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Field Hockey Drops Two One-Goal Matchups in Pennsylvania

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It didn’t matter this weekend whether Cornell was playing from ahead or from behind, as the field hockey team dropped a pair of games over the weekend to their Keystone rivals, Lock Haven and Bucknell, by a 3-2 margin in both contests.
Trailing throughout most of the contest Friday night, the Lady Eagles (4-2, 0-0 NEC) captured their first lead when it mattered most, at the 6:32 mark in overtime, to defeat the Red 3-2. Senior midfielder Blair Wynne recorded a hat trick with the winning goal.

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Field Hockey Splits Road Trip to Open Season

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The field hockey team embarked on its 2008 campaign this weekend with a road split against No. 19 Albany on Saturday and Siena Saints on yesterday. The Red (1-1) fell, 1-0, to Albany (3-1) before bouncing back with a 3-0 thumping of Siena (0-3). Cornell is trying to continue to build on recent success following a program-best 10 wins last season.

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Field Hockey Drops Decision to Colgate

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Cornell field hockey can no longer boast of an undefeated record against Patriot League opponents this season as the Red was vanquished last night by the Colgate Raiders, 4-2, on a brisk fall evening at Schoellkopf Field.
Colgate (1-1, 7-6) junior midfielder Lauren Carey netted the game-winning shot with 12:52 left in the second half to give the Raiders a 3-2 advantage. Carey, the Raiders points leader with 16, scored an unassisted goal when she recovered the rebound off of Cornell (3-2, 6-4) senior goalkeeper Lizzie Goldblatt’s pads and rocketed it into the bottom right corner of the net from the top of the circle.

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Rookie of the Week

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The field hockey team is off to a blistering 6-2 (3-1 Ivy) start to the 2007 season, thanks in large part to the contributions from young players such as freshman Catie De Stio.
De Stio earned Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors after she led Cornell to a thrilling 4-3 win over Ivy rival Princeton last Saturday, a game which snapped a 16-game winless streak against the Tigers.
De Stio was instrumental in three of the Red’s four goals on the afternoon. She made a move that set up junior Mandy Malzberg’s game-tying goal, she assisted on the Red’s third goal and completed a stellar game by taking a shot which resulted in a Princeton infraction near the end of the game. The penalty then led to Cornell’s game-winning goal off the ensuing penalty corner.

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Field Hockey Makes Stronger Showing

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Fresh from a 4-3 road upset against defending Ivy League champion Princeton over this past weekend, Cornell field hockey is demonstrating its ability to outlast opponents in closely played games — an ability that was conspicuously lacking in years past.
In all professional and collegiate athletics, the pressure of maintaining a slim lead down the stretch of a nail-biting finish proves to be a daunting and nerve-wracking task for most players on the field. While some players and teams under the intense microscope of Ivy League play might wilt, the Red has flourished

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Field Hockey Scores Four, Beats Tigers for First Time Since 1990

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It hasn’t been done in 17 years. But that didn’t stop the field hockey team from staging an improbable comeback this weekend when it defeated the heavily favored and league-leading Princeton Tigers.
“We’re really excited about the win,” said junior Abbi Horn. “I’m really happy with the way the team played. We’re starting to learn from each other and trust each other. We’ve finally learned to take it to the next level.”
The odds were definitely stacked up against the Red. Cornell was out-shot 22-13. They were down 2-0 at halftime. And it hasn’t beaten Princeton since 1990. But all of that didn’t matter when junior Abbi Horn scored the final goal that gave the Red a long awaited 4-3 victory.

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Field Hockey Drops Sixth Straight Game

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It isn’t often that a referee’s call becomes the turning point of a game. That was the case Sunday afternoon though, when the field hockey team (4-6, 2-3 Ivy) dropped a heartbreaking 3-2 game to Towson (8-7, 1-3 CAA) after the Tigers scored the game-winning goal when the Red was one player short. The loss was Cornell’s sixth in a row.


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Coming through

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Senior Sarah Miller (left) powers up the field during the field hockey team’s 3-2 loss to Towson yesterday.


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Field Hockey Capitalizes on Stereotypes and Opportunity

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If you were to ask your typical American what they knew about field hockey, you might get a response along the lines of, “oh, isn’t that the sport where all the girls wear skirts?”

While there is certainly nothing false with that generally held stereotype of field hockey in America, it is merely a small part of a much larger picture. Even here at Cornell, with a team that is in the upper echelon of field hockey teams in the country, it still plays second fiddle to other, more traditional American sports, like basketball and football.


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Late Collapse Sees Tigers Defeat Red

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Nearing the 55th minute, Cornell and Princeton seemed to be locked in an epic Ivy League field hockey battle. Just 15 minutes later, however, the Cornell players found themselves trudging off the field, trying to figure out how they had just given up six goals on their way to a 6-0 loss.