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Women's Soccer Visits Cornell Saturday; Anagnostopoulos Receives National Honors
October 25, 2006 | Women's Soccer
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Winners of back-to-back games and coming off of its biggest-ever win over Harvard, the Princeton women's soccer team will travel to Cornell Saturday at 4 p.m. to try and even its record with just two games left. The Tigers are 6-7-1 following shutouts last week at American, 3-0, and against the Crimson, 5-0.
Keeping the streak alive
Princeton hasn't had a losing season since 1996, and to extend the current streak to 10 seasons, the Tigers will have to defeat Cornell this weekend on the road and Penn next weekend at home.
Headed (toward) home
The Tigers have one upstate New Yorker on the roster in rookie Marci Pasenello from Honeoye Falls, N.Y., near Rochester. The Cornell trip is the furthest north the Tigers will go this season.
Brrr!
According to Weather.com, game-time temperature in Ithaca, N.Y., should be in the mid-40s with a 60% chance of rain.
More streaks
Just as the Tigers haven't had a losing season since 1996, Princeton hasn't lost to Cornell since 1995, a 10-match winning streak. Princeton has allowed Cornell only three goals in that span while scoring 30 of its own.
Anagnostopoulos comes up big
Vicki Anagnostopoulos was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week, the SoccerTimes.com national Player of the Week and earned a spot on SoccerBuzz' National Elite Team of the Week for scoring four goals against Harvard Saturday. She tied a Princeton record with that output and was the first Tiger to score four goals and eight points (equaling another school record) since Eleanor Platt versus Lehigh in 1998. Anagnostopoulos scored 8:04 into the game, again in the 49th minute, and twice more in the 56th minute, 33 seconds apart, before being given a rest for the remainder of the match. The rookie had 10 points on the week, including two assists against American.
Never before seen
Princeton's 5-0 win over Harvard was its largest margin of victory in the 27-game series, topping a 3-0 win in 1985. That game was also the only other time Princeton has shut out the Crimson.
On the Big Red
Cornell has struggled to a 2-11-1 overall record this season, 1-4 in the Ivy League, with a 3-1 upset of Yale as its only win in the last 12 games. The team has managed just 12 goals, with senior midfielder Caitlin Oliver accounting for a team-high four goals. Home turf hasn't been a successful recipe either for the Big Red, who are 1-2-1 in Ithaca. Freshman Carlyn Swensen has logged the most minutes in goal with a 1.71 GAA.
O Canada
While Princeton has a Canadian national team member in leading scorer Diana Matheson (8 goals, 5 assists), the Big Red has four Canadians including two from Matheson's home province of Ontario. Mira MacLennan is a senior defender and Rebecca Flewelling is a freshman forward/midfielder.
Shutting 'em out
Princeton goalkeeper Maren Dale and the Tiger defense have put together six shutouts this season. Shutouts have been a common occurrence for Tiger teams in the Julie Shackford era, as the program has held its opponents scoreless 75 times in the past 10 seasons with a program-record 13 in 2000.
Chasing a record
Shackford earned her 130th win against Harvard last weekend and is by far the winningest coach in Princeton women's soccer history. The only Princeton men's coach with more wins is Jimmy Reed, who won 136 games from 1938-66.
Up next
If Princeton wins Saturday, the team's shot at a winning record will either come to pass or sail away against Penn Nov. 4 at Lourie-Love Field. Prior to the 4 p.m. game, the team will honor its three seniors, Christina Costantino, Amanda Ferranti and Meghan Farrell.