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Women's Soccer Tests Perfect Start With Visit From Temple Friday, Trip To Monmouth Sunday
September 06, 2016 | Women's Soccer
Friday vs. Temple, 7 p.m.: Free Admission | Live Stats | Live Video (ILDN) | Facility Info
Sunday at Monmouth, 10 a.m.: Free Admission | Live Stats | Live Video (ESPN3) | Facility Info
It took a goal with five seconds left in regulation and an OT winner plus a shutout performance two days later for the Princeton women's soccer team to stay perfect on the new season, but that's where the Tigers are ahead of Friday's visit from Temple and Sunday's trip to Monmouth.
Best start: Princeton's 4-0 start is its best since 2004, and if the Tigers can get past Temple, it'd be the program's best start since beginning 12-0 in 2002.
Records: Senior Tyler Lussi scored twice at Howard to reach 48 goals, surpassing Esmeralda Negron '05, an assistant coach at Princeton for Lussi's first two seasons who had held the previous record at 47. Next up for Lussi is Negron's program points record of 112, and Lussi enters Friday's game with 109. Lussi can also climb the Ivy list in both categories. With three more goals, she'll surpass Penn alum Katy Cross 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 17 more points to become the league's top point scorer since 1988, trailing Landry at 160, St. Louis at 148, Hirschauer at 131, Cross at 125, Negron at 112 and Harvard's Emily Stauffer at 110.
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 four games in goal and earning Ivy League Rookie of the Week for Week 2 after two shutouts in her first four games. Tomi Kennedy scored her first career goal at Howard, and Emily Hilliard became the first rookie field player to start a game this season when she was in the lineup at Delaware last Friday.
Rankings: Through Monday's games, Princeton was one of 11 teams in Division I with a perfect record, along with UCSB, The Citadel, Central Michigan, George Washington, Northwestern, Wake Forest, South Florida, Stanford, TCU and Virginia. Tyler Lussi was No. 1 in the nation in shots on goal per game at 3.75, No. 5 in goals per game at 1.25, and No. 8 in points per game at 2.75.
Honors: Princeton has claimed the Ivy League Player of the Week honor in each of the first two weeks, with Mimi Asom receiving the accolade after the first weekend and Tyler Lussi after the second. Natalie Grossi was the Ivy League Rookie of the Week for her performance over the second weekend.
Turning 20: Sean Driscoll, in his second season coaching the Tigers, is two wins away from 20, and a weekend sweep would put him at 20-4-1 in his first 25 games. That'd put him behind only the program's first coach, Bob Malekoff, who won 20 of his first 23 games in 1980 and '81, as the second-fastest Princeton women's soccer coach to 20 wins. Malekoff is the only Tiger coach 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.
Common foes: The only common opponent for Princeton and Temple this year is Lehigh, which neither team has faced yet. Monmouth lost to Bucknell 3-1 and tied Lehigh 0-0, and Princeton hasn't faced either of those teams yet.
Alma mater: Princeton junior Katie Pratt-Thompson and Monmouth senior Madi Grieve are both alums of Wilson High School in Long Beach, Calif., and Princeton freshman Sophia Gulati, Monmouth senior Gabriella Cuevas and Monmouth junior Lexie Chernalis are all alums of Immaculate Heart Academy in Washington Township, N.J.
Series history: Princeton is 5-0 all-time against Temple, but only one of those games occurred in the past 20 seasons with a 1-0 Tiger win over the Owls in 2012 in Princeton. Monmouth holds a 9-3 lead in the all-time series with all of those contests coming between 1988 and 2002 and Princeton winning the last two, both at home. Sunday will be Princeton's first visit to Monmouth since 1998, and the Tigers are 0-5 in West Long Branch.
On Temple: The Owls are 2-3 with all three losses by a goal apiece. Five of the team's seven goals this season came in a 5-0 win over Delaware State on Aug. 21, and the Owls already have two road shutouts this season with that win over the Hornets and a 1-0 OT win at Rider on Sept. 1. Sophomore Jordan Nash (0.80 GAA) has played every minute in goal, and junior Gabriella McKeown has scored three of the team's seven goals. Seamus O'Connor is in his fourth season leading the team and is coming off a program-record 12-win season as the Owls pursue their first NCAA tournament berth.
On Monmouth:Â The Hawks enter Friday's visit from Loyola with back-to-back wins over American and Seton Hall after going winless over the first three games against Pennsylvania foes, with losses to Bucknell and Drexel and a Lehigh tie. Freshman Amanda Knaub (0.24 GAA) has played the team's last four games in goal after senior Sydney Lavan played the opener against Bucknell, and junior Miranda Konstantinides has scored two of the team's six goals. Krissy Turner has skippered the team since 1998 and has 10 consecutive winning seasons. All three of the program's NCAA tournament appearances, in 2007, 2009 and 2013, have come under Turner, with the Hawks running into Penn State twice and Maryland once in those first-round games.
