ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell returns to Ivy League play on Saturday afternoon when it travels to Hanover, N.H., to face Dartmouth. First touch between the Big Red and Big Green from Burnham Field is slated for 3 p.m.

MATCH INFORMATION
Cornell at Dartmouth
SITE: Burnham Field – Hanover, N.H. (natural surface)
RECORDS: Cornell (3-1-4, 0-1-0 Ivy League), Dartmouth (6-0-3, 1-0-0 Ivy League)
SERIES RECORD: Dartmouth leads, 27-10-5
BROADCAST: ESPN+
Stats: DartmouthSports.com

LAST TIME OUT
Junior Sydney Malaga scored in the 84th minute to break a scoreless contest and aid Cornell to a 1-0 victory over Colgate at Berman Field on Tuesday night.

Malaga's marker, which senior midfielder Reagan Pauwels set up, extended Cornell's home unbeaten streak to 10 matches, signifying the Big Red's longest stretch without a loss on its home turf in program history.

Junior Erica Fox and sophomore Natalie Medugno shared time in goal, splitting the clean sheet for the Big Red. Fox made three saves over 84:46 of action, while Medugno did not face a shot during her 5:14 in goal as she was an injury replacement for Fox.

NOTHING BUT NET
Dating back to last season, Cornell has scored in each of its previous 10 matches, marking the program's longest goal-scoring streak since establishing the record of 13 in 2003.

With a goal on Saturday afternoon, Cornell would increase its goal-scoring streak to 11, serving as the second-longest span without being held scoreless in program history only behind the record of 13 games, established in 2003.

Cornell's 10-match goal-scoring streak is currently the longest among all Ivy League programs. Dartmouth is the closest program to the Big Red, as the Big Green has recorded a goal in all nine matches this season.

The Big Red is the last Dartmouth opponent to hold the Big Green without a goal, as Cornell prevailed on Berman Field in last season's regular-season finale, 1-0.

TEAM EFFORT
Thanks to Sydney Malaga's game-winning goal on Tuesday, Cornell has five players with multiple goals scored this season. It is the most multi-goal scorers in a season for the Big Red since it also had a quintet with two-plus goals in 2013.

Should another Cornell player register a second goal on the season, it would be the first time the Big Red has had six multi-goal scorers in a single season since also having six in 1999.

There have been eight previous instances of Cornell having at least six multi-goal scorers: 1986 (6), 1988 (6), 1990 (6), 1993 (8), 1994 (6), 1995 (7), 1996 (6), and 1999 (6).

THANKS FOR THE HELP!
Senior midfielder Reagan Pauwels recorded her team-leading fourth assist on Tuesday in the Big Red's 1-0 victory over Colgate.

Pauwels' assist made her the eighth Cornell player (10th occurrence) over the last 20 seasons of competition to register at least four assists in a single season.

With her assist on Sydney Malaga's 84th-minute game-winning goal on Tuesday, Pauwels became the first Cornell player to have a four-assist season since Ava Laden in 2021.

Should Pauwels register another assist this season, she would be the first Big Red player to log five assists in a season since Caroline Growney in 2015.

With two more assists, Pauwels would match Donna Eberhardt (1988), Amy Snow (1991 & 1992), Rebecca D'Aleo (1993), Lori Penny (1993), and Dempsey Banks (2013) for the fifth-most assists by a Cornell player in a season.

ANCIENT EIGHT'S SUCCESS
Through matches completed on Wednesday, the Ivy League has excelled on the pitch, registering a combined 42-13-16 record, leading to a combined .704 win percentage, pacing all Division I conferences that sponsor soccer.

The Ivy League currently boasts a 39-point lead over the SEC (81-32-35 — .666) and a 42-point advantage over the Big Ten (82-34-32 — .662).

Entering this weekend's Ivy League slate, all eight members of the Ancient Eight have win percentages of at least .550, while seven programs boast win percentages north of .600.

