The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/womens-soccer/)
“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.
Cornell faced a tough defeat at home as Princeton handled the Red easily by five goals.
Despite an aggressive first half and a strong showing defensively, the Red came up short against Brown this past weekend in Providence, after the Bears’ freshman midfielder Amanda Lane scored off a corner kick in the 85th minute of play. The goal boosted Brown to a 1-0 victory over Cornell without sufficient time remaining for the Red to make a successful counter attack. Cornell will host Princeton at Berman Field this Saturday, for its penultimate League competition of the season — the team’s final game will be against Dartmouth on Nov. 5, which will also be senior day for the Red—marking the last time its seven seniors will suit up to play on Berman Field. Both Cornell and Princeton have been eliminated from contention for the Ivy League title this season.
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 Red is looking to keep its momentum when Cornell takes on Brown this weekend.
Cornell women’s soccer heads into the latter half of its Ivy League competition schedule this Saturday as the team faces off against Yale at home on Berman Field. The Red is 0-2-1 thus far in intra-league competition, having come up short against Columbia and Penn earlier in the season. However, this past Saturday, the team was able to match Ivy League leader Harvard in a scoreless draw. The Red aims to carry the confidence it gained from this most recent Ivy League performance into its upcoming competition. “The squad seemed buoyed by their quality effort and hard earned result at Harvard, which is traditionally the hardest place to play in the Ivy League,” said Head Coach Patrick Farmer.
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 Red will need to rebound next week after a tough loss against Ivy League opponent Penn, 5-0.
Cornell women’s soccer ended a four-game losing streak Sunday with a 1-0 win over upstate rival Binghamton. The Red aims to carry the momentum from its victory into the team’s first Ivy League match-up on Friday against Columbia. The game will be hosted by the Lions at Fairleigh Dickinson’s campus in Teaneck, N.J.
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.