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Newly Ranked, No. 24 Tigers Look for Perfect Ivy Season at Penn Saturday
November 03, 2015 | Women's Soccer
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Princeton at Penn Sat., Nov. 7 • 5 p.m. Rhodes Field, Philadelphia, Pa. |
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| 13-3, 6-0 Ivy | Record | 6-4-5, 1-2-3 Ivy |
| Sean Driscoll, 1st season | Head Coach | Nicole Van Dyke, 1st season |
| 2.63 | Goals Per Game | 1.27 |
| 1.00 | Goals Against Per Game | 0.73 |
| Reg. Season, 3rd Ivy | 2014 Season Finish | Reg. Season, 3rd Ivy |
| 2012, 2nd Round | Last NCAA Tournament Appearance, Finish | 2010, 1st Round |
| 17 (2 ties) | Series Wins | 10 |
| 2012 | Last Series Win | 2014 |
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• Princeton had been receiving votes in the NSCAA national poll for the last four weeks, but the Tigers didn't break into the top 25 until Tuesday, when Princeton was ranked 24th in the nation. It's the first time since the first week of the 2005 season that Princeton has been ranked. The Tigers were ranked 21st in their first games after making the NCAA College Cup semifinal in 2004.
• The outright Ivy League title and the league's NCAA tournament berth may already be Princeton's, but Saturday's game at Penn still carries great meaning. A win would allow Princeton to finish 7-0-0 in the Ivy for the third time in program history (2004, 2012) and the seventh time in Ivy history.
• Dartmouth in 1993, Harvard in 1996, 1999 and 2013, and Princeton in 2004 and 2012 are the only teams to go 7-0-0 in Ivy play since it became possible in 1991. The league moved to seven games that year when Penn's program became varsity.
• Rhodes Field has not been a friendly place for the Tigers of late. Princeton last won there in 2005, and Penn has taken the last four against the Tigers in Philadelphia. Since that last road win in 2005, Princeton has gone 3-1-1 against Penn in Princeton, but the Tigers won't have the home-field advantage this weekend.
• Princeton will be looking to go 3-0 against the Philadelphia Big 5 this year, picking up wins against La Salle and Villanova earlier this season.
• The Tigers have the nation's second-longest winning streak as of Tuesday, having won 11 in a row. George Washington's 13-game winning streak was the nation's longest as the Colonials prepped for the Atlantic-10 Tournament beginning Thursday.
• Erin Mikolai is the only active Quaker to have scored against the Tigers, getting that goal in a 3-2 win over the Tigers in Philadelphia in 2013. Tyler Lussi scored twice against the Quakers in that game, and Beth Stella had a goal in last year's 3-2 Penn win in Princeton. Kalijah Terilli has played in goal in each of the last two games against Princeton, each time allowing two goals.
• In last season's game against Penn at Princeton, the Quakers had a 2-0 halftime lead before Princeton halved the deficit on a goal by Lauren Lazo '15 just a few minutes after halftime. Beth Stella tied it in the 86th minute, but Penn's Clara Midgley scored with 1:39 left to give Penn the win. In Princeton's last visit to Rhodes Field in 2013, Tyler Lussi scored in the fourth minute before Penn got three straight to take a 3-1 lead in the 66th minute. Lussi scored just before the final buzzer to make the final 3-2.
• Saturday's game will be the only meeting of coaches in their first year leading their programs in the Ivy, with Princeton's Sean Driscoll and Penn's Nicole Van Dyke meeting. Driscoll was a head coach for five seasons at Manhattan from 2005-09 before moving on to Fairfield as an associate head coach at Fairfield. Van Dyke was an assistant coach the last four years at Stanford after serving as head coach at Division II Cal State Stanislaus and at Cal State Bakersfield, which transitioned to Division I during her tenure.
• Penn has given up a goal in each of its last three games, but that's all Penn has given up over that stretch, going 1-1-1 against Dartmouth, Yale and Brown. Penn has allowed just 11 goals all season, a run that has included five shutouts, seven games with one goal allowed and two games with two, but no more.
• In its only game against ranked competition this year, Penn traveled to then-No. 8, now-No. 6 Clemson and had just a 2-1 loss. Clemson scored in the 54th and 62nd minutes, the second coming on a penalty kick, before Penn pulled within 2-1 in the 82nd on a Paige Lombard goal. Clemson outshot the Quakers 19-8 overall and 6-3 on goal.
• Penn's 19 goals have come from 12 players, led by four from Sasha Stephens and three from Paige Lombard. Though senior Kalijah Terilli has played in goal against Princeton the last two years, junior Carrie Crook has played the most in goal this season, logging 962 minutes to 370 for Terilli.
• Princeton's 11-game win streak is the fourth-longest in program history. The team won 14 in a row in 1980 and 12 straight in 2002 and 2012.
• Princeton's 13-3 record is its best through 15 games since 2004, when the Tigers were 14-2 through 16.
• Princeton's 13 wins mark the eighth time the Tigers have won that many games in a season in the program's history. A win over Penn would give Princeton 14 (or more) wins for the fifth time in program history.
• Princeton has outscored its opponents 32-8 during the current 11-game winning streak and 42-16 on the season overall.
• Head coach Sean Driscoll has surpassed 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's RPI improved to 31 on this week's list, up seven spots from a week before.
• With her 13th goal of the season and 41st of her career Saturday against Cornell, junior and reigning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year Tyler Lussi pulled even with Linda DeBoer '86 (41) for second on the program's all-time list behind record holder Esmeralda Negron '05 (47).
• 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'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.
• Tyler Lussi was named the Ivy League Player of the Week for her goal and assist against Cornell, the fourth time she's been namd the Ivy Player of the Week this season and the seventh on her career. Both are Ivy League records.
• Mimi Asom, who is a six-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week this season, has 10 goals to rank among the highest-scoring seasons by a freshman in program history. Two years ago, Tyler Lussi had 10 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 16 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 1.15 GAA while playing in 14 of the team's 16 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 Nov. 2, Princeton held six top-10 Division I statistical rankings, including second in assists per game (2.88), fourth in points per game (8.13), sixth in goals per game (2.63), eighth in shots per game (19.19), seventh in total assists (46) and 10th in total points (130).
• Through games of Nov. 2, Tyler Lussi led the nation in shots per game (6.06), was eighth in shots on goal per game (2.56), 12th in points per game (1.94), 14th in goals per game (0.81), 20th in total goals (13) and 22nd in total points (31). Vanessa Gregoire was 21st in assists per game (0.50).