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Princeton University Athletics
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Women's Lacrosse Hosts Columbia Wednesday Night in Makeup Game
April 25, 2011 | Women's Lacrosse
Columbia at No. 15 Princeton
Gametime: Wednesday, April 27 at 7 p.m.
2011 Records: Princeton (7-6, 4-2), Columbia (4-9, 1-5)
Series Began: 1998
Series Record: Princeton leads 13-0
Last Meeting: Princeton won 15-5 (3/24/10)
Streak: Princeton undefeated in series
LINKS: Live Video l Live Audio l Live Stats
PRINCETON, N.J. (4/25/11) – The Princeton women's lacrosse team will host Columbia in the final Ivy League game of the season on Wednesday, April 27 at 7 p.m., at Princeton Stadium. The game was rescheduled after the teams played nearly 40 minutes on March 23 before the game was called due to a storm.*
The game will be webstreamed on GoPrincetonTigers.tv. Fans can also listen to the live play-by-play and follow live stats free of charge.
Princeton enters Wednesday's game with a 7-6 overall record and a 4-2 mark in the Ivy League to sit in fourth place in the league standings. One week ago today, Princeton knocked off Penn 11-7, ending the Quakers 34-game league win streak that dated back to 2006. However, the Tigers couldn't keep up the mometum, falling 15-10 at Dartmouth three days later.
Senior Lizzy Drumm leads the team in scoring with 33 points on 31 goals and two assists. Sophomore Jaci Gassaway has 31 points on 21 goals and a team-best 10 assists. Junior Cassie Pyle led Princeton with a seven-point week last week to accumulate 23 goals and six assists for 29 points. Sophomore Charlotte Davis adds 21 points. Senior Erin Tochihara has played in every minute in goal and has made 113 saves and allowed 132 goals for a .461 save percentage and a 10.08 goals against average.
Princeton is undefeated against Columbia with a 13-0 record. The series began in 1998, a 17-1 win at Columbia. The Tigers have outscored the Lions 211-47 in the series.
Columbia is 4-9 overall and is 1-5 in the Ivy League. The Lions lone league win was a 10-3 game against Yale. Columbia most recently dropped a 15-9 game at Harvard on Saturday. Columbia had a one-goal lead at halftime and was up by three with 23 minutes left, but a nine-goal Harvard run gave the Crimson the game. The Lions average 9.62 goals per game and are allowing 10.76. Sophomore Kacie Johnson sits atop the scoring column with 34 goals and 18 assists for 52 points. Junior Taylor Gattinella has 31 points on 23 goals and eight assists. Senior Gabrielle Geronimos and sophomore Olivia Mann provide 25 and 24 points, respectively. Junior goalie Karlee Blank has been in net every minute and has made 144 saves while allowing 142 goals for a .503 save percentage and a 10.76 goals against average.
* note: for a women's lacrosse game to count, it needs to be played in its entirety.
Last Time We Met (March 24, 2010)
Princeton doubled up Columbia in shots en route to a 15-5 win at Robert K. Kraft Field. Maisie Devine had a career day leading the No. 19-ranked Tigers in scoring with two goals and two assists. Barb Previ, Jenna Washabaugh, Jaci Gassaway and Jenna Davis each had two goals apiece. Kristin Morrison and Sam Ellis had a goal and an assist each.
The teams traded eight-meter goals in the first five minutes of the game before Princeton scored four unanswered to take a 5-1 lead at 15:36.
The Tigers used a four-goal run, with four different goal scorers, at the end of the first half to put the game out of reach, 8-2.
Princeton had a 4-3 run to start the second half to give itself a 12-5 lead with a little more than 10 minutes to play and finished off the game with three straight goals.
Brittany Shannon tallied three goals and Kacie Johnson had two as the only Lions to make their way into the score sheet.
Princeton outshot Columbia 32-14, had a 36-19 advantage in ground balls and won 12 draws to Columbia's 10.
Princeton split goaltending duties between Erin Tochihara and Kaitlyn Perrelle. Tochihara played the first half and made one save, while Perrelle stopped four shots. Karlee Blank made 10 saves in goal for Columbia.