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In Final Ivy Road Contest, Women's Soccer Set to Take On Cornell Saturday
October 30, 2014 | Women's Soccer
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Game 14: Princeton at Cornell |
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| 5-5-3, 2-2-1 |
Team Record | 7-8-0, 1-4-0 |
| 2.00 | Goals Per Game | 1.22 |
| 1.76 | Goals Against Average | 1.29 |
| 23 | All-Time Series Wins (4 ties) | 7 |
What's At Stake: Winning overall and Ivy seasons are on the table for the Tigers over the season's final three games, all of which will take place over an eight-day span between Saturday's visit to Cornell and next Saturday's visit from Penn, with Tuesday's non-conference game against North Carolina State in between. The Tigers are all square in both at present, at 5-5-3 overall and 2-2-1 in the Ivy.
The Ivy Race: Harvard retained control of the Ivy race with its 5-4 win over Princeton last Saturday, and the Crimson can seal things with a win or tie Saturday against Dartmouth. The Crimson are atop the league with 13 points, while Dartmouth has nine and Columbia and Princeton seven apiece as the only teams mathematically still alive.
The series: Princeton has the longest streak of any Cornell league opponent of getting three points in their matchups, with the Tigers having won 18 in a row over the Big Red. Cornell last beat Dartmouth in 1995 and Harvard in 1993, but the Big Red have achieved ties against those teams in the meantime. Prior to the long Princeton winning streak, Cornell had the upper hand in the series, going 7-2-4 against Princeton from 1983-95 at Princeton had won the first three.
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 (205, 15.77), points overall and per game (83, 6.38), goals overall and per game (26, 2.00), and assists overall and per game (31, 2.38).
More Ivy Rankings: Individually, Tyler Lussi enters the weekend No. 1 in the league in shots overall and per game (66, 5.08), points overall and per game (31, 2.38), and goals overall and per game (15, 1.15). Lauren Lazo is No. 1 in assists overall and per game (7, 0.58). Together Lussi and Lazo rank first and second in the league in goals and points, both overall and per game.
NCAA Rankings: Through Tuesday's games, Princeton's best national statistical ranking was in assists per game, standing 10th at 2.38. Tyler Lussi appeared on five statistical lists with a high of No. 2 in the nation at 1.154 goals per game, and Lauren Lazo was on four lists with a high of 22nd at 0.58 assists per game. Beth Stella entered the national top 100 with a 98th-best 0.38 assists per game.
Lussi Making History: With her 4-goal game Saturday against Harvard, sophomore Tyler Lussi has outpaced any player in program history in scoring goals over her freshman and sophomore years. Her 15 goals on the season give her 25 for her career, now standing as the top Tiger all-time in scoring goals by the end of her sophomore year, surpassing Linda DeBoer '86, who had 24 goals through first two years.
More Lussi: With her 25 career goals, Lussi is already in eighth place on Princeton's all-time career list. She's one goal behind a trio of players, including senior teammate Lauren Lazo. Beyond 26 goals, Jen Hoy '13 is in fourth place at 36, while Emily Behncke '06 is third at 39, Linda DeBoer '86 second at 41, and current assistant coach Esmeralda Negron '05 is the record holder at 47.
Single-season record?: Tyler Lussi's 4-goal game against Harvard moved her into third place on Princeton's single-season goal-scoring list. Only Esmeralda Negron '05 (20, 2004) and Jen Hoy '13 (18, 2012) are ahead of Lussi's 15.
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 Cornell 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 | ||||
| 25 | Tyler Lussi | 57 | Amelia Reyes '01 | ||||
| 55 | Tyler Lussi |
Garden State, Empire State: Princeton's final seven games of the season are in New York or New Jersey. Cornell is the season's final road trip, and the Tigers will be at home for the final two against N.C. State and Penn.
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 13 of the team's games, and Vanessa Gregoire and Katie Pratt-Thompson have 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's seven points on a goal and five assists.
Last Meeting: Princeton shut out Cornell 4-0 on Nov. 2, 2013 in Princeton, with the now-graduated Cecilia Di Caprio '14 and current sophomore Hannah Winner combining for the shutout. Princeton outshot Cornell 21-6 while getting goals from the now-graduated Erika Hoglund '14, Tyler Lussi, Lauren Lazo and Jessica Haley. One of Cornell's two goalkeepers from the game is back, with Kelsey Tierney playing 1,197 of the team's 1,396 minutes. Princeton had three of its four goals against Cornell last season with Tierney between the posts.
Common Foes: Princeton and Cornell have no common non-conference opponents this season and have already each faced four of the same Ivy League teams in Columbia, Brown, Harvard and Yale. Princeton went 2-2 against that group while Cornell went 0-4.
On the Big Red: Cornell won five of its first six games but has won just two of seven since, one against Penn and one out of conference against NJIT. The Big Red are on a scoreless streak of 328:13 in Ivy League play since scoring the first three goals in a 3-2 win over Penn. Eight players have scored goals this season, with Elizabeth Crowell's six goals. Kelsey Tierney has played 1,197 of the team's 1,396 minutes in goal and has accrued a 1.28 GAA.
Between the Posts: Sophomore Hannah Winner got the start and went the distance against Harvard, getting her first start of the season and second of her career after starting against Colgate last season. Senior Darcy Hargadon remains the team's leader in goal, playing 904 of the team's 1,230 minutes and accruing a team-best 1.39 GAA.
Up Next: Princeton will face N.C. State for the first time in what will be the Tigers' final non-conference game of the season, next Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. on Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium. Against the Wolfpack, Princeton will try for its first win over an Atlantic Coast Conference team (among those in the ACC at the time of the game) since 1989.