No. 7 Princeton Hosts No. 3 Maryland

Tuesday, September 20

Princeton, N.J.

4:00 PM

Princeton University

Maryland

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

September 19, 2022 | Field Hockey

PRINCETON (3-3) vs. MARYLAND (7-0)

Bedford Field • Princeton, N.J.
Tuesday, Sept. 20 • 4 pm

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The Princeton field hockey team is 3-3 to date. It's three losses are all by one goal, to the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4 teams in the country. Those three, by the way, are a combined 22-0.

Guess who's next for the Tigers. How about No. 3?

The most recent of those losses came in overtime Sunday against the top-ranked and defending NCAA champion Northwestern Wildcats in what was a fantastically played game. The turnaround is once again a quick one, as Princeton will host undefeated and third-ranked Maryland 50 hours after the end of the Northwestern game.

Princeton vs. Maryland
Five storylines

One-goal again?
Princeton is coming off its 2-1 overtime loss against Northwestern Sunday, which was Princeton's third one-goal loss to a top four team this year. The recent history of the Princeton-Maryland series reflects that theme pretty dramatically.

The last six games in this series have all been one-goal games. The last four of them have been in overtime. The scores have ranged from 1-0 to 5-4 — with every other possible one-goal score in between mixed in as well.

In all, Maryland leads the all-time series 26-9-1.

A year ago
Maryland defeated Princeton 4-3, obviously in overtime, in College Park last Sept. 21. The Princeton goals were scored by Claire Donovan, Grace Schulze and Bridget Murphy.

Princeton led 3-2 before Maryland tied it with 4:51 to go in the fourth quarter (Northwestern tied the game against Princeton Sunday with 4:58 to go in the fourth). The game-winner came from Maura Verleg 7:49 into overtime.

Mentors
Princeton head coach Carla Tagliente and associate head coach Dina Rizzo are Maryland alums who played for current Terps coach Missy Meharg.

Tagliente graduated in 2001 as the Maryland career leader in goals and points, and she still is second in points and third in goals. She was a four-time All-American, including first-team honors as a sophomore, junior and senior. She was a two-time finalist for the Honda Broderick Award as the nation's top player. She was also a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-American, including first-team honors as a junior and senior.

Rizzo was a first-team All-American herself (not to mention a 2008 U.S. Olympian). Both Tagliente and Rizzo coached under Meharg after graduating, and Rizzo was the associate head coach before joining Tagliente after Tagliente left the head coaching job at UMass at Princeton in 2016.

Tagliente and Rizzo were teammates on Maryland's 1999 NCAA championship team. Meharg is in her 35^th season with the Terrapins, and she has been a nine-time national Coach of the Year.

Single scorers
Princeton has played six games and has yet to have a player score more than one goal in a game.

Princeton game-by-game:

UNC – three goals (Popper, Yeager, Davidson)
Louisville – one goal (McCarthy)
Syracuse – five goals (Davidson, Popper, Yeager, Agatucci, McCarthy)
Rutgers – four goals (Donovan, Brown, Yeager, Popper)
Delaware – three goals (Schenck, Popper, Donovan)
Northwestern – one goal (Yeager)

Looking ahead
Princeton will be playing its third of five home games in a 10-day stretch when it hosts the Terps. Princeton will open its Ivy League season Friday against Penn and then take on Lafayette of the Patriot League Sunday.