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Pyle Wins Second Straight Ivy League Player of the Week Honor
May 02, 2011 | Women's Lacrosse
PRINCETON, N.J. (5/2/11) - Junior Cassie Pyle of the Princeton women's lacrosse team has been named the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week for the second straight week, as the league handed out the final weekly awards of the season.
Pyle has turned on the heat in the final weeks of the Ivy League women's lacrosse season. This week Pyle led the Tigers with 13 points on seven goals and six assists as Princeton defeated Columbia 18-10 and knocked off No. 13 Penn State 19-10. In the past two weeks alone, Pyle has amassed 20 points – an average of five points per game.
Against Columbia Pyle led Princeton with a career-best seven-point game with three goals and four assists. She helped her team take a 5-0 lead scoring two of those five goals. Pyle set up the game-winning goal and scored again herself in the second half.
In the final game of the regular season Pyle led the Tigers in scoring once against with four goals and two assists for six points. After scoring an eight-meter that helped her team take a 4-1 lead, Pyle recorded a natural hat trick, scoring three goals in a span of 4:19 to give her team an 8-2 lead with five minutes left in the first half.
She finished the week converting 3 of 5 free-position attempts, collected four ground balls and one draw control.
Princeton (4) will face Penn (1) in the Ivy League semifinals on Friday, May 6 at 7 p.m.