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Saturday Brings Finale at Penn for Women's Soccer
November 03, 2011 | Women's Soccer
Princeton (6-9-1, 2-4-0 Ivy) at Penn (13-2-1, 4-1-1 Ivy)
Saturday, Nov. 5 at 5 p.m. in Philadelphia, Pa.
Live Stats
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 16-7-2; Streak: Tied last meeting; Penn 2 at Penn
For the program's 2011 season finale, the Princeton women's soccer team will head to Penn's Rhodes Field for a 5 p.m. game Saturday.
Though the Tigers are out of the Ivy League title race, the game has Ivy title implications for the Quakers, who need a win and a Harvard loss at Columbia later Saturday in order to claim a share of the league crown. The Crimson have already won the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament even if they finish tied with Penn by virtue of the team's head-to-head win over the Quakers on Sept. 23.
For Princeton, Saturday will be the final game for the team's three seniors, defenders Kim Menafra and Kalie Bartholomew and midfielder Sara Chehrehsa.
The last four meetings with the Quakers have either been ties (2010) or one-goal games. No current Tiger has scored against the Quakers, and Claire Pinciaro, who made her collegiate debut in last year's winner-take-all finale for the Ivy title on Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium, is the only current member of the team to have played in goal.
Thirteen players have scored a goal for the Tigers this season, and the team can return all but two of its 26 goals from this fall. Five freshmen have scored a goal, an encouraging sign for a team that has gone 5-1-0 over the last six games. The only loss over that span was a one-goal decision at first-place Harvard, the team's lone non-win since a rough 1-8-1 start to the campaign.
Junior Jen Hoy leads the Tigers with seven goals, while classmate Kristin Watson has started seven of the last eight games in goal and has an 0.92 goals-against average.
The Quakers enter the game on a roll, undefeated in their last nine games after suffering their only two losses of the season at George Mason and Harvard in late September. Rhodes Field has been a tough place for opponetns to play this season, as Penn holds a 9-0 record at home with a combined score of 27-1 and Cornell as the only team to score a goal. That goal by the Big Red, coming on Sept. 30, was also the last marker the Quakers allowed overall and one of just six the team has allowed in its 16 games.
Sophomore Kathryn Barth and senior Marin McDermott co-lead the Quakers with eight goals apiece while Barth has also tallied seven assists. Junior Sarah Banks has played nearly three-quarters of the team's minutes in goalwhile accruing an 0.42 GAA.