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Evanthia Spyredes converts a second-half penalty kick for her second goal of the season in the Cornell women's soccer team's Ivy League game at Penn on Oct. 5, 2019 at Rhodes Field in Philadelphia, Pa. (Courtesy of Penn Athletics)
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Cornell Corn (4-4-1, 0-2-0)
4
Winner Penn Penn (6-3-1, 1-1-0)
Cornell Corn
(4-4-1, 0-2-0)
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Final
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Penn Penn
(6-3-1, 1-1-0)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Cornell Corn 0 2 2
Penn Penn 1 3 4

Game Recap: Women's Soccer |

Penn's Late Surge Downs Women's Soccer, 4-2

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — The Cornell women's soccer team struck twice in the early moments of the second half to take the lead on defending Ivy League champion Penn on Saturday, but the Quakers stormed back for three unanswered goals in a 4-2 victory at Rhodes Field.
 
It took Cornell (4-4-1, 0-2 Ivy League) just 23 seconds to erase a 1-0 halftime deficit. Freshman Ashley Durik created a turnover in the midfield and served a ball into the right side of the box. Freshman Liza Mariner was the first to it, and she alertly circled away from charging Penn goalkeeper Kitty Qu. Mariner teed up a perfect left-footed cross to the far post toward a run by senior Kennedy Yearby, and with Qu out of position while scrambling back toward the cage, the ball went in off a Penn defender to tie the score at 1.
 
The goal was the Big Red's first against Penn (6-3-1, 1-1) since 2014 – a span of 503 minutes, 36 seconds – but it also wasn't its last for the day. Although her name again doesn't appear on the scoresheet, Durik was pivotal in creating the second goal. She won the ball near the top left corner of the Penn penalty area, then drew a foul that created the team's first penalty kick of the season.
 
Just 2:06 after it drew even, Cornell took the lead on Evanthia Spyredes' conversion from the spot. It was her second goal of the season, and it marked the first time in 29 games that Penn has yielded more than a single goal in an Ivy League contest (dating back to a 2-0 loss to Harvard on Sept. 26, 2015).
 
But it took the Quakers less than five minutes to pull even again. Long service from Laura Hamilton into the Cornell box was headed by Emily Sands, then it deflected off a defender to a wide-open Breukelen Woodard off the back post for an easy tap-in.
 
Penn pulled ahead on another play set up by strong aerial presence. On a free kick from the middle third, Mia Shenk's header from eight yards out descended onto the crossbar. Woodard then converted the eventual winning goal. Just 41 seconds later, Shenk finished off a passing play for an insurance goal.
 
Cornell returns home for three of its next four games, starting with an Ivy League contest against Harvard at 1 p.m. Saturday.
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