Ivy League Champions! Tigers Ride Winning Streak to League Title, NCAA Bid

Saturday, November 3

Princeton, N.J.

7:00 PM

Princeton University

11-3-2, 5-1-1

Penn

13-2-1, 5-1-1

Team	1	2	Final F
Penn	0	0	0
Princeton	1	0	1

Princeton celebrated its second consecutive Ivy League title and third in four seasons while also clinching the NCAA auto bid.

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

Ivy League Champions! Tigers Ride Winning Streak to League Title, NCAA Bid

November 03, 2018 | Women's Soccer

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At 1-1-1 three games into the Ivy League season, the now-24th-ranked Princeton women's soccer team had no margin for error if it was to repeat as Ivy champions.

As it turned out, the Tigers needed no margin for error. Rattling off wins against Columbia, Harvard, Cornell and finally Penn, all by shutout, Princeton finished 5-1-1 in the Ivy to rack up 16 points and tie Penn atop the league. With Saturday's 1-0 win over the Quakers at Class of 1952 Stadium, Princeton had the tiebreaker that delivered to the Tigers the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Princeton will find out its NCAA destination Monday at 4:30 p.m. ET on NCAA.com.

Saturday's winner-take-mostly-all game (Penn had already clinched a share of the league title last weekend, but a win would have delivered the NCAA bid and an outright title) was one befitting of the stakes. Mimi Asom's goal, her 12th of the season and 43rd of her career, came in the 31st minute when she took a pass from near midfield, worked for an angle, turned and fired the ball inside the left post.

The goal lifted her past Linda DeBoer '86 for third place on Princeton's all-time points list, now with 95 to 94 for DeBoer. Asom was already in third on the goals list. Junior goalkeeper Natalie Grossi upped her Princeton record with her 25th career shutout and is now four back of the Ivy League record with her senior year and this year's postseason to go.

The Ivy League title is Princeton's 10th, and it's the first time Princeton has won back-to-back Ivy titles since taking three in a row from 2000-02. It'll be Princeton's 13th NCAA tournament appearance, and the Tigers have done both in three of head coach Sean Driscoll's four seasons.

Here's Mimi Asom's goal that gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead with 14 minutes before the half. Watch the rest on @IvyOnESPN: https://t.co/HZEHAgl1im pic.twitter.com/npmpCVR0Ib
— Princeton WSoccer (@PrincetonWSoc) November 4, 2018