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Orange and Black Dominates in 4-0 Women's Soccer Win over Rider
October 19, 2005 | Women's Soccer
Oct. 19, 2005
Box Score
PRINCETON, N.J. - By controlling the first half of play and keeping the ball in its offensive zone for much of the opening period, the Princeton women's soccer team (4-6-2) was able to convert three first-half scoring opportunities on the way to a 4-0 win over local rival Rider (2-13-2) on Wednesday evening at Lourie-Love Field.
Senior Emily Behncke started the scoring with her team-high seventh goal of the season at the 6:56 mark on an assist from Melissa Whitley. Near the right sideline, Behncke powered a ball across the goal mouth, finding the left corner of the net for a 1-0 lead. Just over two minutes later, senior Maura Gallagher scored the first of her two goals, bouncing a shot off the left post and into the net.
While the offense cashed in scoring chances firing 15 of its 21 shots in the game's first 45 minutes, Princeton's defense held Rider without a shot in the first half and limited the Broncs to one for the game. The ball control led to eight corner kick opportunities for the Orange and Black in the first half while Rider earned none. Each team had one in the second half.
Sixteen minutes after Gallagher's first goal of the year, senior Romy Trigg-Smith found the back of the net for the first time this season on an assist from sophomore Ashley Beyers. Trigg-Smith had her first header off a corner kick opportunity knocked back by diving Bronc keeper Hannah Harris but scored on the rebound. Senior Emily Vogelzang earned the start in net and authored the shutout, assisted by a defense that did not force her to make a save in the contest. For Rider, Harris made one save while playing the first half, giving way to Kim Carter at halftime. Carter made five saves as Princeton fielded its reserves for most of the second stanza. The lone goal in the second half came from Gallagher, who out-dribbled Carter in the goal box and earned her third career multi-goal game.
The meeting was the first between the schools, separated by just six miles, since 1999 as Princeton took a 3-1 lead in the all-time series in its last non-Ivy game of the year. The Tigers travel to Harvard to resume the conference schedule as one of four teams, including men's soccer, football and field hockey, to face the Crimson in Cambridge, Mass., on Saturday.