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Tiger Women's Soccer Returns Home Wednesday to Face Local Rival Rider
October 18, 2005 | Women's Soccer
Oct. 18, 2005
It's all Ivy from here
The Rider contest is the last non-conference game on the schedule for Princeton in the regular season. The Tigers are 2-4-2 out of conference this year and are 2-1-0 at home against non-Ivy schools.
The unknown neighbors
Despite Rider only being a quick trip down Route 1, the Tiger-Bronc series is not a yearly event. The teams have only met three times in all, from 1997-99.
Home field advantage
Two of the three meetings in the Princeton-Rider series have taken place at Lourie-Love Field. In the 1997 game, the Tigers won 5-0, and followed it up in 1999 with a 4-0 win. In 1998, however, Rider won 2-1 at home.
Fire away!
Princeton has outshot its opponents 155-117 this season, including a 70-46 advantage in the first half. Senior Emily Behncke and sophomore Diana Matheson have accounted for 72 of those 155 shots, or 46%. Three other Tigers are in double figures in shots, including senior Maura Gallagher (18), sophomore Ashley Beyers (11) and sophomore Meredith Wall (10).
Do the Math-eson
In all three Princeton victories, against Loyola Marymount, La Salle and Dartmouth, sophomore Diana Matheson has scored the game-winning goal.
Good things come in threes
Tiger games in 2005 have typically been defensive struggles. Only twice in the 11 games this season has Princeton or its opponent reached the three-goal mark. Princeton is 1-0 when reaching that total as it did when it beat La Salle, 4-0. Miami (Fla.), however, topped Princeton 3-0 in the season's second game.
Bogged down
Princeton's scheduled game against Columbia was rained out last Saturday even though it wasn't raining. A week of precipitation left Lourie-Love Field too soggy for soccer, so the Lions and Tigers will collide instead on Nov. 1 at a time to be announced.
Maren-ated
Sophomore Maren Dale has emerged as Princeton's lead goaltender. Recently, she had a 223-minute scoreless streak extending from late in a 2-1 loss to Yale, through shutouts against La Salle and Dartmouth and into the first half of the Brown game. Emily Vogelzang came in for the second half in that game, but Dale returned to the net to make three saves in the 2-1 defeat against Rutgers.
Whoops
Two "own goals" have come about in Princeton contests recently and both ended up as a deciding factor in the outcome. The first benefitted Yale in its 2-1 win at Lourie-Love Field on Sept. 24, and Princeton benefitted from a bad bounce for Rutgers in the opening minute of Oct. 11th's 2-1 loss to the Scarlet Knights.
Welcome home
Princeton had hoped to end its longest road swing of the year on Saturday with the Columbia game, but the rainout has pushed the homecoming to tonight. After traveling to Dartmouth, Brown and Rutgers, the Tigers settle in for three of the next four at home with Rider tonight, Cornell at 7 p.m. on Oct. 29 and Columbia on Nov. 1 at a time to be announced.
An accomplished foot
Emily Behncke continues the final year of her successful Princeton career. She has six goals and two assists this season, giving her 74 career points, third all-time (Esmeralda Negron 112, Linda DeBoer 94) and 31 goals, also third all-time (Negron 47, DeBoer 41).
Ivy League Standings
(conference records only)
Yale 3-0
Columbia 2-1
Dartmouth 2-1
Harvard 1-1
Brown 1-2
Penn 1-2
Princeton 1-2
Cornell 1-3
What's goin' on?
As the Ivy League season crosses its middle point with every team in the league no more than two-and-a-half games behind any other team, the "scoreboard watching" can begin. Princeton's game at Harvard is the first of four Ivy contests over the weekend, with the Penn-Yale game kicking off at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. On Sunday, Brown plays Cornell and Columbia faces Dartmouth, both at noon.
She'll remember that one
Freshman Aarti Jain provided Princeton's goal against Brown on Oct. 8, the first goal of her career, an 81st-minute score that halved Brown's lead and kept Princeton in the game.
Looking ahead
Princeton resumes the Ivy League schedule on Saturday at Harvard. The women's soccer game will be just one of the Princeton-Harvard contests on Saturday, however, as the football team also travels to Cambridge, Mass. for a 12:30 p.m. kickoff, an hour and a half after the men's soccer team begins the doubleheader with the women's squad. The field hockey team is also at Harvard for a noon passback.