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Bucknell to Host Women's Soccer Wednesday in Final Regular-Season Non-League Match
October 29, 2007 | Women's Soccer
Princeton at Bucknell
Wed., Oct. 31 at 7 p.m.
Varsity Soccer Field (Bucknell)
Records: Princeton 8-5-1, 4-1-0 Ivy; Bucknell 9-7-0, 5-1-0 Patriot
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 5-0-0
Princeton head coach: Julie Shackford (13th season/William and Mary '88)
Bucknell head coach: Ben Landis (3rd season/Bucknell '96)
The Princeton-Bucknell series
Princeton and Bucknell met five straight years from 1995-99 with the Tigers taking every meeting. The two teams tried to get together last year at Lourie-Love Field, but the game was cancelled due to heavy rain. This year's meeting will be the third in Lewisburg, where Princeton won in 1996 and 1998.
A look at the Ivy race
Princeton remained in a first-place tie atop the Ivy League following Penn's loss at Brown Sunday. A win over Penn Saturday would keep the Tigers in control of the league race while a tie or a loss would force Princeton to keep watch of the Ivy scoreboard through the following weekend's matches.
| Ivy Wins | Losses | Ties | Points | Upcoming Ivy Schedule | |
| Princeton | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 11/3 @ Penn, 11/11 vs. Yale |
| Penn | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 11/3 vs. Princeton, 11/10 @ Harvard |
| Harvard | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 11/3 @ Columbia, 11/10 vs. Penn |
| Yale | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 11/3 vs. Brown, 11/11 @ Princeton |
| Brown | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 11/3 @ Yale, 11/10 vs. Dartmouth |
| Columbia | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11/3 vs. Harvard, 11/10 @ Cornell |
| Dartmouth | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11/3 vs. Cornell, 11/10 @ Brown |
| Cornell | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11/3 @ Dartmouth, 11/10 vs. Columbia |
Cornell recap
The Tigers and Big Red fought through the pouring rain during the first half Saturday as Diana Matheson had Princeton's goal in the ninth minute on the way to a 1-0 win. The victory helped Princeton to bounce back from its first league loss the previous weekend at Harvard.
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 46 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 1,291 minutes this year.
A Tiger in net
Princeton goalkeeper Maren Dale had her fifth shutout of the year Saturday against Cornell. Dale, a senior co-captain, has started the last 30 games in net for Princeton and has a goals-against average of 1.05 in that span.
Go Red Devils
Princeton sophomore Melissa Seitz and Bucknell sophomore Lauren Stoller both attended Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, N.J.
On Bucknell
The Bison rebounded from their first Patriot League loss at Lehigh Friday with a 6-0 win over Lafayette Sunday. Bucknell authored the shutout without its usual goalkeeper, sophomore Kathryn Sutton, in net as Jennifer Dervarics had her first start. Dervarics, a junior, is also Bucknell's leading scorer with nine goals and five assists.
Familiar foe
Bucknell coach Ben Landis coached against the Tigers 10 straight seasons from 1995-2004 as a student assistant coach at Bucknell (twice), an assistant coach at Lehigh (three times), and an assistant coach (three times) and head coach (twice) at Dartmouth.