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Women's Lacrosse Runs Past Harvard, 21-12, for Sixth Straight Win
April 16, 2005 | Women's Lacrosse
April 16, 2005
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Chris Sailer says her team is simply playing better together. Lindsey Biles says that there's a bit of a weight off her back now that she's completed her senior thesis. The combination of those two things sure is adding up to some impressive wins for the Princeton women's lacrosse team.
Biles had five goals in the first half as Princeton took a 12-2 lead at halftime, then added a goal and two assists late in the second half. But she was just one of 10 Tiger players to score a goal in a 21-12 defeat of Harvard, a game that turned out the be the highest-scoring affair in Class of 1952 Stadium history.
"Our attack is doing a great job of playing with each other," said Biles, whose nine points (six goals, three assists) were a career high and pushed her past Theresa Sherry into fourth place on Princeton's all-time points list with 200. "If you look at our goals today, so many of them came off assists."
12 of those 21 Princeton goals, the team's most since scoring 25 in an NCAA tournament game against Le Moyne in 2002, came as a result of assists, including eight in a spectacular first half that saw the Tigers (10-2, 5-0 Ivy) score eight goals in the final 14 minutes to take the 12-2 halftime lead.
Harvard (2-9, 0-3 Ivy) showed fight in the second half, scoring three times in the first four minutes and four straight goals midway through the half to cut Princeton's lead to 15-10, but two goals from Katie Lewis-Lamonica and another from Biles, her 40th of the season with 12:24 left, gave the Tigers an 18-10 advantage. "Lindsey has obviously been a part of great attacks throughout her career here," said Princeton head coach Chris Sailer. "It is great to see her really playing well as we head into a very important part of our season."
Biles, whose now needs just two goals to pass Sherry and move into third place all-time at Princeton in that category, has scored 11 goals in Princeton's last two games and 17 goals in her last four games.
Princeton, which won 22 of the game's 34 draw controls, also got three goals from Lewis-Lamonica and two apiece from Kathleen Miller, Ashley Amo, Ingrid Goldberg and Mary Minshall. Every non-injured Princeton player saw action in the game, including backup goalies Colleen O'Boyle, who played nine minutes in the second half, and freshman Meg Murray, who played the final 11 minutes.
Liz Gamble and Caroline Simmons each scored three times for Harvard, which lost to Princeton for the 13th consecutive year. Gamble also had two assists for the Crimson, which outscored Princeton 8-3 in the first 14 minutes of the second half.
Princeton, which extended its team-record Ivy League winning streak to 16 games, plays perhaps its most important game of the season next Saturday at Dartmouth, which improved to 5-0 in the league Saturday with a 10-8 win at Penn. If the Big Green defeats Harvard Wednesday, both teams will be undefeated heading into Saturday's matchup.
"It's a huge game, obviously," said Sailer, whose team will have a week to prepare for the Big Green. "They're undefeated, senior-dominated and playing really well, so it will be a tough challenge. But we feel like we are beginning to put it together as well."