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Season Finale for Women's Soccer is at Penn Saturday
November 05, 2009 | Women's Soccer
PRINCETON -- Though the Ivy League title is out of reach for the Princeton women's soccer team, much is still at stake for the Tigers as they head down to Rhodes Field at Penn for a 5 p.m. Saturday season finale.
Princeton (7-6-3, 3-2-1 Ivy) at Penn (9-4-2, 3-3)
Saturday, Nov. 7 at 5 p.m.
Live Stats | Penn page
Seniors: Saturday will mark the final collegiate game for Princeton's three seniors, Melissa Seitz, Vicki Anagnostopoulos and Marci Pasenello.
Zeroes: Princeton has a shutout streak of 611:42 against its opponents heading into the Penn game. Though the Tigers won't be able to equal last year's streak of 722:48, another shutout would give Princeton a seven-game shutout streak for the second straight year. The Tigers have never had back-to-back seasons with a seven-game shutout streak.
Streak record: Princeton has one eight-game shutout streak in its history, though it was over two seasons. In 1985, the Tigers ended the season with a seven-game shutout streak before adding one in its first game of 1986.
Winning season: Princeton clinched its 13th straight non-losing season with the 2OT win over Cornell last weekend. A win (or tie) against Penn would give head coach Julie Shackford her 13th winning season in 15 years at Princeton. The only two non-winning seasons were a .500 finish in 2007 and a one-game-under .500 finish in 1996.
Winning Ivy season: A victory or tie at Penn would give the Tigers their 10th winning Ivy season in the last 11 years. Since 1999, the Tigers have a record of 52-19-4 in Ivy play with its only losing season, in 2006, coming by one game with a 3-4 record.
Series vs. Penn: The Tigers hold a 16-6-1 advantage all-time against Penn and won the last meeting, 2-1, with Taylor Numann '09 scoring with 4:55 to play in double overtime to clinch a share of the Ivy League title.
On Penn: The Quakers have won six of their last eight games. Senior Jessica Fuccello has scored 16 of the team's 34 goals to lead the Ivy League in scoring. Sophomore Caroline Williams has logged 84% of the team's minutes in net, with a 1.16 GAA and .776 save percentage.
Ivy leaders: Princeton holds the statistical advantage in the Ivy League in goals allowed (0.81/game), shutouts (eight) and corner kicks (105). Individually, junior goalkeeper Alyssa Pont is No. 1 in the Ivy League in GAA (0.76), save percentage (.840), saves (68) and shutouts (eight).
Strong finishers: With its win over Cornell Saturday, capped by an Alexandra Valerio goal with 24 seconds to go in double OT, the Tigers improved their record after Oct. 15 to 23-6-1 since 2004.
In the Ivy: With Harvard having sealed up the automatic bid with its win over Dartmouth last week, all that is left to be decided is whether Harvard will share or win the Ivy title outright. Yale would need a Columbia win over Harvard to go along with a win over Brown in order to share the league title.