Ivy League Play Set to Resume Saturday at Sherrerd as Brown Visits

Ivy League play will resume Saturday for the Princeton women's soccer team when Brown visits Sherrerd Field at the Class of 1952 Stadium for a 5 p.m. start.

Princeton vs. Brown, Saturday, Oct. 6, 5 p.m. (new time) | ESPN+ | Live Stats | Free Admission | Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium

Rankings: Princeton kept a top-30 RPI after Saturday's tie against Dartmouth, 62 spots ahead of the next-highest Ivy team, Yale. New RPI rankings are out every Monday. Princeton moved up one spot in the "receiving votes" category in the United Soccer Coaches poll to become the top team outside the top 25 after last weekend. New United Soccer Coaches polls are out each Tuesday.

Shutout streak: Princeton has gone 400 minutes since Georgetown's OT winner, getting shutouts in four straight games with two of those going 110 minutes. The last time Princeton had a shutout streak this long was last season, when Brown's Jennifer Caruso ended a Tiger shutout streak of 441:27 with her early goal in the teams' Oct. 7, 2017 meeting. Princeton had 71-plus minutes without giving up a goal in a 1-0 loss to West Virginia before turning in four consecutive shutouts prior to the Brown game. Princeton began last season with a shutout streak of 511:57 before giving up a goal against New Hampshire.

Against Brown: The all-time series is all square with Brown, 18-18-4. The Bears, however, have not won back-to-back games in the series since 2005 and '06. Since 2007, Princeton leads the series 7-3-1, winning 2-1 last year in Providence.

Princeton won 4-0 in 2015 in Providence with Mimi Asom as the only current Tiger to have scored in the game, but the last two meetings between the Bears and Tigers have been 2-1 games. In 2016 in Princeton, Jennifer Caruso and Celia Story, still with the Bears now, scored early (Caruso, 10') and late (Story, 88') around an Asom goal nine minutes into the second half. In 2017, Princeton won 2-1 after Caruso scored again in the 10th minute, and Courtney O'Brien scored twice, 56 seconds apart, in the 75th and 76th minutes to save the win and the three points for the Tigers. This figures to be the third consecutive meeting between keepers Christine Etzel for the Bears and Natalie Grossi for the Tigers.

Ivy standings: Columbia is the only 2-0 team in the Ivy, but Penn, Princeton, Dartmouth and Harvard are all 1-0-1, two points back of the Lions, who Princeton will visit next Sunday on ESPNU at 3 p.m. The Bears, along with Yale and Cornell, are 0-2, needing points to stay in the race as the midway point nears.

Milestone & record watch: Mimi Asom is now fourth on Princeton's all-time career goal list with 40, behind Linda DeBoer '86 (41), Esmeralda Negron '05 (47) and Tyler Lussi '17 (53). She's fifth on the career points list with 88, behind Emily Behncke '06 (90), DeBoer (94), Negron (112) and Lussi (122). Natalie Grossi is third on the career shutout list, with 21, behind only Jordan Rettig '01 (22) and Kelly O'Dell '84 (23). The Ivy record is 29, held by 2001 Dartmouth alum Kristin Luckenbill. Sean Driscoll has 47 wins, good for third on Princeton's list. The program's first coach, Bob Malekoff (1980-84) is second at 52, with predecessor Julie Shackford (1995-2014) first at 203.

Preseason poll: Saturday's meeting will match the predicted first- and third-place teams in the Ivy preseason poll. Princeton claimed 15 of the 16 first-place votes with Columbia the lone other first-place vote. Princeton had 127 poll points with Columbia at 100 and Brown at 89.

Stat rankings: Through Tuesday's games, Princeton ranked sixth in shutout percentage, getting the clean sheet in 72.7 percent of games, and 15th in save percentage at .872. Mimi Asom ranked 10th in total goals with nine, 14th nationally in goals per game at 0.82 and 18th in shots per game at 4.36. Natalie Grossi ranked 13th in save percentage at .897, 14th in GAA at .431 and 16th in shutouts with six.

On Brown: The Bears have dropped their first two Ivy games, at Dartmouth 2-0 on Sept. 22 and at home against Columbia 2-1 last Saturday. Abby Carchio has scored five of the team's 12 goals, last with the team's OT winner against UMass Lowell on Sept. 18. Christine Etzel has played all of every game in goal except for the team's 5-0 win over Rhode Island on Sept. 16, rolling up a 1.16 GAA. Three straight opponents, since the Rhode Island game, have scored two goals apiece against the Bears.

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