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Bartholomew's OT Winner Tops Cornell, Sets Up Ivy Title Showdown
October 30, 2010 | Women's Soccer
Princeton is now 9-6-0 overall and 4-2-0 in the Ivy League, good for 12 points. Penn, who defeated Brown in overtime Saturday, is now 4-1-1 for 13 points, while the other six teams have been mathematically eliminated from the league race. Columbia, who began the day tied with Penn in first place, fell to Yale and now can no longer win even a share of the league title.
The result is that the Princeton-Penn game this Saturday (Nov. 6, 4 p.m.) becomes essentially the Ivy League championship game. A Princeton win gives the Tigers the outright Ivy title and automatic bid to the NCAA tournament; a Penn win or a tie gives both of those prizes to the Quakers.
The women's game will be part of a huge doubleheader, as the Princeton and Penn men will play after the women's game at 7; Princeton and Penn are both 5-0-0 in the league in men's soccer.
As for the game Saturday, Cornell's (6-7-1, 1-4-1) Maneesha Chitanvis put her team ahead with a goal with 2:34 to play before the break, but the Big Red gave it back in the final minute of the half when a ball caromed off a Cornell defender's leg and past goalkeeper Megan Bartlett.
Princeton outshot Cornell 17-11 overall and 8-6 in shots on goal, with Bartholomew's attempt as her only shot of the match. Off a corner kick, Tiger freshman Erika Hoglund recovered the ball and found Bartholomew, who fired it in for the win.
It was Bartholomew's second goal of the season, and both have been game-winners after she scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Brown three weeks ago.