Tigers Look To Keep Momentum Rolling at Yale

No. 11 Princeton at Yale l Saturday, April 18 l 1 PM I New Haven, Conn.
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The emotion of the win over Penn Wednesday night needs to be shut off quickly and the page on that ultra-dramatic 13-11 Princeton win needs to be turned just as fast. The Tigers have no time to celebrate that win, however satisfying it was, because there is a great deal of work to be done if the team is going to win a sixth-straight Ivy League title.

Just three days removed from that game, Princeton has to play Yale in New Haven. The Bulldogs also played during the week, when they lost 15-10 at Boston College. Was it a win? No. But BC is the No. 1 ranked team in the country and is 16-0, and Yale became the fifth team – and first unranked team - this year to stay within five of the Eagles.

It's the 46th meeting between Princeton and Yale, and it's another huge one for the Tigers.

Princeton vs. Yale: Five Storylines

Where things stand
Princeton, Dartmouth and Cornell are all 4-1 in the Ivy League with two weekends to go. Penn is in fourth at 3-2, followed by 2-3 Brown and then 1-4 Yale, Harvard and Columbia.

Cornell plays Saturday in Hanover, and then Princeton will finish the regular season in Ithaca next weekend.

As of now, Princeton has not yet mathematically clinched an Ivy tournament spot. A win over Yale (or a loss to Yale but a win over Cornell next week) would get the Tigers into the tournament.

In fact, the only two ways Princeton can't get into the Ivy tournament would be to finish in a tie with Brown for fourth place at 4-3, which would require the Tigers to lose twice and Brown to win twice (against Harvard and Columbia) and then also have Dartmouth both win another game (Cornell too, but the Big Red would have to beat Princeton to make this scenario work) and Penn win two games OR to finish in a three-way tie at 4-3 with Penn and Brown and have Cornell beat Dartmouth.

In addition
Princeton would be the No. 1 seed in the Ivy League tournament by winning its final two games, no matter what else happened.

Princeton would also be guaranteed at least a share of the Ivy title by winning its final two. The Tigers could also win an outright Ivy championship by winning its last two and by having Dartmouth lose one, to either Cornell or Yale.

Princeton has won five straight Ivy League championships.

Series history
This is the 46th meeting in a series that Princeton leads 30-14-1. The Tigers have won 11 straight against Yale, as well as 14 of the last 15 and 25 of the last 27.

Princeton won last year's game in Princeton 18-4.

Swish
Princeton and Yale rank 1-2 in the Ivy League in shooting percentage.

The Tigers are sixth in Division I at .492, while Yale is 21st at .452.

Princeton has taken seven more shots than its opponents and scored 46 more goals. Princeton is shooting 181 for 368, a .492 shooting percentage. Princeton's opponents are 135 for 361, a .374 shooting percentage

40/40
Elizabeth George and Tess D'Orsi are both over 40 goals for the second straight season.

In the 19 games of the 2018 season, George finished with 43 goals, one more than D'Orsi, who had 42. This year, through 13 games, both have 41 goals.

Other notes

* Kyla Sears has 98 career goals in 32 career games and at least one goal in every game of her career. She also has 45 assists, with 19 a year ago and 26 this year. Her per-game assist average has gone from 1.0 a year ago to 2.0 this year.

* Princeton and Yale rank second and third in the league in scoring offense. Princeton averages 13.92 goals per game, while Yale is at 13.46.

* Nonie Andersen has 17 draw controls in the last two games. She averaged just under three draw controls for the first 11 games; she has averaged 8.5 for the last two. Andersen also won the last three draw controls against Penn Wednesday night.

* Elizabeth George tied her career high with six goals against Penn.

* Marge Donovan has a team-best 22 caused turnovers after having 16 a year ago. She also has a team-best 33 ground balls, four away from her total of a year ago .

* Princeton and Yale have five of the top nine goal scorers in the Ivy League. Tess D'Orsi and Elizabeth George are tied for fourth at 3.15 per game, and Kyla Sears is eighth at 2.62. Yale's Jill Gollob (2.69) is tied for sixth, and Oliva Penoyer (2.54) is ninth.

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