GAME INFORMATION
GAME #16: Cornell at Dartmouth
GAME TIME: Saturday, Nov. 4, at 12:00 p.m.
GAME SITE: Chase Field (Hanover, N.H.)
SERIES RECORD: Dartmouth leads, 22-15-1
LAST MEETING: Cornell won, 9-1, Nov. 5, 2016 (Ithaca, N.Y.)
2017 RECORDS: Cornell (9-6, 2-4 Ivy); Dartmouth (7-9, 2-4 Ivy)
LIVE STATS: http://www.sidearmstats.com/cornell/fhockey/  
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THE STORY LINE: The Big Red field hockey team will conclude its season this weekend when it travels to Hanover, N.H., to take on Dartmouth on Saturday, Nov. 4 at noon. Cornell will look to earn its fifth consecutive win vs. the Big Green, which enters the contest with a 7-9 record overall (2-4 Ivy) after having a three-game winning streak snapped last weekend by No. 16 Harvard.  
 
THE SERIES WITH DARTMOUTH: The Big Green holds a commanding lead in the series with Cornell, going 22-15-1 against the Big Red. The teams first met in 1979, a 0-0 tie, and Dartmouth won the next five meetings before Cornell snapped its losing streak in 1985 with a 1-0 victory. From then, the series was fairly even until 1998 when Dartmouth began an eight-game winning-streak against the Big Red. Cornell ended the Big Green's run in 2006 and won five straight, its most consecutive wins in the series, before falling in consecutive one-goal games (including one overtime contest) in 2011 and 2012 … The Big Red has won the last four outings by a combined score of 21-6 to improve head coach Donna Hornibrook improved to 9-4 in the series.
 
SCOUTING THE BIG GREEN: Dartmouth had a three-game winning streak snapped last weekend in a 6-2 loss at No. 16 Harvard. Both of the Big Green's Ivy League wins this season have come in overtime,  beginning with a 3-2 win over Brown in a contest that went into the second round of a  shootout, before defeating Columbia 3-2 in overtime on Oct. 21. Sophomore forward Katie Spanos leads the team in goals (8), assists (9) and points (25), while junior Gemma Bautista has added eight goals and senior Sarah Tabeek has registered seven assists. In net, junior Haley Valerio has made 13 starts and owns a 3.81 goals-against average to go along with a .677 save percentage. Senior goalie Emily Wechlsler has gotten the nod in three contests and has posted a 3.67 GAA and a 6.33 save percentage.   
LAST TIME VS. DARTMOUTH: The Big Red celebrated Senior Day in dominant fashion, tying the school record for goals in a single game, as it routed Dartmouth, 9-1, at Marsha Dodson Field. All three seniors scored for Cornell, led by Katy Weeks' five-point afternoon (two goals, one assist), to finish her career ranked eighth in Big Red history with 62 career points. Elizabeth Horak scored in the 22nd minute to stake Cornell a 3-0 lead, while Luisa Schulte-Bockum registered the first goal of her career on a penalty stroke at the 44:57 mark to make it a 6-1 game. Krysten Mayers matched Weeks for a game-high with two goals, while Kjersti Anderson and Gabby DePetro teamed up for a pair of goals by assisting on each other's tally. Anderson's goal was the first of the game, giving her the game-winner, while DePetro added a second assist on Cornell's final goal. Sam McILwrick also scored once for the Big Red and Isabel Josephs added an assist.  Cornell outshot the Big Green, 42-11 and had a 26-6 advantage in shots on goal. The Big Red also attempted 13 penalty corners, while holding the visitors to just four attempts. In total, five goals came off penalty corners, including Dartmouth's lone tally off the stick of Joanne Nazareth. Dartmouth (4-14, 0-7) was kept in the game by freshman goalie Emma Plumb, who made 13 saves, several of which were spectacular, but she allowed seven goals in a span of 51:07 before giving way to senior Paige Duffy who stopped three and allowed the final two goals. The Big Green also received a defensive save from Morgan Philie to finish with 17 saves on the day.  In her fourth career start, Maddie Henry made five saves and allowed just one goal to finish the season with a record of 4-0.
 
A WIN WOULD:
* be the 300th career win for head coach Donna Hornibrook.
* give the Big Red double-digit wins for the fifth straight season.
* tie the Class of 2018 with the Class of 2011 and 2017 as the winningest class in program history with 42 career victories.
* be the fifth straight vs. Dartmouth, tying the longest in the series by the Big Red, originally set from 2006-2010.
* improve head coach Donna Hornibrook to 10-4 all-time vs. the Big Green.
 
