PRINCETON, N.J. — The #12/9 women's lacrosse team will continue its NCAA Tournament journey on Sunday afternoon when it battles a familiar Ivy League opponent in the #5/5 Princeton Tigers in a 1 p.m. game at Sherrerd Field. This is the third meeting this season between the two squads and the second ever NCAA Tournament matchup.

Princeton took both the regular season matchup (12-11, 2 OT) as well as the Ivy League Tournament Championship game last weekend (12-9), with both occurring on Schoellkopf Field. Cornell last topped Princeton in New Jersey on March 31, 2012 in a thrilling 13-12 overtime affair. 

Ticket Information
Tickets are $12 for adults and $5 for children (12-and-under) or college students with a valid student ID. Tickets will be available on game days at Class of 1952 Stadium, or can be purchased online on the Princeton Athletics Ticketing page.

GAME INFORMATION
GAME #19: #12/9 Cornell Big Red at #5/5 Princeton Tigers - NCAA Tournament Second Round
TIME: 1 p.m.
DATE: Sunday, May14, 2017
PLACE: Sherrerd Field — Princeton, N.J.
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
LIVE STATS: GoPrincetonTigers.com
RECORDS: Cornell 13-5, Princeton 14-3

GAME NOTES: Cornell

About the Big Red
• Cornell is making an NCAA Tournament  second appearance for a second consecutive year after topping Notre Dame, 12-7, on Friday night for its third win over a ranked opponent this season.
• The Big Red trailed by two near the end of the first half but a late goal from senior Catherine Ellis tied it at 5-5.
• Cornell's six unanswered goals stretched out a lead that the Fighting Irish could not overcome and senior goalkeeper Renee Poullott made 10 saves, giving the Big Red the first round win.
• The win moved Poullott to first all-time in program history with 41 career wins.
• On May 7, Cornell went for its second straight Ivy League Tournament title but the top seeded Big Red fell to third-seeded Princeton, 12-9.
• Amie Dickson leads the team in points (69) and assists (40) while the tri-captain Ellis is tops in goals (45) and second in points (60). 
• Senior tri-captain Catie Smith leads the team in draw controls (45), caused turnovers (41) and ground balls (45).
• Poullott boasts the sixth best save percentage in the nation (.511) and eighth best goals against average (8.49)  

About the Tigers
• Princeton received the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament last weekend after topping Cornell, 12-9, in the conference tournament title game.
• The Tigers earned the overall five seed in the NCAA Tournament and the right to host the first and second rounds at Sherrerd Field.
• Olivia Hompe, a Tewarraton Award finalist, leads Princeton with 103 points on 70 goals and 33 assists. 
• Colby Chanenchuk is second on the team in scoring with 49 points on 36 assists and 13 goals while Elizabeth George leads the team with 34 draw controls.
• In goal, the reigning NCAA Goalie of the Year, Ellie DeGarmo, has the nation's best save percentage (.551) and 24th best goals against average (9.86). 

The Series with the Tigers
•  This is the third meeting in just three weeks between Princeton and Cornell.
• The squads met exactly a week ago in the Ivy League Tournament championship game, with Princeton taking the game, 12-9, at Schoellkopf FIeld.
• Cornell and Princeton also battled 22 days ago on Schoellkopf Field, with the Tigers handing the Big Red its lone conference loss of the season in a heartbreaking, 12-11, double-overtime win.
• Princeton and Cornell have met once before in the NCAA Tournament, with the 2001 first round meeting going the way of the Tigers, 14-4.
• The Big Red last topped the Tigers, 10-9, in overtime of the 2016 Ivy League Tournament semifinals.
• Cornell's last road win over the Tigers came on March 31, 2012 in a 13-12 overtime affair.
• Princeton held a 20-game win streak in the series from 1989-2009.
• Three of Cornell's six wins against Princeton have come under head coach Jenny Graap.

Common Opponents
• The teams share not only the six Ancient Eight opponents but also three non-conference opponents.
• Cornell's results: Brown, W 11-8; Columbia W 14-11; Dartmouth W 14-12; Harvard W 13-6, W 17-8; Penn W 10-4; Yale W 15-6; Penn State L 8-9; Syracuse L 8-11; Notre Dame W 12-7.
• Princeton's results: Brown W 10-7; Columbia W 18-11; Dartmouth W 18-8; Harvard W 20-5; Penn L 12-17, W 17-8; Yale W 17-9; Penn State L 8-13; Syracuse W 16-11; Notre Dame W 14-8.

A Win Would…
• Advance Cornell to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament.
• Move the Big Red to 14-5 overall and to a 6-4 record in the NCAA Tournament. 
• Bump Cornell's all-time record against Princeton to 8-37.
• Give the Big Red its fourth win over a ranked opponent this season.

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. 
• 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.

IWLCA Regional All-Americans
• Four seniors were named Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Regional All-Americans on Friday.
• Defender Catie Smith, attacker Amie Dickson and goalkeeper Renee Poullott were named to the Northeast First Team.
• Midfielder Kristy Gilbert earned second team honors.
• Smith was a Northeast first-team honoree last year in addition to being a third-team All-American.
• Poullott earned second-team regional honors in 2016.

