Cornell Soccer 2026

[Al DeFlorio]

Yuck.  Last minute goal gives Akron 3 - 2 lead.

[ugarte]

ugh
at least they may be the best team on our schedule so it won't be a damaging loss

[ugarte]

spoke too soon. next game is against pitt, another elite team. they knocked us out of ncaa's last year. no surprise, beating us vaulted akron to #1 in RPI.

[ugarte]

spoke too soon. next game is against pitt, another elite team. they knocked us out of ncaa's last year. no surprise, beating us vaulted akron to #1 in RPI.

A second loss, 2-0 at Pittsburgh. Not a big surprise. Akron and Pitt are, respectively, the current #5 and 6 teams in the country. Cornell is currently at #13. The closest Ivy team is Princeton at 39, but Penn and Brown are both top 75 as well.

[ugarte]

Western Michigan is so bad that beating them 2-0 on the road dropped us to #32, behind Princeton (13) and Penn (17). Our SOS fell from the top 5 to 37th.

[dbilmes]

Soccer team scores four goals in second half to beat Harvard, 4-1, in Ivy opener. Overall, a great day for Cornell sports. In addition to the football win over Yale, the women's soccer team beat Yale, 1-0, and the field hockey team beat No. 15 Yale, 3-2, for Cornell's first road win over a ranked team in 19 years. I wouldn't mind a few more fall weekends like this!

[dbilmes]

Cornell scored two second-half goals to rally for a 2-1 win at Brown. I wasn't watching the game, but Brown's goal came early in the first half on a penalty kick after the Cornell goalie was issued a yellow card. I may go back to watch the replay of the game just to see what happened. Cornell is now 2-0 in Ivies and 6-2 overall.
Cornell hosts UMass in a non-league game Tuesday night. UMass has lost to Princeton and Harvard and defeated Yale. Cornell returns to Ivy play with a home game next weekend against Penn.
In lieu of starting a separate thread for the field hockey team, although it may well deserve one, Cornell beat Brown, 3-0, on Friday night and is off to a 3-0 start in the Ivies for the first time in 12 years.

[ugarte]

Cornell scored two second-half goals to rally for a 2-1 win at Brown. I wasn't watching the game, but Brown's goal came early in the first half on a penalty kick after the Cornell goalie was issued a yellow card. I may go back to watch the replay of the game just to see what happened. ...

I went to the replay. Excellent through ball to give the Brown player a free run into the box. Goalie came out to cut him off, dove at the ball but got his foot instead and tripped him. Legit yellow and PK.

Cornell's first goal arguably had a player offside who interfered with Brown goalie. He was obviously offside but after review they must have ruled that he didn't affect play. Second goal was a nice sideline run to near the goal line from Momanyi, who then made a nice pass back upfield to the center of the box and Schaban hit a perfect volley.

[ugarte]

Soccer RPI volatility is wild. We're back up at 15. Penn is at 28, Princeton 23. Dartmouth stunned Princeton at home and sits in the 50s despite a 3-4-2 record due to the 11th toughest SOS.

[ugarte]

Cornell tied UMass 1-1 at home in a game stopped after ~74 minutes due to lightning. The game report on the CU site is pretty clear that Cornell controlled the game, with UMass's early goal coming against the run of play and their goalie standing on his head to keep the score level after we tied it up.

Penn comes to town on Saturday. Big game for Ivy seeding and shoring up the postseason resume.

[upprdeck]

not lightning.  Lighting problems.

Cornell deserved a win, the goalie made some crazy sequence saves for them.

[ugarte]

not lightning.  Lighting problems.

oh lol

[chimpfood]

We've been without our two best players, Kolbl and Miller, for a while now, creating a big time gap in the midfield which is supposed to be our strong point. We need to keep treading water without them and get them back for the playoffs.

[ugarte]

We've been without our two best players, Kolbl and Miller, for a while now, creating a big time gap in the midfield which is supposed to be our strong point. We need to keep treading water without them and get them back for the playoffs.

schaban has been nails

[chimpfood]

We've been without our two best players, Kolbl and Miller, for a while now, creating a big time gap in the midfield which is supposed to be our strong point. We need to keep treading water without them and get them back for the playoffs.

schaban has been nails

yeah but he would be playing if both of them were healthy, just on the wing. I'm surprised we haven't seen Omar Bolanos yet. He plays a 6 for the Guatemala u19 team and got solid minutes for Houston dynamo 2, but hasn't seen the field even with the injuries.