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Lehigh to Visit in Non-League Finale Wednesday for Women's Soccer
October 12, 2015 | Women's Soccer
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Princeton vs. Lehigh Wed., Oct. 14 • 7 p.m. Roberts Stadium, Princeton, N.J. |
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| 9-3, 2-0 Ivy | Record | 6-4-3, 1-2-2 Patriot |
| Sean Driscoll, 1st season | Coach | Eric Lambinus, 6th season |
| 2.75 | Goals Per Game | 1.85 |
| 1.17 | Goals Against Per Game | 1.08 |
| Reg. Season, 3rd Ivy | 2014 Season Finish | Reg. Season, 7th Patriot |
| 2012, 2nd Round | Last NCAA Tournament Appearance, Finish | 2010, 1st Round |
| 19 (1 tie) | Series Wins | 0 |
| 2014 | Last Series Win | None |
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• Wednesday will bring Lehigh to Roberts Stadium for Princeton's last non-league game of the regular season before the Tigers face their final four Ivy League opponents as the Ivy title chase continues.
• With the midway point of the Ivy League season coming this weekend, Princeton and Harvard are the only Ivy-unbeaten teams in the league, both at 3-0 with nine points. The Tigers and the Crimson are five points ahead of Cornell and Columbia, both at 1-1-1 on the league season. Columbia will come to Princeton this Saturday.
• Princeton is 3-0 in the Ivy for the first time since 2012 and ninth time in 34 seasons of Ivy League round-robin play. Princeton went on to win the Ivy title in six of the first eight seasons in which the team started 3-0 in the league. If the Tigers can get past the halfway point still perfect, it'd be the seventh time they've started 4-0, and the team won an Ivy title on each of the first six occasions (1982, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2012).
• The Tigers received five votes in the most recent NSCAA national poll, the second straight week the Tigers received votes after previously getting votes most recently in the national poll at the end of the 2012 season. The Tigers were also again No. 1 in the Mid-Atlantic Region for the second straight week, an honor the Tigers previously held in Oct. 2012.
• Princeton is 19-0-1 all-time against Lehigh, with the tie coming in 2009 and with Princeton winning the five meetings since. Princeton and Lehigh have met annually since 2006.
• The only current Tigers who have scored in the series did so in last year's meeting, with Tyler Lussi netting two goals and Mikaela Symanovich one. Hannah Winner played one half in last year's game and allowed one goal. For the Mountain Hawks, Paige Elliott scored a goal in the 2012 meeting and Adrian Vitello did so last year. Ani Nahapetian played one half in goal as a freshman in 2012 and allowed two goals, then played the whole game in 2013 and allowed two goals. Ashley Blanks, a senior last year, was the Lehigh keeper in the 2014 meeting.
• With her ninth goal of the season and 37th of her career Saturday at Brown, junior and reigning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year Tyler Lussi passed Jen Hoy '13 for fourth on the Princeton all-time career list. Lussi is now two back of Emily Behncke '06 (39), four back of Linda DeBoer '86 (41) and 10 back of record holder Esmeralda Negron '05 (47).
• With at least five games left this year and all of next season, Tyler Lussi has the opportunity to do some climbing on the Ivy League all-time scoring list as well as the Princeton list. The Ivy's all-time record holder is Kelly Landry of Harvard with 68 goals between 1981 and '84. The top three players on the list all played before 1990, so if Lussi can surpass Penn's Katy Cross (50 goals, 2001-04), she'd be the most productive scorer in the Ivy since 1988, when Theresa Hirschauer of Brown, who had an Ivy third-best 62 goals, wrapped her career.
• Princeton backliner Haley Chow and Lehigh goalkeeper Ani Nahapetian are both alums of Amador Valley High in Pleasanton, Calif. There are two Lehigh players with Mercer County connections, as rookies Jessica Sacco and Ashley Maziarz both competed at the Hun School in Princeton.
• Lehigh and its opponents combined for 31 goals over the season's first seven games of the season, an average of 4.4 goals per game. Over Lehigh's last six games, the Mountain Hawks and their opponents have combined to score just seven goals, an average of 1.2 per game. Four of the seven came from Lehigh's opponents, and the Mountain Hawks are 2-2-2 over the last six-game stretch where goals have been comparatively rare.
• Princeton and Lehigh have had two common opponents so far in La Salle and Army West Point. Princeton beat both by 4-1 scores, while La Salle beat Lehigh 2-1 and Army West Point beat Lehigh 2-0. Lehigh also beat Penn 1-0 on Oct. 5, and the Tigers won't face the Quakers until the regular-season finale on Nov. 7.
• Princeton hasn't been outshot by an opponent since Sept. 3 vs. Rutgers, the only time Princeton was outshot this season. Princeton's streak of not being outshot is now at nine games, with the Tigers winning that stat eight times and tying (W&M, 11) once.
• Princeton's 2-1 OT win on Sept. 20 over No. 23 William & Mary was the Tigers' first over an NSCAA-ranked team since defeating No. 21 West Virginia 2-1 in the first round of the 2012 NCAA tournament. It was Princeton's first home win over an NSCAA-ranked team since defeating No. 15 Washington in the 2004 NCAA quarterfinals.
• For the fourth straight week, Mimi Asom won the Ivy Rookie of the Week award on Oct. 12, this time for scoring a goal apiece against Army West Point and Brown. She's the first player in the award's history to win the award in three or more straight weeks.
• Asom's eight goals this season have her in pursuit of the highest-scoring season by a freshman in program history. Two years ago, Tyler Lussi had eight goals, and the program record for a freshman is 12 by Linda DeBoer '86 in 1982.
• Sixteen Tigers have started a game this season with five players starting all 12 games. Only one of those five - Emily Sura - is a senior.
• In her first season as the lead starter in goal, junior Hannah Winner has a 1.29 GAA while playing in 11 of the team's 12 games. Freshman Noelani Kong-Johnson started Princeton's last non-league contest, last Wednesday night against Army, giving up one goal.