ITHACA, N.Y. — The #11/11 Cornell women's lacrosse team will look to win its second straight Ivy League Tournament Championship on Sunday when it takes on #6/9 Princeton on Schoellkopf Field. Top-seeded Cornell beat fourth-seeded Harvard, 16-11, to advance to the title match while third-seeded Princeton blew by second-seeded #7/7 Penn, 17-8.

It meeting marks the third time that Princeton - who got a double-overtime win over the Big Red in Ithaca, 12-11, just two weeks ago - and Cornell have met in the conference tournament. 

The game can be seen on the American Sports Network and the Ivy League Digital Network.

Ticket and parking information can be found here.

GAME INFORMATION
GAME #17: #11/11 Cornell Big Red vs. #6/9 Princeton TIgers - Ivy League Tournament Championship
TIME: 11:05 a.m.
DATE: Sunday, May 7, 2017
PLACE: Schoellkopf Field — Ithaca, N.Y. 
LIVE VIDEO: American Sports Network | Ivy League Digital Network
LIVE STATS: CornellBigRed.com
RECORDS: Cornell 12-4, Princeton 13-3

GAME NOTES: Cornell

About the Big Red
• Cornell is making its second-straight Ivy League Tournament championship game appearance, thanks to a 16-11 win over Harvard in Friday night's semifinal.
• The Big Red recorded three, three-goal streaks in the contest while both sophomore Sarah Phillips' four goals and senior Amie Dickson's four assists set single-game tournament records for Cornell; Dickson's six total points also marked a Big Red single-game tournament record.
• Seven different players scored for Cornell, with all registering multiple points.
• Dickson leads the team in points (64) and assists (37) while senior tri-captain Catherine Ellis is tops in goals (40) and second in points (53). 
• Senior tri-captain Catie Smith leads the team in draw controls (39), caused turnovers (37) and ground balls (43).
• Senior Renee Poullott entered the tournament with a .529 save percentage and an 8.18 goals against average, numbers that put her fourth and ninth, respectively, in the nation.

About the Tigers
• Third-seeded Princeton topped second-seeded Penn, 17-8, in the semifinals to advance to Sunday's Ivy League Tournament Championship. 
• Princeton is 2-1 in the tournament title game, winning in 2011 and 2015.
• The Tigers bring the nation's 11th ranked offense (15.06) into Sunday's matchup.
• Olivia Hompe's nine goals in Friday's semifinal gave her 94 (63g, 31a) for the year and leads the nation in goals per game.
• Ellie DeGarmo has the second-best save percentage in the NCAA (.551)  while her goals against average of 9.91 is 26th.

The Series with the Tigers
• This is the third time that Princeton and Cornell have met in the conference tournament, with the previous two meetings coming in the semifinals. 
• The Big Red topped the Tigers, 10-9, in overtime last year to advance to the title game while Princeton got the better of the Big Red in 2014, 12-5.
• Cornell and Princeton battled 15 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 game.
• Princeton scored  with just three seconds remaining to force overtime before Colby Chanenchuk scored in the second extra period to win it.
• 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.

A Win Would…
• Give Cornell its second straight Ivy League Tournament Championship and NCAA Tournament automatic bid.
• Move the Big Red to 13-4 overall this year and to a 4-5 record in the Ivy tournament.
• Bump Cornell's all-time record against Princeton to 8-36.
• Give the Big Red its third 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.

Defense Hosts Championships
• With identical 6-1 records and 1-1 against each other, the right to host this year's tournament came down to a goal-differential tie breaker in the games that Cornell, Penn and Princeton played against each other.
• Cornell earned the right to host the tournament based on a plus-5 goal differential.
• Princeton had a minus-4 differential and Penn had a minus-1 differential.
• The Big Red's second half shutout of Penn in a 10-4 win – and just a one goal, 12-11, overtime loss to Princeton – proved to be critical in the end.

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 hosting both a men's and women's Ivy League lacrosse tournament on its resume.
• Princeton is the only other Ancient Eight school to have hosted 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 seen orations took place at either Princeton or Penn.

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.

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 81 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 (129). 
• Dickson has 37 helpers on the year, a new single-season program record, and has a career-high 64 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' 40 goals this season is a career-high, as are her 53 points. 

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 58 free-position goals on the year, which is 14 more than the previous single-season best set in 2002.

Red Clinches The Regular
•Cornell's 13-6 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.

Point Streaks
• Senior Amie Dickson and sophomore Sarah Phillips both enter the championship game against Princeton with 16 game point streaks.
• Phillips also holds the longest active goal scoring streak at 11 games.

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. 

Renee Says No!
• In a span of 11 days, goalkeeper Renee Poullott twice 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 fourth in the nation with a .529 save percentage while her goals against average of 8.18 is ninth.
• She sits at 39 career wins, one back from tying the all-time record of 40, held by Carrie Giancola.

Ivy Honors
• Cornell won two of four major Ivy League end-of-season awards on Wednesday and also placed six players on All-Ivy squads.
• Senior tri-captain Catie Smith was named the Defender of the Year while Jenny Graap was named the Coach of the Year.
• Smith and fellow seniors Amie Dickson and tri-captain Krsity Gilbert were all first-team selections.
• Senior tri-captain Catherine Ellis was joined on the honorable mention squad by senior Renee Poullott and junior Taylor Reed.
• Cornell's three first-team selections are the most for the program since five in 2006.
• Penn was the only other school with three first-team honorees. 

Balanced Offense
• Cornell has had at least six different goal scorers in 14 of its 16 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 and Harvard.
• Cornell has had 13 different players find the net this season.

Multi-Goal Games
• Ten different Big Red players have posted at least one multi-goal outing this season.
• Senior Catherine Ellis has 12 multi-goal efforts while sophomore Sarah Phillips has 11. 
• Junior Taylor Reed and senior Amie Dickson have registered eight such outings while senior Kristy Gilbert has nine and sophomore Tomasina Leska has five.
• Junior Ida Farinholt has three games with multiple goals while freshman Caroline Allen, junior Joey Coffy, and sophomore Christie Raymond each have one.

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.

Up Next
• A win gives Cornell the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament while a loss delays Cornell's destiny until the 9 p.m. selection show on Sunday.