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Yeager Earns Ivy Weekly Honor For Third Time This Season
October 21, 2024 | Field Hockey
Another week, another honor for Princeton junior Beth Yeager.
For the third time this season, Yeager has been honored with the Ivy League's Offensive Player of the Week Award, in a vote of the league coaches. Yeager shared the award with Yale's Chiara Picciafuoco.
Yeager assisted on both of Princeton's goals in its 2-1 come-from-behind win over Harvard in Cambridge Saturday in a game between two unbeaten Ivy teams. Yeager set up Ella Cashman off a penalty corner early in the fourth quarter to tie the score at 1-1 after Princeton had trailed since the first quarter and then did so again, finding Cashman on another penalty corner, for the game-winner in overtime.
The two assists gave Yeager 100 points for her career, making her the 12th Princeton field hockey player to reach that milestone. Yeager currently leads the Ivy League in goals and assists, with nine of each. Were she to get one more of each, she'd become the fourth Princeton player in the last 20 years to have double figures in both in a season.
Cashman was named to the Ivy League honor roll as Princeton's defensive nominee. Led by Cashman, Princeton's defense held Harvard to one goal after the Crimson had averaged 4.5 per game in their first four Ivy games and had at least two goals in 11 straight games. Princeton held Harvard to seven shots; Harvard averaged a league-best 15.3 coming into the game, so the Tigers held the Crimson to less than half their average.
Princeton is home Friday at 4 against Maryland and then Sunday at noon against Dartmouth. A win over the Big Green would clinch at least a share of the Ivy title and would give Princeton the home field for the Ivy League tournament, for which the Tigers so far the only are the only team to have clinched a spot.
For the third time this season, Yeager has been honored with the Ivy League's Offensive Player of the Week Award, in a vote of the league coaches. Yeager shared the award with Yale's Chiara Picciafuoco.
Yeager assisted on both of Princeton's goals in its 2-1 come-from-behind win over Harvard in Cambridge Saturday in a game between two unbeaten Ivy teams. Yeager set up Ella Cashman off a penalty corner early in the fourth quarter to tie the score at 1-1 after Princeton had trailed since the first quarter and then did so again, finding Cashman on another penalty corner, for the game-winner in overtime.
The two assists gave Yeager 100 points for her career, making her the 12th Princeton field hockey player to reach that milestone. Yeager currently leads the Ivy League in goals and assists, with nine of each. Were she to get one more of each, she'd become the fourth Princeton player in the last 20 years to have double figures in both in a season.
Cashman was named to the Ivy League honor roll as Princeton's defensive nominee. Led by Cashman, Princeton's defense held Harvard to one goal after the Crimson had averaged 4.5 per game in their first four Ivy games and had at least two goals in 11 straight games. Princeton held Harvard to seven shots; Harvard averaged a league-best 15.3 coming into the game, so the Tigers held the Crimson to less than half their average.
Princeton is home Friday at 4 against Maryland and then Sunday at noon against Dartmouth. A win over the Big Green would clinch at least a share of the Ivy title and would give Princeton the home field for the Ivy League tournament, for which the Tigers so far the only are the only team to have clinched a spot.
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