ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell women's soccer team will celebrate its Senior Day with its final home game of the season, when it hosts Ivy League-leading Brown at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
The game will be broadcast on ESPN+.
Game Information:
Brown at Cornell
SITE: Berman Field — Ithaca, N.Y. (natural surface)
RECORDS: Cornell 4-7-1, 0-4 Ivy League;
Brown 10-1-1, 4-0 Ivy League
SERIES RECORD: Brown leads, 26-7-4
BROADCAST:
ESPN+
STATS:
CornellBigRed.com
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Cornell game notes
Red Redux:
• Cornell is coming off a 1-0 loss on Saturday at Yale, when it did not enjoy much possession — but it did manage to frustrate the Bulldogs for large chunks of the game.
Nicole Shulman made three saves for the Big Red.
• Yale continued to push its players forward more and more until a turnover near midfield almost proved costly with a breakaway at the other end, but Cornell's shot from 15 yards bounced wide of the left post. Aerial Chavarin scored the day's lone goal about four minutes later for the Bulldogs.
• Cornell turned in its best effort in weeks last Tuesday, but it couldn't cash in any of its scoring chances before Colgate escaped with a 1-0 victory on an 82nd-minute goal at Berman Field.
• The Big Red is now winless in eight straight after starting the year with four straight victories for the first time since 2005.
• Cornell is 0-4 in Ivy League play, though it had the lead on defending co-champion Penn on Oct. 5. The Big Red became the first Ivy League team since 2015 to hang a pair of goals on the Quakers, but the defending league champions rallied for three unanswered goals and a 4-2 victory.
• 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
• 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 3-4 record with a 1.13 goals against average, .741 save percentage and one shutout.
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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 189-144-35.
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 Brown
• The Bears have won four straight heading into Wednesday's non-league against Vermont to storm to the top of the Ivy League standings in search of their first title since 1994. A 4-2 victory Saturday at Harvard gave Brown solo possession of first place heading into this weekend.
• The Bears' lone loss came on a 1-0 decision Sept. 22 at Villanova. The team's only tie was a scoreless deadlock against 13th-ranked Texas A&M on Sept. 8.
• Ava Seelenfreund leads the team in scoring with 13 points on four goals and five assists. Brittany Raphino leads the squad with five goals to go along with two assists for 12 points, and Star White has 10 points on four goals and two assists.
• Kayla Thompson has started 10 of 12 games in goal for Brown with an 8-1-1 record, 0.40 goals against average, .882 save percentage and six shutouts.
• Kia McNeill is in her fourth season as the head coach at Brown after stints as an assistant coach at Northeastern and Boston College.
The Series vs. Brown
• The Bears hold a 26-7-4 advantage in the all-time series, riding a 10-game unbeaten streak into this year's clash.
• Cornell opened the scoring in last year's game with
Evanthia Spyredes' first collegiate goal on a header off a corner kick in the 11th minute, but Brown rallied for a 3-1 victory — including a pair of penalty-kick goals from Abby Carchio.
• Cornell's last victory against Brown came on Oct. 21, 2008, by a score of 2-0.
Up Next
• Cornell hits the road for its final two games, first visiting Princeton at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2 before taking on Dartmouth at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9.
