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Princeton University Athletics
Saturday, October 22
Princeton, NJ
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Vanessa Gregoire and the Tigers will host Harvard Saturday.
Photo by: Beverly Schaefer
Tigers Set to Return Home, Face Harvard Saturday
October 18, 2016 | Women's Soccer
Princeton (9-3-1, 1-2-1 Ivy) vs. Harvard (7-3-3, 2-0-2 Ivy), Saturday, 1 p.m.: Free Admission | Live Stats | Live Video (ILDN) | Facility Info
Following last Saturday's defeat at Columbia, Princeton stands tied for fourth in the Ivy, eight points behind leader Columbia with nine points remaining on the schedule. But, the Tigers, who are ranked 37th in the RPI, have two top-100 RPI opponents coming up, first against 63rd-ranked Harvard Saturday and then when 55th-ranked Bucknell comes to campus Tuesday.
RPI:Â Princeton's ranking of 37th in the RPI is down eight spots from where it was last Monday, but the Tigers are still the top-ranked team in the Ivy by 26 spots in front of Harvard. All eight Ivy League teams are in the top 175. The ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 and the SEC are the only other conferences that do not have a team below 175 in the Oct. 17 RPI.Â
Challenging stretch:Â Each of Princeton's last four opponents rank in the top 25 in goals-against average, and two of Princeton's final four opponents are in that category as well, with Bucknell ninth (0.450) and Penn 23rd (0.638).
Records: Already the owner of Princeton's career goals record (52) and points record (120), senior Tyler Lussi is also the Ivy's top goal scorer since 1988 and is seeking to become the league's top point scorer since that year. On the league's goal list, she now trails only Harvard's Kelly Landry (68) and Sue St. Louis (66) and Brown's Theresa Hirschauer (62), all of whom played in the 1980s. On the league's points list, she is behind Landry at 160, St. Louis at 148, Hirschauer at 131 and Penn's Katy Cross (2001-04) at 125.
Rookies:Â Despite Princeton returning 10 starters from last year, the Class of 2020 has made its mark. Abby Givens, Tomi Kennedy, Emily Hilliard, Olivia Sheppard and Natalie Grossi have all started games, Givens (three) and Kennedy (two) have scored goals, Grossi and Givens have been named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week, and Sheppard was 52nd on Top Drawer Soccer's national top 100 freshmen list.
Weekly honors:Â Princeton took three of the first four Ivy League Player of the Week honors, with Tyler Lussi winning two and Mimi Asom one, and two of the first six rookie honors, with Natalie Grossi and Abby Givens winning one each.
Stat rankings: Through Monday's games, Tyler Lussi was No. 6 in the nation in shots on goal per game at 2.67 and had top-20 rankings in shots per game (12th, 4.92) and goals per game (17th, 0.75).
Strong start:Â Sean Driscoll is already Princeton's fourth-winningest women's soccer coach, behind Tom Griffith (36, 1985-89), Bob Malekoff (52, 1980-84) and Julie Shackford (203, 1995-2014). He is the second-fastest coach to 23 wins, behind only Malekoff, who won 23 of his first 26 games.
Common foes:Â Princeton and Harvard had one common non-conference opponent, Villanova, which Harvard defeated 3-0 on Sept. 18 at Harvard and Princeton defeated 1-0 on Aug. 28 in Princeton. Yale and Brown are the only Ivy teams both Princeton and Harvard have played to this point, with Harvard defeating Yale 2-1 on Oct. 1 at Harvard and the Crimson tying Brown 1-1 last Saturday in Providence. Princeton tied Yale 1-1 on Sept. 24 in New Haven and lost to Brown 2-1 on Oct. 8 in Princeton.
Series history:Â Harvard and Brown are the only Ivy series in which Princeton does not have the all-time lead. The Crimson lead the series with Princeton 24-11-1. The home team has lost each of the last two games, with Princeton getting a 2-1 win last year on the banks of the Charles and Harvard winning 5-4 two years ago in Princeton. If the Tigers are able to beat Harvard, it'd mark Princeton's first back-to-back wins in the series since 2005 and '06.Â
Lizzie Durack has played in each of the last three games against Princeton, playing one half as a freshman and all of the last two games, giving up a total of six goals. Joan Fleischman and Margaret Purce have each scored three goals against Princeton and Dani Stollar and Rachel Garcia have scored one apiece. Tyler Lussi and Mimi Asom have had all of the Princeton goals against Harvard over the past two games, with Lussi scoring all four in the 5-4 loss two years ago and each Tiger scoring one in last year's 2-1 win.
On Harvard:Â Following a 2-3 start, the Crimson are unbeaten in their last eight games, tying three straight after winning five in a row. Through Monday's games, Margaret Purce is the nation's leader in shots per game (5.92) and has top-20 stat rankings in shots on goal per game (eighth, 2.62), goals per game (14th, 0.77) and points per game (17th, 1.85). Purce has scored 10 of the team's 20 goals and classmate Lizzie Durack has played 760 of the team's 1,230 minutes in goal, accruing an 0.95 GAA. Chris Hamblin, an assistant coach for the last five seasons, took over as the team's coach prior to this season after Ray Leone became the head coach at Maryland. The Crimson were last in the NCAA tournament in 2014, defeating Central Connecticut State before losing to UCLA.
