ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell women's soccer team plays its penulimate regular season match on Saturday when the Big Red welcomes Princeton to Berman Field for a 1 p.m. kickoff.

Game Information

SITE: Berman Field – Ithaca, N.Y. (natural surface)
TIME: Saturday, Oct. 29 – 1 p.m.
RECORDS: Princeton (8-6-1, 1-3-1 Ivy), Cornell (2-7-5, 0-3-2 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Princeton leads, 28-7-4
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com

Last Time Out

• Brown's Ava Seelenfreund and Lucinda Anderson each scored for the Bears in its 2-0 victory over Cornell at Stevenson-Pincince Field last Saturday in Providence, R.I.
 
• Seelenfreund scored in the 24th minute while Anderson added an insurance marker from Claire Myers and Brittany Raphino in the 76th minute.
 
• Cornell only generated three shot attempts in the match, all of which came in the second half. Senior midfielder Sara DeGraw logged the lone shot on goal for the Big Red. Emily St. John and Laken Gallman logged the other two attempts.

About the Big Red

• Junior forward Laken Gallman leads the Big Red offense with four goals and eight points. Senior forward Ashley Durik has the second-most points with six, on the power of two goals and two assists.
 
• Senior goalkeeper Nicole Shulman has started nine of the Big Red's 14 games this season, posting a 1-3-3 record with a 1.83 goals-against average and a .656 save percentage. Sophomore Erica Fox has started appeared in nine matches for Cornell this season. She has started four of the team's last five matches and has a 0-5-2 record with a 1.57 goals-against average and a .633 save percentage.
 
• During head coach Rob Ferguson's three years of competition on East Hill (one as an assistant in 2019 and the last two as head coach), the Big Red has scored 35 goals over 45 games. The three-year total is the Big Red's highest since netting 49 goals between the 2014 and 2016 campaigns.

Finding the Back of the Net

• Since head coach Rob Ferguson stepped foot on Cornell's campus, the Big Red have found the back of the net in 24 of the 45 matches played with Ferguson on the coaching staff. While Ferguson has been head coach, Cornell has scored in 17 of the 30 games played, good for a .567 percentage. That clip is the program's highest under a head coach since Patrick Farmer logged a .667 percentage during his five-year tenure with the Big Red between 2012-16.
 
• Ferguson has the fourth-highest percentage of goals scored under a Cornell women's soccer head coach, trailing Randy May (1982-99 — .681), Farmer (2012-16 — .667), and Berhane Andeberhan (2000-05 — .660).

No 'L' in Berman

• Since falling to Marist in its home opener on Aug. 28, Cornell has been unbeaten in its last four home matches (1-0-3), which includes playing to draws in its last three home matches.
 
• It is the first time in program history Cornell has played three consecutive draws at home. The previous record was two games, set four times prior, with the most recent occurrence being in 2011.
 
• The four-game unbeaten streak is Cornell's longest on home turf since also having a four-game streak during the 2019 season (3-0-1).
 
• Cornell has not posted a five-game unbeaten streak on its home turf since going 5-0-1, which spanned the final home game of the 2014 season and the first five home games of 2015.

Nobody Wins

• With the Big Red's Oct. 15 match against Yale ending in a scoreless draw, Cornell has established a single-season record for draws in a season with five. The previous record was set in 2015 when the Big Red had a 9-4-4 overall mark.
 
• Cornell's last three home matches (Sept. 17 vs. St. John's; Oct. 1 vs. Penn; Oct. 15 vs. Yale) have all resulted in draws. The three-game streak is currently tied for the third-longest streak in Division I soccer. North Florida and UNLV have played to a draw in each of its last four home matches, while Cornell is tied with Cal St. Bakersfield, St. John's, and UTRGV with three consecutive ties on home field.

Scouting the Tigers

• Princeton enters Saturday's match with an 8-6-1 overall record and a 1-3-1 mark in Ivy League play and are unbeaten in four of its last six matches (2-2-1).
 
• The Tigers are coming off a 3-2 loss to Harvard at Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium last Saturday. Both teams exchanged first-half goals before Lexi Hiltunen scored in the 53rd minute to give the Tigers a 2-1 lead. Harvard responded with the game-tying goal in the 69th minute and the game-winner was registered in the 79th minute. Tyler McCamey made nine saves in goal for Princeton, seven of which came in the second half.
 
• Freshman Pietra Tordin has a Princeton-best 16 points (seven goals, two assists), while Heather McNab also has a double-digit point total (13 — six goals, one assist). Kelsee Wozniak and Hiltunen each have scored twice this year.
 
• Princeton, through matches completed on Wednesday, ranked 17th nationally in corner kicks per game (6.87). Only Brown (7.50) had a higher per-game average.

Series vs. Princeton

• Saturday is the 40th all-time meeting between Princeton and Cornell. The Tigers currently hold onto a 28-7-4 advantage in the series history. Cornell is looking to beat Princeton for the first time since 1995 and snap its 25-game losing streak to the Tigers.
 
• Saturday's match is the first time Cornell is hosting Princeton since Oct. 27, 2018, when the Tigers secured a 2-0 victory.

Looking Ahead

• Cornell plays its final game of the 2022 regular season next Saturday, Nov. 5, when it hosts Dartmouth for a 2 p.m. kickoff at Berman Field. Game action will be broadcast on ESPN+.