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Princeton University Athletics
Women's Soccer Team Opens Ivy Season Against Yale
September 26, 2003 | Women's Soccer
Sept. 26, 2003
The Princeton women's soccer team starts its quest for a fourth straight Ivy League championship Saturday night when Yale comes to Princeton Stadium. The game will be the second of a doubleheader that starts at 5 when the Princeton men take on Hartwick. Admission will be free.
League matters - Princeton is 17-2-1 in its last 20 Ivy League games.
More league - Princeton has gone 6-1-0, 5-1-1, 6-1-0 and 4-2-1 in the Ivy League the last four years. Princeton did not have a winning league record in any of the 12 seasons prior to that.
Polling place - Princeton, 5-0-1 after a 3-1 win over Hartford Wednesday night, is ranked 20th by the NSCAA and 25th by SoccerBuzz in this week's polls.
More polling - Princeton is ranked fourth in the Mid-Atlantic region; Yale is ranked fourth in the New England region.
Sizzling - Esmeralda Negron has at least one goal in every game this season. She ranks eighth in Division I with 1.17 goals per game. Goal oriented - Esmeralda Negron has seven goals in six games. The school record for goals in a season is 13, set by Susan Mooney in 1981, the second season for varsity women's soccer at Princeton.
Moving up the charts- Esmeralda Negron is eighth all-time at Princeton in goals scored in a career with 21. She needs two to move into a four-way tie for fifth place and five to move into a tie for second with Aimee Reyes '00. The record is 41, set by Linda DeBoer from 1982-85.
Something in common - Princeton and Yale have one common opponent, Hartford. Princeton defeated the Hawks 3-1; Yale won its game 2-0.
How's it going?- Yale enters tonight's game with a record of 4-2-0, having defeated Hartford, Georgetown, Loyola (Ill.) and Sacred Heart and having lost to Connecticut and West Virginia.
Spread it around - No Yale player has scored more than two goals through six games.
Fresh face - Princeton freshman Meghan Farrell scored her second career goal when she scored the first goal against Hartford.
Heating up - Emily Behncke, the 2002 Ivy League Rookie of the Year, has two goals and three assists in the last three games after having one goal and one assist in the first three.
Behncke bits - Emily Behncke has three goals and four assists in six games, equalling her point total of her entire freshman year.
Geography lesson - Princeton's defense consists of three Canadians (Rochelle Willis, Janine Willis, Brea Griffiths) and one Hawaiian (Romy Trigg-Smith).
Women for all seasons - Theresa Sherry and Elizabeth Pillion were both All-Americas for Princeton's NCAA champion women's lacrosse team last spring.
Opening day - All eight Ivy teams play their league opener today. Penn-Harvard, Columbia-Cornell and Dartmouth-Brown were all afternoon games.