Moving On! Tigers Advance to NCAA Second Round, Defeat Vermont 2-0

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Tatum Gee scored twice, six minutes apart before the game was 20 minutes old, helping the Princeton women's soccer team advance to the second round of the NCAA tournament.

Princeton will face TCU, ranked No. 8 in the country and seeded fourth in Princeton's quadrant of the bracket, next Friday. Rutgers, the top seed in the quadrant, hosts Bucknell on Sunday at 1 p.m. and will host the next two rounds with a first-round win.

Gee opened the scoring by bodying in a ball that came to the doorstep of the goal from a Heather MacNab crossing pass and then met the head of Alexis Hiltunen, coming down for Gee to finish the play on the goal line.

32' left, 1st | Princeton 1, Vermont 0

Now That's Teamwork!

Tatum Gee with the finish from Alexis Hiltunen and Heather MacNab, and the Tigers are on the board first in the NCAA tournament opener!

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— Princeton WSoccer (@PrincetonWSoc) November 12, 2021

Six minutes later, Gee took a free kick from about 25 yards out and found the back corner of the goal.

26' left, 1st | Princeton 2, Vermont 0

Gee Again!

Free kick right into the goal, and it's 2-0 Princeton!

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— Princeton WSoccer (@PrincetonWSoc) November 12, 2021

The goals lifted the senior Gee into a tie for the team lead with eight goals and 21 points with classmate Gabi Juarez. Fellow senior Grace Barbara made three saves to get the shutout in goal, Princeton's sixth in a row and Barbara's fifth in her last five starts.

Princeton's shutout streak stands at 577:42, its longest since a streak during the 2009 season that ran 621:09. The shutout was Princeton's 11th of the season, the fifth-most in a season in program history and the third time in the last four competitive seasons that Princeton has had at least that many shutouts.

FiNAL | Princeton 2, Vermont 0

NEXT STOP: SECOND ROUND!

All the rest is TBD, but we are moving on in the NCAA tournament! pic.twitter.com/B4OnSDuAa0
— Princeton WSoccer (@PrincetonWSoc) November 13, 2021

The win was Princeton's 15th of the season, the third-most in program history behind the 19 wins from the NCAA semifinalist team from 2004 and the 16 wins from the NCAA quarterfinalist team from 2017.

Hear from ??-goal scorer Tatum Gee and head coach Sean Driscoll after our 2-0 win over Vermont to open the @NCAASoccer tournament! pic.twitter.com/xVTkgi80rI
— Princeton WSoccer (@PrincetonWSoc) November 13, 2021

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