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Princeton University Athletics
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Alessia Azermadhi had a goal in last year's 4-0 win over Brown.
Photo by: Beverly Schaefer
Visit From Brown Ahead Saturday as Tigers Return to Ivy Play
October 05, 2016 | Women's Soccer
Princeton (9-1-1, 1-0-1 Ivy) vs. Brown (5-2-3, 1-1 Ivy), Saturday, 4 p.m.: Free Admission | Live Stats | Live Video (ILDN) | Facility Info
Two points back of Harvard and Columbia heading into the third weekend of the Ivy League race, Princeton will host Brown Saturday at 4 p.m.
RPI: 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.
Best start: Princeton's 9-1-1 start remains its best since 2004, when the Tigers won 14 of their first 15 games.
Tough challenge: In a stretch that concludes with Saturday's game against Brown, Princeton will have played three of the top 20 teams in the nation in goals-against average through Tuesday's games, starting with Dartmouth (20th, 0.592) last Saturday, then Lehigh (16th, 0.568) Tuesday and then Brown this Saturday. The Bears were tied with Florida State for the fewest goals allowed in the nation, with just two, and had a GAA of only 0.188, also second to the Seminoles. For its part, after its shutout of Lehigh, Princeton ranked 36th in the nation with a 0.692 GAA.
More zero: Before Columbia scored a goal in the 89th minute last Saturday at Brown, the Bears had a shutout streak of 601:31 that stretched from the last 23-plus minutes of a Sept. 8 loss to Providence, through five complete games and then through 88:09 of the eventual loss to Columbia. The Friars and Lions are the only teams to score on Brown this year in the Bears' 10 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 11 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, and Kennedy had her first start of the season Tuesday at Lehigh.
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 Tuesday's games, Tyler Lussi was No. 3 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).
The first 30: Sean Driscoll, in his second season coaching the Tigers, has the second-best record through 30 games of any coach in program history, going 23-5-2. Only the program's first varsity coach, Bob Malekoff (1980-84, at 26-4, had a better record through 30 games. Of the program's three other coaches to coach at least 30 games, none had more than 15 wins through 30 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: The only team that both Princeton and Brown have each played so far this season is Dartmouth. The Tigers shut out the Big Green 2-0 last Saturday at Roberts Stadium and the Bears shut out the Big Green 1-0 in Hanover on Sept. 25.
Series history: The all-time series between Princeton and Brown is tied 17-17-4. Princeton has won the last two games against Brown by a combined 9-0, and Brown has never scored a goal in four trips to Roberts Stadium as the Tigers have outscored the Bears 8-0 on Myslik Field since the facility opened in 2008. Brown's last win in Princeton was in 2006. Tyler Lussi has scored four times against the Bears over the last two seasons, including a 2014 hat trick, while Haley Chow (two), Mimi Asom (one), Vanessa Gregoire (one) and Alessia Azermadhi (one) have also scored over the last two meetings. Christine Etzel played the first 67-plus minutes in goal for Brown last year's game in Providence, allowing three goals.
On Brown: Along with the previously noted goals-against average, Brown ranks second in the nation in shutout percentage with eight shutouts in its 10 games and first in the nation in save percentage in 0.955 while just 199th in total saves at 4.2 per game. Keeper Christine Etzel is second in the nation in GAA (0.955), third in shutouts (eight) and third on GAA (0.188). Senior Carly Gould leads the team with two of the Bears' seven goals. Brown has gone 12 games, dating back to last year, without allowing more than one goal. Kia McNeill, after coming over from Northeastern, where she was an assistant coach, is in her first season skippering the Bears after taking over from 39-year head coach Phil Pincince. McNeill is an alumna of Boston College, which Princeton defeated in the first round of the 2015 NCAA tournament.
Two points back of Harvard and Columbia heading into the third weekend of the Ivy League race, Princeton will host Brown Saturday at 4 p.m.
RPI: 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.
Best start: Princeton's 9-1-1 start remains its best since 2004, when the Tigers won 14 of their first 15 games.
Tough challenge: In a stretch that concludes with Saturday's game against Brown, Princeton will have played three of the top 20 teams in the nation in goals-against average through Tuesday's games, starting with Dartmouth (20th, 0.592) last Saturday, then Lehigh (16th, 0.568) Tuesday and then Brown this Saturday. The Bears were tied with Florida State for the fewest goals allowed in the nation, with just two, and had a GAA of only 0.188, also second to the Seminoles. For its part, after its shutout of Lehigh, Princeton ranked 36th in the nation with a 0.692 GAA.
More zero: Before Columbia scored a goal in the 89th minute last Saturday at Brown, the Bears had a shutout streak of 601:31 that stretched from the last 23-plus minutes of a Sept. 8 loss to Providence, through five complete games and then through 88:09 of the eventual loss to Columbia. The Friars and Lions are the only teams to score on Brown this year in the Bears' 10 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 11 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, and Kennedy had her first start of the season Tuesday at Lehigh.
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 Tuesday's games, Tyler Lussi was No. 3 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).
The first 30: Sean Driscoll, in his second season coaching the Tigers, has the second-best record through 30 games of any coach in program history, going 23-5-2. Only the program's first varsity coach, Bob Malekoff (1980-84, at 26-4, had a better record through 30 games. Of the program's three other coaches to coach at least 30 games, none had more than 15 wins through 30 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: The only team that both Princeton and Brown have each played so far this season is Dartmouth. The Tigers shut out the Big Green 2-0 last Saturday at Roberts Stadium and the Bears shut out the Big Green 1-0 in Hanover on Sept. 25.
Series history: The all-time series between Princeton and Brown is tied 17-17-4. Princeton has won the last two games against Brown by a combined 9-0, and Brown has never scored a goal in four trips to Roberts Stadium as the Tigers have outscored the Bears 8-0 on Myslik Field since the facility opened in 2008. Brown's last win in Princeton was in 2006. Tyler Lussi has scored four times against the Bears over the last two seasons, including a 2014 hat trick, while Haley Chow (two), Mimi Asom (one), Vanessa Gregoire (one) and Alessia Azermadhi (one) have also scored over the last two meetings. Christine Etzel played the first 67-plus minutes in goal for Brown last year's game in Providence, allowing three goals.
On Brown: Along with the previously noted goals-against average, Brown ranks second in the nation in shutout percentage with eight shutouts in its 10 games and first in the nation in save percentage in 0.955 while just 199th in total saves at 4.2 per game. Keeper Christine Etzel is second in the nation in GAA (0.955), third in shutouts (eight) and third on GAA (0.188). Senior Carly Gould leads the team with two of the Bears' seven goals. Brown has gone 12 games, dating back to last year, without allowing more than one goal. Kia McNeill, after coming over from Northeastern, where she was an assistant coach, is in her first season skippering the Bears after taking over from 39-year head coach Phil Pincince. McNeill is an alumna of Boston College, which Princeton defeated in the first round of the 2015 NCAA tournament.
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