GAME INFORMATION
GAME #13: #11/12 Cornell Big Red at #8/7 Syracuse Orange
TIME: 7 p.m.
DATE: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
PLACE: Carrier Dome - Syracuse, N.Y.
LIVE VIDEO: Spectrum Sports/ACC Network Extra
LIVE STATS: Cuse.com
RECORDS: Cornell 10-2 (5-0 Ivy), Syracuse 12-4 (5-1 ACC)

Game Notes: Cornell

About the Big Red
• Cornell had an eight game win-streak snapped on April 11, falling to UAlbany, 11-10, after the Great Danes scored two goals in the final 18 seconds of the game but got back on track on Saturday with a 14-12 win at Dartmouth.
• Senior Amie Dickson scored a career-high five goals in the win over the Big Green.
• The team went 2-0 the week before, topping Binghamton (17-3) on April 4 and Ivy League foe Brown (11-8) on April 8.
• The Big Red went undefeated in the month of March, topping Penn (10-4), Colgate (13-6), Columbia (14-11), USC (11-10) and Yale (15-6).
• Dickson leads the team in points (48) and assists (25) while senior tri-captain Catherine Ellis is tops in goals (28) and second in points (40). 
• Senior tri-captain Catie Smith leads the team in draw controls (28), caused turnovers (25) and ground balls (36).
• In goal, senior Renee Poullott has posted a .500 save percentage and a 7.89 goals against average.

About the Orange
• Syracuse is coming off a 13-11 upset at #2 North Carolina on Saturday, the squad's fourth straight win (and one that moved the team to 12-4 overall).
• Four different players scored in staking the Orange to a 4-0 lead early on and Emily Hawryschuk led the team with four goals on the day.
• Riley Donahue leads the team with 47 points (29g, 18a) while Hawryschuk (31g, 5a) and Nicole Levy (20g, 16a) are tied for second.
• Morgan Widner is currently third in the country in draw controls per game (8.25).
• Asa Goldstock has started all 16 games in goal for Syracuse, going 11-4 while posting a .431 save percentage and an 11.52 goals against average.

The Series with the Orange
• Cornell and Syracuse have met every season since Syracuse started its program in 1998.
• The Big Red last won in 2006 in a 9-4 affair on Schoellkopf Field.
• Last year, Syracuse jumped out to a 4-0 lead before Cornell fought back and made it 5-3 early in the second half only to have the comeback fall short for a final score of 9-7.

A Win Would…
• Move the Big Red to 11-2 overall.
• Bump Cornell to 6-15 all-time against Syracuse.
• Snap Syracuse's 10-game win streak in the series. 
• Give Cornell a 7-0 road record this season, marking the program's best ever road start.
• Give the Big Red its third win over a ranked opponent this season.

Common Opponents
• Syracuse and Cornell have four opponents in common in 2017: Binghamton, UAlbany, Harvard and Princeton.
• The Orange topped Binghamton (16-5), UAlbany (13-12) and Harvard (17-16 OT) but fell to Princeton (11-16).
• The Big Red beat Binghamton (17-3), was edged by UAlbany (10-11) and will play the final two games of the season against Princeton and Harvard. 

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.
• Graap began her head coaching career at George Mason, taking over the program in its first sponsored season in 1994 and amassing a 21-44 record over four seasons.
• Her 200th overall career win came 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.

Road Warriors
• With its 14-12 win at Dartmouth on April 15, the team set a program record for the best away-from-Schoellkopf start to a season at 7-0 when including neutral site games..
• A win at Syracuse would give Cornell its best true road start in program history.
• Cornell went undefeated in its first six road games of the 1987 season before dropping an overtime game at Princeton, 6-5.
• That year's squad went on to finish with a road record of 9-1 away from Ithaca – and claim the New York State Championship. 

New York State of Mind
• Since 2010, Cornell is 26-10 against schools from the state of New York.
• The Big Red has five New York teams on its schedule this season – Colgate, Columbia, Binghamton, UAlbany, and Syracuse – and so far is 3-1 in those contests.  

