ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell men's soccer plays host to the Leopards of Lafayette College on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. in the team's last non-conference home game before the start of Ivy League play.

GAME INFORMATION
GAME #7: Cornell vs. Lafayette
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, Sept. 24, 7 p.m.
SITE: Berman Field (Ithaca, N.Y.)
SERIES RECORD: Lafayette leads 3-5-2
LAST MEETING: Sept. 7, 2012 - Cornell won 1-0
2013 RECORDS: Cornell (5-0-1), Lafayette (2-0-5)
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ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell earned its fifth consecutive win on Saturday with a 1-0 defeat of St. Joseph's in Philadelphia. The team is now 5-0-1 in 2013 with a 23-game unbeaten streak in non-conference regular season contests. The Big Red has three non-conference games remaining this season; facing Buffalo and Niagara this coming weekend on the road and matching up against Colgate on Berman Field in mid-October.
 
HEAD COACH JARO ZAWISLAN
After taking over a program that was 1-15 the season before his appointment as head coach, Jaro Zawislan has steadily improved men's soccer at Cornell; transforming an eighth-place team into Ivy League Champions and coaching the Big Red to the program's best season in nearly two decades. Zawislan, a native of Poland, now holds a 38-18-17 record after Saturday's win against St. Joseph's. He played soccer for four years at Clemson and then spent time professionally in the United States and Poland.
 
ABOUT LAFAYETTE
The Leopards enter Tuesday's game unbeaten at 2-0-5. In its last game, Lafayette defeated Binghamton 2-1 in double overtime. Three of the team's five draws have been scoreless battles; two of which came against Ivy League competitors Dartmouth and Harvard.  Peter Adubato leads Lafayette with three goals and one assist for seven points in 2013.
 
A WIN AGAINST THE LEOPARDS WOULD…
 …extend the Big Red's unbeaten streak against regular season non-conference opponents to 24 games. The current unbeaten streak dates back to a 1-1 draw with the Leopards on September 6, 2011.
 
IVY HONORS
Junior defender Peter Chodas earned co-player of the week honors from the Ivy League after a one goal, one assist week in which he was instrumental in both Big Red wins. Chodas picked up an assist on Jake Kirsch's game-tying goal against Binghamton, while also starting the play that led to Jake Rinow's game-winning goal. Additionally, Chodas scored the only goal in the Big Red's win at St. Joseph's over the weekend.

NATIONAL RANKINGS
Junior goalkeeper Zach Zagorski is among the nation's top 50 at his position according to the NCAA's most recent statistics update. He is currently 24th in Division I with a .619 goals against average and 50th with .810 save percentage. As a team, the Big Red is fourth in the won-lost-tied category (.917).

BACK TO BACK TO BACK
The Big Red opened the 2013 season with three straight overtime games; the last time a Cornell men's soccer team played in three straight games needing more than 90 minutes was in September 2006 against Buffalo, Boston University and Columbia.  

SENIOR LEADERSHIP
For the second season in a row the Big Red has three captains, as Jake Rinow, Patrick Slogic and Benjamin Williams have assumed the role for their senior seasons. Slogic is coming off a first team All-Ivy season in 2012 and was named to the MAC Hermann watch list and as a contender for the Senior CLASS Award in the weeks prior to the 2013 season.
 
FRESH FACES
Cornell added 13 newcomers to the roster for the 2013 campaign, many of whom will challenge the veteran players for playing time throughout the year. Goalkeeper Evan King, midfielder Madison Heck and midfield/forward hybrid Sebastian Scales all come to East Hill from Eastside FC in Washington State.
 
AIN'T THAT AMERICA
Nearly all of the players on this season's roster hail from one of 12 states, as California, New York and Washington each claim four players. The Big Red also has three players from New Jersey, two from both Colorado and Indiana and one from Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan and Nebraska. Freshman JJ Black hails from Cambridge, England.  
 
UP NEXT
The Big Red will travel to Western New York for a pair of games this weekend, facing the University at Buffalo on Friday, Sept. 27 at 5 p.m. and Niagara University on Sunday, Sept. 29 at 2 p.m.