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Princeton Visits No. 3 Virginia For Women's Lacrosse Saturday Showdown
March 23, 2007 | Women's Lacrosse
The Princeton women's lacrosse team has terrific memories from the last time it visited Virginia's Klockner Stadium. The Tigers return to Charlottesville Saturday afternoon looking for another victory in one of college lacrosse's best rivalries.
Opening draw for the No. 10 Tigers (3-2) and third-ranked Cavaliers (7-1) is 1 p.m. Saturday, and a live video broadcast of the game will be available from ACC Select
The Tigers last played in Charlottesville last May, when Chris Sailer's unseeded Tigers upset No. 2 seed Virginia, 8-7, in the first round of the 2006 NCAA tournament. Princeton, which had lost to UVa 16-3 earlier in the 2006 season, never trailed in that game and won it when Katie Lewis-Lamonica scored the game winner with 2:14 left in the second half.
That Princeton win ended a three-game losing streak to the Cavaliers that began when Virginia defeated the Tigers in the 2004 NCAA championship game at Princeton Stadium.
The 2007 Tigers ended a two-game skid with an impressive 14-5 win over Loyola Wednesday night back at Princeton Stadium and in front of a national television audience on ESPNU. Both Mary Minshall and Lewis-Lamonica scored three goals, and the Tigers outscored the Greyhounds 6-1 in the second half to pull away for the win.
Princeton outshot Loyola 36-12 in the 14-5 win, including 22-4 in the decisive second half.
Lewis-Lamonica leads Princeton with 17 goals this season. She has scored at least two goals in each of her team's first five games.
Virginia defeated William & Mary by a 12-3 score Wednesday night. The Cavaliers had an impressive 15-4 win over No. 4 Maryland earlier this month; Virginia's only loss this season came against top-ranked and undefeated North Carolina last Saturday.
Saturday's game is the beginning of a three-game road trip for Princeton, which won't return home to Class of 1952 Stadium until April 11. The Tigers begin Ivy League play with a game at Cornell next Saturday and then travel to Yale for another Ivy League game the following Saturday.