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Bucknell Visits Princeton for Women's Soccer Wednesday
October 08, 2006 | Women's Soccer
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Princeton women's soccer team (4-6-1, 0-3-0 Ivy) will look to break a three-game skid when Bucknell visits Wednesday at 7 p.m.
A tough stretch
The Tigers are on a three-game losing skid and have not lost four in a row since 1998. That's also the last time Princeton had four goals scored on it and the last time the Tigers lost a game by four goals.
Looking for goals
Princeton has been shut out in each of its last three games and has gone 290:37 without a goal. The Tigers haven't had a drought that long since 1996, also the last time Princeton went without a goal for four games in a row.
Ivy unkind
Perhaps a break from Ivy League play is what the Tigers need to get back on track. Princeton is 0-3 in the Ivy League for the first time since 1993, when the team finished 1-6 against the Ancient Eight.
Corralling the Bison
Princeton is 5-0 all-time against Bucknell, winning every year from 1995-99. The Tigers have outscored the Bison 20-5 in those games and are 3-0 at Lourie-Love Field.
More Bison
Bucknell enters the contest at 8-4-1 after seeing its seven-game win streak end at Lehigh Sunday. Sophomore Jennifer Dervarics is Bucknell's leading scorer with seven goals and 17 points. Ten Bison have split the team's 25 goals, with Bucknell outscoring its foes 25-13. Senior Katie Dry has played all but a half in goal, accruing an 0.86 GAA.
Wins, wins, wins
Julie Shackford's 129 wins at Old Nassau are by far a record for the women's team. She's approaching the men's record too. Jimmy Reed, the men's coach from 1938-66, had 136 wins.
Ridge reunion
A pair of classmates will reunite on the pitch when Princeton's Melissa Seitz and Bucknell's Lauren Stoller, both defenders, were 2006 graduates of Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, N.J. Stoller has started all 13 games for the Bison, while Seitz has played in 10 of 11 with eight starts.
Patriot games
Bucknell is the second of three Patriot League squads on the docket for the Tigers this year. Against Lehigh, Princeton had its largest offensive output of the season in a 5-0 win. Princeton will visit American Oct. 17.
Two home games left
Princeton has just two home games left, both against big Ivy rivals. Harvard will visit Oct. 21 as part of what shakes out to be Princeton-Harvard Day around the athletic campus. The field hockey and football teams will take on the Crimson at noon, while men's soccer will begin at 4 p.m. with women's soccer wrapping it up at 7 p.m. Two weeks later, Princeton-Penn Day comes to campus. The night before, Nov. 3, field hockey hosts the Quakers, while men's soccer and football begin at 1 p.m. Nov. 4 and women's soccer closes it out at 4 p.m.