ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell field hockey team faces a pair of opponents from the City of Brotherly Love when it faces Big Five foes La Salle and Penn this coming week. Both contests will be broadcast on ESPN+.

GAME INFORMATION
La Salle at Cornell
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 2 p.m.
SITE: Marsha Dodson Field – Ithaca, N.Y.
RECORDS: La Salle (7-6, 1-3 Atlantic 10), Cornell (3-8, 1-3 Ivy League)
SERIES RECORD: First Meeting
LIVE VIDEO: ESPN+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
DIGITAL PROGRAM: CornellBigRed.com
GAME NOTES: CornellBigRed.com

Cornell at Penn
DATE & TIME: Saturday, Oct. 19 at 12 p.m.
SITE: Ellen Vagelos Field – Philadelphia, Pa.
RECORDS: Penn (3-8, 2-2 Ivy League), Cornell (3-8, 1-3 Ivy League)
SERIES RECORD: Penn leads 30-14-2
LIVE VIDEO: ESPN+
STATS: PennAthletics.com
DIGITAL PROGRAM: CornellBigRed.com
GAME NOTES: CornellBigRed.com

STORYLINES
• Cornell will close out fall break with a rare Tuesday afternoon contest with La Salle on Oct. 15 at 2 p.m. at Marsha Dodson Field, then visits Ivy rival Penn on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 12 p.m. at Ellen Vagelos Field.
• Cornell will be out to snap a three-game skid following a 3-2 overtime heartbreaker to Bucknell on Sunday.
• A win over Penn on Saturday would keep the Big Red's hopes to qualify for the Ivy League Tournament alive.
• The offense has been very balanced all season with 10 players that have tallied four or more points and 14 with at least one point.
• The Big Red's 3-8 start this season is a bit deceiving — five losses have come against teams ranked in the NFHCA top 20 and five have come by a single goal.
• Cornell entered the 2024 campaign with nine starters and 19 letter winners returning from one of the top teams in program history and has its eyes set on achieving even more.
• The 2023 Big Red set team records for goals (58), assists (62), points (178) and wins (12) a season ago and ranked among the national leaders in scoring defense as well.

THE SERIES WITH LA SALLE
Overall: First Meeting
In Ithaca, N.Y.: First Meeting
Current Streak: N/A
Last Meeting: N/A
Smith vs. La Salle: First Meeting
Series Notes: This will be the first meeting between Cornell and La Salle in field hockey ... the Big Red has a 12-9 record against current members of the Atlantic 10 conference, with winning records against Saint Joseph's (2-1), Davidson (2-0) and Lock Haven (8-6), while losing the only historical meetings against UMass (0-1) and Richmond (0-1) ... Cornell has never played (La Salle, Saint Louis and VCU).

THE SERIES WITH PENN
Overall: Penn leads 30-14-2, first meeting in 1976
In Philadelphia, Pa.: Penn leads 17-5-1
Current Streak: Cornell, 1
Last Meeting: Cornell, 2-0 (10/13/2023 in Ithaca, N.Y.)
Smith vs. Penn: 1-3 (0-2 on the road)
Series Notes: Penn leads the all-time series 30-14-2 ... Cornell snapped a seven-game Penn win streak in the series last season wih a 2-0 victory ... the Big Red won the first two meetings between the programs in 1976 and 1977 before the Quakers ran off an 11-0-2 clip into the 1990s.

LAST TIME OUT: Bucknell 3, Cornell 2 - OT (Oct. 13, 2024)  //  Recap  //  Box Score  //  Highlights  //  Gallery
• On Senior Day, Claire Vaughn scored her first two career goals, but Bucknell got a pair of goals, including the game winner from Lily Neilson to lift the Bison to a 3-2 victory over the Big Red in overtime at Marsha Dodson Field. 
• Vaughn converted a pair of penalty strokes and Martha Broderick was credited with six saves, but the Bison scored twice off its 13 penalty corners and again in overtime with a two-player advantage to claim the victory.
• Sarah Althouse stopped all five shots excepting the strokes, picking up her sixth win of the year in goal. 
• In all, the Bison held advantages in shots (17-11) and corners (13-5). 
• Kira Leclercq scored a goal and added an assist in the victory. 

LAST TIME VS. ATLANTIC 10 OPPONENT: Cornell 2, Lock Haven 0 (Oct. 16, 2022)  //  Recap  //  Box Score  //  Highlights //  Gallery
• The Big Red jumped out to a 2-0 lead and defeated Lock Haven 2-1 on October 16, 2022 at Marsha Dodson Field. 
• Cornell found the goal with just over six minutes remaining in the third period after earning its second penalty corner of the day. 
• Caroline Ramsey's blasted home her seventh goal of the season, burying a shot top shelf past the Lock Haven defensive penalty corner unit.
• Less than four minutes later, Claire Jones corralled a loose ball in the arc off a blocked shot, and put the ball away to take a 2-0 lead.
• Freshman Rease Coleman earned her first collegiate point in the contest with an assist on the first Big Red goal.

