ITHACA, N.Y. – Men's soccer hits the road for the final time this season on Saturday, Nov. 9, traveling to Hanover, N.H. to face Dartmouth at 1:00 p.m. Saturday's match will be streamed live on the Ivy League Network via
ESPN+ with live stats available through the
Ivy League and
DartmouthSports.com.
Game Information
Cornell vs. Dartmouth
SITE: Burnham Field
TIME: 1 p.m.
RECORDS: Cornell 8-5-2, 1-2-2 Ivy League;
Dartmouth 6-6-2, 3-1-1 Ivy League
SERIES RECORD: Dartmouth leads, 39-28-5
STREAMING:
ESPN+
STATS:
DartmouthSports.com //
Ivy League
LAST TIME OUT
Playing in its fifth overtime match of the season, the Cornell men's soccer team drew with Princeton on Saturday, Nov. 2 as the score stood at 1-1 after 110 minutes of Ivy League soccer action. Senior
John Scearce scored the equalizing goal for the Big Red in the second half, scoring on a diving header in the box to even the score. Cornell narrowly out-shot the Tigers on Saturday, 19-18 overall, and 8-6 in shots on goal. Princeton had the better looks in overtime with a 7-2 shot advantage over both stanzas.
Princeton took an early 1-0 lead over Cornell with a goal in the 8th minute. Cornell put continuous pressure on the Tigers defense in the second half, with that momentum shift eventually leading to the game-tying goal from Scearce in the 67th minute. Scearce's diving header was set-up by solid passes from Kagen and freshman
Connor Drought. Kagen's ball to the outside set Drought up for the crossing pass.
Neither team was able to overcome strong defensive play by the other side in overtime with the match ending in a 1-1 draw. Both sides had looks they wish they had back. For Cornell, freshman
Brandon Morales and Drought each had shots saved in first 30 seconds of the half. Midway through the second overtime period, Princeton had a 1-on-1 opportunity with Shellow, but the shot from Daniel Diaz Bonilla was pushed left of goal.
ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell owns an 8-5-2 overall record in 2019 with an undefeated 5-0-1 mark at home and a 3-5-1 record on the road. The Big Red rank No. 10 nationally in shots per game with 16l00 and are ranked No. 15 in shots on goal with 6.73 per game. Cornell is poised for a breakout goal scoring performance, ranking No. 60 in Division I with 1.67 goals per game. Defensively, Cornell ranks No. 85, allowing 1.201 goals per match.
Junior
Harry Fuller is the team leader in points (11) and goals (4), while also tied for the team-high in assists with three. Tied for the team-high in assists are senior
George Pedlow and first year student-athletes
Connor Drought and
Brandon Morales. Cornell has distributed the goal scoring this season with 12 different goal scorers. Seniors
Ryan Bayne,
John Scearce, Dickens and Pedlow, juniors
Tyler Bagley,
Charles Touche,
Vardhin Manoj and Fuller, sophomore
Emeka Eneli, and freshmen
Will Citron,
Griffin Garrard, and Morales have done the scoring for Cornell. Eneli, Scearce and Manoj are tied for the second-most goals on the team with three each.
In goal, senior
Ryan Shellow has started in 11 of 15 matches and possesses a 7-3-1 record to show for it. Shellow has a 1.13 goals against average and owns a .690 save percentage alongside five shutouts so far in 2019. First year goalkeeper
Brady McSwain has made four starts for the Big Red with a 1.42 goals against average, a .684 save percentage and 13 saves.
HEAD COACH JOHN SMITH
In his fourth year as head coach,
John Smith owns an 89-59-16 career coaching record with a 27-33-6 mark as head coach of the Big Red. Prior to his time at Cornell, Smith spent four seasons as an assistant coach at Stanford where he helped lead the Cardinal to a 50-20-11 record and a national championship in 2015. In addition to his head coaching experience at Cornell, Smith served as the head coach at Incarnate Word for five seasons from 2006-2010 where he coached the Cardinals to a 62-26-10 record.
SERIES HISTORY AGAINST DARTMOUTH
In a series that dates back to 1930, Dartmouth leads the overall series with the Big Red, 39-28-5. Cornell won the inaugural meeting between the two teams, 3-1, in Ithaca. Last season, Dartmouth defeated Cornell by a final score of 2-1, with Cornell's lone goal being scored by
Jonah Kagen in the 12th minute. Cornell's last victory over Dartmouth came on Nov. 9, 2013 in a 1-0 contest. A 46th minute goal from
Conor Goepel proved to be the game-winner for the Big Red.
ABOUT THE GREEN
Despite a 6-6-2 overall record, Dartmouth sits in second place in the Ivy League with a 3-1-1 record. Dartmouth has seen mixed results as of late going 2-2-1 over its last five matches. Overall, Dartmouth's offense ranks No. 85 in the country averaging 1.50 goals per game. Dartmouth doesn't get many shots off per game with just 1.21 shots per game ranking No. 169 in the nation in shots and No. 164 in shots on goal per game (4.14).
Behind the effort of goalkeeper Alex Budnik, Dartmouth ranks No. 34 in saves per game (4.57) and No. 35 in save percentage (.780). Budnik owns a 1.26 goals against average along with a .773 save percentage and 58 saves overall. Dawson McCartney is the leading scorer for Dartmouth with 10 points on three goals and four assists. Tiger Graham is tied for the team-high in goals scored with three and each of Zach Kalk, David Alino and Kota Sakurai have chipped in three assists to rank second on the team. In total, 15 different players have scored goals for Dartmouth this season.
UP NEXT
Cornell concludes its regular season next week with a home match against Columbia on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 4:00 p.m. Columbia is 4-7-4 overall with a 1-2-2 record in the Ivy League, and have lost two straight matches heading into a Sunday, Nov. 10 match against Harvard. Leading the score sheet for Columbia is John Denis with 13 points (5g-3a) and Uri Zeitz with 10 points (4g-2a). First year goalkeeper Matthew Goodman got the start for Columbia in its last match, allowing three goals and making four saves on 17 shots faced.
