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Princeton University Athletics
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Women's Soccer to Visit Army Tuesday
October 12, 2014 | Women's Soccer
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Game 11: Princeton at Army |
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| 4-3-3 |
Team Record | 6-6-1 |
| 1.78 | Goals Per Game | 1.12 |
| 1.69 | Goals Against Average | 1.50 |
| 3 | All-Time Series Wins (no ties) | 4 |
The Big 2-0-0: Princeton head coach Julie Shackford recorded her 200th win at Princeton with Saturday's 5-0 win over Brown. She's the second women's coach in Ivy League history to win 200 games at a league school, following Brown's Phil Pincince. Five years and a day earlier, Shackford picked up her 200th overall career win, including 42 from her four years at Carnegie Mellon, against Brown.
More Shackford: Shackford announced at the start of the season that her 20th season at Princeton would be her last. Shackford's legacy includes six Ivy League championships and an Ivy-record eight NCAA tournament appearances, highlighted by the team's run to the 2004 NCAA College Cup semifinals.
A Break from the Ivy: Princeton has six games left on the regular-season slate and four are against Ivy League schools. Tuesday's game at Army and a Nov. 4 home contest against North Carolina State are the only non-conference games. Though Princeton entered Ivy play at 1-3-2, the Tigers are unbeaten at 3-0-1 since beginning Ivy play with a late-game win at Yale on Sept. 27.
In the Rankings: Through Sunday's games, Princeton leads the Ivy League in total goals (19), total assists (20), total points (58), assists per game (2.0) and points per game (5.8). Princeton's highest national statistical ranking is 33rd in assists per game. Individually, Tyler Lussi is included in four NCAA statistical rankings and Lauren Lazo is included in three. Lussi's highest ranking is 10th in goals per game (0.9), while Lazo's highest ranking is 29th in points per game (1.78).
The Ivy Race: This week marks the halfway point of the Ivy League season, and the Tigers share the top of the table with Harvard at 2-0-1 and with four points apiece. The co-leading Tigers and Crimson are three points clear of Columbia and will meet Oct. 25 in Princeton.
Lussi Making History: Sophomore Tyler Lussi had her first career hat trick Saturday against Brown and has seven goals in her last three games. She's got nine on the season and 19 for her career, and she'll become just the third Tiger all-time to score 20 goals by the end of her sophomore year should she score once more. Only Linda DeBoer '86 (24 goals through first two years) and Sue Mooney '85 (23) had more.
More Lussi: With her 19 career goals, Lussi is already in 12th place on Princeton's all-time career list. There are seven players who scored between 23 and 26 goals on their careers, including teammate Lauren Lazo, who stands at 25 goals.
Lazo: Princeton senior Lauren Lazo, who is aiming to become the first Tiger since Diana Matheson '08 to earn All-Ivy League honors in all four years, is climbing up the Princeton career goal, assist and point charts. A look at where she stands heading into the Army game:
| Goals | Assists | Points | |||||
| 47 | Esmeralda Negron '05 | 26 | Diana Matheson '08 | 112 | Esmeralda Negron '05 | ||
| 41 | Linda DeBoer '86 | 22 | Lauren Lazo | 94 | Linda DeBoer '86 | ||
| 39 | Emily Behncke '06 | 90 | Emily Behncke '06 | ||||
| 36 | Jen Hoy '13 | 83 | Jen Hoy '13 | ||||
| 26 | Amelia Reyes '01 | 78 | Diana Matheson '08 | ||||
| 26 | Diana Matheson '08 | 72 | Lauren Lazo | ||||
| 25 | Lauren Lazo | ||||||
| 25 | Dana DeCore '00 |
Garden State, Empire State: With Princeton having made its last visit of the regular season to Pennsylvania, all of Princeton's remaining regular-season games will either be in New Jersey or New York. Four are at home and three are on the road, beginning Tuesday at Army, Oct. 18 at Columbia and Nov. 1 at Cornell.
More Rookie Points: Freshmen added three more points Saturday night against Brown with Mikaela Symanovich adding two assists and Natalie Larkin getting one. On the season, all seven freshmen have played and five of the six freshman field players have contributed points.
The Series: A year ago, Princeton and Army dusted off their rivalry with a 3-0 Tiger win in Princeton. The teams had played six times before, but not since 1997 in the last of five straight seasons with a game between the schools. Princeton won the first meeting in 1983 before Army took four of the five between 1993 and '97, and Princeton won last time out to pull within 4-3 on the all-time series.
Last Meeting: Lauren Lazo scored and Tyler Lussi scored twice as Princeton defeated Army 3-0 on Sept. 8, 2013 at Roberts Stadium. Darcy Hargadon had the shutout in goal for the Tigers, and Jordan Cassalia, who is back this season for Army, played the full 90 between the posts for the Black Knights.
Common Foes: Three teams appear on both Princeton's and Army's schedule, but the teams have both already played only one of those teams. Army lost to Seton Hall 1-0 in double OT, beat Columbia 2-1 and hasn't yet played Lehigh. Princeton tied Seton Hall 0-0, beat Lehigh 4-1 and hasn't yet played Columbia.
On the Black Knights: Just as Princeton was 1-3-2 before the team's four-game unbeaten streak, Army was 3-5 after a loss at Rhode Island on Sept. 14. Since, the Black Knights are 3-1-1, all in Patriot League play. The Princeton game will be the team's first non-league contest since that Rhode Island loss a month ago. Junior Katie Holder has six of the team's 15 goals on the season while none of her teammates has more than two. Sophomore Jordan Cassalia has played all 1,203 minutes in goal, accruing a 1.50 GAA. Marcia McDermott is in her second year as Army's head coach and spent 11 combined seasons as a head coach at Maryland, Arkansas and Northwestern from 1989-2000.
Between the Posts: Senior Darcy Hargadon authored her second solo shutout of the season Saturday and hasn't allowed a goal in the last 189:18 since giving up a 36th-minute goal to Dartmouth in an eventual 2-2 tie two weekends ago.
Up Next: Princeton will return to Ivy League play Saturday night at Columbia. The Lions are 5-2-5 after a Sunday afternoon scoreless tie at NJIT and are 1-1-1 in league play with a win over Cornell, a tie against Brown and a loss to Penn.