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Princeton University Athletics
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Women's Soccer to Host Harvard Saturday in Pivotal Ivy League Contest
October 21, 2014 | Women's Soccer
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Game 13: Princeton vs. Harvard |
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| 5-4-3, 2-1-1 |
Team Record | 8-3-2, 3-0-1 |
| 1.83 | Goals Per Game | 1.46 |
| 1.58 | Goals Against Average | 0.51 |
| 10 | All-Time Series Wins (1 tie) | 23 |
Big, Big Game: The possibie outcomes don't get much more different than they are for Princeton with Saturday's game against Harvard. A win would put Princeton even with Harvard with 10 standings points and two games left. A loss would put the Tigers six back with six points left to get, meaning Harvard would have to lose its final two games for Princeton to remain alive for the Ivy title. A tie would keep Princeton's Ivy title hopes alive, but with lots of scoreboard watching to come and little margin for error.
The Rest of the Ivy: Princeton will be a favorite team around the Ivy this weekend. With much of the league still in contention for the Ivy title, a Princeton win would help other squads by bringing the Crimson back to the pack. Columbia could make it a three-way tie for the top with a win at Dartmouth and a Princeton win, and Dartmouth could pull within a point if it beats Columbia and the Tigers win. Yale, with a win over Penn and a Princeton win, would be just two points off the pace. A Harvard win would mean that only Columbia could be within one game (three points) of the top after this weekend.
The series: Though Harvard leads the all-time series with Princeton 23-10-1, the Crimson gained a huge advantage in the all-time series with Princeton by winning 14 of the 15 times the teams played between 1986 and 2000. From 2001 on, it's all square at 6-6-1.
201 and Counting: Princeton head coach Julie Shackford recorded her 200th win at Princeton with the Oct. 11 5-0 win over Brown, and she made it 201 at Army three days later. 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.
In the Ivy Rankings: Princeton leads the Ivy League heading into the weekend in shots overall and per game (196, 16.33), points overall and per game (69, 5.75), goals overall and per game (22, 1.83), and assists overall and per game (25, 2.08). Saturday's game will put the league's statistically best offense with its statistically best defense, as Harvard has allowed a league-low seven goals all season for a league-best GAA of 0.58.
More Ivy Rankings: Individually, Tyler Lussi enters the weekend No. 1 in the league in shots overall and per game (61, 5.08), points overall and per game (23, 1.92), and goals overall and per game (11, 0.92). Lauren Lazo is No. 1 in assists overall and per game (7, 0.64). Together Lussi and Lazo rank first and second in the league in goals and points, both overall and per game.
NCAA Rankings: Through Sunday's games, Princeton's best national statistical ranking was in assists, standing 27th at 2.08. Tyler Lussi appeared on five statistical lists with a high of seventh at 0.917 goals per game, and Lauren Lazo was on four lists with a high of 13th at 0.64 assists per game.
Lussi Making History: Sophomore Tyler Lussi could outpace any player in program history in scoring goals over her freshman and sophomore years. Her 11 goals on the season give her 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 Harvard 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 are in New York or New Jersey. The Harvard game will be the first of three of Princeton's final four games at home on the season. The only road trip remaining 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 12 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.
Last Meeting: Harvard beat Princeton 4-0 on Oct. 26, 2013 in Cambridge, getting a goal in the ninth minute to taking an early lead before breaking it open by scoring twice in the opening half's final 80 seconds. An 87th-minute goal was the final one and the second of the day for Margaret Purce, who used it to equal teammate Joan Fleischman's output on the day at two goals apiece. The now-graduated Cecilia Di Caprio and current sophomore Hannah Winner each played a half in goal for Princeton, while Cheta Emba and Lizzie Durack, both back for the Crimson, split halves as well.
Common Foes: Princeton and Harvard have no common non-conference opponents this season, and the teams have already both faced only two Ivy teams, Yale and Brown. Princeton defeated Both, 1-0 and 5-0, and the Crimson tied Yale 0-0 and beat Brown 2-0.
On the Crimson: Scoring on Harvard has been tough this season. Through Sunday's games, Harvard ranks fifth in all of Division I in shutout percentage, posting a clean sheet in nine of 13 games, and the team is 12th in D-I in goals-against average at 0.510, giving up nearly a goal only every two games. The only goals Harvard has given up in its last eight games were both to Boston University in a 2-1 double-overtime loss on Oct. 8. Lizzie Durack and Cheta Emba each have a GAA of 0.40 while manning the goal for a combined 1,132 of the team's 1,236 minutes. On offense, Margaret Purce has scored five of the team's 20 goals, a total that has been split between nine players.
Between the Posts: Senior Darcy Hargadon has allowed only one goal in her last 369:18 since giving up a 36th-minute goal to Dartmouth in an eventual 2-2 on Oct. 4. On the season, she's played 904 of the team's 1,140 minutes and has a 1.39 GAA.
Up Next: Princeton will go on the road for the final time on the regular season next Saturday for a trip to Cornell (7-7, 1-3 Ivy). The Big Red will head to Brown Sunday for their only game before facing Princeton.