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As Ivy Play Resumes, Women's Soccer Set to Host Columbia Saturday Night
October 16, 2015 | Women's Soccer
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Princeton vs. Columbia Sat., Oct. 17 • 7 p.m. Roberts Stadium, Princeton, N.J. |
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| 10-3, 3-0 Ivy | Record | 5-6-1, 1-1-1 Ivy |
| Sean Driscoll, 1st season | Head Coach | Tracey Bartholomew, 2nd season |
| 2.75 | Goals Per Game | 0.83 |
| 1.17 | Goals Against Per Game | 1.08 |
| Reg. Season, 3rd Ivy | 2014 Season Finish | Reg. Season, 6th Ivy |
| 2012, 2nd Round | Last NCAA Tournament Appearance, Finish | 2006, 1st Round |
| 20 (4 ties) | Series Wins | 6 |
| 2012 | Last Series Win | 2014 |
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• The win streak stands at eight for the Princeton women's soccer team, and the Tigers will aim to keep it going Saturday night when the Columbia Lions come to town. Princeton is winless in its last two meetings with Columbia, playing to a 3-3 tie two years ago at Roberts Stadium before Columbia won 1-0 last season in New York.
• No current Tiger has scored a goal or played in goal against Columbia. The Lions' Allison Spencer has played in goal the last two years against Princeton, and Holly Neshat scored the only goal in last year's meeting in the 69th minute.
• The Lions' last trip to Princeton saw the Tigers take a 3-1 lead before 23 minutes were gone, only to see Columbia score in the 51st minute and get a penalty kick in the 78th minute to tie, 3-3.
• Though two of Columbia's three visits to Roberts Stadium have ended in ties (2009, 2013) and Princeton won in 2011, the Lions' last win in Princeton came in 1995. All-time, Princeton is 12-1-2 at home against the Lions, including 7-0-2 since 1997.
• Harvard hosts Brown Saturday at 1:30, hours before the Lions and Tigers take the field. If both the Crimson and Princeton defend home turf, it'd set up a showdown between the Ivy's last two league-unbeatens next Saturday at 1:30 in Cambridge, where Harvard has won the last two over Princeton.
• Princeton's eight-game win streak is its longest since winning 12 in a row in 2012. Princeton has scored 2+ goals in every game of the current win streak, its longest such streak since scoring 2+ in every game of the 12-game win streak in 2012.
• Princeton's 10-3 record is its best through 13 games since 2004, when the Tigers were 12-1 through 13.
• Princeton has an active shutout streak of 264:40 heading into the Columbia game. The last time Princeton put up three straight zeroes was the first three games of the 2013 season.
• With the win over Lehigh, Princeton has reached the 10-win mark for the first time since 2012 and the 14th time in program history.
• Princeton has outscored its opponents 25-6 during the current eight-game winning streak.
• Head coach Sean Driscoll is two wins away from tying his personal best as an NCAA head coach. He won 12 games with Manhattan in 2006. He's also just the second Princeton coach to win at least 10 games in his first season in the post, something Bob Malekoff did with 14 wins in the program's first varsity season of 1980.
• 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.
• With her 10th goal of the season and 38th of her career Wednesday against Lehigh, junior and reigning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year Tyler Lussi moved closer to third place on the program's all-time career list. Lussi is now one back of third-place Emily Behncke '06 (39), three back of second-place Linda DeBoer '86 (41) and nine back of record holder Esmeralda Negron '05 (47).
• With at least four 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.
• Columbia has scored more than one goal in a game just twice this season, getting three against Wagner (3-0 win) on the season's first weekend and two in a 2-1 win over Army on Sept. 20. Eight of Columbia's last nine games have been one-goal games (or fewer, including one tie) with a 4-1 loss to FDU on Sept. 27 as the lone exception. That includes all three of Columbia's Ivy games, a 1-0 loss at Cornell, a 1-0 win over Brown and a 0-0 tie at Penn.
• Columbia is winless in its last 11 Ivy League road games since a 2-0 win at Brown on Sept. 29, 2012. The Lions are 0-7-4 in that stretch, which includes the 3-3 tie at Princeton two years ago.
• Fordham, Army West Point and Brown are the three teams both Princeton and Columbia have faced so far this season. Columbia lost to Fordham 1-0, beat Army West Point 2-1 and beat Brown 1-0, all at Columbia. Princeton beat Fordham 2-1, beat Army West Point 4-1 and beat Brown 4-0, with only the Army West Point game at home.
• 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 10 games, with the Tigers winning that stat nine 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 13 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 13 games. Freshman Noelani Kong-Johnson started Princeton's last two non-league contests, against Army West Point and Lehigh, giving up one goal between the two games.