The women’s soccer team dropped two more games over the weekend, extending its winless streak to four contests. On Friday evening, the team opened its Ivy League season with a 1-0 loss to Columbia. Yesterday, the team managed two goals but fell to Bucknell, 4-2, in the last non-conference tilt of the 2009 season.

The loss to the Lions (4-4-1, 1-0 Ivy) was Cornell’s (1-7-1, 0-1 Ivy) third straight game on the wrong end of a shutout. Ashlin Yahr scored the only goal of the game, Yahr’s fifth of the season, for the Lions (4-3-1, 1-0 Ivy) on a header off a cross from Marissa Schultz in the 15th minute. Sophomore forward Brook Chang and freshman forward Maneesha Chitanvis led Cornell (1-6-1, 0-1 Ivy) with two shots apiece. Columbia outshot the Red, 14-8, and Cornell’s sophomore goalie Kelly Murphy recorded four saves.Footloose: Freshman forward Maneesha Chitanvis (12) jockeys with a Binghamton defender on Sept. 4. Chitanvis scored the Red’s first goal against Bucknell on Sunday.

Cornell broke its skid of shutout losses against the Bucknell (5-5-1) defense, but allowed four goals in the loss. The Bison struck first on rainy Berman Field, when Caitlin Holtz became the 10th Bucknell player to score a goal this season. In the 30th minute, Holtz took a high shot that Murphy got a hand on, but couldn’t corral. Less than a minute later, Chitanvis scored Cornell’s first goal since Sept. 16, and her second of the season.

Bucknell scored three in a row to push the lead to 4-1 before freshman midfielder Hannah Labadie struck with just over eight minutes remaining. Labadie headed a cross from sophomore defender Samantha Wright past Bucknell’s goalie. Cornell outshot the Bison, 16-11, in the contest.