ITHACA, N.Y. — The final non-league game of the season takes the women's soccer team to regional rival Colgate for a match at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Beyer-Small '76 Field in Hamilton. The game will be broadcast on Patriot League Network.
 

GAME INFORMATION

Cornell at Colgate
DATE: Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018
TIME: 4 p.m.
SITE: Beyer-Small '76 Field – Hamilton, N.Y. (artificial surface)
RECORDS: Cornell 1-8-1 (0-3 Ivy League); Colgate 7-2-3 (4-0-1)
VIDEO: Patriot League Network
LIVE STATS: GoColgateRaiders.com
UPDATES: @CUBigRedGameday
 

LAST TIME OUT

• Cornell is coming off a pair of 2-0 losses to Harvard last Saturday and Penn on Sept. 29. The opposition scored all of its goals in the second half of both games, and the Big Red combined for four shots on goal.
• The Big Red opened Ivy League play 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.
• Rachel Alexander finally equalized with 3:45 remaining in the second half for Columbia, the 2017 Ivy League runner-up, then she set up the winning goal 28 seconds into the second overtime period.
• Goalkeeper Meghan 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.
 

ABOUT THE BIG RED

• Kaili Gregory has taken over the team scoring lead 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.
• With five games left to play, Cornell has already eclipsed its goal output from the entire 2017 campaign.
• 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 1-6-1 record, 1.78 goals against average and .803 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 185-132-34.
• 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 61 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 1.43 career goals against average that ranks eighth on the program's all-time list and a .823 career save percentage that ranks 10th.
• As of Monday, Kennedy ranked fifth in the country with an average of 7.63 saves per game.
• Cornell has the fifth-fewest fouls per game in country with an average of 5.7.
 

THE REGGAE GIRL

• Freshman Jadyn Matthews is currently competing with the Jamaica women's national soccer team, nicknamed the 'Reggae Girlz', at the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship.
• Jamaica lost to Canada on Friday, 2-0, in its first game of group play. The team is scheduled to play Costa Rica on Monday night in Texas.
• Matthews appeared twice as a reserve in 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 COLGATE

• The Raiders are tied atop the Patriot League standings and 7-2-3 overall and 4-0-1 in league play, thanks its current eight-game unbeaten streak (6-0-2).
• Colgate has won its last three, most recently 2-0 victory Saturday on the road against Lafayette. Ellis Miller and Sage Diguilio had the goals.
• Abby Sotomayor leads the team in scoring with eight points on three goals and two assists. Miller has seven points with three goals and one assist, and Martina Loncar also has three goals for six points.
• Kelly Chiavaro is the team's primary goalkeeper with a 7-2-2 record, 0.54 goals against average, .903 save percentage and six shutouts.
• Kathy Brawn is in her 28th season as the head coach. She recorded her 300th career victory earlier this season, becoming the 24th active Division I head coach to reach that benchmark.
 

THE SERIES WITH COLGATE

• The Raiders are on a seven-match unbeaten streak against the Big Red to take an 20-15-4 lead in the all-time series between the regional rivals. Colgate has won each of the last two games, 1-0, despite a total of 27 shot attempts from Cornell in those contests.
• The Raiders currently own a shutout streak of 367 minutes, 29 seconds against the Big Red, dating back to a goal by Elizabeth Crowell '16 on Oct. 6, 2014.
• Cornell's last victories against Colgate came in 2009 and 2010, both by final scores of 2-0.
 

UP NEXT

• Cornell plays three of its final four games at home, all within Ivy League play. That stretch starts at 1 p.m. Saturday, when the Big Red hosts Yale at Berman Field.