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Women's Soccer to Host Cornell, Looking to Keep Pace in Ivy Race
October 25, 2007 | Women's Soccer
Cornell at Princeton
Sat., Oct. 27 at 1 p.m.
Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
Records: Princeton 7-5-1, 3-1-0 Ivy; Cornell 4-9-0, 0-4-0 Ivy
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 16-7-4
Princeton head coach: Julie Shackford (13th season/William and Mary '88)
Cornell head coach: Danielle LaRoche (1st season/Maryland '95)
Tigers on the tube
Princeton's game will be televised for the second time this year. This time, the broadcast will be live on Comcast Sports, formerly known as Patriot 8, on the Patriot Media cable system in Princeton and Somerset and Hunterdon Counties in New Jersey. Dan Loney, a veteran Princeton University broadcaster, and Glenn Crooks, the Rutgers head coach, will handle the announcing duties.
The Princeton-Cornell series
The Princeton-Cornell series has been a streaky one of late. Cornell won six in a row from 1990-95, head coach Julie Shackford's first season, but the Tigers have won every match since, an 11-game string.
A look at the Ivy race
Princeton's loss at Harvard allowed Penn to take over first place on its own as the Quakers held serve with a 2-1 win over Yale. Princeton, however, can still win the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament without help if it wins its last three league matches, including a game at Penn next Saturday.
Last time against Cornell
Princeton was able to extend its winning streak over the Big Red, but only by the thinnest of margins. Sarah Peteraf's 79th-minute goal lifted the Tigers to a 1-0 win last Oct. 28 in Ithaca.
Last time in Princeton
Emily Behncke, Princeton's third-leading all-time scorer, had her only career hat trick Oct. 29, 2005 in a 4-1 win over the Big Red at Lourie-Love Field.
Harvard recap
Princeton saw its seven-game winning streak snapped as well as a three-game winning streak against Harvard last Saturday in Cambridge. Each team scored within the first 10 minutes, but Harvard added two more before the half and didn't let Princeton within two the rest of the way in a 4-2 Crimson win.
It could be anybody
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.
Still going
Junior defender Taylor Numann, a first-team All-Ivy honoree in 2006, has started every game of her career, a streak 45 contests long. Numann and freshman Marissa Sampias are the only Tigers to have started every possible game during their Princeton careers.
And going...
Sophomore defender Melissa Seitz is the only Tiger to have played all 1,201 minutes this year.
On Cornell
The Big Red have struggled through a six-game skid, dropping their first four Ivy League games. Lena Russomagno has six of the team's 12 goals while Jodi Palmer has spent every minute in net with a GAA of 2.32.