Women's Soccer Team to Visit Dartmouth Saturday in Final Ivy Road Game

The final Ivy League road game for the Princeton women's soccer team is set for Saturday as the Tigers head to Dartmouth looking to clinch an Ivy League Tournament bid.

at Dartmouth, Saturday, 3 p.m. | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats

Ivy standings: Brown leads the league at 5-0 (15 points) and with a five-point lead over Princeton and Harvard at 3-1-1 (10 points). The top four teams in the league will make the Ivy League Tournament, and the top team will host the Ivy League Tournament and win the Ivy League championship, while the tournament will be for the league's automatic NCAA tournament bid. Brown has the head-to-head tiebreaker over both Harvard and Princeton. Dartmouth is in the fourth spot at 2-1-2 (eight points) with Columbia three points back (five) at 1-2-2. Yale, Cornell and Penn each have two points with an 0-3-2 league record. Princeton can clinch an Ivy League tournament bid this weekend with a win over Dartmouth, or with a Columbia loss or tie against Yale.

NCAA RPI: When the NCAA made its last official RPI announcement on Monday, Princeton was No. 8 of the 347 Division I teams in the NCAA's RPI released last Monday. All eight Ivy teams were in the top 200 with six in the top 100 and four in the top 30.

Talkin' about Tordin: Pietra Tordin has 10 goals this season and has scored six game-winning goals. The six game-winners put her alongside five other players around the country with the most game-winners in the nation. Tordin, who has already scored more goals this season than in her Ivy League Rookie of the Year season of 2022 (eight) has turned in the 22nd season in program history, which dates back to 1980, in which a player scored 10 or more goals. It's the 11th season in program history that has seen a sophomore or younger score 10-plus. Esmeralda Negron '05 holds the program's single-season goal record of 20, set in her senior season of 2004, and Tyler Lussi '17, who put in 18 in her sophomore season of 2014, has the most in a season for a sophomore or younger.

On offense: Princeton is averaging 2.14 goals a game so far this season, and at 30 goals, already eclipsed its goal total from all of last season (25). Princeton has seen 11 players score a goal this season, marking the second time in three seasons that Princeton has seen 10-plus goal scorers. In 2021, 14 Tigers scored a goal.

Between the posts: Junior Tyler McCamey has played most of the minutes in goal this season, accruing a 1.26 GAA while authoring four solo or combined shutouts this season. She earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honors on Oct. 9 for shutting out Penn and then holding Yale to a goal with 10 saves between the two games in a 2-0 week.

Stat rankings: Princeton entered Wednesday ranking 23rd in the nation in assists per game at 2.29 and 28th in total assists at 32, among top-30 rankings. Princeton's top-50 individual statistical rankings included Pietra Tordin's top-ranked six game-winning goals, 10th-ranked 1.92 points per game, 14th-ranked 1.79 points per game, 14th-ranked 4.14 shots per game, 18th-ranked 25 total points, 20th-ranked 10 total goals, 21st-ranked 1.93 shots on goal per game, and 21st-ranked 0.71 goals per game. Dartmouth ranked 11th in save percentage (.875) and 30th in shutout percentage (.538), paced by Emily Hardy's 16th-ranked .871 save percentage, 26th-ranked seven shutouts and 43rd-ranked .692 GAA.

Coach Driscoll: Sean Driscoll is in his eighth competitive season leading Princeton. A three-time Ivy Coach of the Year (2015, 2017, 2018), Driscoll has led Princeton to Ivy titles in 2015, 2017 and 2018, NCAA tournament bids in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2021, the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2015, 2017 and 2021, and the NCAA quarterfinals in 2017. Driscoll's 91 wins are second-most in program history behind predecessor Julie Shackford, who had 203 wins in 20 seasons from 1995-2014.

Series history: Princeton is 22-16-3 all-time against Dartmouth. Emily Hardy was in goal for Dartmouth in a 3-0 Tiger win in Hanover in 2021, and Pietra Tordin and Heather MacNab had the goals in a 2-0 Princeton home win in 2022. Princeton has won three straight against the Big Green and is unbeaten in eight straight since Dartmouth's last win in the series in 2013. Princeton hasn't allowed a goal to the Big Green since 2015, a span of 615:20.

On Dartmouth: The Big Green are looking to seal up an Ivy League tournament spot, which they could do with a win and a Columbia loss or tie. Either Dartmouth or its opponent has scored more than two goals on just two occasions all season, Dartmouth in a 4-0 win over Iona on Sept. 13 and Harvard in a 3-0 win over the Big Green on Oct. 4. Out of 26 chances across 13 games this season, Dartmouth and/or its opponent has scored one or no goals 22 times. Ten players have split Dartmouth's 16 goals this season with Daisy Granholm leading the team with three. Emily Hardy has played every minute in goal and has an 0.69 GAA.

Up next: The Tigers will conclude the regular season with a visit from Columbia next Saturday, Oct. 28.

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