GAME INFORMATION
GAME #4: #11/11 Cornell Big Red vs. Colgate Raiders
TIME: 5 p.m.
DATE: Tuesday, March 7, 2017
PLACE: Schoellkopf Field — Ithaca, N.Y.
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
LIVE STATS: CornellBigRed.com
RECORDS: Cornell 2-1 (1-0 Ivy), Colgate 3-1 (0-0 PL)
 
About the Big Red
• Cornell traveled to Penn on Saturday and came away with a 10-4 win over the then-ranked #10/13 Quakers.
• The team used a scoring run of four goals to close out the first half with a 6-4 lead and then scored the only four goals of the second half to take the game.
• It was the first time that Cornell held an opponent scoreless in a half since March 20, 2011 and the first back-to-back wins over Penn since regular season tilts in 2005 and 2006.
• In the home opener against #6/6 Penn State on Feb. 25, the Big Red gave the Nittany Lions a hard-fought battle but ultimately fell, 9-8, in the rain soaked matchup of two 2016 NCAA tournament teams.
• Cornell opened up the season with a road match on Feb. 18, traveling to Villanova and coming away with an 18-6 win over the Wildcats.

About the Raiders
• Colgate enters the matchup with a two-game win-streak, topping Siena, 16-8 on Feb. 25 and then edging Niagara, 11-10, on Feb. 28.
• Against Niagara, Colgate overcame a four-goal deficit in the second half (the first four-goal comeback for the Raiders since March 15, 2014 in a 12-11 win against Lehigh).
• The Raiders opened the season with a 14-11 win over Vermont before dropping a 16-12 affair to Binghamton.
• The team's 3-1 record is its best four-game start since the 2005 season when the squad finished 13-7 and reached the NCAA Tournament. 
• Junior Haley O'Hanlon leads the Raiders in points (18), assists (5) and is tied for the team lead in goals (13). 

A Win Would…
• Move Cornell to 31-14-1 in the all-time series with Colgate.
• Be Cornell's second-straight win.
• Give Cornell a 2-1 non-conference record.
• Give Cornell a 3-0 record on the road this season.

The Series with the Raiders
• Cornell is 30-14-1 all-time against Colgate.
• With last year's 9-8 victory in Hamilton, the Big Red extended its undefeated streak against the Raiders to 17 games.
• Colgate last topped Cornell on April 8, 1998 om a 10-6 decision at Schoellkopf Field. 

About Head Coach Jenny Graap '86
• Now in her 20th season directing the Cornell women's lacrosse program in 2017, Jenny Graap amassed a 180-120 record in her first 19 seasons as the head coach of the Big Red, with her 200th win coming in the form of a 11-10 win over Penn in the 2016 Ivy league Tournament Championship. 
• Cornell has made the Ivy League tournament each of the last five seasons and six of the seven years that the tournament has been held. 
• Graap guided the Big Red to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments in 2001 and 2002 – reaching the semifinals in the latter year – and also brought the team to the tournament in 2006 and 2016. 
• Since she returned to her alma mater in 1997, Graap has led the team to postseason play nine times and has won at least 10 games eight times as well.

Smith Named to Tewaaraton Watch List
• Senior tri-captain Catie Smith was named to the 2017 Tewaaraton Award women's watch list on Feb. 28.
• The Tewaaraton Award annually honors the top male and female college lacrosse player in the United States.
• The list includes the top players across all three NCAA divisions.
• Smith, a defender, leads the Big Red in ground balls (12) through two games and has caused seven turnovers.
• In 2016, she set the single-season program record with 41 caused turnovers.

Balanced Offense
• In just three games played, 10 different players have contributed on the scoresheet for the Big Red.
• Nine different players scored in the season-opening win over Villanova and six different players found the net for the Big Red against both Penn State and Penn.

Hot Streak
• Senior tri-captain Catherine Ellis has a seven-game goal streak dating back to 2016.
• Ellis has scored 12 goals and assisted on four others in those seven games.

Gilbert Scores Six
• In Cornell's season-opening 18-6 win over Villanova, senior tri-captain Kristy Gilbert scored a career-high six goals.
• Gilbert is the first Big Red player to score exactly six goals in a game since senior Catherine Ellis did it in a double-overtime, 11-10, win over Dartmouth on April 5, 2014.  
• It was the 15th time in program history that a player scored six goals in a game.

Record Book Update
• Senior Renee Poullott is fifth all-time in program history with 303 career saves and needs seven to overtake Sonia Novik for fourth all-time. 
• Senior Amie Dickson needs just two more assists to reach 50 for her career and to take over the eighth spot all-time in program history.
• Dickson currently sits fourth all-time with 108 career draw controls, two behind Cari Hills in third with 110.
• Senior Catie Smith is fifth all-time with 70 career caused turnovers and needs just six more to crack the all-time top three.

