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Women's Soccer to Host Brown Saturday in Return to Ivy Play
October 09, 2014 | Women's Soccer
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Game 10: Princeton vs. Brown |
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| 3-3-3, 1-0-1 |
Team Record | 5-4-2, 0-0-2 |
| 1.45 | Goals Per Game | 1.31 |
| 1.86 | Goals Against Average | 1.04 |
| 15 | All-Time Series Wins (4 ties) | 17 |
Milestone Ahead?: Head coach Julie Shackford, who announced that her 20th season will be her final one at Princeton, won her 199th game as Princeton's head coach Wednesday night at Lehigh. She is already the winningest men's or women's soccer coach in Princeton history, and she could reach the milestone against the only other coach in Ivy League history to win 200 games at his school, Brown's Phil Pincince. A winner of 318 games, Pincince has been at Brown since 1977.
More 200: With her next win, Julie Shackford would become the 23rd coach in Princeton history across all sports to reach 200 wins and the eighth active coach. 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 Return to the Ivy: Princeton will try to ride the momentum from its 4-1 win over Lehigh Wednesday night into Saturday's game with Brown. As the third of seven Ivy games, the three points are valuable to both teams, with Princeton sitting atop the table with Columbia and Harvard at four points and Brown just two points back.
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 weekend:
| Goals | Assists | Points | |||||
| 47 | Esmeralda Negron '05 | 26 | Diana Matheson '08 | 112 | Esmeralda Negron '05 | ||
| 41 | Linda DeBoer '86 | 20 | Lauren Lazo | 94 | Linda DeBoer '86 | ||
| 39 | Emily Behncke '06 | 20 | Kathy Kobler '91 | 90 | Emily Behncke '06 | ||
| 36 | Jen Hoy '13 | 83 | Jen Hoy '13 | ||||
| 26 | Amelia Reyes '01 | 78 | Diana Matheson '08 | ||||
| 26 | Diana Matheson '08 | 70 | 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 seven 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 next Tuesday at Army, Oct. 18 at Columbia and Nov. 1 at Cornell.
More Rookie Points: Freshmen had three of Princeton's 12 points Wednesday night at Lehigh with Mikaela Symanovich's goal and Vanessa Gregoire's assist. Nine of the 12 came from freshmen or sophomores, with sophs Tyler Lussi (two goals) and Jesse McDonough (two assists) adding six. On the season, all seven freshmen have played and five of the six freshman field players have contributed points.
The Series: The Princeton series with Brown, which goes back to Princeton's initial varsity season of 1980, has swung in favor of both teams over the decades. Brown had a 10-0-2 run from 1983-94, and Princeton won seven straight from 1998-2004. From 2005 forward, the series is tied 4-4-1.
Close Ones: Six straight games in the Princeton-Brown series have been decided (or tied) by two or fewer goals, as have 10 of the last 12.
Last Meeting: Princeton lost 2-0 to Brown in last year's meeting in Providence. Brown's Mika Siegelman scored on a penalty kick in the 65th minute, and Chloe Cross had the final goal in the 78th minute. Cross is back with the Bears this season, but Siegelman and all three goaltenders used in the game between the two teams (two for Brown) have graduated.
On the Bears: Brown rebounded from a 1-4 stretch in mid-September to go unbeaten in its last four games at 2-0-2. The team has outscored its opponents 15-12 on the season with senior Chloe Cross's five goals pacing the squad. Fellow senior Mallory Yant has played 884 of the team's 1,034 minutes in goal, accruing a 1.12 GAA.
Super Soph: Sophomore Tyler Lussi had her second straight two-goal game and fifth of her career Wednesday night at Lehigh. All 13 of her points on the season have come in the last five games.
Between the Posts: Senior Darcy Hargadon and sophomore Hannah Winner split time in goal Wednesday night, with Hargadon leaving at halftime with a 3-0 lead. Hargadon has played 634 of the team's 870 minutes in goal and has a 1.85 GAA.
Up Next: The final non-league road game of the regular season is ahead for Princeton, which will travel to Army Tuesday. The Black Knights, 5-6-1 overall and 2-1-1 in the Patriot League this season, will continue league play in traveling to American Saturday.