PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's soccer team fell behind early and was unable to make up the ground Saturday evening in its 2021 Ivy League opener, falling 3-0 to Cornell at Rhodes Field.

Quaker Notemeal
*Seniors Ben Stitz and Matt Leigh had the Quakers' two shots on goal in the match.

*Senior Brendan Hanrahan played all 90 minutes in his first start of the season.

*Freshman Leo Burney played every minute of the match for the sixth time this season, and graduate student RC Williams played every minute for the fifth time.

How It Happened
An early foul inside the box gave Cornell a penalty kick in the third minute, which Harry Fuller tucked just inside the left post.

Just shy of the half-hour mark, the Big Red doubled their lead when Henry Hylbert headed home one of Cornell's three first-half corner kicks off a delivery from Tyler Bagley. Cornell carried that two-goal margin into the break.

A physical second half (12 total fouls) yielded just two total on-target attempts, one of them ending as Emeka Eneli's goal in the 74th minute off a feed from Griffin Garrard. The other on-target shot came from Stitz in the 82nd minute.

Up Next
Penn hits the road for the first time in nearly three weeks when the Quakers head to New York City for another Ivy League contest with Columbia next Saturday at 7 p.m.