THE HEAD COACH: Cornell head coach Donna Hornibrook is in her 14th season at Cornell (128-100, .561) ... 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 299-147-10 (.666) record as a head coach, including a 111-39-4 mark at Houghton and a 60-8-6 record at New Brunswick.
 
10 WINS: Cornell needs one more victory to double-digit wins for the fifth straight season. Through The Big Red has posted at least 10 wins in nine of Coach Hornibrook's 13 seasons at the helm. She is the only field hockey coach in Big Red history to lead the team to a single 10-win season.
 
THE 300: Head Coach Donna Hornibrook is closing in on 300 career wins, with 299 victories to her credit.  To date, she has 128 wins with Cornell, 111 at Houghton, and 60 at New Brunswick.
 
SETTING THE STANDARD: Senior Krysten Mayers has set the Cornell school records for points (99) and goals (42) in a career.
* The 42 goals are good for 16th in the history of the Ivy League.
* The 99 Points are good for 19th in the history of the Ivy League.
* Mayers broke both records with her game-winning goal in OT against Brown on Oct. 21.
* The points record was previously held by Catie De Stio (2007-10).
* The goal record was originally set by with Linda Miller (1980-83).
* Miller's mark stood for 34 seasons and was set 13 years prior to Mayers being born in 1996.
 
SLIM MARGIN: The Big Red has had 11 games decided by a single goal so far this season, going 7-4 in the process.
* The 11 one-goal games are the most in a season under Coach Hornibrook, surpassing the previous high of 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
 
NCAA RANKINGS (TEAM):
* 5th – Save Percentage (.796)
* 18th – Goals Against Average (1.46)
* 7th – Shutouts Per Game (0.33)
 
NCAA RANKINGS (INDIVIDUAL):
Maddie Henry
* 6th – Save Percentage (.786)
* 22nd – Goals Against Average (1.56)
Kirsten Pienaar
* 22nd – Defensive Saves (3)
Krysten Mayers
* 89th – Points Per Game (1.23)
* 90th – Goals Per Game (0.46)
* 133rd – Assists Per Game (0.31)
Katie Carlson
* 87th – Assists Per Game (0.40)
 
CORNELL CAREER RECORD LIST:
Krysten Mayers
* Ranks first in goals (42).
* Ranks first in points (99).
* Ranks second in game-winning goals (11) … Needs one more to match Catie De Stio's (2007-10) school record.
* Ranks 10th in assists (15) … Needs one more to move to ninth.
Kelly Johnson
* Has set the Cornell record for wins (25), surpassing Alex Botte '12, Kaitlin Tierney '04 and Yanaka Bernal '91, who all previously held the record with 19 career wins.
* Ranks second in shutouts (8), tied with Carolyn Horner '14 and Karen Kuhm '78.
* Ranks 14th in saves (137) … Needs 14 more to tie Lori Blutinger (2001-04) in 14th place.
Katie Carlson
* Ranks 12th in points (57) … Needs one more to move into a tie with Beth Paciello (1985-88) in 11th place and three more to move into the top 10.
* Ranks 12th in goals (20) … Needs two more to move into a tie with Katy Weeks (2013-16) in 11th place.
* 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.
* Ranks seventh in assists (17) … Needs one more to move into a tie with Katy Weeks (2013-16) in sixth 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 18th in points (40) … Needs four more to move into a tie with Lindsay Grace (2000-03) in 17th place.
* Ranks 18th in goals (15) … Needs one more to move into a four-way tie for 15th place.
 Isabel Josephs
* Ranks 14th in assists (14) … Needs one more to move into the top 10.
Maddie Henry
* Ranks 15th in wins (10) … Needs one 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.
 
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.
 
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 81-5 in games in which it scores at least three goals, a mark that was raised when it defeated Lehigh, 4-0, on Oct. 29.
 
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 111-14 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 2-1 overtime win vs. Brown on Oct. 21 continued the Big Red's trend of playing in one-goal games. Since the start of the 2006 season, the Big Red has won 105 games, with 53 coming in one-goal games (.504), including 14 in overtime. During that same span, Cornell has lost 78 games, with 44 of those coming by a single goal (.564), including 19 in overtime
  
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: The Big Red is 52-28 (.650) all-time on Marsha Dodson Field. Collectively, the team has outscored its opponents by a margin of 185-122 and has taken significantly more shots (1,375-824) than its opponents. The defense has been equally solid in the circle, allowing just 415 penalty corners (5.2 per game).

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.
 
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 game at Dartmouth concludes the 2017 season.