Friday, 6:00 p.m. vs. Cornell
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale field hockey team hosts a critical Ivy League game Friday against Cornell (6:00 p.m.,
ESPN+,
International Stream,
Live Stats). The Bulldogs and Big Red are currently part of a four-way tie for fourth in the league standings, with the winner of Friday's game set to get a leg up on earning one of the four spots in the Ivy League Tournament. Just three weekends of regular season play remain after this.
LAST WEEKEND
Yale
lost at then-No. 9 Harvard 3-1 Friday and
at Monmouth 2-1 Sunday. Junior forward
Poppy Beales (King's Lynn, Norfolk, England) and junior forward/midfielder
Lauren Venter (Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa) scored Yale's goals for the weekend.
CLOSE CALLS
Sunday marked the third one-goal loss of the season for Yale. Dating back to last season, eight of the Bulldogs' last 10 losses have been by one goal or by a shootout.
BULLDOGS LEAD LEAGUE
Yale leads the Ivy League, and is 18th nationally, in assists per game (2.40). That includes a season-high seven assists in the season-opening 6-1 win at Lehigh Sept. 6.
BEALES ON A ROLL
Yale's leading scorer, junior forward
Poppy Beales (King's Lynn, Norfolk, England), has at least one point in four of the last five games. During that stretch she has four goals and an assist. For the season she is tied for second in the Ivy League in goals with six, just three away from her personal high (nine goals, last season). She is 15th on Yale's career list with 19 goals.
RAMSEY FAMILY FEUD CONTINUES
Cornell's leading scorer is Julia Ramsey (4-0-8), and that name should be familiar to Yale fans – and not just because her sister Caroline Ramsey played for the Big Red from 2019 through 2023. Cornell's Ramseys are cousins of Yale's Ramseys, senior forward
Lily Ramsey (Summit, N.J.) and sophomore midfielder/forward
Emma Ramsey (Summit, N.J.). All four Ramseys attended Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child.
The last time Yale and Cornell played a game in which there was not at least one Ramsey involved was 2018. Additionally, Caroline and Julia Ramsey's brother Nicholas Ramsey played for Yale's men's lacrosse team, graduating this past year. And a cousin of all those Ramseys, Annie Thomas, played for Cornell's women's lacrosse team.
IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS
| Team |
Ivy League Wins |
Ivy League Losses |
| Harvard |
3 (Dart, Br, Y) |
0 |
| Princeton |
3 (Pe, Col, Cor) |
0 |
| Brown |
2 (Y, Dart) |
1 (Harv) |
| Columbia |
1 (Cor) |
2 (Pr, Pe) |
| Cornell |
1 (Dart) |
2 (Col, Pr) |
| Penn |
1 (Col) |
2 (Pr, Y) |
| Yale |
1 (Pe) |
2 (Br, Harv) |
| Dartmouth |
0 |
3 (Harv, Cor, Br) |
IVY LEAGUE TOURNAMENT
The Ivy League Tournament takes place at the site of the No. 1 seed and includes the top four teams in the regular season standings. Semifinals take place Friday Nov. 8 and the tournament championship game is Sunday Nov. 10.
SCOUTING CORNELL
Cornell (3-6, 1-2 Ivy League), had a three-game winning streak snapped last Friday by a 3-1 loss to then-No. 14 Princeton at home. The Tigers outshot the Big Red 17-3. Goalkeeper Martha Broderick ranks fourth in the Ivy League with a .736 save percentage. She and defender Georgia Kelly both graduated from Repton School in England, as did Yale senior midfielder/forward
Ellie Barlow (Great Dunmow, Essex, England).
