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Hoy's Seventh Goal Gives Women's Soccer Win over Lehigh
October 14, 2010 | Women's Soccer
The sophomore put in her Ivy League-leading seventh goal of the season with little more than three minutes to play in regulation Wednesday night on Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium, lifting the Tigers to a 1-0 win over the Mountain Hawks.
Hoy's goal came at the 85:54 mark during a larger stretch in which the Tigers hovered around Lehigh goalkeeper Lauren Mains, who made four saves on the night, but were not yet able to put one away. Rachel Sheehy's pass up the midfield landed in front of Hoy, who split and motored past her Lehigh defenders, winning a one-on-one battle with Mains. The goal is also Hoy's Ivy-best fourth game-winner of the season.
With the win, Princeton moves to 8-4-0 on the season and stays undefeated in the all-time series with Lehigh, which now stands at 15-0-1. Goalkeeper Kristin Watson was able to keep alive a 12-match shutout streak that dates back to 1995 in a series that began in Princeton's first varsity season of 1980.
The victory also proved the Tigers' focus as it came squarely between two key Ivy League matchups. Last Saturday's 1-0 victory over Brown lifted Princeton into first place in the league, and the Tigers will aim to stay there with a 4 p.m. matchup against second-place Columbia in New York. In Lehigh (7-3-2), Princeton beat a team that took on its third one-goal loss of the season and, through Monday's games, leads the Patriot League in the NCAA's RPI index at No. 77. Columbia leads the Ivy at No. 68, just one spot ahead of Princeton.
In the Ivy standings, Princeton (3-0-0) leads Columbia (2-0-1) by two points and Harvard (2-1-0) and Penn (2-1-0) by three each. The Tigers will meet the Crimson in Princeton's next home game the following weekend.
While making just one official save, Watson and the defense in front of her tallied the fifth clean-sheet of the season and fourth in the last six matches.