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Men's Soccer Weekly Release - Week 10
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PRINCETON, N.J. -- Juggling schedule and venue
changes due to weather complications that brought December
conditions to October, the Ivy men's soccer teams played a grueling
set of games in which no team scored more than one goal. When the
fifth set of League games was all said and done late Sunday
afternoon, Cornell remained atop the Ivy standings after extending
its unbeaten streak to a school-record 13 games with a 1-1 tie at
Princeton.
At 3-0-2 in Ivy play, the Big Red have 11 points to lead second
place Brown (3-1-1) and Dartmouth (3-1-1) by one point with two
games to play in the race for the 2011 Ivy League title. With nine
points, Yale (3-2-0) and Columbia (3-2-0) are tied for fifth and
still have designs on the 2011 title as well.
This past weekend's action began on Saturday when Dartmouth and
Harvard played to a 1-1 tie and Brown kept its title hopes in good
standing with a 1-0 home victory over Penn.
In the Crimson-Big Green clash, Kevin Dzierzawski
gave visiting Dartmouth a 1-0 lead in the 23rd minute only to see
Hiroki Kobayashi tie the game for good at 30:24
with his first goal of the year. Dartmouth goalkeeper Noah
Cohen made seven saves, including a pair in the first
overtime stanza to help the Big Green earn the valuable road
point.
The Bears extended their unbeaten streak to six games on the
strength of an Austin Mandel penalty kick,
converted in the 62nd minute, and stout defending that allowed the
Quakers to put only one shot on goal. It was Mandel's first goal of
the year.
Cornell and Princeton played to a 1-1 tie on Sunday afternoon at
the Tigers' Plummer Field at Roberts Stadium. Princeton took a 1-0
lead in the 14th minute on an own goal generated by a
Cameron Porter cross. The Big Red's Daniel
Haber answered with the game-tying goal in the 40th
minute, his team-leading eighth goal of the year. Rick
Pflasterer was forced into making just one save for
Cornell, while Princeton's Seth MacMillan made
four stops.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Dartmouth sophomore goalkeeper Noah Cohen
(Johannesburg, South Africa) led the Big Green to a 1-0-1 week that
included a 1-0 blanking of Colgate and a 1-1 tie at Harvard that
kept Dartmouth in control of its own destiny with regard to the
chase for the 2011 Ivy League title.
On Oct. 25, Cohen turned aside all four shots Colgate put on net
to record his fifth shutout of the season. He followed that
performance with a seven save effort in the 1-1 tie at Harvard on
Oct. 29. His seven saves marked the third time this season he has
posted at least seven saves and included two saves in the second
overtime.
Cohen, who is in his first year as Dartmouth's starting
goalkeeper, becomes the second member of the Big Green squad to
earn Ivy League Player of the Week honors this season as
Lucky Mkosana earned the award on Sept. 12.
Cohen's Weekly
Stats
2-2 GP-GS, 200:00 Mins., 1 GA, 0.45 GAA, 1 Sho, 1-0-1
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Harvard freshman forward Hiroki Kobayashi
(Scarsdale, N.Y.) helped the Crimson to a 1-1 double overtime tie
with Dartmouth in its only game last week. With the Crimson
trailing 1-0 in the 31st minute, Kobayashi tallied his first
collegiate goal at 30:24, converting a pass by Eric
Slingerland. Kobayashi becomes Harvard's first Ivy League
Rookie of the Week in over a year, as Connor
McCarthy claimed Rookie of the Week honors for the Crimson
on Oct. 11, 2010.
Kobayashi's Weekly
Stats
1-1 GP-GS, 1G, 2 Pts., 2 Shots, 2 SOG
HONOR ROLL
Daniel Haber, Cornell (So., F - Toronto,
Ontario)
1-0 GP-GS, 1G, 2 Pts., 3 Shots, 1 SOG
Austin Harms, Harvard (Sr., GK - Corona del Mar,
Calif.)
1-1 GP-GS, 110:00 Mins., 1 GA, 0.82 GAA, 4 SVS, 0-0-1
Seth MacMillan, Princeton (So., GK - Takoma Park,
Md.)
1-1 GP-GS, 110:00 Mins., 1 GA, 0.82 GAA, 4 SVS, 0-0-1
Austin Mandel, Brown (Sr., F - Tarzana,
Calif.)
2-2 GP-GS, 1G, 2 Pts., 3 Shots, 1 SOG, 1 GWG
Will Stamatis, Columbia (Jr., F - Mountainside,
N.J.)
1-1 GP-GS, 1G, 2 Pts., 5 Shots, 4 SOG, 1 GWG
THIS WEEK
The collective non-conference portion of the schedule concludes
for the Ivies on Tuesday night when Harvard, Dartmouth, Columbia
and Princeton all play teams outside the League. Entering Tuesday
night, the Ivies have posted a combined 34-29-12 (.533) record
versus non-conference opposition in 2011.
On Saturday, the chase for the 2011 Ivy League title takes center
stage and with two games left of each team's Ivy schedule, five of
the eight teams are still in contention.
With 11 points, Cornell (3-0-2) enters the weekend in first place
and in control of its own destiny, meaning if it were to win its
final two games, it could not be caught in the standings. Dartmouth
and Brown are tied for second with 10 points (each 3-1-1). Because
of the games remaining on Dartmouth's schedule (versus Cornell and
Brown), the Big Green are also in control of its own destiny as
wins over the Big Red and the Bears would put them at the top of
the table.
Yale and Columbia (both 3-2-0) are tied for fourth with nine
points and are still in the thick of the title race, but the
Bulldogs and Lions will be looking for wins this weekend and then
to the standings to see what else would have to happen on the final
weekend of play to finish as champions. A two-loss team has won the
League on two occasions, including Dartmouth in 1964 (5-2-0) and by
Brown in 1975 (5-2-0).
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Tuesday, November 1
Colgate at Harvard, 7 pm
Dartmouth at New Hampshire, 7 pm
Columbia at Adelphi, 7 pm
Lehigh at Princeton, 7 pm
Saturday, November 5
*Harvard at Columbia, 4 pm
*Cornell at Dartmouth, 5 pm
*Brown at Yale, 5:30 pm
*Princeton at Penn, 7:30 pm
* - denotes Ivy League contest
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