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Women's Lax Seeks to Secure Ivy Tournament Bid Saturday Against Harvard
April 14, 2011 | Women's Lacrosse
Harvard at No. 12 Princeton
Gametime: Saturday, April 16 at 1 p.m.
2011 Records: Princeton (6-4, 3-0), Harvard (6-4, 3-1)
Series Began: 1974
Series Record: Princeton leads 24-16
Last Meeting: Harvard won 11-9 (4/17/10)
Streak: Harvard won last game
LINKS: Live Video l Live Audio l Live Stats
PRINCETON, N.J. (4/14/11) – The Princeton women's lacrosse team puts its undefeated Ivy League record on the line when it hosts Harvard on Saturday, April 16 at 1 p.m., at Princeton Stadium. If the Tigers can get the win, they will have secured a spot in the 2011 Ivy League Lacrosse Tournament.
The game will be webstreamed on GoPrincetonTigers.tv for subscribers. Fans can also live to the live audio feed and follow live stats free of charge.
Princeton is 6-4 on the season after falling 17-10 to No. 1 Maryland on Wednesday. A lot is at stake for the Tigers today, as they enter the game with a 3-0 Ivy League record, sitting in first place with Penn and Dartmouth, who are also undefeated in league play. Senior Lizzy Drumm sits atop the scoring column with 24 goals and two assists for 26 points. Sophomore Jaci Gassaway is on her heels with 25 points with a team-high 10 assists and 15 goals. Junior Cassie Pyle adds 20 points, sophomore Sam Ellis has 18 and junior Barb Previ has 17. Junior Lindsey deButts leads the team in ground balls with 25 and caused turnovers with 15, while ranking second in draw controls with 12, behind team leader Drumm who starts the game in the center circle and has earned 25 wins. Senior Erin Tochihara has been between the pipes all season and had made 85 saves on 186 shots for a .457 save percentage and a 10.00 save percentage.
Princeton leads the all-time series with Harvard 24-16, which dates back to 1974 when Harvard's women's school was known as Radcliffe. The Crimson snapped a 17-game losing streak in the series last year with an 11-9 win on their home turf, their first win in the series since 1992. The Tigers are 14-5 when hosting the Crimson.
Like Princeton, Harvard enters today's game with a 6-4 overall record. The Crimson have won their last two games, a 12-9 win at Brown and a 10-6 game at Holy Cross this past Wednesday. Harvard is 3-1 in the Ivy League, sitting in fourth place in the standings, defeating Yale and Cornell and falling 9-8 to Penn. Jenn Vandermeulen is the team's leading scorer with 31 goals and three assists for 34 points. Ten of her goals have come on the eight meter converting on 62.5 percent of her chances. Danielle Tetreault has 30 points on 26 goals and four assists, with eight goals coming via free position attempts as she shoots 50 percent. Melanie Basking and Jess Halpern add 21 and 20 points, respectively. Kerry Clark has played all 600 minutes in goal and has made 65 saves and allowed 105 goals for a .382 save percentage and a 10.50 goals against average.
Last Time We Met (April 17, 2010)
Senior Kristin Morrison and sophomore Cassie Pyle both recorded hat tricks as Princeton tried to rebound from a five-goal deficit but ran out of time as Harvard posted an 11-9 win at Harvard Stadium.
Morrison put the Tigers on the scoreboard first when she converted on the team's third eight-meter attempt at 27:35. Harvard responded with an eight-meter goal less than a minute later and scored on a Princeton turnover at 21:04 to take the 2-1 lead. Freshman Jenna Davis picked up a feed from Maisie Devine to make it a 2-2 game at 18:51.
The Crimson went on a 4-0 run to take a 6-2 lead at 5:30. Devine added the final goal of the half with help from sophomore Barb Previ with 25 seconds left in the half.
Fifty-nine seconds into the second half the Crimson struck again. Ten minutes later both teams had scored two goals, Princeton getting both from Pyle. An eight-meter goal by Danielle Tetreault at 19:31 gave Harvard a 10-5 lead.
Princeton started to come back scoring four of the game's final five goals in the last 10 minutes. Morrison had the Tigers' last offensive chance with 20 seconds left but the shot went wide and Harvard got possession for the remainder.
Junior Erin Tochihara made 12 stops in goal for Princeton, while Harvard's Katherine Martino made seven saves.
Princeton had a 27-26 edge in shots but Harvard had more on target, 23-16. The Crimson was slightly out ahead in ground balls, 13-12 and draw controls, 12-10.