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Monday TigerBlog - Soccer Success
October 27, 2025 | Tiger Blog
Hey, remember that time when the Princeton women's soccer team lost to Yale 1-0?
When was that? Seems like years ago.
Actually, it was Oct. 4, a little more than three weeks ago. If you recall what TigerBlog wrote after that one, then you can skip ahead. If not, here is the reminder:
The women's soccer team is home against Cornell Saturday, with kickoff at 1. The Tigers are in the fight for the Ivy tournament spots, currently tied for fifth with the Big Red.
Yup. That does seem like it was a long time ago.
In a span of three short weeks, Princeton went from tied for fifth and hoping to get into the Ivy tournament to where the Tigers sit now: first place.
It's been a remarkable turnaround. Since that Yale loss, Princeton is 4-0-0, including three Ivy League wins in that run. The Tigers have outscored those four opponents 11-1; in the three league games, that composite score is 6-0.
The third of three straight 2-0 league wins came this past Saturday, when the Tigers took down Columbia by that score. When the weekend's games shook out, there were the Tigers, alone atop the Ivy stnadings.
Then there is the Princeton men's team. For Jim Barlow's group, it's hard to tell where one streak ends and another begins.
The most recent outing for the Tigers was a 4-0 win at Yale Saturday night. TigerBlog watched that game on ESPN+ and saw an early Princeton goal that was being reviewed.
While the officials checked it out, TB thought about how momentum would switch to Yale if the call on the field was overturned. That's how those things work sometime.
That never happened. The goal stood — it was the first of his career for Liam Beckwith. It was 1-0 Tigers.
Then 4-0 Tigers. In all, those four goals came in a span of exactly 17 minutes. In a blink, Sam Vigilante added his first career goal, Daniel Ittycheria scored his eighth of the season and Bardia Hormozi added his fifth of the season.
And with that, TB switched over to see, in short order, the ends of the football games between Missouri and Vanderbilt, Alabama and South Carolina and Texas and Mississippi State.
The Tiger men's soccer team, if you've been paying attention, is the No. 1 team in Division I RPI and a top five team in the coaches' poll.
Okay, so where does that leave everyone?
The women have 12 points, ahead of both Dartmouth and Brown, who have 11. Harvard and Cornell are next with 10 each.
That's five teams for four Ivy tournament spots, two of which are already clinched: Princeton's and Dartmouth's. Where will the tournament be played?
Princeton is at Brown this coming Saturday at 1 for the final weekend of the regular season. A Tiger win brings the Ivy tournament back to Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium.
A tie? It's still possible. A Brown win? Then the Tigers will be on the road again for the tournament.
A win also clinches an outright Ivy League championship, something that would be extraordinary given where Princeton was after that Yale loss. A tie could also get Princeton an Ivy title, depending on what else happens.
The other games Saturday are Harvard at Columbia (2), Cornell at Dartmouth (5) and Yale at Penn (7).
The men have two more weekends of the regular season. Princeton's enters those final two games with a perfect 15 points, three better than Cornell (whom Princeton has already defeated) and seven better than anyone else.
Princeton obviously has clinched its Ivy tournament spot, and only Cornell can catch the Tigers in the standings. Ah, but because Princeton has the head-to-head tiebreaker, Cornell would have to be ahead of the Tigers to host the Ivy tournament.
Princeton's last two games are home against Dartmouth Saturday at 4 and then at Penn the following Saturday. One win in either of those games means the Ivy title and the host role for the tournament.
The month of October has come and gone, at least in terms of the Ivy soccer schedule. November figures to be wild.
This weekend's Tiger soccer success certainly gets you excited for what's to come.