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Quick Turnaround Takes Women's Soccer to American Monday
October 03, 2010 | Women's Soccer
PRINCETON -- Two days after improving to 2-0 in the Ivy League with a win over Dartmouth, the Princeton women's soccer team will travel to American for a 4 p.m. game Monday.
Princeton (6-3-0) at American (3-9-0)
Monday, Oct. 4 at 4 p.m.
The Tigers have won three straight, with Ivy wins over Yale and Dartmouth bookending last week's non-league victory over Fairfield on Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium. While American enters the game at 3-9, all three wins have come in the last four games after the Eagles dropped their first eight contests. American senior Brooke Sheppard has scored two of the team's six goals on the season and both were game-winners, including a double-overtime goal to beat Radford on Sept. 17 followed by a regulation score to lift the Eagles over UMBC two days later.
All five of Princeton's goals during the three-match winning streak have been scored by members of the sophomore class, with Jen Hoy contributing the game-winner at Yale on Sept. 25 before Caitlin Blosser scored all four goals between the 2-0 wins over Fairfield and Dartmouth.
In trying for the team's first four-game winning streak since 2008, the Tigers will face an American team that it has faced eight times, all since 2000, and defeated on all eight chances. It will be the third straight season Princeton and American have played, with the Tigers winning 4-0 in 2008 with two goals scored by current Princeton players Lauren Whatley and Barb Previ, and 1-0 in 2009 with Whatley scoring again.
The American game will be the penultimate midweek contest for the Tigers, who will host Lehigh on Oct. 13 before traveling to Columbia the following Saturday. This week, Princeton will return to Roberts Stadium to face Brown in a 7 p.m. game as the second half of a doubleheader following the Tiger men's team.