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Women's Lacrosse Resumes Ivy Play at Columbia Wednesday Night
March 20, 2012 | Women's Lacrosse
Game 6: No. 16 Princeton at Columbia
Gametime: Wednesday, March 21 at 7 p.m.
2012 Records: Princeton (3-2), Columbia (1-4)
Series Began: 1998
Series Record: Princeton leads 13-0
Series Streak: 13, Princeton wins
Last Meeting: Princeton won 18-10
Links: Live Stats
PRINCETON, N.J. (3/19/12) – The Princeton women's lacrosse team looks to stay undefeated in the Ivy League when it travels to Columbia on Wednesday, March 21 at 7 p.m.
Eye on the Tigers
The Tigers look to stay undefeated in Ivy League play after an 18-8 win over Brown in the conference opener a week ago. Princeton is 3-2 overall and is coming off of a 9-7 win over No. 10 Virginia from Saturday. The Tigers are led on offense by junior Jaci Gassaway. Gassaway has a team-high 17 goals and six assists for 23 points. Freshman Erin Munn has a team-best 12 helpers and three goals for 15 points. Senior Cassie Pyle and sophomore Mary-Kate Sivilli have 13 points apiece. Senior defender Lindsey deButts and freshman goalie Annie Woehling have a team-best 11 ground balls apiece. deButts also leads the team in caused turnovers with eight, while sophomore Sarah Lloyd has seven. Freshman Erin Slifer, who takes a majority of the Tigers' draws, has won the most draws on the team with 10 total. Lloyd has eight and Pyle has seven. Woehling has started in every game in goal and has made 29 saves on 69 shots for an 8.07 goals against average and a .420 save percentage. Woehling nearly doubled her season save total on Saturday, making 13 stops against Virginia.
The Series
Princeton is undefeated in the series with Columbia, 13-0. Last year was an interesting couple of meetings between the teams. A freak storm hit Princeton six minutes into the second half last year. The Tigers at that point led 5-4. After the lightening stopped, the officials deemed the field unplayable because of the amount of snow and hail. The teams re-scheduled for April 27 and played a new game with Princeton winning 18-10.
Scouting the Lions
Columbia is 1-4 on the season and is looking for its first Ivy League win of the season with an 0-2 mark. The Lions lost 14-10 to Brown and 19-7 to Cornell. Columbia most recently fell 14-11 to Vermont on Saturday afternoon. The Lions average 9.80 goals per game and allow 13.20 gpg. The squad converts 71 percent of the time from the eight meter (10/14). Kacie Johnson leads the team in scoring with 25 points in 14 goals and 11 assists. Paige Cuscovitch has a team-high 15 goals and one assist for 15 points. Taylor Gattinella is also in double digits in scoring with 10 goals and one helper. Cuscovitch and Gattinella lead the team in ground balls and draw controls. Cuscovitch has 11 ground balls and 12 draw controls, while Gattinella has 10 ground balls and 12 draw controls. Amanda Goodhart has a team-leading 12 caused turnovers with Johnson next on the list with eight. Goalie Skylar Dabbar has played every minute in goal. She has made 38 saves on 104 shots for a 13.20 goals against average and a .365 save percentage.
Last Time We Met (from the archives)
PRINCETON, N.J. (4/27/11) - The Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week junior Cassie Pyle had a seven-point game to lead the Princeton women's lacrosse team to an 18-10 win over Columbia on Wednesday, April 27 at Princeton Stadium.
Pyle recorded a career-best seven points on three goals and four assists in the final conference game of the season. Senior Lizzy Drumm had three goals and one assist, sophomore Sam Ellis and junior Barb Previ both had hat tricks and freshman Sarah Lloyd had one goal and two helpers. Senior goalie Erin Tochihara made 11 saves. Freshman Caroline Franke made her first career appearance for the final 2:50 and made one save on the final shot of the game.
The No. 15-ranked Tigers quickly grabbed a 5-0 lead less than nine minutes into the game. Pyle would score twice, while Drumm, junior Jaci Gassaway and sophomore Charlotte Davis would each find the back of the net.
Gabrielle Geronimos would score Columbia's first goal at 18:01.
Previ would record a natural hat trick with three straight goals to expand the Tigers' lead to 8-1.
The Lions would score twice in 20 seconds which would lead to a 5-2 Columbia run over the next six minutes. Olivia Mann and Kacie Johnson would each score twice and Taylor Gattinella would get her first of three. Charlotte Davis and Ellis would record goals for the Tigers, as Columbia made it a four-goal game, 10-6, with 5:20 left in the first half.
Senior Maisie Devine and Ellis each scored in the waning minutes to give Princeton the 12-6 lead at the half.
Ellis would complete her hat trick to start the second half, and Gassaway would get another goal 21 seconds later as the Tigers took a 14-6 lead at 25:43.
Gattinella put away Columbia's last goal for the next 10 minutes as Princeton scored three unanswered to keep the clock running. Drumm, Pyle and Lloyd each recorded goals.
Geronimos ended the running clock at 12:16. Teammates Gattinella and Mann made sure the 10-goal rule wouldn't go back into effect as they both scored to make it a 17-10 game with 2:50 left.
Columbia called a timeout and Princeton replaced Tochihara with Franke. Twelve seconds later Drumm would score her third goal of the night after Previ won the draw control.
Franke would get her first test with just seconds to play on a Mann shot and scooped up the ground ball to give Princeton possession as time expired.
Columbia outshot Princeton 33-28, put Princeton had a 24-22 shot on goal advantage. The teams split draw controls 15-15 and Princeton had an 18-16 edge in ground balls.
Gattinnella had four points for Columbia with three goals and one assist. Mann had a hat trick and Geronimos and Johnson each had two goals. In goal Karlee Blanks made six stops. Columbia falls to 4-10 and 1-6 in league play.