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Women's Soccer Heads to Brown for Saturday Ivy Contest
October 08, 2009 | Women's Soccer
PRINCETON -- Both Princeton and Brown would love three points in the Ivy League standings with only seven total games in which to rack them up, but only one team can make up significant ground in this third weekend of Ivy play.
Princeton (4-6-1, 0-2) at Brown (3-5, 1-1)
Saturday, Oct. 10 at 3 p.m. at Stevenson Field
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The Ivy race: Only one team is 2-0 after two weeks, though the winner of last week's Harvard-Yale game would have joined Dartmouth atop the league had it not been postponed to Oct. 20 due to lightning. With that, Yale, Harvard, Penn, Columbia and Brown are all at three points while Princeton and Columbia are still in search of points in the Ivy standings. The Tigers can get back in the race by putting together a string of wins and looking for the rest of the league to prevent a runaway winner.
Milestone ahead: Monday's win over American was the 199th victory as an NCAA head coach for Julie Shackford, who has won 157 games at Princeton and 42 at Carnegie Mellon in the 1990s. Shackford is already the winningest coach in Princeton men's or women's soccer history, even counting only her victories with the Tigers.
Precedent: Shackford would be the 33rd or 34th active Division I coach with 200 wins at any NCAA level. According to the 2009 record book, 30 D-I coaches entered the season with 200 wins and two more have since reached that number. Shackford would be the 33rd active D-I coach with 200 NCAA wins if the Tigers win Saturday.
Last time out: Alyssa Pont and the Princeton defense earned its third shutout of the season while Lauren Whatley scored in the last minute of the first half to help the Tigers to a 1-0 win over American. The victory improved Princeton's all-time record against the Patriot League school to 7-0.
Series with Brown: Brown leads the all-time series 15-12-3, and of late the series has been just as tight. Brown won the games in 2005 and '06, but Princeton answered with a win in '07 before the teams played to a scoreless draw last season. Prior to 2005, Princeton had won annually from 1998-2004.
Rebounding Bears: Brown began the season 0-4 but has won three of its last four games to move back toward even. All three of those wins have come by shutout, over Columbia, Army and Towson.
Common foes: Other than the Ivy League teams, Brown and Princeton have each traveled to Towson this season. Princeton tied there, 1-1, while Brown won, 2-0.
Score it: Princeton has outscored Brown on the season 10-7, and both teams have one multi-goal scorer. Princeton has freshman Jen Hoy, with two goals, while Brown junior Joyce Chun also has two. In net, Princeton's Alyssa Pont has logged every minute, while Brown has split the minutes almost evenly between goalkeepers Steffi Yellin (1.14 GAA, .800 sv%) and Brenna Hogue (2.19, .787 sv%). Hogue has been in net 57% of the time to Yellin's 43% while almost alternating starts.
One last time: As they have the past three seasons, a pair of Honeoye Falls-Lima (N.Y.) Cougar alums will have their annual on-field meeting when seniors Marci Pasenello of Princeton and Paige Reidy of Brown see their teams compete.
Winners: Saturday's match will also be the annual meeting of the two winningest coaches in the Ivy League. While Julie Shackford is sitting on 199 wins since becoming an NCAA coach in 1991, Brown's Phil Pincince has 265 victories since becoming the Bears' coach in 1977.
Busy week: With a midweek game included, Princeton will have three games in eight days. The Tigers will make the short trip to Lehigh Wednesday before returning home to play Columbia next Saturday.