At '52 Stadium, Defending Ivy Champ Princeton to Open Home Ivy Slate Saturday Versus Dartmouth

The Ivy League slate opened for the Tigers last week in New Haven with a 3-0 win at Yale, tying Princeton for first place in the Ivy with fellow first-week winners Columbia and, this weekend's opponent, Dartmouth.

Dartmouth at Princeton (Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium), Saturday, Sept. 29, 4 p.m. | ESPN+ | Live Stats

Rankings: The win over Yale, which came with Mimi Asom's second career hat trick (Cornell, 2016) and seeing the senior become the fourth Tiger in program history to reach the 40-goal milestone, wasn't enough to keep the Tigers in the United Soccer Coaches poll, where Princeton had been all season. Instead, Memphis and Vanderbilt jumped into the poll from the "receiving votes" category, where Princeton finds itself receiving the second-most votes, and Boston College leaped from not even receiving votes to No. 11 after a 2-1 win in Chestnut Hill last weekend over then-No. 7 Florida State. Princeton is second in the East Regional poll behind new No. 7 Georgetown. Despite slipping out of the top 25, Princeton's RPI jumped from 30th to 21st, the highest in the league by 65 spots over Yale.

Against Dartmouth: Princeton will try to go 2-0 in the Ivy for the second straight year. Princeton has won three straight over the Big Green and is unbeaten in four straight in the series. Dartmouth's last win over Princeton came in 2013 in Hanover, and the Big Green last won in Princeton in 2006. Cornell and Dartmouth are the only Ivy teams never to have won at Roberts Stadium since it opened in 2008.

Princeton has an active shutout streak against the Big Green of 223:11, with Natalie Grossi posting back-to-back 2-0 shutouts. Mimi Asom scored twice in the 3-2 win in 2015 and Abby Givens has scored three of the last four goals against Dartmouth. Mariel Gordon was in goal for the Big Green in last year's game in Hanover.

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 20, and 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 46 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.

Stat rankings: With her nine goals and 18 points, Mimi Asom ranks 15th nationally in points per game (2.0), fifth in goals per game (1.0), sixth in total goals, and 21st in total points. Natalie Grossi is 20th in shutouts (five), 15th in save percentage (.895) and 24th in GAA (0.496).

On Dartmouth: The Big Green have won three in a row since a 2-3-1 start, and Princeton and Dartmouth have already played two of the same opponents in New Hampshire and Boston U. Princeton beat both, 2-0 over UNH and 1-0 over BU, and Dartmouth beat UNH 2-1 in OT and tied BU 0-0. Eight Big Green players have scored goals with six of those scoring one. Remy Borinsky has four and Tracey Mills has two, and Mariel Gordon, who played last year against Princeton, has played every minute in goal.

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