ITHACA, N.Y. — Janae Stewart's goal in the 79th minute aided visiting Penn to a 1-0 clean sheet victory over the Cornell women's soccer team at a blustery Berman Field on Saturday afternoon.

Annabel Austen registered seven saves en route to her fourth clean sheet of the season for the visiting Quakers, who concluded the 2024 season with a 2-8-6 overall record and 1-3-3 mark in Ivy League play.

Cornell, who ends the season with a 3-8-4 overall record and 2-5-0 mark in Ivy League play, peppered the Quakers goalkeeper with a season-high 22 shot attempts, with all seven getting stopped by the sophomore keeper.

Senior forward Laken Gallman led the Big Red in shots on goal with three attempts. Senior forward Maddie Leroy, junior midfielders Abigail Bishara and Tanum Nelson, and sophomore forward Alanna Colbert tacked on one shot on goal apiece. Senior goalkeeper Erica Fox made a trio of second-half saves in the setback for the Big Red.

"For the balance of 90 minutes, we did most of what we needed to do. We created lots of chances but didn't do what we really needed to do, which was score goals," Cornell women's soccer head coach Rob Ferguson said. "Today was going to be all about that. The performance was largely how we envisioned, but where it matters most, in the box score, we didn't do what we needed to do."

The Big Red out-shot Penn in the opening 45 minutes by an 8-0 margin before the second half began to open up for both sides, with Cornell doubling up Penn in shot attempts, 14-7, despite the Quakers owning a slight 4-3 edge in shots on goal.

"In the second half, the game opened up a lot and we shouldn't have allowed that as much as we did," Ferguson said. "They were very direct from the goalkeeper, and won too many of those balls and that was certainly an area of the game in the second half that should have been better."

Penn tallied the lone goal in the 79th minute when Mila Maltby's left-side cross was one-touched into the net by Stewart off her right boot.

"We didn't transition well enough," Ferguson said on what led to Penn's game-winning tally. "We didn't have people in the box and they had two open players in the box. I think at that point, it was becoming very stretched. We knew a tie was no good for us today."

Cornell threatened in the 86th minute when senior midfielder Peyton Nichols had her shot get blocked and Nelson followed up with a attempt that went wide of goal.

MATCH NOTES
• Saturday was the 33rd all-time meeting between Penn and Cornell. The Quakers increased its series lead to 22-7-4 over Cornell, which includes going unbeaten in 26 of the last 27 matches (22-1-4).

• Cornell's 22 shots on goal were its most in a game since defeating UAlbany on Oct. 17, 2023, in a 4-0 victory over the Great Danes, when it registered 30 shots on goal.

• The Big Red's seven corner kicks were also a season high, besting its six corner kicks against Syracuse on Sept. 1. It was Cornell's most corner kicks in a match since the UAlbany contest when it took nine corners.