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No. 6 Princeton Visits No. 10 Penn for Pivotal Ivy Match Wednesday Night
April 18, 2017 | Women's Lacrosse
| Game 13: No. 6 Princeton at No. 10 Penn | |
| Game Time | Wednesday, April 19 at 7 p.m. l Philadelphia, Pa. |
| Game Coverage | Live Video l ESPN3Â Live Stats |
| Series Info | Princeton leads 23-21-3 (streak: 1 loss) |
| Records | Princeton 10-2, 4-0 Ivy; Penn 10-2, 3-1 Ivy |
| Princeton | Roster l Schedule l Stats l @princetonwlax |
| Penn | Roster l Schedule l Stats l @PennWomensLax |
Eye on the Tigers
It's the most important week of the season thus far for the now No. 6 ranked Princeton Tigers. With a 4-0 Ivy League record, the Tigers face two nationally-ranked conference teams with No. 10 Penn on Wednesday and No. 12 Cornell on Saturday. At 10-2 the Tigers two losses have been to ranked teams dropping decisions to then-ranked No. 10 Penn State and No. 1 Maryland. Senior goalie Ellie DeGarmo is second in the nation in save percentage at .570 and is averaging 12.45 saves per game. She has a goals against average of 9.40. Offensively, the Tigers have many scoring threats with 16 players netting at least one goal this year. Senior Olivia Hompe leads the charge with 47 goals and 17 assists for 64 points. She adds 21 ground balls, nine draws and nine caused turnovers. Freshman Tess D'Orsi has tallied 30 goals and eight assists and junior Colby Chanenchuk has a team-high 27 assists and eight goals for 35 points. Junior Ellie McNulty and sophomore Kathryn Hallett have also reached the 20-point plateau. Sophomore Elizabeth George has a team-best 22 draws with scoring 19 points. Senior defenders Madeline Rodrigeuz and Amanda Leavell are averaging more than one caused turnover per game and are both in double digits in draws as well.
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The Series
The last few years of the Princeton-Penn series have been exciting, with Princeton winning five of the nine meetings since 2011. Overall Princeton holds a slim 23-21-3 edge in the series since the teams first met in 1974. Last year a 12-7 Penn win in the regular-season gave the teams a share of the Ivy League title, and the Quakers hosting rights in the Ivy League Tournament. Princeton swept the Quakers in 2015, and after taking the regular-season game in 2014, lost the Ivy championship on home turf to Penn 9-6.
Scouting the Quakers
Penn is 10-2 overall and ranked No. 10 in the latest national poll. The Quakers two losses were to Cornell, 10-4 and Maryland 11-7. With the loss to Cornell, Penn is in fourth place in the Ivy League standings with 3-1 conference record. Penn has three main scoring threats, as Caroline Cummings, Alex Condon and Emily Rogers-Healion all have 40 points apiece. Cummings has tallied the most goals, 36 and has the second-most draws on the team with 25. Rogers-Healion has a team-best 19 assists. Erin Barry leads is the team leader in draws and ground balls with 32 and 29. Defender Katy Junior has caused 29 turnovers in front of goaltender Britt Brown. Brown boasts a .569 save percentage and a 7.17 GAA. She ranks just behind DeGarmo in save percentage in the nation and is ranked second in goals against as Penn has the second-best scoring defense in the NCAA.