Sunday at Monmouth, 10 a.m.: Free Admission | Live Stats | Live Video (ESPN3) | Facility Info
It took a goal with five seconds left in regulation and an OT winner plus a shutout performance two days later for the Princeton women's soccer team to stay perfect on the new season, but that's where the Tigers are ahead of Friday's visit from Temple and Sunday's trip to Monmouth.
Best start: Princeton's 4-0 start is its best since 2004, and if the Tigers can get past Temple, it'd be the program's best start since beginning 12-0 in 2002.
Records: Senior Tyler Lussi scored twice at Howard to reach 48 goals, surpassing Esmeralda Negron '05, an assistant coach at Princeton for Lussi's first two seasons who had held the previous record at 47. Next up for Lussi is Negron's program points record of 112, and Lussi enters Friday's game with 109. Lussi can also climb the Ivy list in both categories. With three more goals, she'll surpass Penn alum Katy Cross 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 17 more points to become the league's top point scorer since 1988, trailing Landry at 160, St. Louis at 148, Hirschauer at 131, Cross at 125, Negron at 112 and Harvard's Emily Stauffer at 110.
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 four games in goal and earning Ivy League Rookie of the Week for Week 2 after two shutouts in her first four games. Tomi Kennedy scored her first career goal at Howard, and Emily Hilliard became the first rookie field player to start a game this season when she was in the lineup at Delaware last Friday.
Rankings: Through Monday's games, Princeton was one of 11 teams in Division I with a perfect record, along with UCSB, The Citadel, Central Michigan, George Washington, Northwestern, Wake Forest, South Florida, Stanford, TCU and Virginia. Tyler Lussi was No. 1 in the nation in shots on goal per game at 3.75, No. 5 in goals per game at 1.25, and No. 8 in points per game at 2.75.
Honors: Princeton has claimed the Ivy League Player of the Week honor in each of the first two weeks, with Mimi Asom receiving the accolade after the first weekend and Tyler Lussi after the second. Natalie Grossi was the Ivy League Rookie of the Week for her performance over the second weekend.
Turning 20: Sean Driscoll, in his second season coaching the Tigers, is two wins away from 20, and a weekend sweep would put him at 20-4-1 in his first 25 games. That'd put him behind only the program's first coach, Bob Malekoff, who won 20 of his first 23 games in 1980 and '81, as the second-fastest Princeton women's soccer coach to 20 wins. Malekoff is the only Tiger coach 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.
Common foes: The only common opponent for Princeton and Temple this year is Lehigh, which neither team has faced yet. Monmouth lost to Bucknell 3-1 and tied Lehigh 0-0, and Princeton hasn't faced either of those teams yet.
Alma mater: Princeton junior Katie Pratt-Thompson and Monmouth senior Madi Grieve are both alums of Wilson High School in Long Beach, Calif., and Princeton freshman Sophia Gulati, Monmouth senior Gabriella Cuevas and Monmouth junior Lexie Chernalis are all alums of Immaculate Heart Academy in Washington Township, N.J.
Series history: Princeton is 5-0 all-time against Temple, but only one of those games occurred in the past 20 seasons with a 1-0 Tiger win over the Owls in 2012 in Princeton. Monmouth holds a 9-3 lead in the all-time series with all of those contests coming between 1988 and 2002 and Princeton winning the last two, both at home. Sunday will be Princeton's first visit to Monmouth since 1998, and the Tigers are 0-5 in West Long Branch.
On Temple: The Owls are 2-3 with all three losses by a goal apiece. Five of the team's seven goals this season came in a 5-0 win over Delaware State on Aug. 21, and the Owls already have two road shutouts this season with that win over the Hornets and a 1-0 OT win at Rider on Sept. 1. Sophomore Jordan Nash (0.80 GAA) has played every minute in goal, and junior Gabriella McKeown has scored three of the team's seven goals. Seamus O'Connor is in his fourth season leading the team and is coming off a program-record 12-win season as the Owls pursue their first NCAA tournament berth.
On Monmouth:Â The Hawks enter Friday's visit from Loyola with back-to-back wins over American and Seton Hall after going winless over the first three games against Pennsylvania foes, with losses to Bucknell and Drexel and a Lehigh tie. Freshman Amanda Knaub (0.24 GAA) has played the team's last four games in goal after senior Sydney Lavan played the opener against Bucknell, and junior Miranda Konstantinides has scored two of the team's six goals. Krissy Turner has skippered the team since 1998 and has 10 consecutive winning seasons. All three of the program's NCAA tournament appearances, in 2007, 2009 and 2013, have come under Turner, with the Hawks running into Penn State twice and Maryland once in those first-round games.
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