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Anagnostopoulos Scores Four Goals in Women's Soccer's 5-0 Win over Harvard
October 21, 2006 | Women's Soccer
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PRINCETON, N.J. -- People will be tripping over Vicki Anagnostopoulos' name a little less after her performance Saturday night.
The rookie tied a school record with four goals and eight points in Princeton's 5-0 victory over the Harvard women's soccer team, ending the Tigers' 0-4 Ivy start. She is the fourth Tiger to score four goals in a game and the sixth to have eight points. Princeton improved to 6-7-1 overall and 1-4-0 in league play.
Princeton's 0-4 start in Ivy games had been its worst since 1993. With the win, the Orange and Black kept alive its bid to continue a winning season streak that began in 1997. Harvard fell to 3-11-1, 2-3-0.
The five-goal margin is Princeton's largest in the 27-game history of the Harvard series and is only the second shutout. Princeton blanked Harvard 3-0 in 1985. It was Princeton's second 5-0 win of the season after a Sept. 19 victory against Lehigh and gave the Tigers eight goals on the week.
Anagnostopoulos scored Princeton's first goal 8:04 into the first half, taking a pass ahead from fellow rookie Lauren Thomas and firing from close range, the first of three times the duo would connect on the evening.
Junior midfielder Diana Matheson doubled Princeton's lead 33:24 into the period when she took a pass from sophomore Aarti Jain from the right and beat Harvard keeper Lauren Mann close in for her team-best eighth goal of the year.
Princeton outshot Harvard 7-6 in the first half with Anagnostopoulos and Thomas taking three attempts. Laura Odorczyk took three of the Crimson's shots.
Anagnostopoulos struck again with 3:42 gone in the second half, taking Matheson's pass and navigating through Crimson defenders in the 18-yard box and powering her shot past Mann's left for a 3-0 lead.
Less than seven minutes later, Anagnostopoulos scored her third and fourth goals of the night 33 seconds apart, both on assists from Thomas on similar patterns through the left side of the 18.
The outburst tripled Anagnostopoulos' goal total coming into the game, giving her six on the season. With two assists against American Tuesday, Anagnostopoulos had 10 points on the week.
Tiger keeper Maren Dale authored her second straight shutout, making seven saves. Mann had four saves for the Crimson before Maggie Robinson replaced her with less than 10 minutes to go in the game and made three stops. Princeton outshot Harvard 20-13 on the night.
Princeton will look to even its overall record in its last road match of the 2006 season at Cornell next Saturday at 4 p.m.