Only the Ivy League and the SEC are the lone two Division I women's soccer conferences to have all its members' win percentages be at least .500. The Big Ten (13-of-14) and Pac-12 (11-of-12) are one program shy of matching the criteria.

IVY LEAGUE PRESEASON POLL
Cornell was picked to finish sixth in the 2023 Ivy League women's soccer preseason poll, the conference office announced on Aug. 24.

Brown received 12 of 16 possible first-place votes, finishing with an Ivy League-best 123 points. Harvard earned three first-place votes, placing second with 113 points. Yale registered the final last-place vote, garnering 88 points to assume third place.

Princeton (78 points) and Columbia (74 points) were picked fourth and fifth, respectively, while Cornell (35 points), Dartmouth (33 points), and Penn (32 points) rounded out the poll.

SCOUTING DARTMOUTH
Dartmouth enters Saturday afternoon's match with a 6-0-3 overall record and a 1-0-0 mark in Ivy League play. The Big Green's nine-match unbeaten streak is the longest to open a season in program history.

Offense has been a team effort this season, as five Big Green players are tied for the team lead in goals with two. Audrey Marin and Carly Retterer are tied for the lead in points with six apiece after registering two goals and two assists. Danielle Burke and Frankie Valverde are right behind, having two goals and one assist to their credit.

Emily Hardy is having a breakout senior campaign for the Big Green, having played all 810 minutes between the pipes for Dartmouth. With her unbeaten record, Hardy has a 0.44 goals-against average, good enough for 18th nationally. Her .915 save percentage is fifth among Division I goalkeepers and is second in the Ivy League, trailing Columbia's Paige Nurkin (.969). Over her nine outings so far this season, Hardy has made five-plus saves in six contests.

Thanks to Hardy's play in goal, Dartmouth has the second-best save percentage in Division I soccer and is tied for 13th in goals-against average as of Thursday morning.

DARTMOUTH'S LAST TIME OUT
Hannah Curtin's 71st-minute goal broke open a scoreless contest and was the difference maker as the Big Green defeated Yale, 1-0, at a rain-soaked Reese Stadium last Saturday.

Senior goalkeeper Emily Hardy made a season-high seven saves to post her sixth clean sheet.

Yale held the advantage in numerous statistical categories, including shot attempts, 20-10, shots on goal, 7-6, and corner kicks, 5-2.

40 YEARS, 299 MILES, 42 MEETINGS
Dartmouth has had the upper hand in the series, posting a 27-10-5 record over Cornell since the first meeting between the two Ivy League programs in 1982.

Cornell is vying for its first win streak over Dartmouth since defeating the Big Green in a pair of matches in 1995. The latter victory came in the quarterfinals of the ECAC Tournament, which was held at Monmouth in West Long Branch, N.J.

Six out of the last eight and nine of the previous 14 matches between Cornell and Dartmouth have resulted in contests being decided by one goal or less.

Hanover has not been kind to Cornell, as the Big Red is 1-17-2 all-time in the Granite State against the Big Green. Over its last 18 trips to Hanover, Cornell is 0-16-2 as it attempts to record its first win on Dartmouth's home pitch since Oct. 25, 1986, when the Big Red prevailed by a 3-0 decision.

Last season, Cornell defeated Dartmouth in the regular season finale, 1-0, thanks to Reagan Pauwels netting the eventual game-winning marker on a feed from Aidan Julia Reineman in the 63rd minute. Goalkeeper Erica Fox made three saves for the Big Red to earn the clean sheet. Dartmouth's Charlotte Cyr stopped 10 shots in the setback from the Big Green.

UP NEXT
Cornell returns home on Wednesday when it plays Columbia in a rare midweek conference match. First touch between the Big Red and Lions is scheduled for 4:30 p.m.

The contest will be Cornell's first conference match played on a Wednesday since playing a road contest against Columbia on Sept. 16, 1992.