Following last Saturday's defeat at Columbia, Princeton stands tied for fourth in the Ivy, eight points behind leader Columbia with nine points remaining on the schedule. But, the Tigers, who are ranked 37th in the RPI, have two top-100 RPI opponents coming up, first against 63rd-ranked Harvard Saturday and then when 55th-ranked Bucknell comes to campus Tuesday.
RPI:Â Princeton's ranking of 37th in the RPI is down eight spots from where it was last Monday, but the Tigers are still the top-ranked team in the Ivy by 26 spots in front of Harvard. All eight Ivy League teams are in the top 175. The ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 and the SEC are the only other conferences that do not have a team below 175 in the Oct. 17 RPI.Â
Challenging stretch:Â Each of Princeton's last four opponents rank in the top 25 in goals-against average, and two of Princeton's final four opponents are in that category as well, with Bucknell ninth (0.450) and Penn 23rd (0.638).
Records: Already the owner of Princeton's career goals record (52) and points record (120), senior Tyler Lussi is also the Ivy's top goal scorer since 1988 and is seeking to become the league's top point scorer since that year. On the league's goal list, she now trails only Harvard's Kelly Landry (68) and Sue St. Louis (66) and Brown's Theresa Hirschauer (62), all of whom played in the 1980s. On the league's points list, she is behind Landry at 160, St. Louis at 148, Hirschauer at 131 and Penn's Katy Cross (2001-04) at 125.
Rookies:Â Despite Princeton returning 10 starters from last year, the Class of 2020 has made its mark. Abby Givens, Tomi Kennedy, Emily Hilliard, Olivia Sheppard and Natalie Grossi have all started games, Givens (three) and Kennedy (two) have scored goals, Grossi and Givens have been named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week, and Sheppard was 52nd on Top Drawer Soccer's national top 100 freshmen list.
Weekly honors:Â Princeton took three of the first four Ivy League Player of the Week honors, with Tyler Lussi winning two and Mimi Asom one, and two of the first six rookie honors, with Natalie Grossi and Abby Givens winning one each.
Stat rankings: Through Monday's games, Tyler Lussi was No. 6 in the nation in shots on goal per game at 2.67 and had top-20 rankings in shots per game (12th, 4.92) and goals per game (17th, 0.75).
Strong start:Â Sean Driscoll is already Princeton's fourth-winningest women's soccer coach, behind Tom Griffith (36, 1985-89), Bob Malekoff (52, 1980-84) and Julie Shackford (203, 1995-2014). He is the second-fastest coach to 23 wins, behind only Malekoff, who won 23 of his first 26 games.
Common foes:Â Princeton and Harvard had one common non-conference opponent, Villanova, which Harvard defeated 3-0 on Sept. 18 at Harvard and Princeton defeated 1-0 on Aug. 28 in Princeton. Yale and Brown are the only Ivy teams both Princeton and Harvard have played to this point, with Harvard defeating Yale 2-1 on Oct. 1 at Harvard and the Crimson tying Brown 1-1 last Saturday in Providence. Princeton tied Yale 1-1 on Sept. 24 in New Haven and lost to Brown 2-1 on Oct. 8 in Princeton.
Series history:Â Harvard and Brown are the only Ivy series in which Princeton does not have the all-time lead. The Crimson lead the series with Princeton 24-11-1. The home team has lost each of the last two games, with Princeton getting a 2-1 win last year on the banks of the Charles and Harvard winning 5-4 two years ago in Princeton. If the Tigers are able to beat Harvard, it'd mark Princeton's first back-to-back wins in the series since 2005 and '06.Â
Lizzie Durack has played in each of the last three games against Princeton, playing one half as a freshman and all of the last two games, giving up a total of six goals. Joan Fleischman and Margaret Purce have each scored three goals against Princeton and Dani Stollar and Rachel Garcia have scored one apiece. Tyler Lussi and Mimi Asom have had all of the Princeton goals against Harvard over the past two games, with Lussi scoring all four in the 5-4 loss two years ago and each Tiger scoring one in last year's 2-1 win.
On Harvard:Â Following a 2-3 start, the Crimson are unbeaten in their last eight games, tying three straight after winning five in a row. Through Monday's games, Margaret Purce is the nation's leader in shots per game (5.92) and has top-20 stat rankings in shots on goal per game (eighth, 2.62), goals per game (14th, 0.77) and points per game (17th, 1.85). Purce has scored 10 of the team's 20 goals and classmate Lizzie Durack has played 760 of the team's 1,230 minutes in goal, accruing an 0.95 GAA. Chris Hamblin, an assistant coach for the last five seasons, took over as the team's coach prior to this season after Ray Leone became the head coach at Maryland. The Crimson were last in the NCAA tournament in 2014, defeating Central Connecticut State before losing to UCLA.
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