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Behncke's 72nd-Minute Goal Not Enough as Princeton Women's Soccer Falls to Yale, 2-1
September 24, 2005 | Women's Soccer
Sept. 24, 2005
Final Stats
PRINCETON, N.J. - Yale's Mimi McCauley broke a 52-minute deadlock and the Bulldogs took advantage of an inadvertent own goal 10 minutes later to stay ahead of a late-charging rally by the Princeton women's soccer team and win the first Ivy League contest for each school on Saturday night at Lourie-Love Field, 2-1.
The Tigers fell to 1-4-2, 0-1-0 in the Ivy League after dropping its third one-goal contest in four such games. The 24th-ranked Bulldogs (7-2-0, 1-0-0) are also the fourth top-25 team the Orange and Black have faced in 2005, tying once and coming up short by a single goal in the other three contests.
McCauley opened the scoring in the game's 53rd minute when teammate Jamie Ortega put a cross-goal pass by lunging Princeton keeper Maren Dale and left McCauley with an open lane for a 1-0 lead. After the own goal, which came about when Dale knocked a Yale shot away from the net and off the leg of a Princeton defender, back into the net, Tiger senior Emily Behncke used two consecutive shots to halve the lead in the 72nd minute. When her first shot rebounded off Yale netminder Susan Starr, Behncke redirected her second shot and found the net. Behncke has either scored or assisted on all seven Princeton goals this year. Despite Princeton's breakthrough as the second half waned thin, Yale held on for the last 18:33 to secure the win.
Princeton outshot Yale 14-9 and had Bulldog keepers Starr and Chloe Beizer scurry for five saves to Dale's two. Yale edged Princeton in corner kick opportunities, 6-5.
Before resuming Ivy League action next Sunday at Dartmouth, the Orange and Black hosts La Salle on Tuesday at 7 p.m.