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Women's Soccer's Unbeaten Ivy Record at Stake Saturday at Columbia
October 15, 2014 | Women's Soccer
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Game 12: Princeton at Columbia |
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| 5-3-3, 2-0-1 |
Team Record | 5-2-5, 1-1-1 |
| 1.89 | Goals Per Game | 0.92 |
| 1.54 | Goals Against Average | 0.67 |
| 20 | All-Time Series Wins (4 ties) | 5 |
201 and Counting: Princeton head coach Julie Shackford recorded her 200th win at Princeton with last Saturday's 5-0 win over Brown, and she made it 201 at Army. 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.
Unbeaten Streak: Princeton will put its five-game unbeaten streak on the line Saturday at Columbia, and the Tigers' current three-game winning streak is the team's longest since winning 12 straight in 2012.
In the Ivy: Saturday's game will mark the midway point of the Ivy League schedule. Both Princeton and Harvard enter the weekend at 2-0-1 with seven standings points, and the Crimson will play at Brown at the same time. Columbia is looking to climb back toward the top of the Ivy, now standing in third place with four points.
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.
In the Rankings: The latest Ivy statistical rankings were compiled after Saturday's games, and Princeton led the Ivy in both total and per-game averages of shots (162, 16.2), points (58, 5.8), goals (19, 1.9), and assists (20, 2.0). Individually, Tyler Lussi leads the Ivy in shots (48) and shots per game (4.8), points (19) and points per game (1.9), goals (nine) and goals per game (0.9). Lauren Lazo was right behind Lussi in points (16), points per game (1.78), and goals per game (0.56). Lazo led the Ivy in assists (six) and assists per game (0.67).
More Rankings: Through Sunday's games, Princeton's best national statistical ranking was in assists, standing 33rd at 2.00. Tyler Lussi appeared on four statistical lists with a high of 10th at 0.9 goals per game, and Lauren Lazo was on three lists with a high of 30th at 1.78 points per game.
Lussi Making History: Sophomore Tyler Lussi had her first career hat trick last Saturday against Brown and has nine goals in her last four games. She's got 11 on the season and 21 for her career, now standing as just the third Tiger all-time to score 20 goals by the end of her sophomore year. Only Linda DeBoer '86 (24 goals through first two years) and Sue Mooney '85 (23) had more.
More Lussi: With her 21 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 26 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 Lazo, and Tyler Lussi, stand heading into the Columbia game:
| Goals | Assists | Points | |||||
| 47 | Esmeralda Negron '05 | 26 | Diana Matheson '08 | 112 | Esmeralda Negron '05 | ||
| 41 | Linda DeBoer '86 | 23 | 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 | 75 | Lauren Lazo | ||||
| 26 | Lauren Lazo | 59 | Nancy Foot '92 | ||||
| 25 | Dana DeCore '00 | 59 | Dana DeCore '00 | ||||
| 24 | Nancy Foot '92 | 57 | Amelia Reyes '01 | ||||
| 23 | Sue Mooney '85 | 52 | Cheryl Terwilliger '92 | ||||
| 23 | Cheryl Terwilliger '92 | 49 | Sue Mooney '85 | ||||
| 21 | Tyler Lussi | 47 | Tyler Lussi | ||||
| 47 | Mollie Marcoux '91 | ||||||
| 47 | Krista Ariss '03 |
Garden State, Empire State: Princeton's final seven games of the regular season will be in New York or New Jersey. The Tigers will have the second of two visits to the Empire State in a five-day span with Saturday's game at Columbia, and three of Princeton's final four games will be at home. The only road trip will take Princeton back to New York to visit Cornell on Nov. 1.
Rookies: Princeton has seven freshmen this year and all have had a start this season. Alessia Azermadhi and Natalie Larkin are among the four Tigers who have started all 11 of the team's games, and Vanessa Gregoire and Katie Pratt-Thompson has each started every game in which she has played. Five of the six field players in the class have scored points, led by Beth Stella and Mikaela Symanovich with a goal and three assists apiece.
The Series: Princeton has controlled the all-time series with Columbia, leading 20-5-4, and is unbeaten in the last three games. Throughout the series, Princeton has only lost back-to-back games once, in 1994 and '95.
Last Meeting: Princeton and Columbia played to a 3-3 tie on Oct. 19, 2013 at Roberts Stadium, with Princeton getting out to a 3-1 lead before 23 minutes were gone. Columbia scored in the 51st and 78th minutes to save a tie. Princeton's goals came from Lauren Lazo, Jessica Haley and Melissa Downey, while Beverly Leon scored twice and Alexa Yow once for Columbia. Darcy Hargadon and Allison Spencer faced off in goal, and though Hargadon is Princeton's top goalkeeper this season, Spencer is third on the Lions in minutes behind Grace Redmon and Gabby Dubick.
Common Foes: Of course, the Lions and Tigers share the entire Ivy as common opponents, but the teams have both already played only three teams so far this season whether in or out of Ivy play, including Army, Seton Hall and Brown. Princeton defeated Army and Brown in its last two games and tied Seton Hall earlier this season, while Columbia tied Brown and Seton Hall and lost to Army.
On the Lions: Goals have been a precious commodity for both the Lions and their opponents this season, as neither side has scored more than two in any of Columbia's 12 games. The Lions enter the game looking to break a scoreless streak of 213:16, having been blanked in their last two games against Penn and NJIT. Seven players have split the team's 11 goals, with Coleen Rizzo putting in a team-best three. Three goalkeepers have split the team's 1,180 minutes, though Gabby Dubick, who has played 444 minutes, last played on Sept. 15 against Seton Hall. Grace Redmon and Allison Spencer have played all the minutes since, with Spencer going the distance last time out at NJIT and Redmon playing the whole of the two games before. All three keepers have a sub-1.00 GAA, led by Redmon's 0.46.
Between the Posts: Senior Darcy Hargadon authored her third solo shutout of the season Tuesday and hasn't allowed a goal in the last 279:18 since giving up a 36th-minute goal to Dartmouth in an eventual 2-2 tie two weekends ago.
Up Next: Princeton will be without a midweek game after Columbia and will return to Roberts Stadium for what could be a first-place battle with Harvard on Oct. 25 at 4 p.m.