The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/field-hockey/)
“This group has the ability to be on the field from the minute they walk on campus and will push the incredibly talented and motivated group we already have to be better as we look to challenge for honors in 2021 and beyond,” said head coach Andy Smith.
Cornell ends the season with a 4-3 record in Ivy League play.
“Unfortunately for us, we haven’t executed properly, but two diabolical umpiring decisions made the scoreline 3-0,” said head coach Andy Smith. “Princeton is a very good team, they were probably the better team on the balance of today, but I think the 3-0 scoreline was very unfair to us.”
“Going into the first game, everyone put everything out there on the field,” said head coach Andy Smith. “In the game [Sunday], I questioned that from quite a lot of people. We weren’t there mentally today. We paid for that.”
“We just didn’t take our chances and they did,” head coach Andy Smith said. “We will go into Wednesday’s game with confidence high, knowing that we need to get the first goal.”
“We are on the right path and we are doing what we need to do,” head coach Andy Smith said. “We felt like we were in control all day … We fought well and were clearly the better team of the day, at least by the results.”
Senior goalkeeper Maddie Henry stopped all five shots in the shootout and junior forward Grace Royer scored the shootout winner to give Cornell its first Ivy victory of 2019.
Coming off a game in which Cornell field hockey head coach Andrew Smith said his team “got it horribly wrong,” the Red needed a good bounceback. Cornell got it with a road win at Colgate on Tuesday.
“We are on a different trajectory now,” new head coach Andrew Smith said. “For us, each game is just a game and we just have to focus on the task at hand.”
The Red, touting an untarnished 2-0 record in their early season, was not prepared for the offensive intensity that No. 14 St. Joseph’s brought to Dodson Field. Just seven minutes into play, the Hawks eclipsed a goal to send the Red to an early deficit.