ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell women's soccer team wraps up its season on the road, taking on Dartmouth in an Ivy League match at 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
The game will be broadcast on ESPN+.
Game Information:
Cornell at Dartmouth
SITE: Burnham Field — Hanover, N.H. (natural surface)
RECORDS: Cornell 4-9-1, 0-6 Ivy League;
Dartmouth 9-6-1, 0-5-1 Ivy League
SERIES RECORD: Dartmouth leads, 25-9-5
BROADCAST:
ESPN+
STATS:
DartmouthSports.com
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Cornell game notes
Red Redux:
• Cornell is coming off a 2-0 loss to Princeton on Saturday in which it tied a season high with 15 shots toward goal.
• The Tigers took the lead a little less than a minute into the game, then added an insurance tally in the 22nd minute.
• Senior goalkeeper
Chrissy Mayer came on as a reserve for the second half, making eight saves without surrendering a goal.
• Eleven of the Big Red's 15 shots came in the second half with freshmen
Liza Mariner and
Emily St. John leading the way with four each.
• In its home finale on Oct. 26, Cornell played in a similar game against Ivy League-leading Brown that saw the visitors take an early lead before the teams settled into a relatively even affair thereafter.
• The Big Red is now winless in 10 straight after starting the year with four consecutive victories for the first time since 2005.
• Cornell is 0-6 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 Mariner just 23 seconds after halftime. Sophomore
Evanthia Spyredes notched the second goal 2 minutes, 6 seconds later.
About the Big Red
• Sophomore
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 (3-5, 1.19 goals against average, .706 save percentage, SHO) has a team-high nine appearances, and senior
Chrissy Mayer (1-3-1, 1.26, .821) has seven.
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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 189-146-35.
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 Dartmouth
• The Big Green suffered a 2-0 loss its last time out on Saturday at Harvard. The result leaves the team 0-5-1 in Ivy League play, with the one draw coming Oct. 26 against Columbia. Hayley Soriano scored the Big Green goal in a 1-1 draw.
• Freshman forward Allie Winstanley leads the Ivy League with nine goals, and she also has four assists for a total of 22 points — second-most in the conference.
• Sophomore forward Izzy Glennon ranks second in team scoring with 12 points on five goals and two assists, followed by senior Mollie McGorisk's 11 points on four goals and three assists. Senior midfielder Zoe Boocock leads the team with five assists.
• Junior Mariel Gordon has started all but one of the team's games in goal, boasting an 8-6-1 record, 0.86 goals against average, .793 save percentage and three shutouts.
• Ron Rainey is in his sixth season as the head coach at Dartmouth after serving as the head coach at Iowa for eight years.
The Series vs. Dartmouth
• While the Big Green holds a 25-9-5 lead in the all-time series, the Big Red has won two of the last five meetings.
• Cornell struck first in the teams' meeting last season on a goal by
Jessica Ritchie '19 in the 27th, but Dartmouth found an equalizer with 1:57 left in the second half before eventually winning on a golden goal by Izzy Glennon in the 105th minute.
• The Big Green defeated the Big Red, 1-0, in the teams' last clash at Dartmouth in 2017.
