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Women's Soccer to Host Yale in Regular Season Finale Sunday
November 09, 2007 | Women's Soccer
Princeton vs. Yale
Sun., Nov. 11 at 1 p.m.
Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
Records: Princeton 8-7-1, 4-2-0 Ivy; Yale 10-6-0, 4-2-0 Ivy
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 19-8-2
Princeton head coach: Julie Shackford (13th season/William and Mary '88)
Yale head coach: Rudy Meredith (13th season/Southern Connecticut State '91)
The Princeton-Yale series
The Tigers lead the series 19-8-2 overall and 9-4-1 in Princeton. Following Princeton's nine-game winning streak to start the series from 1980-86, the Bulldogs and Tigers have played just about even. The longest streak either way from 1987 to the present was Princeton's three wins from 2002-04, though the Bulldogs can match it with a win Sunday.
Streak at stake
Princeton has had 10 winning seasons in a row under head coach Julie Shackford and will need a win Sunday to keep that streak going.
A look at the Ivy race
Penn's 1-0 overtime win over Princeton last Saturday coupled with Yale's 3-1 Sunday win over Brown, the only team to be the Quakers heading into the weekend, allowed Penn to clinch the Ivy League's NCAA tournament berth. The winner of Sunday's game would claim a share of the Ivy League title if Penn loses to Harvard Saturday but would lose out on the automatic bid as both Yale and Princeton lost their head-to-head matches with the Quakers.
The ol' switcheroo
Princeton and Yale have recently gotten used to starting the Ivy season against one another, with the schedule having directed it that way from 2002-06. For just the second time, however, the Tigers and Bulldogs will be closing the league slate with one another. The only other time that happened was in 2001.
Last time against Yale
On Sept. 23, 2006 in New Haven, Mimi Macauley staked her Bulldogs to a two-goal lead after 60 minutes and while Vicki Anagnostopoulos was able to halve the lead in the 74th minute, the Tigers couldn't find the equalizer in a 2-1 defeat. While Mimi Macauley finished her career in 2006, her sister, Kate, joined the Bulldogs as a freshman this year.
Last time in Princeton
Mimi Macauley was a key contributor in 2005 as well as she scored in the 53rd minute of a 2-1 Yale win. The Bulldogs benefited from a goal bounced off a Princeton leg, and while Emily Behncke scored to bring Princeton within 2-1, the Bulldogs held on.
Penn recap
Princeton and Penn played more than 92 minutes of scoreless soccer Saturday night in Philadelphia before Kristin Kaiser, sister of Princeton hockey player Kevin Kaiser, headed in the game's only goal and lifted the Quakers to a 1-0 win.