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Princeton University Athletics
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Trip to Lehigh Next for Women's Soccer Wednesday
October 16, 2007 | Women's Soccer
Princeton at Lehigh
Wed., Oct. 17 at 7 p.m.
Ulrich Sports Complex (Lehigh)
Records: Princeton 6-4-1, 3-0-0 Ivy; Lehigh 5-5-3, 0-2-1 Patriot
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 12-0-0
Princeton head coach: Julie Shackford (13th season/William and Mary '88)
Lehigh head coach: Manny Oudin (6th season/East Stroudsburg '91)
Rankings
Princeton's difficult early-season schedule continues to be recognized in the weekly national rankings. Connecticut, Princeton's season-opening opponent and a 1-0 victor over the Tigers, is ranked 15th by the NSCAA, while Notre Dame is ranked 22nd and Washington State is receiving votes.
The Princeton-Lehigh series
Princeton will look to continue a perfect record against the Mountain Hawks Wednesday in Bethlehem. The series has been played 12 times, spread out over Princeton's existence as a varsity program with the first meetings coming in 1980 and '81. The teams met again nine times from 1993-2002 before resuming the series last year. Princeton has allowed only one goal in the series, coming in 1994 when the Tigers needed an overtime score to avoid a 1-1 tie.
Last time against Lehigh
Princeton topped Lehigh 5-0 on Sept. 19 of last year at Lourie-Love Field. Diana Matheson had the first half's only goal on a penalty kick before Aarti Jain scored twice in the second half and Sarah Peteraf and Vicki Anagnostopoulos found the back of the net as well.
Last time in Bethlehem
The only current Tigers among those in Princeton's travel party the last time it faced Lehigh on the Mountain Hawks' home turf on Sept. 18, 2002 were head coach Julie Shackford and assistant coach Ron Celestin. Princeton used goals by two of its top three all-time scorers, Emily Behncke '06 and Esmeralda Negron '05, in a 3-0 win.
I'm honored
Marissa Sampias helped Princeton to an Ivy League weekly honor for the second straight week when she was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week Monday. Sampias scored Princeton's second goal in the team's 2-0 win over Columbia Saturday. Diana Matheson had Princeton's first league honor of the season when she was named Ivy League Player of the Week Oct. 8.
Columbia recap
Princeton got a penalty kick goal from Diana Matheson and added Marissa Sampias' first-career goal in the final seconds of the opening half in a 2-0 win over Columbia Saturday on Powers Field at Princeton Stadium. The win improved the Tigers to 3-0 on the Ivy League season for the first time since 2004 and the fifth time in eight seasons.
Any foot, any time
With Marissa Sampias' goal against Columbia, 11 Tigers have found the back of the net this season. That list includes six players who scored their first-career goal this year: Alexandra Valerio, Melissa Whitley, Marissa Sampias, Libby van Beuren, Regina Yang and Allison Williams.
Goals aplenty
Princeton has scored 18 goals in its last six games. That is the most in a six-game span since 2004, when the Tigers found the back of the net 19 times in a six-game stretch from a seven-goal outing against Cornell through the first three games of the NCAA tournament.
Steady keeper
Princeton goalkeeper Maren Dale has started the Tigers' last 27 games and has a goals-against average of 1.02 in that span.
Still going
Junior defender Taylor Numann, a first-team All-Ivy honoree in 2006, has started every game of her career, a streak 43 contests long. Numann and freshmen Alexandra Valerio and Marissa Sampias are the only Tigers to have started every possible game during their Princeton careers.
Every minute
Melissa Seitz and Taylor Numann continued their run of playing all 1,021 minutes this season by going the full 90 against Columbia last Saturday.
A class-y race
Diana Matheson's three points against Columbia kept the seniors with the most points by class with 18 and 12 coming from Matheson. The sophomores and juniors each have 13, led by soph Marci Pasenello and junior Jen Om, each with eight. Alexandra Valerio and Marissa Sampias have four apiece for the rookies who have 11 as a group.
On Lehigh
The Mountain Hawks enter Wednesday's game winless in their last four contests but having allowed six goals in that span. Sophomore Liz Carlos and senior Melissa Montalvo each have three of Lehigh's 13 goals on the year. Though junior Julie Kafka has started all 13 contests in net for the Mountain Hawks, freshman Lauren Mains leads her in minutes played, 650-585, with Mains seeing time in all 13 games.
Jersey fresh
Though it is located in Pennsylvania not far from the New Jersey line, Lehigh's most popular home state for its women's soccer players is the Garden State, with 10 Mountain Hawks hailing from New Jersey. One is from Princeton's home county as Lehigh senior Courtney Jackson is from Cranbury and attended Peddie School in Hightstown.
Common foes
Princeton and Lehigh have faced three of the same teams so far this season in Rutgers, Villanova and Saint Joseph's. Princeton beat Rutgers and SJU, 5-0 and 2-0, respectively, while Lehigh fell to the Scarlet Knights 2-0 and topped the Hawks 1-0. Both teams tied Villanova, with Princeton's tie at 0-0 and Lehigh's at 1-1. Both teams will also face Bucknell later this season.