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Women's Lacrosse Heads to Yale For Key Ivy League Matchup
April 05, 2007 | Women's Lacrosse
The Princeton women's lacrosse team opened its Ivy League season in impressive fashion last weekend at Cornell. The Tigers hit the road again Saturday looking to make it two in a row.
No. 9 Princeton (4-3, 1-0) visits 15th-ranked Yale (9-3, 2-1) for a 2 p.m. game at Johnson Field, a game that is probably Princeton's biggest so far this season considering the Ivy League standings. The Tigers and Penn (3-0) have yet to lose a league game, while the Bulldogs and Dartmouth (2-1) are now in chase mode as the league season gets into full swing.
Saturday's game will feature the league's top two goal scorers in Yale's Lauren Taylor and Princeton's Katie Lewis-Lamonica. Taylor's 47 goals actually lead all of NCAA Division I, and she was named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week Monday after scoring six times in a win over Harvard. Lewis-Lamonica has at least two goals in every game this season and a total of 23 in Princeton's seven games.
The Tigers scored the first eight goals of the game in their 18-9 win at Cornell last Saturday, defeating the Big Red for the 20th consecutive time and 27th time in 29 all-time meetings. Both Lewis-Lamonica and Ashley Amo had four goals in the game, while Kathleen Miller and Christine Casaceli each had three goals and Miller added two assists.
Princeton would go on to lead by as many as nine goals midway through the second half at Cornell. The Tigers won 19 of the game's 29 draw controls.
Miller now has 166 career points, good for ninth place on Princeton's all-time list, and she needs seven points to pass Jenny Bristow '94 to move into eighth place. She also needs just four assists to move into second place all-time at Princeton in that category behind all-time leading scorer Cristi Samaras '99.
Since the beginning of the 1994 season, Princeton is now 74-1 against the six Ivy League schools other than Dartmouth. The only loss in that stretch was a 7-6 defeat at Yale on April 9, 2003.
Yale enters Saturday's game on a five-game winning streak after a 13-6 victory at Holy Cross on Wednesday afternoon. The game was called with just under 10 minutes left in the second half after snow made the field unplayable.
Princeton came back from a halftime deficit to defeat Yale 8-7 at Class of 1952 Stadium a season ago. Olachi Opara scored the game winner with 13 minutes left when she stripped Yale goalie Ellen Cameron behind the Yale net and then scored into the open cage.
The Tigers used a strong second-half performance to earn an 11-5 win at Yale in their last visit to Johnson Field two seasons ago. Goalie Colleen O'Boyle came off the bench to begin the second half and stopped eight shots while allowing just one goal to lead Princeton to the victory.
Princeton returns home next week for two games, a midweek matchup with Temple and a Saturday meeting with Harvard that is the first game of a men's-women's doubleheader against the Crimson at Class of 1952 Stadium.