ITHACA, N.Y. — The women's soccer team hits the road for the final time this season when it travels to the Ocean State for a 1 p.m. Sunday clash with Brown in Providence, R.I. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+.
 

GAME INFORMATION

Cornell at Brown
DATE: Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018
TIME: 1 p.m.
SITE: Stevenson-Pincince Field – Providence, R.I. (artificial surface)
RECORDS: Cornell 1-10-1 (0-4 Ivy League); Brown 5-7-1 (1-3)
VIDEO: ESPN+
LIVE STATS: BrownBears.com
 

LAST TIME OUT

• Cornell was topped by Yale, 1-0, in its last game on Saturday at Berman Field. Aerial Chavarin scored late in the first half for the Bulldogs, while goalkeepre Meghan Kennedy made seven saves for the hosts.
• The Big Red has been on the short side of 2-0 decision in the three games prior against Penn (Sept. 29), Harvard (Oct. 6) and Colgate (Oct. 9).
• The Big Red opened league competition on Sept. 22, suffering a heartbreaking 2-1 golden-goal loss to Columbia in New York. Kaili Gregory scored off corner-kick service from Jessica Ritchie in the 24th minute, and the Big Red led until the 87th minute despite being outshot in the game by a 38-1 margin.
 

ABOUT THE BIG RED

• Kaili Gregory owns the team lead in scoring with five points on two goals and an assist. Her first goal of the year came in the 100th minute of Cornell's season-opening 2-1 overtime victory on Aug. 24 at St. Bonaventure.
• Kennedy Yearby ranks second in team scoring with three points on a goal and an assist – both in the second half of a 2-2 tie with Albany on Sept. 18 at Berman Field.
• Shelby Wray, Naomi Jaffe and Aidan Julia Reineman have the Big Red's other goals this season. Reineman also leads the team with 14 shots.
• Meghan Kennedy is Cornell's primary goalkeeper with a 1-7-1 record, 1.70 goals against average and .810 save percentage. Chrissy Mayer (0-2, 1.00, .778) has also made a pair of starts, the last coming in a 1-0 loss Sept. 16 at Saint Joseph's.
 

HEAD COACH DWIGHT HORNIBROOK

• After serving as an assistant coach for five seasons, Dwight Hornibrook was named the program's sixth head coach in advance of the 2017 season.
• Hornibrook had 17 years of head coaching experience with the men's soccer programs at Houghton and SUNY Cortland before joining the Cornell women's soccer team. He has helped the Big Red win 33 games over the last six-plus years and now has an overall record as a head coach of 185-134-34.
• Two-time Cornell captain goalkeeper Tori Christ '14 returns for her second season as an assistant coach, and Eva Francavilla has joined the staff as an assistant coach.
 

BY THE NUMBERS

• Jessica Ritchie (three goals, five assists) is Cornell's active scoring leader with 11 points, followed closely by Kennedy Yearby's 10 (four goals, two assists) and Kaili Gregory's seven (three goals, one assist).
• Meghan Kennedy leads the Ivy League with 68 saves despite playing in fewer games than the starters of each other league team. She also led the league with 82 saves in 2017. Her 1.41 career goals against average that ranks eighth on the program's all-time list and a .824 career save percentage that ranks 10th.
• As of Monday, Kennedy ranked fifth in the country with an average of 7.56 saves per game.
• Cornell has the fifth-fewest fouls per game in country with an average of 5.58.
• Kennedy made a career-high 15 saves against Columbia, including 10 in the second half. The 15 stops were tied for fifth-most in a single game for a Cornell goalkeeper in program history, and the most since 2001.
 

THE REGGAE GIRL

• Freshman Jadyn Matthews is back with the Big Red after her most recent tour of duty with the Jamaica women's national soccer team, nicknamed the 'Reggae Girlz', where she helped the team qualify for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup with a third-place finish at the CONCACAF Women's Championship.
• Matthews started against the United States in Sunday's semifinal in Dallas, playing the full 90 minutes. She also twice came on as a reserve in the CONCACAF Women's Caribbean Zone final-round games against Antigua and Barbuda on Aug. 25 and Cuba on Sept. 2.
• Matthews has become the second Cornell women's soccer to play for her senior national team, joining Rachel Nichols '14 after her tenure with The Philippines.
 

A CALL TO ARMBANDS

• Seniors Meghan Kennedy and Jessica Ritchie are serving as the Big Red's co-captains this season. Both players are among the team's leading contributors this season, with both wearing the armband for the first time in their collegiate careers. Cornell carries just three seniors and has 14 underclasswomen on its roster of 23.
 

NATIONAL APPEAL

• The Big Red has 12 different states and the District of Columbia represented on the team roster of 23.
• The most represented state on the Big Red is California, which is called home by six players. Four hail from New Jersey, three from Florida, and one each from Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia.
• Though there are no Canadians among the players, head coach Dwight Hornibrook is native to the New Brunswick capital of Fredericton.
 

ABOUT BROWN

• The Bears fell to 5-7-1 after a 3-2 loss to visiting Harvard last Saturday. Star White scored twice for Brown inside 16 minutes, but Harvard stormed all the way back to win with three goals in the second half.
• While Brown is now 1-3 in Ivy League play, the one victory was a shot heard 'round the Ivy League. The Bears scored three straight to secure a 3-2 victory Oct. 6 at nationally-ranked Princeton to take down the defending league champion.
• Abby Carchio leads the Bears with five goals, followed by four from White – three of which have come in the last two games. Rebecca Rosen has scored three times and Sydney Cummings twice.
• Christine Etzel is Brown's primary goalkeeper with a 3-6-1 record, 1.16 goals against average, .769 save percentage and a pair of clean sheets. The Big Red recently played against Etzel's twin sister, Danielle, who starts in goal for Harvard.
• Kia McNeill is in her third season as the head coach.
 

THE SERIES WITH BROWN

• The Bears hold a 25-7-4 advantage in the all-time series, riding a nine-game unbeaten streak into this year's clash.
• Brown won last year's game, 1-0, on the strength of an 82nd-minute goal from Celia Story on a penalty kick. Meghan Kennedy made eight saves for Cornell.
• It was the second straight year the Big Red was on the wrong end of a 1-0 score thanks to a late Bears goal. The winner in the 2016 game in Providence came in the 85th minute.
• Cornell's last victory against Brown came on the road on Oct. 21, 2008, by a score of 2-0.
 

UP NEXT

• Cornell returns home for its final two games of the season, first welcoming defending Ivy League champion Princeton to Berman Field at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27. The campaign then concludes at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3 against Dartmouth.