ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell women's soccer team travels to Hamilton, N.Y., for its final non-conference match of the 2022 season on Tuesday against Colgate.

Game Information

SITE: Berman Field – Ithaca, N.Y. (natural surface)
TIME: Tuesday, Oct. 4 – 7 p.m.
RECORDS: Cornell (1-5-4, 0-1-1 Ivy), Colgate (1-8-2, 0-3 Patriot)
SERIES RECORD: Colgate leads, 22-16-4
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: ColgateRaiders.com

About the Big Red

• Cornell comes into Tuesday's match with a 1-5-4 overall record and 0-1-1 mark in Ivy League matches. The Big Red played to a 1-1 draw on Saturday at Berman Field against Penn.
 
• Junior forward Laken Gallman recorded her team-leading fourth goal of the season, equalizing an early first-half goal by the Quakers.
 
• Senior midfielder Aidan Julia Reineman had a team-high three shots on goal for Cornell in the match against Penn, while sophomore goalkeeper Erica Fox recorded her second consecutive start between the pipes for the Big Red, making one save.

Not Throwing Away Her Shots

• Laken Gallman, after games completed on Oct. 2, ranks fourth nationally in shot accuracy with her .737 figure. Of Gallman's 19 shot attempts taken on the year, 14 have been on target.

• In her first nine appearances with Cornell since transferring from the University of Tampa, a Division II school, Gallman has logged at least one shot attempt and one shot on goal in all but one match (Sept. 11 at Syracuse).

• Gallman is currently one of five players in the Division I ranks with at least a .700 shooting accuracy. Evansville's Emily Ormson paces the nation with an .808 clip. Sacred Heart's Morgan Bovardi (.767), and Lamar's Christine Kitaru (.739) are ahead of Gallman, while Northeastern's Vivian Akyirem is the other player with a shooting accuracy north of .700.

• The .737 shooting accuracy figure by Gallman leads the Ivy League and is 119 points higher than Brown's Ava Seelenfreund, who is second among Ivy League players and 34th in Division I with a .618 figure.

Nobody Wins

• Saturday's draw with Penn was Cornell's fourth game decided without a team winning. It matches the program record, initially set during the 2015 season when Cornell posted a 9-4-4 overall mark.
 
• Three of Cornell's last four matches, and four of its last six, have resulted in draws. Of the four draws this season, three of have been by 1-1 scores.

Good Company

• Cornell is a member of one of the winningest conferences in Division I soccer this season. Through games played Oct. 2, the Ivy League ranks sixth of the 31 conferences that sponsor women's soccer in win percentage (.589).
 
• The Ivy League's win percentage is the second-highest of any non-Power Five conference only behind the West Coast Conference (WCC), who is fourth overall with a .605 win percentage (46-24-35).

Scouting the Raiders

• Colgate enters Tuesday's matchup with a 1-8-2 overall record and a 1-3-0 mark in Patriot League play. The Raiders, how have lost five of its last six matches, are 1-3-2 at Beyer-Small '76 Field this season.
 
• Ally Giovino is the Raiders' lone multi-goal scorer this year, netting two of Colgate's six goals scored on the season. Giovino is tied with Ellie Stokes (one goal, two assists) for the team lead in points with four.
 
• Stokes scored her first collegiate goal 30 seconds into Colgate's match at Navy on Friday, but the Mids scored twice in the second half to take the victory in Annapolis.
 
• Grace Poncsak and Emma Hickey have split goalkeeping duties for Colgate this year. Ponczak has started six of the matches and has a Colgate-leading .745 save percentage. Hickey has been the starter in the other five matches and has a team-leading 1.11 goals-against average.

Series vs. Colgate

• Tuesday will be the 43rd all-time meeting between the two Central New York programs. Colgate has the advantage in the series, 22-16-4, and is unbeaten in nine of the last 10 matches (8-1-1) over the Big Red.
 
• Cornell snapped its nine-game winless streak to the Raiders last season, posting a 2-1 victory over Colgate at Berman Field. Reinna Gabriel scored the game-tying goal in the 62nd minute before a Colgate own goal in the 72nd minute proved to be the game-winner for the Big Red. Nicole Shulman made two saves in the victory.
 
• The Big Red are playing in Hamilton for the first time since 2018. Cornell has lost each of its last four matches at Beyer-Small '76 Field. Cornell's last road victory at Colgate came in a 2-0 victory on Oct. 3, 2010.

Looking Ahead

• Cornell will travel to Cambridge, Mass., on Saturday for a meeting against nationally-ranked Harvard. First touch between the Big Red and the No. 25 Crimson is slated for 1 p.m. from Jordan Field. Game action will be broadcast on ESPN+.