women's soccer
Women’s Soccer Splits Weekend, Gears Up for 1st Matchup With Maine
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Playing on just one day of rest, Cornell was outpaced by Binghamton on Sunday, but Hornibrook was pleased with the resolve his team showcased.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/shandhaliwal/)
Playing on just one day of rest, Cornell was outpaced by Binghamton on Sunday, but Hornibrook was pleased with the resolve his team showcased.
The women’s swimming and diving team will send half its squad to the Ithaca Bomber Invitational hosted by Ithaca College and half to the Zippy Invitational in Akron, OH this weekend. The Red (1-3) is hoping for some great swims and fast times after two weeks of rest. It is the Red’s first invitational meet of the season; the Red’s previous four meets have all been single-day meets against Ivy opponents. It will span three days, from Friday to Sunday, so the Red will have to work on conserving its energy. “Three-day meets are long and taxing,” said senior Ellie Belilos.
The all-senior starting five accounted for 61 of the Red’s 70 points in the win, Cornell’s third straight to start the season.
“All teams go through ups and downs during the season and we sure had our fair share, but I think the team did really well handling a tough season,” said Dana Daniels.
Last year, the women’s soccer team finished with a 9-4-4 record. It was the first time since 2002 that the team had finished with a winning record. Head coach Patrick Farmer assumed his position in 2012, and since then the women’s team has picked up increasingly more wins with each successive season (one win in 2012, seven wins in 2013 and eight wins in 2014 all led up to the nine-win 2015 campaign. In this way, Farmer has instilled a positive trajectory in the program that keeps his players focused on improving their play with hopes to finish with a winning record. Despite the team’s current mediocre Ivy League record that puts the Red in a tie for fifth with Princeton and Yale, the Red (4-8-2, 1-3-1) still has games against Princeton and Dartmouth over the next two weeks.
The women’s soccer team (3-7-2, 0-2-1) finished fall break winless with a 0-0 tie to Harvard (7-3-1, 2-0-1) and a 1-0 loss to Colgate (5-6-3). With four games left in the season — all against Ivy opponents — the Red’s quest for an Ivy championship is still a possibility but is drifting farther and farther out of reach.
The women’s cross country team finished first for the second year in a row in Saturday’s Yellowjacket Invitational. The Red dominated the field, placing seven runners in the top 10 and 13 in the top 25, an impressive feat, considering the field is around 400 women strong.
The Cornell women’s soccer team (2-3) dropped two games this weekend, failing to stop the potent offenses of No. 23 Rutgers on Friday and San Diego State on Sunday. The Scarlet Knights’ offensive attack overpowered the Red throughout the game, firing 18 shots compared to the Red’s four. Rutgers went on to win, 2-0. Similarly, in the game against SDSU, the Aztecs out-shot the Red, 19-10, and issued Cornell its third loss of the season.
The men’s cross country team begins its season tomorrow at the Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational in University Park, P.A.
The Red (2-1-0) lost its first game of the season this past Sunday, falling to Syracuse (4-1-1), 2-1, in overtime. It was the team’s first home game of the season. Stephanie Skilton of the Orange scored first in the game, sending a high shot from the edge of the box over senior goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney’s head with 3:49 remaining in the first half. The Orange out-shot the Red 5-2 in the first, but the Red improved play in the second. “We just asked them to play a little more direct … and encourage the forwards to go run at people,” head coach Patrick Farmer said to Cornell Athletics after the game, when asked about what he told his players to change in the second half.