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Princeton University Athletics
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Women's Soccer to Host 10 Opponents in 2010
June 23, 2010 | Women's Soccer
Though 10 of the 17 on the docket will be in Princeton, the Tigers will start on the road with perhaps the season's toughest test, a Sept. 3 visit to Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights finished with the second-best record in the Big East a year ago and advanced to the NCAA second round.
The Tigers will then host another Big East foe in Seton Hall, whose assistant coach is Princeton's all-time leading scorer Esmeralda Negron '05, on Sept. 5.
Five more games will follow the openers against Big East opponents before Ivy League play begins, with Princeton traveling to Hartford (Sept. 10), hosting James Madison (Sept. 12) and Long Island (Sept. 17), visiting Hofstra (Sept. 19) and hosting Saint Joseph's (Sept. 22).
After the Tigers begin the Ivy schedule on Sept. 25 at Yale, they will have three additional non-league matches against Fairfield at home on Sept. 28, at American on Oct. 4, and against Lehigh at home on Oct. 13.
In the Ivy, Princeton will host Dartmouth (Oct. 2), Brown (Oct. 9), Harvard (Oct. 23) and Penn (Nov. 6) while traveling to Yale, Columbia (Oct. 16) and Cornell (Oct. 30).
Though six of the 10 non-league opponents return from 2009, the Tigers will renew the series with Saint Joseph's, last played in 2007, with James Madison, last played in 1996, and with Seton Hall, last played in 2002. Long Island is a first-time opponent for Princeton.
Princeton graduated three seniors in the Class of 2010 and brings aboard four freshmen while returning two-time first-team All-Ivy League goalkeeper Alyssa Pont for her senior season. With Pont in goal for every minute, Princeton's defense had a goals-against average of 0.78 last season.
All schedule details are subject to change.