ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell women's soccer team travels to Cambridge, Mass., for a matchup against No. 25 Harvard on Saturday at Jordan Field.

Game Information

SITE: Jordan Field – Cambridge, Mass. (artificial surface)
TIME: Saturday, Oct. 8 – 1 p.m.
RECORDS: Cornell (2-5-4, 0-1-1 Ivy), Harvard (7-1-2, 1-0-1 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Harvard leads, 27-3-9
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: GoCrimson.com

About the Big Red

• Cornell comes into the match with a 2-5-4 overall record and 0-1-1 mark in Ivy League matches. Sophomore midfielder Peyton Nichols scored her first goal of the season and freshman goalkeeper Natalie Medugno logged a four-save clean sheet in her collegiate debut, aiding the Big Red to a 1-0 victory over Colgate on Tuesday.
 
• Medugno became the second Cornell goalkeeper in as many years to earn a shutout in her collegiate debut. Erica Fox had a two-save clean sheet against Canisius in her first collegiate game on Aug. 27, 2021.
 
• Junior forward Laken Gallman continues to lead the Big Red in goals (four) and points (eight). 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 eight of the Big Red's 11 games this season, posting a 1-3-3 record with a 1.83 goals-against average and a .656 save percentage.

Against Ranked Opponents

• Cornell is playing a ranked Harvard team for the second time in as many seasons. Last year, the Big Red fell to the Crimson, who were ranked No. 18, 4-0, at Berman Field. Harvard scored all four of its goals in the second half.
 
• Saturday's match will be the sixth consecutive year of competition that Cornell will play a ranked opponent and the fifth straight year facing a ranked Ivy League opponent. Along with last year's defeat to Harvard, the Big Red fell to No. 24 Brown, 2-0, on Oct. 26, 2019, and to Princeton in consecutive years (2017 and 2018) by identical 2-0 scores. Cornell also dropped a 2-0 match to No. 23 Rutgers back on Sept. 9, 2016.
 
• The previous three matches against ranked opponents have all come at Berman Field, as the last road match against a ranked opponent came to then-No. 15 Princeton on Oct. 28, 2017.

Nobody Wins

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

Scouting the Crimson

• Harvard enters this afternoon's contest ranked No. 25 in the United Soccer Coaches poll, the lone Ivy League to earn a ranking in the top 25.
 
• Despite outshooting its fellow Boston-based institution, Boston University, 27-2 on Tuesday, the Crimson dropped its first contest of the season on Tuesday to the Terriers, 1-0.
 
• The Crimson enter today's contest with a plus-20 goal differential, outscoring its opponents, by a 27-7 margin. Hannah Bebar and Ainsley Ahmadian pace Harvard's balanced scoring attack, which features 13 different goal scorers, with five goals apiece. Bebar has a team-leading 16 points (five goals, six assists).
 
• Goalkeeping duties have been split between Hannah Gardner and Anna Karpenko. Gardner has started six matches, going 3-1-1 with a 0.60 goals-against average and a .800 save percentage. Karpenko is 4-0-1 with a 0.80 goals-against average and a .733 save percentage.

Series vs. Harvard

• This afternoon will be the 40th all-time meeting between the Big Red and Crimson, dating back to 1982. Harvard has dominated the series, posting a 27-3-9 record over Cornell.
 
• Cornell is seeking to snap its 27-game winless streak (0-22-5) against Harvard, last defeating the Crimson, 1-0, on Oct. 2, 1993.
 
• The Big Red have a 1-14-4 all-time record at Harvard, with the lone win coming on Oct. 8, 1988, in a 3-0 victory.
 
• Harvard has posted six clean sheets in its last seven matches against the Big Red, including each of the last three.

Looking Ahead

• Cornell will return to Berman Field next Saturday (Oct. 15) for a home match against Yale, which will also be serving as the program's Senior Day. First touch between the Big Red and Bulldogs is slated for 1 p.m., with game action broadcast on ESPN+.