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Women's Soccer to Visit Lehigh Wednesday
October 11, 2011 | Women's Soccer
Princeton (2-8-1) at Lehigh (6-5-1)
Wednesday, Oct. 12, 7 p.m. at Bethlehem, Pa.
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 15-0-1; Streak: Princeton 1 overall, tied last road match
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In what is the second-to-last non-league game of the season for the program, the Princeton women's soccer team will visit Lehigh Wednesday for a 7 p.m. game before returning to the Ivy League schedule Saturday against Columbia.
Both teams enter the match on an upswing, Princeton after defeating Francis Marion 6-0 Monday night on Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium, and Lehigh on a three-match win streak of games each decided by 1-0 finals.
Princeton is the second of three Ivy League opponents for Lehigh this season. A win over Columbia on Oct. 3 started the Mountain Hawks on their current three-game streak, and Lehigh will face Penn later this month.
Lehigh was a Princeton opponent during the Tigers' inaugural varsity season of 1980, and the Mountain Hawks have been an on-and-off foe ever since. The teams have played every year since 2006, and Princeton has authored a shutout in every meeting except one, in 1994.
For Lehigh, sophomore Murphee Greeley leads the team with four goals as eight players have found the back of the net this season. In goal, freshman Ashley Blanks has started 11 of the team's 12 games and enters with a goals-against average of 1.18.
Five Princeton players scored their first career goal in the win over Francis Marion, bringing the total number of players who have scored this season to nine. Junior Jen Hoy still leads the group with three goals, while classmate Claire Pinciaro made her first start in goal in three games after senior Kristin Watson started the last two Ivy contests.
Hoy (2010) and senior Kalie Bartholomew (2008) have scored goals against Lehigh, while Watson was in net in last season's game. All three games during any of the current Tigers' tenure have ended with margins of one goal or fewer; Princeton won 1-0 in 2008 and 2010, while the last trip to Bethlehem in 2009 ended in a 0-0 tie.
The Lehigh game continues a busy stretch for the Tigers, who will host Utah Valley next Tuesday after this weekend's Columbia game in what is the team's final non-league contest of the season.