Balanced Offense
• Cornell has had at least six different goal scorers in 11 of its 12 games played this season.
• Nine different players scored in the season-opening win over Villanova and also against Binghamton. 
• The Big Red's comeback win over Yale included eight different goal scorers. 
• Against Columbia, Colgate, and Rutgers seven different players found the back of the net.
• The Big Red got goals from six different players in games against Penn State, Penn, USC, Brown and Dartmouth.

Multi-Goal Games
• Nine different Big Red players have posted at least one multi-goal outing this season.
• Junior Taylor Reed and senior Amie Dickson have registered multiple goals in seven games.
• Senior Catherine Ellis has nine multi-goal efforts while sophomore Sarah Phillips has eight.
• Senior Kristy Gilbert has registered five such outings and sophomore Tomasina Leska has four.
• Junior Ida Farinholt has two games with multiple goals while freshman Caroline Allen and sophomore Christie Raymond each have one.

Defensive Dominance
• Entering the week, Cornell was giving up just 7.92 goals per game, the fifth-best mark in the nation, and has held opponents to six-or-less goals in five games this season and single digit goals in eight.
• The team held Penn scoreless in the second half on March 4, marking the first time since 2011 that the Big Red held a team without a goal in a half. 
• Against Binghamton on April 4, Cornell didn't allow the Bearcats to score for the first 23:44 of the game.
• The Big Red held Colgate scoreless for over 30 minutes of play in its 13-6 win on March 7 and shutout Yale for the final 25:25 of a 15-6 comeback win on March 25. 
• On March 19 against USC, the Big Red limited a Trojan offense that had been averaging 14.83 goals per game to 10. 
• Cornell went the first four games of the season without allowing an opponent to score more than nine goals, something the program hadn't done since 2008.

Renee Says No
• Goalkeeper Renee Poullott made a career-high 13 saves on April 1 in a 12-9 win at Rutgers.
• The senior is currently seventh in the nation with a 7.89 goals against average while her .500 save percentage is tied for 11th overall.
• She made 10 saves in Cornell's 11-10 win over USC on March 19 and then repeated that save total in the very next outing, a 15-6 win at Yale on March 25.
• Poullott has now made at least 10 saves in a game on nine occasions in her career.

Notable Nines
• The Big Red opened up the game against Binghamton on April 4 with nine unanswered goals, the longest scoring stretch to open a game on record in program history.
• Twice before Cornell has scored eight straight goals to open a game, doing it against Columbia in 2016 and Binghamton in 2014.
• Cornell's win over Yale on March 25 also included a stretch of nine unanswered goals for the Big Red.
• Both equaled the longest stretch of unanswered goals for Cornell since a 23-6 win at California on March 29, 2015 that included nine straight tallies.

Record Book Update
• Senior Renee Poullott is third all-time in program history with 379 career saves, 25 away from second all-time.
• Poullott is second all-time in wins with 38.
• Senior Amie Dickson is tied for third all-time with 69 assists.
• Dickson currently sits third all-time with 125 career draw controls, 16 outside the number two spot. 
• Senior Catie Smith is third all-time with 88 career caused turnovers.

Ivy Honors
• Goalkeeper Renee Poullott was named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on March 20.
• The senior made 10 saves and picked up two ground balls in Cornell's 11-10 win over #4/5 USC on March 19.
• Senior defender Catie Smith was named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on 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. 

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.
• In 2016, she set the single-season program record with 41 caused turnovers.

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), and was named to the Ivy League All-Tournament Team.
• Gilbert appeared in all 19 contests last year and started 18 of them while putting up 24 points (18g, 6a). 
• Smith set a new single-season program record and led the Ivy League with 41 caused turnovers last season.

Up Next
• The Big Red will host #6/7 Princeton on Saturday, April 22 in a battle of Ivy League unbeatens.