ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell women's soccer team plays three of its last four games in Ivy League play on the road, starting with a 1 p.m. Saturday visit to Yale. The game will be broadcast on ESPN3.

Game Information:

Colgate at Cornell
SITE: Reese Stadium — New Haven, Conn. (artificial surface)
RECORDS: Cornell 4-6-1, 0-3 Ivy League;
                    Yale 9-3, 2-1 Ivy League
SERIES RECORD: Yale leads, 19-17-1
BROADCAST: ESPN3
STATS: YaleBulldogs.com
•  Cornell game notes

Red Redux:

•  Cornell turned in its best effort in weeks on Tuesday night, but it couldn't cash in any of its own scoring chances before Colgate escaped with a 1-0 victory on an 82nd-minute goal at Berman Field. 
•  The Big Red forced five saves from Colgate's goalkeeper in the first half, then sophomore Evanthia Spyredes hit the woodwork on a shot in the second half before the Raiders produced the winner.
•  The loss pushed Cornell's winless skid to seven straight, and it has fallen two games below .500 for the first time this season. 
•  The Big Red is 0-3 in Ivy League play after a 3-0 loss to Harvard on Saturday. Prior to that, Cornell became the first Ivy League team since 2015 to hang a pair of goals on Penn, but the defending league champions rallied for three unanswered goals and a 4-2 victory on Oct. 5 at Rhodes Field in Philadelphia.
•  Both Big Red goals against the Quakers came early in the second half, including an own goal on a long cross from freshman forward Liza Mariner just 23 seconds after halftime. Sophomore forward Evanthia Spyredes notched the second goal 2 minutes, 6 seconds later on a penalty kick drawn by freshman midfielder Ashley Durik.

About the Big Red

•  Cornell has already quadrupled its win total from last year, entering the game against Colgate at 4-6-1 after going 1-13-1 in 2018. The Big Red started the season with four straight victories for the first time since 2005.
•  Sophomore forward Evanthia Spyredes has the team scoring lead with five points on a pair of goals and an assist. Sophomore Jadyn Matthews and freshman Ashley Durik have four points on two goals apiece. Both of Durik's goals came in her collegiate debut on Aug. 30 against Iona. Matthews tallied the other goal against Iona before later netting the winner in a 1-0 triumph at Bucknell.
•  Senior forward Kennedy Yearby remains Cornell's active scoring leader with four goals and four assists for 12 points.
•  All three of Cornell's goalkeepers have played in multiple games to date. Freshman Nicole Shulman has found the most success with a 3-3 record with a 1.15 goals against average, .739 save percentage and one shutout.

Head Coach Dwight Hornibrook

•  Dwight Hornibrook is in his third season as the program's sixth head coach after serving as an assistant coach for five years.
•  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 37 games over the last eight years and now has an overall record as a head coach of 189-142-35. 

National Duty

•  Sophomore Jadyn Matthews has international experience, having helped the Jamaica women's national soccer team qualify for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. She appeared twice as a reserve in CONCACAF Women's Caribbean Zone final round games in 2018, though was not ultimately included on the World Cup roster.
•  Matthews became the second Cornell women's soccer to play for her senior national team, joining Rachel Nichols '14 after her tenure with The Philippines.
•  Freshman goalkeeper Nicole Shulman also has experience competing with the U17 and U19 Israeli national teams. Shulman recently returned to Cornell after missing five games to compete with Israel at the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship.

A Call To Armbands

•  Seniors Karli Berry and Chrissy Mayer, and junior Naomi Jaffe are serving as the Big Red's tri-captains this season. It is the first time any of the trio has donned an armband in their collegiate careers. 
•  Jaffe is the first non-senior to serve as a captain for Cornell since Claire MacManus '15 during the 2013 season.
•  Cornell, which has six seniors, has more underclassmen on its roster than upperclassmen for a third straight year.

National Appeal

•  The Big Red has 14 different states and the District of Columbia represented on the team roster of 28. 
•  For a third straight year, the most represented state on the Big Red is California – which is called home by five players. The other states with multiple representatives are New Jersey (four), Florida (four), New York (two), Connecticut (two) and Virginia (two), plus there is one each from Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. 

About Yale

•  The Bulldogs' offense came alive with victories of 4-0 on Oct. 8 against Albany and 3-1 last Saturday against Dartmouth to push the team's record to 9-3 overall and 2-1 in the Ivy League. Yale's first two league games finished 1-0 — a win Sept. 28 at 2018 co-champion Princeton and a loss on Oct. 5 against current co-leader Harvard.
•  Yale is averaging a robust 2.25 goals per game and has 82 corner kicks on the year compared to just 33 for its opposition.
•  Freshman midfielder/forward  Ellery Winkler leads the team in scoring with 18 points on six goals and a team-high six assists. Senior forward Aerial Chavarin also has six goals for 12 points, matched by senior midfielder Noelle Higginson via five goals and two assists.
•  Senior Alyssa Fagel has started all 12 games in goal, sporting a 9-3 record with a 0.83 goals against average and .778 save percentage with three shutouts.
•  Brendan Faherty is in his first season as the head coach Yale after three years at the helm at Stony Brook.

The Series vs. Yale

•  Cornell is 2-1-1 in its last four meetings with Yale, but the Bulldogs hold a 19-17-1 lead in the all-time series after a 1-0 victory last year at Berman Field in Ithaca. Aerial Chavarin had the game's lone goal on a head off a late corner kick in the first half.
•  It took 36 all-time meetings, but Cornell and Yale finally played to the first draw in their program histories in 2017 — which marked the teams' last tangle at Reese Stadium. Meghan Kennedy '19 made eight saves in the shutout for Cornell.

Up Next

•  Cornell returns home for a Senior Day matchup against Brown at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26 before wrapping up the season with Ivy League contests at Princeton (Nov. 2) and Dartmouth (Nov. 9).