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No. 2 West Virginia, Duquesne Await in Road Swing for Women's Soccer
September 13, 2016 | Women's Soccer
Friday at West Virginia, 7 p.m.: Tickets | Live Stats | Live Video (WVU) | Facility Info
Sunday at Duquesne, 12 p.m.: Free Admission | Live Stats | Live Video (A-10) | Facility Info
The first three weekends of the 2016 season have gone pretty well for the Princeton women's soccer team, better than they have in any season since 2002. There were some nailbiters, including the second of two OT wins on the season, last Sunday's coming at Monmouth, but the Tigers stand perfect at 6-0 heading for their toughest test yet.
Ranked foes: The last time Princeton faced a top-three team, as West Virginia is at No. 2 in the NSCAA poll this week, was Sept. 14, 2012, when Princeton visited No. 3 UCLA. The Tigers didn't fare as well that day, losing 7-0, but the team did go on to play on the same field at West Virginia to open the NCAA tournament later that season, stunning the No. 16 Mountaineers 2-1 in the last game between the two teams.
Best start: Princeton's 6-0 start is its best since 2002 and tied for the third-best all-time. Princeton started 14-0 in 1980, 12-0 in 2002 and 6-0 in 2001.Â
Records: Senior Tyler Lussi is now the owner of Princeton's career points record as well as the goals record, having set the former last Friday night against Temple after setting the latter the previous Sunday at Howard. Now with 50 goals and 115 points, Lussi can climb the Ivy list in both categories. With her next goal, she'll surpass Penn alum Katy Cross (50) as the Ivy League's top scorer since 1988, trailing only Harvard's Kelly Landry (68) and Sue St. Louis (66) and Brown's Theresa Hirschauer (62), all of whom played in the 1980s. Lussi needs 11 more points to become the league's top point scorer since 1988, trailing Landry at 160, St. Louis at 148, Hirschauer at 131 and Cross 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 six games in goal and earning Ivy League Rookie of the Week for Week 2 after two shutouts in her first four games. Abby Givens joined Tomi Kennedy as freshmen who've recorded their first career goals already this season, doing so against Monmouth. Olivia Sheppard, Emily Hilliard and Givens have joined Grossi in getting starts this season
Weekly honors: Tyler Lussi is the Ivy League Player of the Week for the second straight week, and a Princeton player has earned the honor all three weekends this season with Mimi Asom getting the first award of the campaign. Natalie Grossi earned Ivy Rookie of the Week honors after the season's second weekend. Lussi's recognitions this year give her nine for her career, extending her Ivy League record.
Stat rankings: Through Monday's games, Princeton was one of six teams in Division I with a perfect record, along with UCSB, Central Michigan, Northwestern, Wake Forest and South Florida, a list that will stay intact through at least Thursday, when Northwestern plays again. Tyler Lussi was No. 1 in the nation in shots on goal per game at 3.5, No. 2 in shots per game with 5.5 and game-winning goals with four, No. 3 in goals per game at 1.17, No. 6 in points per game at 2.83 and total goals with seven, and No. 7 in total points with 17.
Turning 20: Sean Driscoll, in his second season coaching the Tigers, is the second-fastest coach to 20 wins in program history, going 20-4-1 in his first 25 games through the Temple-Monmouth weekend. That puts him behind only the program's first coach, Bob Malekoff, who won 20 of his first 23 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: Princeton has no common opponents with West Virginia or Duquesne this season.
Alma mater: Princeton senior Nicole Loncar and West Virginia senior Kadeisha Buchanan are both alums of Cardinal Leger Secondary School in Brampton, Ont.
Teammates: West Virginia's Kadeisha Buchanan and Ashley Lawrence were both members of the bronze-winning Canadian women's soccer team at the Rio Olympics along with Princeton alum Diana Matheson '08. Buchanan and Lawrence were also semifinalists for the MAC Hermann Trophy along with Princeton senior Tyler Lussi last season, and Buchanan went on to be one of the three finalists.