LAST TIME VS. PENN: Cornell 2, Penn 0 (Oct. 13, 2023)  //  Recap  //  Box Score  //  Highlights  //  Gallery
• The Cornell field hockey team clinched a bid to the inaugural Ivy League Tournament after a statement 2-0 victory over first-place Penn on Oct. 13, 2013 at Marsha Dodson Field. 
• Senior All-American Caroline Ramsey scored both Cornell goals, topping her own single season goal-scoring record with 20 and becoming the first Big Red player to reach 50 career scores in the win. 
• Julia Ramsey and Rease Coleman assisted on an opening-scoring penalty corner, while Ramsey drilled home a penalty stroke, her fourth this season without a miss. 
• Freshman goalkeeper Martha Broderick posted her second straight solo shutout and didn't ned to make a save. 
• Cornell held an 11-7 edge in shots (5-1 in shots on goal) and had eight penalty corners to Penn's five. Both of those numbers narrowed in the fourth after the Big Red took its 2-0 lead, with the shots being 10-3 and the penalty corners 7-2 entering the final period.
• Penn goalkeeper Frederique Wollaert made three saves to keep the Quakers in the game.

RECORD WATCH:
• Junior Grace Leahy's 18 career goals are 14th in school history and are nine shy of reaching the top 10 all-time at Cornell.
• Leahy's six game-winning goals are tied for 12th all-time and one shy of joining the top 10.
• Senior Claire Wolfe is seventh in school history in career assists and is just two shy of the top five, while sophomore Julia Ramsey is eighth with 18 and needs four to also join the top five.
• With her 1.68 goals against average, sophomore Martha Broderick ranks sixth in school history.
• Broderick's 15 career wins in goal rank 14th all-time and needs two to reach the top 10.
• Head coach Andy Smith has earned 43 victories in five seasons, good for fourth in Cornell history and four shy of Michelle Tambroni  (1997-2003) with 47. 

TWO NAMED TO NFHCA WATCHLIST:
• Two members of the Cornell field hockey team have been named to the 2024 NFHCA Watchlist. 
• Sophomore goalkeeper Martha Broderick and junior midfielder Grace Leahy were among 29 Ivy League and 171 total players on the list.  
• Broderick captured second-team All-Ivy honors as a freshman in 2023. 
• A three-time Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week, she led the conference in goals against average (1.22) and ranked fifth in save percentage (.720), sitting 15th and 38th nationally. 
• Broderick set a school record with 12 wins in the cage.
• A second-team All-Ivy pick as a sophomore, Leahy was also an NFHCA All-Region second team pick in 2023. 
• She ranked third in the conference (and 20th nationally) in goals behind only teammate Caroline Ramsey '24 with her 11 tallies. 
• In 15 contests, all starts, Leahy registered 22 points and tallied three game-winning goals, including in victories over Yale and nationally-ranked Syracuse. 

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES:
• The Big Red entered the 2024 season picked to finish fourth in the Ivy League Preseason poll.
• Hannah Balleza '14 has been elected to the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame for induction on Sept. 28 as part of the Class of 2024. The four-time All-Ivy League pick and a two-time second-team NFHCA Mideast All-Region pick is one of 11 former Big Red greats to be inducted this fall and the 20th to be elected with field hockey connections.
• Caroline Ramsey '24 was among the final players that survied to the final cut for the U.S. national team that competed at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France. 
• Eight members of Cornell's fall 2024 roster to be selected for either a senior national team or a junior selection camp in the past year, with Polly Parsons and Blake Wilks (USA) and Elizabeth and Olivia Friedberg and Grace Leahy (Canada) joining Georgia Kelly (Ireland), Martha Broderick (Scotland) and Annabel Cheveley (England).
• The Big Red coaching staff, led by head coach Andy Smith, was named the 2023 NFHCA Mideast Regional Coaching Staff of the Year after a majority vote of its regional colleagues. Smith, along with assistant coaches Gareth Terrett and Kellie Joyce, helped guide Cornell to a school-record 12 wins and a second-place finish in the Ivy League at 5-2.
• A total of 13 members of the Cornell field hockey team were named to the NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad. It was the fifth consecutive season the Big Red produced at least a dozen members on the team. Given to student-athletes with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or higher through the fall semester of the current academic year, the baker's dozen was among 997 selections to the team. Six members of the Big Red team - Sofia Escalona, Lexie Hausheer, Antonia Packard, Caroline Ramsey, Claire Vaughn and Claire Wolfe - were among 181 players nationally to make the team for the fourth consecutive year. Joining Escalona, Hausheer, Packard, Ramsey, Vaughn and Wolfe are Martha Broderick, Sarah Burns, Annabel Cheveley, Georgia Kelly, Jane McNally, Emma Poplyk and Jenna Villeneuve.
• Three Cornell field hockey players were named to the NFHCA Division I Scholar of Distinction. Martha Broderick, Sarah Burns and Caroline Ramsey were among 260 undergraduate student-athletes nationwide that posted a 3.9 grade point average or better during the fall semester.
• Caroline Ramsey, the program's first two-time All-American, graduated following the 2023 with Cornell single-game records for goals (4), as well as season and career records for goals (55), game-winning goals (14), points (123), and defensive saves (19). 
• The three-year captain was named the 2023 NFHCA Mideast Regional Player of the Year and the Ivy League and ECAC Offensive Player of the Year. 
• As a senior, Ramsey ranked second nationally in goals (24) and points (54), both single-season school records, while leading the Big Red to a second-place finish in the Ancient Eight and a school-record 12 wins. 

UP NEXT:
• The Big Red returns home for a key conference matchup  when it welcomes Brown to Marsha Dodson Field on Friday, Oct. 25 at 2 p.m.
• The contest will be broadcast live on ESPN+.
• Cornell leads the all-time series 25-17-2 thanks to its four straight wins, including a 1-0 triumph on Oct. 20, 2023.