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Ivy Race Continues for Women's Soccer at Cornell Saturday
October 26, 2010 | Women's Soccer
PRINCETON - Heading into the final two weekends of the Ivy League women's soccer season, five of the league's eight teams still hold the possibility of emerging as an outright Ivy champion.
Princeton (8-6-0, 3-2-0 Ivy) at Cornell (6-6-1, 1-4-0 Ivy)
Saturday, Oct. 30 at 4 p.m.
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Princeton is among those five teams, but only Columbia can claim the league's automatic berth to the NCAA tournament just by winning out.
The Tigers' road map to the Ivy title and the postseason, if Princeton can win its last two, would have to include a loss or tie each by Harvard and Columbia in either of those teams' last two games. The Crimson and the Lions meet in Cambridge on the season's final day.
By the time Princeton kicks off its 4 p.m. game on Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium against Penn on Nov. 6, it will know if the contest is for an Ivy title and postseason berth or just for pride and to send the four-member senior class out with a victory.
But before the home finale comes, the Tigers will have Cornell to contend with Saturday at 4 p.m. in Ithaca.
Princeton has won 14 straight against Cornell, with the only loss to the Big Red in Julie Shackford's tenure as head coach coming in her first season of 1995. Even so, Cornell is having its best season in five years and has the possibility of reaching three Ivy wins for the first time since 1995 if it can defeat the Tigers and Dartmouth.
As it is, the Big Red have already put to rest a 12-match Ivy League losing streak that stretched back to 2008, defeating Yale two weekends ago. The team's six wins are one short of equaling its win total from 2007-09.
Princeton's viability in the Ivy League race comes despite the Tigers having gone through two tough Saturdays in league play, losing 2-0 at Columbia and 4-0 at home against Harvard last Saturday in what was a one-goal game until a six-minute burst in the second half that saw the Crimson add three goals.
Even after being kept out of the points column for the last two games, Caitlin Blosser co-leads the Ivy in assists, with seven, and assists per game, at 0.50. Blosser is also fourth in the Ivy in goals, with six, behind a three-way tie that includes teammate Jen Hoy (7G, 0A).
Maneesha Chitanvis and Brook Chang co-lead the Big Red with four goals, with Chitanvis scoring the goal against Yale that ended the long Ivy streak. Megan Bartlett (1.38 GAA) has played the last two and a half games in goal in her split role with Kelly Murphy (0.94 GAA).