Ivy Honors
• Senior defender Catie Smith was named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week for the week of March 6.
• The tri-captain had four caused turnovers, two ground balls and two draw controls in helping the Big Red defense hold Penn scoreless in the second half of Cornell's 10-4 win on March 4. 
• It is the third career Ivy League weekly honor for Smith.

Preseason All-Americans
• The Big Red had four players named to the Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-American list.
• Senior tri-captain and defender Catie Smith was named to the second team.
• Junior midfielders Joey Coffy and Taylor Reed and senior goalkeeper Renee Poullott were all named honorable mention Preseason All-Americans.

Meet the Captains
• Seniors Catherine Ellis, Kristy Gilbert and Catie Smith will be serving as Cornell's captains for the 2017 season.
• Ellis was second on the team in scoring last year (22g, 12a), notched the memorable overtime-winner against Princeton in the Ivy League Tournament semifinal and was named to the Ivy League All-Tournament Team.
• Gilbert – a key component of the Big Red midfield who excels on both sides of the ball – appeared in all 19 contests last year and started 18 of them while putting up 24 points (18g, 6a). 
• Smith, a 2016 First-Team All-Ivy selection and Third-Team IWLCA All-American, set a new single-season program record and led the Ivy League with 41 caused turnovers last season.

Meet the New Kids
• Mary Kate Bonanni – who has an instinctive style of play – and Alex Monello are the two new faces in the backfield.
• Lucy Pedlow, Caroline Allen and Taylor Lis will enter the midfield fold for the Big Red.
• Isabel Zachara will factor into the attack rotation while Katie McGahan is the lone newcomer between the pipes. 
• The Class of 2020 includes five US Lacrosse All-Americans (Allen, Lis, McGahan, Monello, Pedlow) and six US Lacrosse Academic All-Americans (Bonanni, Lis, McGahan, Monello, Pedlow, Zachara).
• The class hails from six different states: Pennsylvania (Allen), New York (Bonanni), New Jersey (Lis, Zachara), Georgia (McGahan), Oregon (Monello), North Carolina (Pedlow).

Formidable Foes
• The 2017 schedule includes five games against teams that were in last season's NCAA Tournament.
• Non-conference tilts with two national quarterfinalists in Penn State and the University of Southern California as well as a matchup against Syracuse awaits Cornell.
• Games against Penn and Princeton will double as not only Ancient Eight battles but also pit the Big Red up against fellow 2016 NCAA Tournament teams.

2016 Ivy League Tournament Champions
• The Big Red took home the 2016 Ivy League Tournament Championship title.
• Junior Taylor Reed was named the Most Outstanding Player while Olivia Mattyasovszky '16, junior Joey Coffy and seniors Amie Dickson, Catherine Ellis and Renee Poullott were named to the All-Tournament Team.
• Cornell's win over Penn in the championship game marked just the second time in the tournament's seven-year history that a team other than Penn or Princeton claimed the crown. 
• The championship game victory was also head coach Jenny Graap's 200th career win.

Big Red Rewind
• Cornell began the 2016 season by getting off to an 8-0 start, which was the best start to a season in program history and finished the season with a 14-5 record, marking the second-most wins in program history.
• After taking home the Ivy League Tournament Championship, the team qualified for the program's first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 2006.
• Cornell also earned the right to host the first two rounds on Schoellkopf Field and got its first NCAA tournament win since 2002 with a 15-11 win over Canisius in the first round.
• Olivia Mattyasovszky '16 (33g, 4a), Emily Tripodi '16 (9g, 27a) and senior Amie Dickson (28g, 8a) all tied for the team lead in scoring with 36 points each  while juniors Taylor Reed (23g, 11a), Catherine Ellis (22g, 12a) and Joey Coffy (26g, 5a) all eclipsed the 30 point mark. 
• Senior Renee Poullott started all 19 games, recording a .465 save percentage, 7.36 goals against average, seven caused turnovers and a team-high 40 groundballs.
• As a team, the Big Red held opponents to seven goals or fewer on 11 occassions.
• Tripodi set a school record with 115 career assists and finished with 161 career points for eighth all-time in Big Red History. 
• Senior Catie Smith set the single-season program record with 41 caused turnovers.

Up Next
• The team will resume Ivy League play on Saturday when it heads to Columbia for its second Ancient Eight tilt of the season.
• Game time is set for 1 p.m.