Princeton Hosts Yale In Regular Season Finale Ahead Of Ivy Tournament

PRINCETON (11-4, 6-0 Ivy League; No. 13 NFHCA)
vs.
YALE (10-5, 3-3 Ivy League)

Saturday, Nov. 2 • Noon
Bedford Field • Princeton, N.J.
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The Junior Class

A - About
The 2024 Princeton field hockey team has 24 players — 15 returnees from last year’s team, seven freshmen, one returnee from the 2022 team (who happened to play in the Summer Olympics this year) and one returnee from the 2022 team who was hurt one minute into Game 2 a year ago (and who happened to be the leading returning goal scorer heading into last season). There are 12 American players and 12 international players (10 from England; one each from Australia and Germany).

B – Bedford
Princeton’s Bedford Field will be the site of the Ivy League field hockey tournament, with the semifinals Nov. 8th and the final Nov. 10th. The winner will get an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

C – Clem
Freshman Clem Houlden has played more minutes this season than any other field player and has played every minute of every game 11 times. Princeton was led in minutes played by a freshman last year as well, when Ottilie Sykes played every minute of every game.

D – Defense
Princeton’s defense, which has allowed an Ivy-low 19 goals this year, has allowed an average of 9.3 shots per game. A year ago Princeton’s opponents averaged 14 shots per game.

E – Extra Time
Princeton and Yale are a combined 6-1 in overtime games this year. Princeton is 3-0, with wins over Miami, Harvard and Delaware, and Yale is 3-1, with wins over Drexel, Penn and Hofstra and a loss to Brown.

F – Freshmen
Princeton has started at least three freshmen in every game.

G – Goals For And Against
Yale is second in the league in scoring offense and scoring defense.

H – Honors
Beth Yeager was named the NFHCA Division I Offensive Player of the Week after scoring five goals in two wins last weekend. Yeager was also named the Ivy Offensive Player of the Week for the fourth time this year.

I – Ivy League
Princeton will be the No. 1 seed in the Ivy League tournament, and Harvard is locked into the No. 2 seed. There are five teams who enter the final game of the regular season in the running for the final two spots (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Penn, Yale). Princeton has clinched at least a share of the Ivy championship and would win the outright title with a win over Yale or Harvard loss to Cornell.

The Sophomore Class

J – Just Three
Princeton has started the same three on defense all season — Clem Houlden, Gracie McGowan and Ottilie Sykes. The last time Princeton had three defenders start every game in a full season was 2016.

K – Korners
Okay, penalty corners are technically spelled with a “C,” but in the statcrew program, the code is a “K.” Princeton is 15 for 98 for the season and is 12 for 66 after starting 3 for 32. Princeton’s opponents are 9 for 71.

L – Last Year
Princeton defeated Yale 2-1 in overtime in New Haven last year and in doing so earned the No. 2 seed in the Ivy tournament. Princeton’s goals came from Talia Schenck and, in the OT, Bridget Murphy.

M – Many
Yale has more players in the top 15 in the Ivy League in points (five) than any other team.

N – National Rankings
Princeton is ranked 13th this week in the NFHCA coaches’ poll and 12th in the RPI.

O – Offense
Beth Yeager has 14 goals and nine assists for the season. Should she get one more assist, she’d become the fourth Princeton player in the last 20 years to have double figures in both categories in the same season (Clara Roth, Michelle Cesan twice, Katie Reinprect twice).

P – Points
Beth Yeager leads the Ivy League in points with 37 (14G, 9A). The next-highest total by an Ivy player is 19, or one more than half of what Yeager has. Her 14 goals are the most in the league, and she is the only player in the league in double figures. Her nine assists rank second.

Q – Quarterly
Between Princeton and its opponents there have been 51 total goals scored this season. Of those 51 goals, there have only been six scored in the second quarter (11.8 percent).

R – Robyn
Goalie Robyn Thompson is fifth all-time at Princeton in career wins with 37 and seventh all-time at Princeton is career shutouts with 12, one away from tying Allison Nemeth for fifth.

S – Schulze
Grace Schulze is second on the team with six assists and 12 points. Schulze, the main inserter on penalty corners, has four assists in the last five games after having two for the first 10.

T – Titles
Princeton field hockey has won 28 Ivy League championships, which is more than the other seven league teams combined. That is also the most by any women’s team in Ivy history, one better than Harvard women’s squash.

U – University
Princeton has been ranked as the No. 1 academic university in the United States by US News and World Report for the past 14 consecutive years, including in the new rankings that came out for this year.

V – Veterans
Princeton’s senior class features six players: Clare Brennan (F), Aimee Jungfer (M), Gracie McGowan (D), Grace Schulze (F), Robyn Thompson (G), Lily Webb (F). Those six have combined for 342 games played, with 148 starts between them.

W - Wins
Princeton is 11-4 on the season. Its record by days of the week: Friday (7-0), Saturday (1-0), Sunday (3-4).

X - X factor
Beth Yeager has four overtime goals and an overtime assist in her career.

Y – Yale
Princeton and Yale meet for the 53rd time. Princeton holds a 47-2-3 record against the Bulldogs.

Z – Zinging
Princeton has won five straight games after starting the season 6-4.

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