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Women's Soccer to Host Fairfield Tuesday
September 27, 2010 | Women's Soccer
PRINCETON -- Three days after opening the Ivy League season with a 1-0 victory over Yale, the Princeton women's soccer team will host Fairfield Tuesday on Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium before the league schedule continues on the weekend.
Fairfield (4-4-1) at Princeton (4-3-0)
Tuesday, Sept. 28 at 7 p.m.
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While the Tigers will be preparing for their second Ivy match Saturday at home against Dartmouth, Fairfield will be readying for its conference opener Friday at Iona. Like Princeton heading into the Yale game, Fairfield has gone two matches without scoring a goal. However, the Stags have kept all their games close, as no Fairfield loss has come by more than two goals. Among those is a 2-0 loss to a top-five team in Boston College on Sept. 10 and a 2-1 overtime loss to Georgetown, which was ranked No. 19 in the NSCAA's Sept. 21 poll. Seven players have split the Stags' eight goals, and junior Kelly Boudreau has played almost all of the team's minutes this season.
Tuesday's game will be the fourth meeting between the Tigers and the Stags, with Princeton taking the previous three -- in 2001, 2008 and 2009 -- by shutout. Boudreau played both of the recent games in goal for Fairfield, giving up an 82nd-minute goal to Sarah Peteraf '09 and a 16th-minute penalty-kick goal to Melissa Seitz '10 as both were 1-0 finals.
Princeton's last three contests overall have been decided by one goal and represent three of the five matches this year (of seven overall) in which the Tigers have allowed one goal or fewer. Jen Hoy, who scored Princeton's goal in the 1-0 win over Yale Saturday, leads the Tigers with five on the season. The assist on Hoy's goal came from fellow sophomore Caitlin Blosser, whose two goals and six assist give her 10 points to tie Hoy for the team lead in that category.
The shutout of Yale, the second for Princeton and for sophomore goalkeeper Kristin Watson, dipped the Tigers' goals-against average to 1.13 overall and 0.87 when Watson is in goal.