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Princeton University Athletics
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Sophomore Mimi Asom. Princeton will head to Lehigh Tuesday.
Photo by: Beverly Schaefer
Visit to Lehigh Ahead Tuesday for Princeton
October 02, 2016 | Women's Soccer
Princeton (8-1-1, 1-0-1 Ivy) at Lehigh (8-2-1, 2-2 Patriot), Tuesday, 7 p.m.: Free Admission | Live Stats | Live Video (Patriot League TV) | Facility Info
Princeton's penultimate non-conference game of the regular season, and final such road game, will come Tuesday at Lehigh in a 7 p.m. start.
RPI:Â Princeton moved up five spots to No. 28 in the Oct. 3 NCAA RPI, 15 spots ahead of the next Ivy team, Harvard at No. 43.Â
Best start:Â Princeton's 8-1-1 start remains its best since 2004, when the Tigers won 14 of their first 15 games.
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: Despite having 10 starters available to return for Princeton, the freshman class has managed to make its mark, with Natalie Grossi starting each of the first 10 games in goal and earning Ivy League Rookie of the Week for Week 2 after two shutouts in her first four games. Abby Givens, named Monday as the Ivy League Rookie of the Week, scored goals in back-to-back games against Yale and Dartmouth, now with three on the season, and classmate Tomi Kennedy has scored this season as well. Olivia Sheppard, Emily Hilliard and Givens have joined Grossi in getting starts this season.
Weekly honors: Tyler Lussi has won two Ivy League Player of the Week honors and Mimi Asom won one, giving Princeton three winners in the league's first five weekends. Natalie Grossi earned Ivy Rookie of the Week honors after the season's second weekend, and Abby Givens did so on Oct. 3. Lussi's recognitions this year give her nine for her career, extending her Ivy League record.
Stat rankings: Through Sunday's games, Tyler Lussi was No. 2 in the nation in shots on goal per game at 3.0, No. 4 in total shots per game (5.2), No. 6 in points per game (2.2), No. 7 in goals per game (0.9) and No. 8 in game-winning goals (four). She was also 11th in total goals (nine) and 12th in total points (22).Â
Turning 20:Â Sean Driscoll, in his second season coaching the Tigers, is the second-fastest coach to 20 wins in program history, going 22-5-2 in his first 29 games through the Dartmouth weekend. That puts him behind only the program's first coach, Bob Malekoff, who won 25 of his first 29 games in 1980 and '81. Malekoff and Driscoll are the only Tiger coaches to reach 20 wins in fewer than 41 games. Driscoll is the first Tiger coach to lead the team to the NCAA tournament in his first year, which he did last season in a run that included a first-round home win over Boston College.
Common foes:Â Monmouth, Villanova and Temple are common opponents for Princeton and Lehigh so far this year. Lehigh tied Monmouth 0-0 in its season opener and beat Villanova 2-0 on Sept. 11 and Temple 1-0 in overtime on Sept. 20. Princeton beat Villanova 1-0 on Aug. 28, Temple 3-0 on Sept. 9 and Monmouth 2-1 in OT on Sept. 11. Both teams will also play Bucknell later this season.
Series history:Â Princeton is 20-0-1 all-time against Lehigh. The teams played in each of Princeton's first two varsity seasons in 1980 and '81 and then not again until 1993. The teams have played annually except for 1996 and 2003-05 since then. Princeton had allowed only one goal in series history through 2011, but the Mountain Hawks have scored a goal in three of the four games since 2012. Princeton has won six in a row since the series' lone tie in 2009. Tyler Lussi has scored three times against Lehigh, twice in 2014 and once in 2015, and Natalie Larkin and Mikaela Symanovich have scored once each against the Mountain Hawks, Adrian Vitello is the only active Lehigh player to score against Princeton, doing so in 2014. The Tigers shut out the Mountain Hawks 2-0 last year at Roberts and Princeton got out to a 3-0 first-half lead on the way to a 4-1 win in its last visit to Bethlehem in 2014.
On Lehigh:Â Lehigh started the season with a shutout streak of 758:34 over eight-plus games before Patriot League foes Colgate and Navy tallied six goals against the Mountain Hawks in two of their last three games before a win over Army West Point Saturday. Nine Mountain Hawks have scored, led by five goals from Tori Pantaleo, and Sam Miller has an 0.53 GAA while playing all of the team's 1,020 minutes in goal. The team's nine shutouts in 11 games were good enough to lead the nation in shutout percentage (.818), and Miller's eight shutouts, also now nine, were good enough to share No. 1 in the nation in that stat with Northwestern's Lauren Clem. Lehigh's .889 save percentage is eighth in the country and 12th individually for Miller. Eric Lambinus has skippered the Mountain Hawks since 2010, the year of Lehigh's lone NCAA tournament appearance.Â
Princeton's penultimate non-conference game of the regular season, and final such road game, will come Tuesday at Lehigh in a 7 p.m. start.