Series history: Princeton is 1-1 all-time against WVU with both previous meetings coming in the NCAA tournament. The first was in 2008 in a 2-1 first-round loss at Virginia and the second was in 2012 in a 2-1 first-round win at WVU. Princeton faced Duquesne for the first time last season when the Dukes came to Roberts Stadium and left with a 3-2 win, scoring twice in the last 14 minutes for the come-from-behind victory. Tyler Lussi (27') and Mimi Asom (46') had the goals for Princeton with Malea Fabean (41', 77') and Katie O'Connor (85') scoring for Duquesne. All four of the goal scorers from that game are back this season.
On WVU: Since a 1-1, season-opening tie at defending national champ Penn State on Aug. 19, West Virginia has rolled to six straight wins and has conceded only four goals all season, never allowing more than one in a game. The Mountaineers are coming off a win over their highest-ranked opponent yet this season, winning 3-1 at then-No. 6 Duke. Seven players have scored a goal for WVU, led by four from junior Michaela Abam, while rookie Rylee Foster has played just short of 70 percent of the team's minutes in goal with just an 0.40 GAA. Through Monday's games, West Virginia ranked first in the nation in shots per game at 23.6, fueled in part by Michaela Abam's No. 16 ranking in the category at 4.57, the top ranking for a West Virginia player in any stat category. Nikki Izzo-Brown is in her 21st season leading the team and has reached the NCAA tournament in 16 straight seasons with quarterfinal runs in 2007 and 2015.
On Duquesne:Â Duquesne, which will host Akron Friday night, enters the weekend at 2-2-2 with neither side getting more than two goals in any of the team's first six games. The Dukes won the Atlantic 10 tournament last year and faced West Virginia in the first round with the Mountaineers winning 4-0. Malea Fabean, who scored twice against Princeton last season, joins Ivana Kristic in leading the team with two goals apiece, and Kyra Murphy, who played against Princeton last season, has spent all of the team's 580 minutes in goal, accruing an 0.93 GAA. Al Alvine is in his fifth season coaching the Dukes, taking the team to the NCAAs for the first time in program history last season.
Sunday at Duquesne, 12 p.m.: Free Admission | Live Stats | Live Video (A-10) | Facility Info
The first three weekends of the 2016 season have gone pretty well for the Princeton women's soccer team, better than they have in any season since 2002. There were some nailbiters, including the second of two OT wins on the season, last Sunday's coming at Monmouth, but the Tigers stand perfect at 6-0 heading for their toughest test yet.
Ranked foes: The last time Princeton faced a top-three team, as West Virginia is at No. 2 in the NSCAA poll this week, was Sept. 14, 2012, when Princeton visited No. 3 UCLA. The Tigers didn't fare as well that day, losing 7-0, but the team did go on to play on the same field at West Virginia to open the NCAA tournament later that season, stunning the No. 16 Mountaineers 2-1 in the last game between the two teams.
Best start: Princeton's 6-0 start is its best since 2002 and tied for the third-best all-time. Princeton started 14-0 in 1980, 12-0 in 2002 and 6-0 in 2001.Â
Records: Senior Tyler Lussi is now the owner of Princeton's career points record as well as the goals record, having set the former last Friday night against Temple after setting the latter the previous Sunday at Howard. Now with 50 goals and 115 points, Lussi can climb the Ivy list in both categories. With her next goal, she'll surpass Penn alum Katy Cross (50) as the Ivy League's top scorer since 1988, trailing only Harvard's Kelly Landry (68) and Sue St. Louis (66) and Brown's Theresa Hirschauer (62), all of whom played in the 1980s. Lussi needs 11 more points to become the league's top point scorer since 1988, trailing Landry at 160, St. Louis at 148, Hirschauer at 131 and Cross 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 six games in goal and earning Ivy League Rookie of the Week for Week 2 after two shutouts in her first four games. Abby Givens joined Tomi Kennedy as freshmen who've recorded their first career goals already this season, doing so against Monmouth. Olivia Sheppard, Emily Hilliard and Givens have joined Grossi in getting starts this season
Weekly honors: Tyler Lussi is the Ivy League Player of the Week for the second straight week, and a Princeton player has earned the honor all three weekends this season with Mimi Asom getting the first award of the campaign. Natalie Grossi earned Ivy Rookie of the Week honors after the season's second weekend. Lussi's recognitions this year give her nine for her career, extending her Ivy League record.
