No. 14 Princeton Takes to the Road at Dartmouth Saturday

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October 11, 1PM

vs Cornell

Princeton, N.J.

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October 18, 3PM

at Dartmouth

Hanover, N.H.

Women's Soccer

October 21, 8PM

vs Lehigh

Princeton, N.J.

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October 25, 1PM

vs Columbia

Princeton, N.J.

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November 1, 1PM

at Brown

Providence, R.I.

After five games in a row at home, the 14th-ranked Princeton women's soccer team will hit the road for a couple weeks as the Ivy League season continues before the non-conference schedule wraps up.

Princeton will head to Dartmouth and Brown the next two Saturdays with a trip to Bucknell in between set for Tuesday, Oct. 3.

at Dartmouth, Sat., Sept. 30, 1 p.m. | Live Stats | Ivy League Network | ESPN3

All-Time Series
Princeton is 18-16-2 against Dartmouth and the current Tigers are 2-0-1 against the Big Green. No current Big Green player has scored or played in goal against Princeton, but three Tigers have scored against Dartmouth, including junior Mimi Asom, who had two goals in the 3-2 overtime win in 2015, Natalie Larkin, who had the OT winner in 2015, and sophomore Abby Givens, who had a goal in last year's 2-0 Tiger win. Sophomore Natalie Grossi had the shutout in goal in that game.

Best Starts
Princeton is 8-1 heading into the Dartmouth game. The Tigers have been at least 8-1 through nine games only five times before, in 1980 (9-0), 1981 (8-1), 1982 (8-0-1), 2002 (9-0), and 2004 (8-1). If the Tigers get to 9-1, it'd be only the fifth time the team has had at least that record through 10 games, joining 1980 (10-0), 1981 (9-1), 2002 (10-0) and 2004 (9-1), and if Princeton gets to 10-1, it'd also be the fifth time, also joining 1980 (11-0), 1981 (10-1), 2002 (11-0) and 2004 (10-1).

Climbing the Charts
Junior Mimi Asom scored her 25th career goal Saturday against Yale, putting her into a tie for ninth on the program's all-time goals list with Dana DeCore '00. Just four more goals will put her alone in sixth place, with Diana Matheson '08 (26), Amelia Reyes '01 (26) and Lauren Lazo '15 (28) just in front of her. The rest of the list is more spread out, with former teammate Tyler Lussi '17 (53) at the top, followed by Esmeralda Negron '05 (47), Linda DeBoer '86 (41), Emily Behncke '06 (39) and Jen Hoy '13 (36).

Firsts
Of the seven Tigers to score a goal this year, three scored their first career goal this season. The list includes sophomore Courtney O'Brien, who is tied for second on the team alongside junior Mimi Asom with four goals and behind only classmate Abby Givens (six), as well as rookies Carolyne Davidson (one) and Olivia Kane (one). Senior Mikaela Symanovich has scored twice this season, her first goals since her freshman year, and Givens has already doubled her freshman total.

RPI
Princeton is ranked seventh in the latest RPI, which came out Monday. As of that RPI, Princeton has one more top-100 RPI opponent this season in Brown (87), with Harvard close at 109. The Tigers have both of those teams on the road.

Rankings
Princeton ranked 14th in Tuesday's United Soccer Coaches poll, the third consecutive week Princeton has been ranked. The Tigers were 20th in the Sept. 12 poll and 16th in the Sept. 19 poll, and 14th is the highest Princeton has been ranked since the Tigers were fourth at the end of the 2004 season, following the team's run to the NCAA College Cup semifinals. Princeton was also 14th both in this week's TopDrawerSoccer poll, up three spots from last week, and in the Soccer America poll, up two spots from the previous week.

Stat Rankings
Princeton's top statistical rankings are all in the team's stingy defense, which has allowed only two goals all season. Princeton's 0.222 GAA entered the week fourth in the nation, its .778 shutout percentage was fifth, and its .909 save percentage was sixth. Princeton's .889 winning percentage was seventh in the nation.

Individually, Natalie Grossi's 0.25 GAA was fifth, her six shutouts were seventh, and her .905 save percentage was eighth. Vanessa Gregoire, who is just two assists short of tying the program record of 26 career assists co-held by Lauren Lazo '15 and fellow Canadian Diana Matheson '08, stood 16th in the nation at 0.63 assists per game. Abby Givens, the team's scoring leader at six goals per game, was ranked 21st with 1.75 points per game and 22nd at 0.75 goals per game.

On Dartmouth
The Big Green will enter the Princeton game looking to end a three-game skid and a stretch that has seen Dartmouth drop six of its last eight, the last two by a single goal apiece. Junior Remy Borinsky has four of the team's 11 goals on the season and rookie Mariel Gordon (4-5, 1.18 GAA) has played all but 51 of the team's 811 minutes in goal.

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