ITHACA, N.Y. - The Big Red field hockey team returns home to host Bucknell University for a 5 p.m. matchup on Tuesday, October 15.
Game Information
Bucknell at Cornell
DATE: Tuesday, October 15
TIME: 5:00 PM
SITE: Dodson Field - Ithaca, N.Y. (AstroTurf)
RECORDS: Cornell 6-3, 2-1 Ivy League; Bucknell 6-5, 2-1 Patriot League
SERIES RECORD: Bucknell leads; 16-11-1
STREAMING:
ESPN+
STATS:
CornellBigRed.com
Cornell game notes
Bucknell game notes
How to Watch
- This game is one of 13 out of 17 games on the Big Red's schedule to be broadcast on ESPN+, including all Cornell home games and all Ivy League road games.
- ESPN+ is currently only available to fans in the US for $4.99/month or $49.99/year. (https://plus.espn.com/). A similar international platform is the home for fans outside of the U.S., and will feature both live and archived games.
About the Big Red
- The Big Red is off to its best start since 2014 when the field hockey team had just one loss after nine games. Cornell has had a 6-3 start this season with wins against #18 Syracuse (2-1, 9/7), Lock Haven (2OT) (3-2, 9/8), Lafayette (4-1, 9/23), Colgate (4-1, 10/1), Columbia (2OT SO) (1-0, 10/5) and Yale (2-1, 10/13).
- Cornell is also having its best offensive season, so far, since 2016 with 21 goals in the first nine games.
- Junior forward Grace Royer leads the team with 14 points on five goals and four assists. She scored goals against Lafayette (2), Penn (2), and Colgate. She notched assists against Syracuse, Lafayette, Colgate and Yale.
- Sophomore forward Claire Jones follows Royer with 11 points on four goals and three assists. The sophomore scored two game-winning goals in the first weekend and has assisted on goals against Penn and Colgate. She later scored two goals against Yale.
- Freshman midfielder Caroline Ramsey follows Jones with eight points on four goals. She scored goals against Syracuse, Lock Haven, Lafayette and Colgate.
- Totaling 21 wins in her career, senior goalie Maddie Henry's six wins on the season have led her to the runner-up position in Cornell's career record list. She needs five more wins to pass Kelly Johnson (2014-17), who has 25 wins in her career.
Work as a Team, Win as a Team
- The Cornell Big Red field hockey team ranks:
- 12th in the nation in save percentage (.769)
- 15th in the nation in saves per game (6.67)
- 16th in the nation in winning percentage (.667); tied with Monmouth, Princeton, Syracuse and American
- 22nd in the nation in assists per game (2); tied with Rider
- 26th in the nation in defensive save (3); tied with 15 other teams
- 1st in the Ivy League in save percentage (.769)
- 3rd in the Ivy League in scoring average (2.222)
- 3rd in the Ivy League in scoring margin (.22)
National and Individual Rankings
- Maddie Henry ranks 15th in the nation in saves per game (6.00); tied with Sachi Ananias (Indiana) and Annabel Zandvoort (Wagner)
- Maddie Henry ranks 16th in the nation in save percentage (.750); tied with Olivia Harris (Bucknell)
- Maddie Henry ranks 16th in the nation in goalie win-lose percentage (.667); tied with Kate O'Hogan (Monmouth)
- Grace Royer ranks 35th in the nation in points per game (1.56); tied with Austyn Cuneo (Rutgers)
- Maddie Henry ranks 44th in the nation in goals against average (1.97)
- Grace Royer ranks 49th in the nation in assists per game (.44); tied with Mackenzie Kile (Bucknell)
Individual Ivy League Rankings
- Kirsten Pienaar
- Ranks #2 in defensive saves per game (.22)
- Ranks #2 in defensive saves (2); tied with five other people
- Claire Jones
- Ranks #1 in game-winning goals (3)
- Ranks #9 in points per game (1.22)
- Ranks #10 in points (11)
- Grace Royer
- Ranks #2 in points per game (1.56)
- Ranks #4 in assists (4); tied with five other people
- Ranks #4 in assists per game (.444)
- Ranks #6 in points (14); tied with Bente van Vlijmen (Harvard) and Katie Spanos (Dartmouth)
- Maddie Henry
- Ranks #1 in save percentage (.750)
- Ranks #2 in goals against average (2.299)
- Ranks #3 in saves per game (6.00)
Cornell Career Record List
- Maddie Henry
- Ranks second in career wins (20) … Needs six more to pass Kelly Johnson (2014-17).