RPI:Â Princeton moved up five spots to No. 28 in the Oct. 3 NCAA RPI, 15 spots ahead of the next Ivy team, Harvard at No. 43.Â
Best start:Â Princeton's 8-1-1 start remains its best since 2004, when the Tigers won 14 of their first 15 games.
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: Despite having 10 starters available to return for Princeton, the freshman class has managed to make its mark, with Natalie Grossi starting each of the first 10 games in goal and earning Ivy League Rookie of the Week for Week 2 after two shutouts in her first four games. Abby Givens, named Monday as the Ivy League Rookie of the Week, scored goals in back-to-back games against Yale and Dartmouth, now with three on the season, and classmate Tomi Kennedy has scored this season as well. Olivia Sheppard, Emily Hilliard and Givens have joined Grossi in getting starts this season.
Weekly honors: Tyler Lussi has won two Ivy League Player of the Week honors and Mimi Asom won one, giving Princeton three winners in the league's first five weekends. Natalie Grossi earned Ivy Rookie of the Week honors after the season's second weekend, and Abby Givens did so on Oct. 3. Lussi's recognitions this year give her nine for her career, extending her Ivy League record.
Stat rankings: Through Sunday's games, Tyler Lussi was No. 2 in the nation in shots on goal per game at 3.0, No. 4 in total shots per game (5.2), No. 6 in points per game (2.2), No. 7 in goals per game (0.9) and No. 8 in game-winning goals (four). She was also 11th in total goals (nine) and 12th in total points (22).Â
Turning 20:Â Sean Driscoll, in his second season coaching the Tigers, is the second-fastest coach to 20 wins in program history, going 22-5-2 in his first 29 games through the Dartmouth weekend. That puts him behind only the program's first coach, Bob Malekoff, who won 25 of his first 29 games in 1980 and '81. Malekoff and Driscoll are the only Tiger coaches to reach 20 wins in fewer than 41 games. Driscoll is the first Tiger coach to lead the team to the NCAA tournament in his first year, which he did last season in a run that included a first-round home win over Boston College.
Common foes:Â Monmouth, Villanova and Temple are common opponents for Princeton and Lehigh so far this year. Lehigh tied Monmouth 0-0 in its season opener and beat Villanova 2-0 on Sept. 11 and Temple 1-0 in overtime on Sept. 20. Princeton beat Villanova 1-0 on Aug. 28, Temple 3-0 on Sept. 9 and Monmouth 2-1 in OT on Sept. 11. Both teams will also play Bucknell later this season.
Series history:Â Princeton is 20-0-1 all-time against Lehigh. The teams played in each of Princeton's first two varsity seasons in 1980 and '81 and then not again until 1993. The teams have played annually except for 1996 and 2003-05 since then. Princeton had allowed only one goal in series history through 2011, but the Mountain Hawks have scored a goal in three of the four games since 2012. Princeton has won six in a row since the series' lone tie in 2009. Tyler Lussi has scored three times against Lehigh, twice in 2014 and once in 2015, and Natalie Larkin and Mikaela Symanovich have scored once each against the Mountain Hawks, Adrian Vitello is the only active Lehigh player to score against Princeton, doing so in 2014. The Tigers shut out the Mountain Hawks 2-0 last year at Roberts and Princeton got out to a 3-0 first-half lead on the way to a 4-1 win in its last visit to Bethlehem in 2014.
On Lehigh:Â Lehigh started the season with a shutout streak of 758:34 over eight-plus games before Patriot League foes Colgate and Navy tallied six goals against the Mountain Hawks in two of their last three games before a win over Army West Point Saturday. Nine Mountain Hawks have scored, led by five goals from Tori Pantaleo, and Sam Miller has an 0.53 GAA while playing all of the team's 1,020 minutes in goal. The team's nine shutouts in 11 games were good enough to lead the nation in shutout percentage (.818), and Miller's eight shutouts, also now nine, were good enough to share No. 1 in the nation in that stat with Northwestern's Lauren Clem. Lehigh's .889 save percentage is eighth in the country and 12th individually for Miller. Eric Lambinus has skippered the Mountain Hawks since 2010, the year of Lehigh's lone NCAA tournament appearance.Â
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