ITHACA, N.Y. —  The Cornell women's soccer team hits the road for its final two games of the season, starting with a 1 p.m. Saturday visit to defending co-champion Princeton. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+.

Game Information:

Cornell at Princeton
SITE: Roberts Stadium — Princeton, N.J. (natural surface)
RECORDS: Cornell 4-8-1, 0-5 Ivy League;
                    Princeton 5-6-3, 1-3-1 Ivy League
SERIES RECORD: Princeton leads, 26-7-4
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: GoPrincetonTigers.com
•  Cornell game notes

Red Redux:

•  Cornell is coming off a 2-0 loss on Senior Day to league-leading Brown on Saturday. The Big Red played admirably after conceding a goal in just the game's second minute, but the Bears eventually tacked on an insurance goal via penalty kick midway through the second half.
•  The Big Red largely frustrated Yale for 90 minutes in its last time out on the road, but the Bulldogs eventually pulled out a 1-0 victory on Oct. 19 in New Haven.
•  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.
•  The Big Red is now winless in nine straight after starting the year with four consecutive victories for the first time since 2005.
•  Cornell is 0-5 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 1.19 goals against average, .724 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 189-145-35. 

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 returned in mid-October 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 Princeton

•  The Tigers enter a non-league game against Drexel on Wednesday on the heels of a 2-1 Ivy League loss last Saturday at Harvard. The Crimson played most of the game with the lead, though Olivia Kane scored in the 58th minute to tie the score before Harvard regained the lead for good about two minutes later.
•  That loss sent Princeton, which shared the title with Penn last year, to 1-3-1 in Ivy League play. The win was against Dartmouth on Oct. 5, and the draw was Oct. 19 against Columbia.
•  Courtney O'Brien and Grace Sherman are tied for the team lead with 10 points, both on four goals and two assists. Tatum Gee has seven points with two goals and three assists, which is tied for the team lead with Melissa Hart.
•  Natalie Grossi has started 13 of 14 games in goal for Princeton with a 4-6-3 record, 1.17 goals against average, .768 save percentage and five shutouts. 
•  Sean Driscoll is in his fifth season as the head coach at Princeton after serving as an associated head coach at Fairfield for five years.

The Series vs. Princeton

•  The Tigers own a 26-7-4 advantage in the all-time series, having won the last two meetings, 2-0.
•  Princeton is currently riding a 23-game winning streak in the series, including overtime victories in 2009 and 2010.
•  The Big Red's last victory against the Tigers came Sept. 23, 1995, when Cornell earned a triumph en route to an undefeated season in Ivy League play.

Up Next

•  Cornell wraps up its season with the long trip to Dartmouth at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9.