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With First Place at Stake, Women's Soccer to Visit Harvard Saturday
October 20, 2015 | Women's Soccer
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Princeton vs. Harvard Sat., Oct. 24 • 1:30 p.m. Jordan Field, Cambridge, Mass. |
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| 11-3, 4-0 Ivy | Record | 7-6-1, 4-0 Ivy |
| Sean Driscoll, 1st season | Head Coach | Ray Leone, 9th season |
| 2.71 | Goals Per Game | 1.14 |
| 1.07 | Goals Against Per Game | 0.93 |
| Reg. Season, 3rd Ivy | 2014 Season Finish | NCAA 2nd Round, 1st Ivy |
| 2012, 2nd Round | Last NCAA Tournament Appearance, Finish | 2014, 2nd Round |
| 10 (1 tie) | Series Wins | 24 |
| 2012 | Last Series Win | 2014 |
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• It's 4-0 versus 4-0 Saturday afternoon at Harvard when the Tigers and Crimson meet. The winner will have a leg up as the Ivy League race heads down the home stretch, while the losing team will have to keep winning and hope for some help.
• The game is also huge for the rest of the Ivy as well. If the Princeton-Harvard game doesn't end in a tie, every team but Cornell (and Princeton and Harvard) would be eliminated from contention. If the Princeton-Harvard game doesn't end in a tie and Brown defeats or ties Cornell, it'd officially be a two-team race between the Tigers and the Crimson.
• Princeton has played on the road at the three furthest Ivy League schools from Princeton - Brown, Harvard and Dartmouth - in every odd-numbered year of the program's varsity existence, the first of those years being 1981. Only once in those first 17 tries, in 2001, has Princeton gone 3-0 in those games. The Tigers will have the chance to do it Saturday.
• No team but Princeton and Harvard have represented the Ivy in the NCAA tournament since 2010, when Penn went. The Crimson won the auto bid in 2011, 2013 and 2014, and the Tigers went in 2012. The Ivy last received an at-large bid in 2008, when the Tigers got one and Harvard won the league.
• Princeton is 4-0 in the Ivy for the first time since 2012 and seventh time in 34 seasons of Ivy League round-robin play. Princeton went on to win the Ivy title in each of the first six seasons in which the team started 4-0 in the league (1982, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2012).
• Four current Crimson have scored against the Tigers and one current Tiger has scored against the Crimeon. For Harvard, senior Lauren Varela had a goal against Princeton in a 3-1 Tiger win in 2012, juniors Joan Fleischman and Margaret Purce had two goals apiece in a 4-0 Princeton loss in the Tigers' last visit to Cambridge in 2013, and Fleischman, Purce and sophomore Dani Stollar each had a goal in a 5-4 Crimson win last year in Princeton. Tyler Lussi had all four goals in that game for Princeton.
• Last year's 5-4 Harvard win in Princeton had the most goals ever scored in a Princeton-Harvard game. Tyler Lussi's four goals tied a Princeton record for a single game. The game had three lead changes, and although Princeton tied it at 4-4 on Lussi's fourth goal in the 77th minute, Margaret Purce had an 81st-minute penalty kick that proved to be the winner for the Crimson.
• In goal, Harvard junior Lizzie Durack played a half against Princeton in 2013 and was unscored upon, and she played the full game last year and allowed the four goals. Princeton junior Hannah Winner also played a half in 2013, allowing one goal, and she played the whole game last year, allowing five.
• Princeton last won in Cambridge in 2009, 1-0. The Crimson won the 2011 meeting 2-1 and the 2013 game 4-0.
• Princeton, in 2009, was also the last Ivy League team to beat Harvard at home. The Crimson are unbeaten in 21 straight Ivy League home games, going 19-0-2 over that span with four straight wins. Penn, in 2007, was the last Ivy team other than Princeton to beat Harvard at home.
• The Crimson have not allowed a goal in Ivy League play this season, outscoring league foes 9-0. For its part, Princeton has outscored its first four Ivy opponents 13-3.
• The Crimson have scored 16 goals in their 14 games this season, less than half as many as Princeton (38) in the same number of games. Margaret Purce has scored half the team's goals (eight), while no other Harvard player has more than two.
• Harvard and Princeton have four opponents that each has already played this season, two inside the Ivy and two outside. The Crimson beat Army West Point 1-0 in the season opener on Aug. 30 at West Point, lost at William & Mary 1-0 on Sept. 13, beat Yale 4-0 on Oct. 3 in New Haven, and beat Brown 1-0 last time out on Oct. 17 in Cambridge. Princeton beat William & Mary 2-1 in OT on Sept. 20, beat Yale 3-0 on Sept. 26 and beat Army West Point 4-1 on Oct. 7, all in Princeton, and beat Brown 4-0 on Oct. 10 in Providence.
• Princeton's nine-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 11-3 record is its best through 13 games since 2004, when the Tigers were 13-1 through 13.
• With the win over Lehigh, Princeton reached the 10-win mark for the first time since 2012 and the 14th time in program history.
• Princeton has outscored its opponents 28-7 during the current nine-game winning streak.
• Head coach Sean Driscoll is one win 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.
• The Tigers received 12 votes in the most recent NSCAA national poll, the third 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 third straight week, an honor the Tigers previously held in Oct. 2012.
• With her 11th goal of the season and 39th of her career Saturday against Columbia, junior and reigning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year Tyler Lussi moved into a tie for third place on the program's all-time career list. Lussi is now even with Emily Behncke '06 (39), two back of second-place Linda DeBoer '86 (41) and eight back of record holder Esmeralda Negron '05 (47).
• With at least three 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 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 11 games, with the Tigers winning that stat 10 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 fifth straight week, Mimi Asom won the Ivy Rookie of the Week award on Oct. 19, this time for scoring a goal against Columbia. She's the first player in the award's history to win the award in three or more straight weeks. Tyler Lussi was named the Ivy League Player of the Week for the third time this year.
• Asom's nine 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 14 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 1.27 GAA while playing in 12 of the team's 14 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.
• Through games of Oct. 19, Princeton ranked sixth in the country in goals per game at 2.71. Tyler Lussi is the national leader in shots per game at 6.0.