- Ranks eighth in saves (265) … Needs nine more to pass Sue Zieman (1983-85).
- Ranks 10th, with five other people, in goalie shutouts (4) … Needs one more to be tied for seventh with three other people.
Season Marks
- Claire Jones is tied for eighth, with 23 other players, in game-winning goals (3) … Needs one more to be tied for fourth with six other players.
- Caroline Ramsey needs one more goal to be tied for 13th in freshman records.
Last Week in Review
- Cornell added an Ivy League win with a 2-1 victory against Yale (10/12). Sophomore Claire Jones led the team in scoring both Big Red goals. Junior Taylor Gladd assisted on both, while fellow junior Grace Royer also assisted on one.
- The Big Red followed the 2-1 win against Yale with a 3-1 loss to Cal (10/13). Assisted by freshman Natalie Stone, junior Julianne Mangano tied the score after one Golden Bear goal in the second quarter, but Cornell was not able to score again. Senior goalie Maddie Henry saved 15 shots for a personal season-high.
About Bucknell
- Playing just two ranked teams so far, #23 Syracuse and #25 Virginia, the Bisons have won six of their first 11 games. Most recently, Bucknell beat Patriot League foe, Lehigh, 8-2 (10/12). The Bisons will play Yale on Monday, October 14, before traveling to Ithaca, N.Y.
- Sophomore forward Emily Doyle leads the team with 14 points on seven goals. She has had two multi-goal games in scoring two goals each against Towson (9/29) and Villanova (10/6).
- Senior midfielder Allie Christopher follows closely with 12 points on five goals and two assists. Within the last week, Christopher scored three goals against Lehigh.
- Senior goalkeeper Olivia Harris has played for all 11 games for the Bisons. In 669:29 Harris has made 57 saves for a .750 save percentage.
The Series vs Bucknell
- The Big Red first played the Bisons in 1974, which resulted in a 2-2 tie.
- The series has continued to be close since that first match with half of the meetings (14) being decided by one goal.
- Bucknell holds the 16-11-1 lead all-time, having won seven of the last nine meetings, including last year's matchup. The Bisons won the 2018 game 5-0.
National Appeal
- The Big Red has eight different states, as well as Canada and South Africa, represented on the team of 23.
- For the first year New Jersey ties Pennsylvania as the most represented state. Pennsylvania has been the most represented state since 2015. A total of 10 players call New Jersey or Pennsylvania home, five each. The other states with multiple representatives are New York (3) and Texas (2), plus one student-athletes from Connecticut, Maine, Maryland and Texas.
- There are three international student-athletes as well, two from British Columbia, Canada
- and one from South Africa.
- In addition to our athletes, we have two coaches from California (Hurff and Dempsey), one from Delaware (Orozco) and head coach Andy Smith hails from Doncaster, England.
- After serving as the head coach of the field hockey team at the University of the Pacific, Smith was named the head coach of the Cornell field hockey team in May of 2019.
- Smith comes to East Hill after leading the Pacific Tigers to four regular season conference titles in six seasons. Smith also coached four student athletes to All-American honors, in addition to five athletes being selected to participate in FIH World level events.
- Smith brings a new staff of assistant coaches to Cornell this season. Laura Hurff and Johnny Orozco joined the Big Red staff as assistant coaches after successful stints in their respective USA National Teams. Taylor Dempsey joins the team as a volunteer assistant coach after a decorated playing career at the University of the Pacific.
Up Next
- The Big Red will stay at home to host Ivy League foe Harvard on Saturday, October 19, before traveling to Albany for a 4 p.m. matchup on Sunday.
