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3-0 Tigers Head To Happy Valley For Meeting With Penn State
March 13, 2008 | Women's Lacrosse
The Princeton women's lacrosse team, 3-0 for the first time since 2005 and ranked No. 4 nationally, visits No. 19 Penn State Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. in its last road game before a three-game homestand.
The Tigers, who improved to 3-0 with an impressive 13-8 win over then-No. 3 Duke last Saturday, have won in each of their last eight trips to Happy Valley. The Nittany Lions are 2-2 this season after a win over William & Mary last weekend.
Senior Katie Lewis-Lamonica scored seven goals for Princeton in the win over Duke, equalling her career high set against Temple last season. She was named the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week and the InsideLacrosse.com Offensive Player of the Week for her efforts against the Blue Devils.
The Tigers have been extremely efficient offensively in their first three games, scoring on better than 52% of their shot attempts. 10 Princeton players have already scored at least one goal this season.
Today's Note of the Day
Pulling Rank ? Princeton defeated then-No. 3 ranked Duke last Saturday at Princeton Stadium. The No. 3 Blue Devils were the highest-ranked team that Princeton had beaten since the No. 1 Tigers beat No. 2 Georgetown on March 25, 2004.
Five More Things You Can't Live Without
Road Warriors ? Princeton has won each of its last eight games at Penn State. The Tigers haven't lost on the road to the Nittany Lions since 1990.
History Lesson ? Princeton has won 16 of its last 20 games against Penn State after the Nittany Lions won eight of the first nine meetings between the teams.
Net Gains ? Princeton has scored on better than 52% of its shots through three games this season (36 of 68).
Start Me Up ? Princeton is 3-0 for the first time since the 2005 season. The Tigers were last 4-0 in 2004, when they won their first 19 games before falling in the NCAA title game.
Lucky Seven ? Katie Lewis-Lamonica scored seven goals against Duke, tying a career high set against Temple last year. The school record for goals in a game is eight.
More Notes & Anecdotes
Balancing Act ? 10 players have scored at least one goal for Princeton in the team's first three games. Seven players have scored at least two goals in the first three games.
About Experience ? 10 of Princeton's 12 starters are either juniors or seniors. Only goalie Kaitlyn Perrelle, who played in every game last year, and freshman attacker Lizzy Drumm are underclassmen.
More Experience ? Nine of Princeton's usual 12 starting players from 2007 return to the team this season.
On Schedule ? Princeton plays five games this year against teams currently ranked in the top 10 in the latest IWLCA poll (Virginia, Duke, Maryland, Penn, Georgetown).
Numbers Game ? Princeton averaged 16 goals per game in its 10 wins last season and nine goals per game in its seven losses last season.
Up The Charts ? Princeton head coach Chris Sailer ranks second among active Division I head coaches with 272 career wins.
Tourney Talk ? Princeton has reached the NCAA tournament in 15 of the last 16 seasons beginning in 1992. The only year the Tigers did not qualify in that stretch was 1997.
More Tourney Talk ? Princeton has reached the national semifinals 10 times since 1992 and the NCAA quarterfinals 15 times since 1992.
Individual Notes & Anecdotes
Goal Oriented ? Katie Lewis-Lamonica was a second-team All-America a year ago. Her 51 goals were fourth-most all-time in a season at Princeton.
More Goal Oriented ? Katie Lewis-Lamonica is on pace to finish in the top five all-time at Princeton in career goals.
I'm Honored ? Norris Novak was a third-team All-America on defense last season. Novak started every game and had 27 ground balls and 16 caused turnovers.
Two-Sport Star ? Holly McGarvie was an honorable-mention All-Ivy pick in lacrosse in 2007 and then a second-team All-Ivy pick in field hockey this past fall.
Junior Day ? Katie Cox is Princeton's second junior captain in the last three seasons. Caitlin Reimers ?07 was a captain as a junior in 2006.
Half and Half ? Ashley Amo, also a team captain, scored on more than half of her shot attempts (21 of 41) last season.
Stopping By ? Kaitlyn Perrelle played in every game in goal as a freshman and started 13 of the last 14 games.
Quicker Picker Upper ? Junior Kristin Schwab led Princeton with 32 ground balls in 2007 and finished second on the team with 31 draw controls.
Nice Beginning ? Kristin Morrison was Princeton's leading freshman scorer in 2007 with 11 goals.
U.S.A, U.S.A. ? All three of Princeton's assistant coaches (Michele DeJuliis, Amy Altig, Elizabeth Pillion) will play for the U.S. national touring team at the Prague Cup tournament in the Czech Republic this summer.