Princeton Battles Boston College to 2-1 Defeat

Sunday, September 1

Princeton, N.J.

7:00 PM

Princeton University

Boston College

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

September 01, 2019 | Women's Soccer

Box Score

In what was the teams' first meeting since the first round of the 2015 NCAA tournament at Roberts Stadium, a Boston College player who was a freshman in high school at the time scored both goals for the Eagles, three minutes apart, in a 2-1 Boston College win in Princeton.

The Tigers countered those 31st- and 34th-minute goals from Eagles rookie Sam Smith with a rebound five-and-a-half minutes after Smith's second. In a play that began on a corner kick, Lucy Rickerson put the ball on net and Amy Paternoster gathered the rebound, finding Caroline Noonan for the put-back and Noonan's first collegiate goal to pull within 2-1.

HALF | Boston College 2, Princeton 1
Caroline Noonan gets the Tigers on the board in the final few minutes of the half, and it's a one-goal game at the break! pic.twitter.com/OjURaE9Svi
— Princeton WSoccer (@PrincetonWSoc) September 1, 2019

But, Smith's two goals stood up. She scored her third of the season on a play that began with a corner that Princeton couldn't clear, and three minutes after getting BC on the board, Smith took a centering pass from Riley Lochhead for a 2-0 lead.

Boston College survived being a player down for the final 17-plus minutes after Jade Ruiters drew her second yellow card of the match. Princeton outshot the Eagles 13-12 overall with four of those on goal for BC and three for Princeton.

The Tigers will make it back-to-back Boston opponents when Boston University, which the Eagles defeated 3-0 on Aug. 29, visits Thursday for a 6 p.m. start.

Postgame Notes

• Princeton holds a 3-2 series lead against Boston College. The 2015 NCAA tournament matchup, which was the first NCAA women's tournament game at Roberts, went to Princeton 4-2. It was BC's first win over Princeton since the teams' first meeting in the 1983 NCAA tournament, with Princeton winning a 2002 regular-season game and in the round of 16 in the 2004 NCAAs.

• The points were Noonan's second and third of her career, along with an assist against Bucknell on Oct. 2, 2018, and the assist was Paternoster's first helper and third point, along with a goal at Columbia on Oct. 14, 2018. Both players are sophomores.