) … Needs one more to move into a tie with Kimmy Gardner (2000-03) and Natalie Appleton (2006-09) in third place.
* Ranks 19th in points (38) … Needs one more to move into a tie with Alyssa DePaola (2005-07) in 18th place.
* Ranks 19th in goals (14) … Needs one more to move into a tie with Beth Chargrasulis (1977-79) in 18th place.
Isabel Josephs
* Ranks 14th in assists (14) … Needs one more to move into the top 10.
Maddie Henry
* Ranks 15th in wins (9) … Needs two more to move into a tie with Kelly Clark (1983-85) for 14th place.
* Ranks 17th in shutouts (2) … Needs one more to move into a tie with Shannon Prescott (2005-07) for 16th place and two more to move into the top 10.
 
PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Kelly Johnson was named the Ivy League Player of the Week on Sept. 11 after matching a career-high with 10 saves to help Cornell upset No. 24 Maine, 2-0, in a neutral site game.  Of Johnson's 10 saves, seven came in the final 31 minutes as the Big Red clung to the one-goal advantage.

SHUT OUT STREAK:
* When Penn scored in the 11th minute of its game against the Big Red, it snapped sophomore goalie Maddie Henry's shutout streak at 291:09.
* The 291:09 streak, which began during the final game of the 2016 season vs. Dartmouth, is the second longest in program history, behind only Sue Zieman, who went 349:30 over the final five games of the 1985 season without giving up a goal.
* During her streak, Zieman posted four straight shutouts, two of which went to double overtime, before allowing a goal at the 39:30 mark in a win over Cortland in the season finale. 
 
ONE-GOAL GAME STREAK: Cornell opened the 2017 campaign with five consecutive one-goal decisions, posting a 4-1 record in the process.
* Cornell has had five or more one-goal games in a row 11 times in field hockey history.
* Of those 11 instances, only four have taken place during Coach Hornibrook's tenure and in three of the four the Big Red has posted a winning record (2006: 1-5).
* Of the seven instances prior to Coach Hornibrook's arrival, the Big Red posted a winning record just once (1988: 3-2).
* The last time the Big Red had five straight games decided by a single goal came during the 2012 season (3-2).
* The longest streak of one-goal games in Cornell history was nine and it came during the 1992 season and included one tied contest. During that streak, the Big Red went 1-7-1.
 
THE UNDEFEATED: At the time of its first loss of the season to No. 24 Rutgers on Sept. 15, Cornell was one of just four undefeated field hockey teams remaining in the nation, joining UConn, Syracuse and Penn State.
 
WINNING WAYS: With the win over Maine on Sept. 10, Cornell tied the school record for consecutive victories (8), previously set during the 2008-2009 seasons.
 
STRONG START: With its four wins to open the season, Cornell got off to its best start (4-0) since the 2009 squad went 7-0.
 
KNOCK THREE TIMES: Under Coach Hornibrook, the Big Red is 80-5 in games in which it scores at least three goals, a mark that was lowered when it fell to No. 13 Harvard, 4-3, in overtime on Oct. 14.
 
EARLY LEADS: Scoring first has been a big part of the Big Red's success in recent years. Since Coach Hornibrook has taken over the program, Cornell has posted an impressive 109-14 record in games in which they have scored first. Conversely, the team has won only 17 games in which they have had to come back from an early deficit to win. The first was Coach Hornibrook's very first victory with the team, a 6-3 win over Lehigh in 2004, with the latest coming on Oct. 23, 2016 as Cornell overcame an early 1-0 deficit to defeat Rider, 3-1.
 
CLOSE CALLS: Cornell's 1-0 loss to Colgate on Oct. 15 continued the Big Red's trend of playing in one-goal games. Since the start of the 2006 season, the Big Red has won 103 games, with 52 coming in one-goal games (.504), including 13 in overtime. During that same span, Cornell has lost 77 games, with 44 of those coming by a single goal (.571), including 19 in overtime
 
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN: Seniors Katie Carlson, Isabel Josephs, and Sam McILwrick have been selected as team captains for the 2017 season. McILwrick served as co-captain during the 2016 season as well, making her just the ninth player in Big Red field hockey history to be named captain twice.
 
RETURNING REGIONAL ALL-AMERICANS: Cornell returns a pair of Mideast Region All-American second-team selections to the roster in seniors Krysten Mayers and Sam McILwrick.
 
BIG RED INTERNATIONAL: This past summer, Cornell sophomore Rose Gorski helped Team USA to a silver medals at the 2017 Maccabi Games.
 
10 WINS: Cornell finished the 2016 season with a 10-7 record, winning at least 10 games in nine of Coach Hornibrooks' 13 seasons. She is the only field hockey coach in Big Red history to lead the team to a single 10-win season.
 
RECAPPING 2016: Cornell finished the 2016 season on a four-game winning streak, including an upset of No. 13 Princeton, to post a 10-7 record overall and a mark of 4-3 in the Ivy League. The Big Red finished ranked third in the Ivy League, posting its fourth consecutive top-three finish and earned double-digit wins for the fourth straight season and the ninth time in head coach Donna Hornibrook's 13-year career. With the Big Red's win over Brown on Oct. 21, Hornibrook earned the 116th win of her career with Cornell, surpassing Shelby (Pontz) Bowman to become the winningest coach in the history of the Big Red field hockey program. Following the season, the trio of Katy Weeks '17, Krysten Mayers '18 and Sam McILwrick '18 were honored by the Ivy League and the NFHCA. Weeks was named All-Ivy for the fourth time of her illustrious career, taking home first-team honors, along with McILwrick, while Mayers was named to the second-team. Weeks went on to be named to the All-Mideast Region first-team, while both Mayers and McILwrick were named to the second team. 
 
UP NEXT: The Big Red has a busy weekend on tap, as it travels to No. 14 Princeton for a contest on Saturday, Oct. 28 at noon, before returning to Ithaca to play host to Lehigh at Marsha Dodson Field the following day, Sunday, Oct. 29 at 1:00 p.m. The Big Red will honor its five seniors – Katie Carlson, Kelly Johnson, Isabel Josephs, Krysten Mayers, and Sam McILwrick – prior to the game vs. the Mountain Hawks.