Stat rankings: Through Monday's games, Princeton was one of six teams in Division I with a perfect record, along with UCSB, Central Michigan, Northwestern, Wake Forest and South Florida, a list that will stay intact through at least Thursday, when Northwestern plays again. Tyler Lussi was No. 1 in the nation in shots on goal per game at 3.5, No. 2 in shots per game with 5.5 and game-winning goals with four, No. 3 in goals per game at 1.17, No. 6 in points per game at 2.83 and total goals with seven, and No. 7 in total points with 17.
Turning 20: Sean Driscoll, in his second season coaching the Tigers, is the second-fastest coach to 20 wins in program history, going 20-4-1 in his first 25 games through the Temple-Monmouth weekend. That puts him behind only the program's first coach, Bob Malekoff, who won 20 of his first 23 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: Princeton has no common opponents with West Virginia or Duquesne this season.
Alma mater: Princeton senior Nicole Loncar and West Virginia senior Kadeisha Buchanan are both alums of Cardinal Leger Secondary School in Brampton, Ont.
Teammates: West Virginia's Kadeisha Buchanan and Ashley Lawrence were both members of the bronze-winning Canadian women's soccer team at the Rio Olympics along with Princeton alum Diana Matheson '08. Buchanan and Lawrence were also semifinalists for the MAC Hermann Trophy along with Princeton senior Tyler Lussi last season, and Buchanan went on to be one of the three finalists.
Series history: Princeton is 1-1 all-time against WVU with both previous meetings coming in the NCAA tournament. The first was in 2008 in a 2-1 first-round loss at Virginia and the second was in 2012 in a 2-1 first-round win at WVU. Princeton faced Duquesne for the first time last season when the Dukes came to Roberts Stadium and left with a 3-2 win, scoring twice in the last 14 minutes for the come-from-behind victory. Tyler Lussi (27') and Mimi Asom (46') had the goals for Princeton with Malea Fabean (41', 77') and Katie O'Connor (85') scoring for Duquesne. All four of the goal scorers from that game are back this season.
On WVU: Since a 1-1, season-opening tie at defending national champ Penn State on Aug. 19, West Virginia has rolled to six straight wins and has conceded only four goals all season, never allowing more than one in a game. The Mountaineers are coming off a win over their highest-ranked opponent yet this season, winning 3-1 at then-No. 6 Duke. Seven players have scored a goal for WVU, led by four from junior Michaela Abam, while rookie Rylee Foster has played just short of 70 percent of the team's minutes in goal with just an 0.40 GAA. Through Monday's games, West Virginia ranked first in the nation in shots per game at 23.6, fueled in part by Michaela Abam's No. 16 ranking in the category at 4.57, the top ranking for a West Virginia player in any stat category. Nikki Izzo-Brown is in her 21st season leading the team and has reached the NCAA tournament in 16 straight seasons with quarterfinal runs in 2007 and 2015.
On Duquesne:Â Duquesne, which will host Akron Friday night, enters the weekend at 2-2-2 with neither side getting more than two goals in any of the team's first six games. The Dukes won the Atlantic 10 tournament last year and faced West Virginia in the first round with the Mountaineers winning 4-0. Malea Fabean, who scored twice against Princeton last season, joins Ivana Kristic in leading the team with two goals apiece, and Kyra Murphy, who played against Princeton last season, has spent all of the team's 580 minutes in goal, accruing an 0.93 GAA. Al Alvine is in his fifth season coaching the Dukes, taking the team to the NCAAs for the first time in program history last season.
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