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Princeton University Athletics
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Women's Soccer Defeats Utah Valley 5-1
October 19, 2011 | Women's Soccer
PRINCETON --?In the program's final non-league game of the season, the Princeton women's soccer team ran its win streak to four and defeated Utah Valley 5-1 Tuesday night on Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium.
The win started with a developing trend, as for the third time in four games, freshman Lauren Lazo scored before the contest was seven minutes old. Lazo has scored in three of the four games during Princeton's streak, getting the team's first goal against Francis Marion (seventh minute), Columbia (first minute) and now Utah Valley (second minute).
"Any time you're playing a team that's coming from so far away, to get on them early is huge," Princeton head coach Julie Shackford said. "Lazo seems to have a knack for doing that. It was a quality finish, composed, from a freshman. That puts you on your way. That first goal in soccer is everything."
Princeton put its fourth straight win away early once Lazo knocked in a rebound that Rachel Sheehy had put off the crossbar just 1:09 into the game. Sheehy put it in the net 10 minutes later off a pass from Hoy, who took her turn when she scored her team-best sixth goal of the season in the 19th minute. That one came off an end-line pass from Lazo and put Princeton ahead 3-0.
Gabriella Guzman headed in a Melissa Downey corner kick in the 60th minute, and Stephanie Iantorno notched her first goal of the season. With Sheehy also scoring her first goal this season, it brought the number of goal scorers for Princeton to 13 on the campaign, five of whom are freshmen.
Utah Valley got on the board just 13 seconds after Iantorno's goal when Shalayne Janis put in a long arcing shot from distance to make it 5-1.?
The Tigers used every available field player in the win and also employed three goalkeepers. After Kristin Watson made one save in the first half, MicKenzie Roberts-Lahti made her season debut and split the half with fellow rookie Darcy Hargadon. With Roberts- Lahti's appearance, Princeton has used all five goalkeepers on its roster, three of whom are in their first year with the team.
"It was a great win for us to get a lot of goals and get people in the game," Shackford said.
The game closed out a five-game, 11-day stretch for the Tigers who began the string with a loss at Brown to drop to 0-3 in Ivy League play and 1-8-1 on the season. Princeton had been outscored 19-8 during those first 10 games but has since won its last four by a combined score of 16-2, picking up its first Ivy League win in the process.
"I think we've just finished (chances) better," Shackford said of the recent turnaround. "We made a couple of tweaks to the lineup, but I honestly think our finishing has been a lot sharper."
The Tigers will use the momentum to take on Harvard Saturday in Cambridge as the Crimson enter as the Ivy League's first-place team.
