PHILADELPHIA – After moving to the top of the Ivy League standings last weekend, the University of Pennsylvania men's soccer team looks to extend its win streak against Columbia on the road this Saturday at 1 p.m.
 
MATCH DAY 14 — PENN (5-3-5, 2-1-2 Ivy League) vs. Columbia (2-7-3, 0-4-1 Ivy League)
 Saturday, Oct. 28 | 1 p.m. | New York, N.Y. 
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Penn vs. Columbia
 The Quakers slightly trail the Lions in the all-time series, 29-32-8. The Red and Blue have the latest win in the series, blanking the Lions 2-0 last season, with the goals coming from Leo Burney and Mateo Zazueta. Columbia hasn't won a matchup against Penn since 2018, when the Lions grabbed a 2-0 win in University City.
 
Ivy League Honors 
Two Quakers earned Ivy League honors this week, with goalkeeper Nick Christoffersen earning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week and forward Stas Korzeniowski earning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week for their strong performances in the victories against Lehigh and Harvard last week. 
 
Christoffersen made five saves in the match against the Crimson, including an incredible high leaping save in the 87th minute to stop a game-tying goal.
 
Korzeniowski tallied five points in two games, including three assists and a goal in the 33rd minute against Harvard last Sunday that pushed Penn ahead 2-0 before halftime.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*There is currently a four-way tie for first place in the Ivy League standings, as Penn, Cornell, Yale, and Harvard all have conference records of 2-1-2. All the league matchups this weekend have postseason implications, with Cornell and Yale having the possibility to clinch a portion of the regular season title.
 
*Senior Michael Hewes leads the Quakers in goals with six on the season after heading one in on Sunday against Harvard off a cross from Korzeniowski early in the match. Korzeniowski leads the Red and Blue in assists (6) and points (16) so far this season. 
 
*Christoffersen holds a .800 save percentage to go along with a 0.69 goals-against-average on the season. The senior tallied his sixth clean sheet of the year after the 5-0 victory against Lehigh last Tuesday.
 
*Penn went 13-3-2 overall last season and won the Ivy League title with a 6-1-0 mark. The Quakers then advanced to the NCAA Championship for the first time since 2013 (11th time overall), defeating Big Ten Tournament champion Rutgers in the first round, 3-0, before falling in overtime to the eventual national champion Syracuse, 2-1. Of note, Penn was the last team to hold a lead against the Orange in the 2022 season. *Penn's 13 wins overall were tied for the second-most in program history along with the 1971, 1973 and 2010 teams. Only the 1972 team (14-1-1) has more.
 
*Penn's six wins in Ivy League play were the most in a season since 1972, when the Quakers won the title with a 6-0-1 mark. The 1971 squad remains the only Penn team to go a perfect 7-0-0 in Ivy play.
 
*Penn returns plenty of firepower from a year ago, starting with the reigning Ivy League Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year in juniors Korzeniowski and Leo Burney. (If you're doing the math, you are correct…both of them won the honors as sophomores.) Last year marked the first time that teammates swept the offensive and defensive honors since the award was split in 2013. The last sophomore to win Ivy Player of the Year before them last year? Rikki Dadason at Columbia in 1993.
 
*The pair of juniors—both of whom received All-America recognition last year by the United Soccer Coaches and College Soccer News—were recently named to the Hermann Award Watch List as announced by the Missouri Athletic Club (MAC). Of the 37 players on the list, they were the only two Ivy Leaguers.
 
*This summer, both players contributed greatly to the success of Ballard FC in USL League 2 play, leading the club to the title in a thrilling victory over Lionsbridge FC, 2-1, on August 5. Korzeniowski scored the opening goal in the match, while Burney played a major role in setting up inside the box for the match winner.
 
*Korzeniowski—who also was Penn's goal scorer in the season opener at Fordham—wreaked havoc on opposing defenses throughout last season, scoring a conference-leading 10 goals and adding six assists for 26 points, the most by a Quaker in more than 25 years. He capped his season with goals in five of the team's final seven matches, including four of the last five Ivy contests.
 
*Penn also returns junior defender Do, who was honorable mention All-Ivy and won the Bill Wilkinson Rookie of the Year Award from the Philadelphia Soccer Six last year as a sophomore. He started all 18 matches last season.

*Hewes was Penn's third-leading scorer last season, netting six goals, while junior Curran was the other multi-goal scorer in 2022.

*At the other end, Penn is bolstered by the return of Christoffersen for another season in goal. (He has gone the distance in all three matches so far this season.) The Canadian played all but four minutes between the pipes in 2022 and earned second-team All-Ivy, then was selected with the 25th pick of the 2022 MLS Super Draft third round (83rd overall) by CF Montréal.
 
*Penn's head coach is Brian Gill, who moved into the director's chair in February 2018 after spending a year as an assistant coach under Rudy Fuller. He was a unanimous selection as Ivy League Coach of the Year last season and his staff was picked as the Northeast Region Staff of the Year by the United Soccer Coaches.

*Christoffersen and Hewes are two of this year's captains, along with senior Jacob Muchnick and junior Aaron Messer. Christoffersen also was a captain last season.
 
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