Ivy League All-Tournament Team
• Seniors Amie Dickson, Catie Smith, and Catherine Ellis joined junior Taylor Reed and sophomore Sarah Phillips on the Ivy League All-Tournament Team.
• It was the second straight season for Dickson, Reed and Ellis on the all-tournament team. 
• In the two tournament games, Reed netted three goals and one assist while picking up five ground balls, causing three turnovers and controlling two draws.
• Smith had eight draw controls, four caused turnovers and three ground balls.
• Ellis notched seven points on five goals and two assists while Phillips had five goals.
• Four of Phillips' goals came in the semifinal against Harvard, which was a Cornell single-game Ivy League Tournament record.
• It was a record-setting tournament for Dickson, who notched seven points on two goals and five assists while also controlling 12 draws and picking up two ground balls. 
• Dickson's four assists established a new school single-game record while her six points was also a Cornell single-game record.

The Lone Down Goal Scored
• With 13:12 to play in the Ivy League Tournament Championship against Princeton, junior Taylor Reed scored a woman-down goal.
• It was the first woman-down goal in school history.
• Until that point, the only down goal scored in a Cornell women's lacrosse game came on April 12, 2013 when Brown got one past the Big Red.

Point Streaks
• Senior Amie Dickson and sophomore Sarah Phillips both enter the game against Princeton with 18 game point streaks.
• Phillips also holds the longest active goal scoring streak at 13 games.

Renee Says No!
• With her 10-save performance against Notre Dame on Friday night, senior Renee Poullott became the winningest goaltender in program history with her 41st career victory.
• Earlier this year, in a span of 11 days, Poullott set a career-high in saves in two consecutive games and then tied it in a third.
• The senior set a career-high of 14 against Syracuse on April 18 and then four days later, made a career-high 15 saves on April 22 against Princeton.
• Poullott then went out and made 15 saves against Harvard in the regular season Ivy title clinching win on April 29.
• The senior is currently seventh in the nation with a .507 save percentage while her goals against average of 8.58 is ninth.

Dickson with the Assist(s) 
• Senior Amie Dickson's assist against Dartmouth on April 15 moved her into third place all-time in program history and she now has 82 in her career.
• Her 69th career assist also made her the only player in program history to sit in the top three in both assists and draw controls (141). 
• Dickson has 40 helpers on the year, a new single-season program record, and has a career-high 69 points.
• She is the first Big Red player to reach the 60 point mark in a season since Jessi Steinberg (65) and Caroline Salisbury (62) both did it in 2012.

Ellis Hits 100
• With a three goal performance at Rutgers on April 1, tri-captain Catherine Ellis became the 15th player in program history to record 100 career goals.
• She also became the 12th player in program history to hit the 150 point mark.
• Ellis has set career highs in goals (45), assists (15) and points (60) this year.

Balanced Offense
• Cornell has had at least six different goal scorers in 14 of its 17 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, Rutgers and in the Ivy semifinals against Harvard, 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, Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard again and also against Notre Dame.

Multi-Goal Games
• Ten different Big Red players have posted at least one multi-goal outing this season.
• Senior Catherine Ellis has 14 multi-goal efforts while sophomore Sarah Phillips has 11 and junior Taylor Reed has 10.
• Senior Kristy Gilbert and Amie Dickson each have nine multi-goal games and sophomore Tomasina Leska has six.
• Junior Ida Farinholt has five games with multiple goals while freshman Caroline Allen, junior Joey Coffy, and sophomore Christie Raymond each have one.
 
Free-Position Success
• On April 29 against Harvard, senior tri-captain Kristy Gilbert set a program record for free-position goals in a game with four. 
• Cornell now has 64 free-position goals on the year, which is 19 more than the previous single-season best set in 2002.

Smith Nominated for Tewaaraton Award
• Senior tri-captain Catie Smith was named one of 25 nominees for the Tewaaraton Award on April 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.
• Jessi Steinberg '12 was the last Big Red player to make the cut to the final 25 athletes. 

Two's Company
• Cornell is just the second school to have hosted both a men's and women's Ivy League lacrosse tournament.
• Princeton is the only other Ancient Eight school that has hosted both  a men's and women's lacrosse tournament.
• Cornell has hosted the men's tournament three times (2010, 2011, 2013) and can now claim the 2017 women's tournament.
• Princeton hosted the men's tournament in 2012 while the women's tournament was held in New Jersey in 2014 and 2015.
• Cornell is the first school that doesn't start with the letter "P" to host the women's tournament, as all previous orations took place at either Princeton or Penn.

Red Clinches The Regular
•Cornell's13-6 win over Harvard on April 29 gave the program its second-ever Ivy League Regular Season Championship.
• The Big Red last had a share of the title in 2006.
• Both title-clinching victories came in an Ancient Eight regular season finale win over Harvard.

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

Player(s) of the Week
• Senior Catie Smith was named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on March 6 and May 1.
• 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. 
• Against Harvard on April 29, Smith had five caused turnovers, three ground balls and one draw control.
• 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.

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.