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Women's Soccer Headed to Dartmouth for Ivy Battle
October 02, 2009 | Women's Soccer
PRINCETON -- For the second straight week, the Princeton women's soccer team will head into an Ivy match buoyed by a midweek victory and looking for key standings points in the league race. This time, the Tigers' destination is Dartmouth for a 4 p.m. game Saturday.
Princeton (3-5-1, 0-1) at Dartmouth (4-4, 1-0)
Saturday, Oct. 3, 4 p.m. in Hanover, N.H.
Live Stats | Dartmouth page
The series: Princeton leads 14-13-1 and has won the last two matches.
Last meeting: Sarah Peteraf '09 scored one of her many crucial goals last season in the 33rd minute to help Princeton to a 1-0 win last Oct. 4 on the dedication day for Roberts Stadium. In Princeton's last visit to Hanover on Sep. 29, 2007, Alexandra Valerio and Melissa Whitley '08 scored before Dartmouth halved the lead with a Maggie Goldstein goal in the 88th minute. Princeton held on for a 2-1 win.
Similar seasons: Princeton and Dartmouth each have a win over a top-25 team, Princeton over St. John's and Dartmouth over West Virginia, Princeton's 2008 NCAA tournament first-round opponent. Both teams also made a long trip out west before coming home empty-handed, Princeton to Utah and Wyoming, Dartmouth to Oregon State for a pair. Both teams could also use three points in Saturday's crucial match, Dartmouth to stay in first place and Princeton to put itself in the thick of the Ivy race.
PK: Senior Melissa Seitz scored Princeton's first penalty-kick goal since 2007 in the first half Tuesday at Fairfield, lifting the Tigers to a 1-0 win. The shutout was Princeton's and goalkeeper Alyssa Pont's second of the season, the first coming in the midweek game the previous week against another Connecticut-based school, Hartford.
8 times 2: Both Princeton and Dartmouth have scored eight goals this season, though the Tigers' eight have come from seven players with Jen Hoy the only Tiger doubling up. Aly O'Dea leads Dartmouth with three goals. In net, both teams have had one goalkeeper for every minute, Princeton with Alyssa Pont (1.19 GAA, .718 sv%) and Dartmouth with Colleen Hogan (0.84 GAA, .793 sv%).
198 and counting: Princeton coach Julie Shackford earned her 198th win as an NCAA head coach Tuesday at Fairfield. The victories have come in 14-plus seasons at Princeton after four at Carnegie Mellon, leaving Shackford just two wins away from a milestone of 200.
The wheels on the bus: Princeton will be logging plenty of miles in October, taking all three of its long Ivy trips in a span of four weekends to Dartmouth (Oct. 3), Brown (Oct. 10) and Harvard (Oct. 24). On top of that is a much shorter midweek trip to Lehigh on Oct. 14.
Around the Ivy: Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth and Harvard are all tied atop the Ivy standings with three points after one game while Princeton, Brown, Cornell and Penn are in chase. This weekend, Cornell visits Penn, Brown visits Columbia and Harvard travels to Yale.