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Princeton-Harvard III: Tigers, Crimson Meet In NCAA Semis
November 20, 2025 | Field Hockey
NCAA FINAL FOUR • SEMIFINAL NO. 1
No. 2 PRINCETON (17-3) vs. No. 3 HARVARD (19-1)
Friday, Nov. 21 • noon
Williams Field at Jack Kraft Stadium • Duke University • Durham, N.J.
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A – Again
Welcome to Princeton-Harvard III. The teams met on Sept. 26 in Princeton, where Harvard won 3-1 behind two penalty corner goals from Bronte-May Brough and a goal from Sage Pierkarski to build a 3-0 lead before Ella Cashman scored for the Tigers. Princeton, who fell to 4-3, has not lost since, including a 2-1 win over Harvard in the Ivy League tournament final two weeks ago at Harvard. Pru Lindsey scored Princeton’s first goal on a penalty stroke before Harvard’s Lara Beekhuis tied it just before the half, and Beth Yeager scored what would be the game-winner on a penalty corner in the third quarter.
B – Both Losses
Harvard enters the Final Four with a record of 19-1, with only a loss to Princeton. Northwestern is 20-1 on the season, with only a loss to Princeton.
C –Commonality
Princeton is the only team in the Final Four to have played the other three teams, going 2-2 in four games (wins over Northwestern and Harvard and losses to North Carolina and Harvard). The Princeton-Northwestern and Princeton-UNC games were both 3-2 games. None of the other three teams has played anyone remaining other than Princeton.
D – Defense
Princeton’s defense has allowed an average of 7.0 shots per game, its lowest since the 2018 season. Princeton has allowed Harvard 14 shots in two games, which is obviously right at the average. Of the 14 Harvard shots, four came in the last minute of the Ivy tournament final.
E – Ella
Ella Cashman, a two-time first-team All-Ivy League selection and three-time Ivy League all-tournament team selection, had started every game of her career before missing the last two games due to injury. Princeton now has six players who have started every game of their career: Anna Faulstich, Clem Houlden, Saylor Milone, Ottilie Sykes, Caitlin Thompson, Beth Yeager.
F – Freshmen
Princeton has started four freshmen in both of its NCAA tournament games this season: Gabriella Anderson, Saylor Milone, Caitlin Thompson, Tabby Vaughan. In fact, Princeton has also started four sophomores in both games: Anna Faulstich, Clem Houlden, Pru Lindsey, Izzy Morgan.
G – Goals And Assists, Double Figures Of Each
Beth Yeager is one of seven players in Division I with at least 10 goals and at last 10 assists. She’s also one of three players in Division I to do so each of the last two years, along with Northwestern’s Ashley Sessa and UNC’s Ryleigh Heck. Yeager is one of four Princeton players to have double figures in both in the same season and one of three to do it twice (Katie Reinprecht, Michelle Cesan both did it twice each; Clara Roth did so once).
H – Honors
Beth Yeager is a four-time Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, the first in Ivy history (shared honors with Harvard’s Sage Pierkarski this year), and a four-time unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection, as well as the Most Outstanding Player at the Ivy tournament. Should she earn first-team All-American honors again, she’d be the first Ivy player to do so four times. Princeton had three first-team All-Ivy players (Yeager, Ella Cashman, Clem Houlden) and three second-team players (Olivia Caponiti, Ottilie Sykes, Caitlin Thompson). Yeager, Cashman, Sykes and Pru Lindsey were on the Ivy League all-tournament team. Yeager and Harvard’s Bronte-May Brough became the seventh and eighth field hockey players to be four-time first-team All-Ivy League selections.
I – Ivy League
Princeton and Harvard are 107-1 against the rest of the Ivy League schools since the 2016 season. The two have played in the Ivy tournament final each of its first three years, with a 2-1 final score in all three games. Harvard won the first two; Princeton won the most recent one.
J – Just The Facts
Beth Yeager (58G, 35A) is one of two Princeton field hockey players ever with at least those career numbers (Kirsty Hale is the other). Yeager ranks fifth in career goals at Princeton (58, two behind Amy MacFarlane for fourth) and fourth at Princeton in career assists (35, three behind Hilary Matson for third). Yeager and Ryleigh Heck of UNC are the only two active players in Division I with at least 58 goals and 35 assists. Yeager has done this despite being slowed most of the season by a broken bone in her left hand suffered at the Pan Am Cup this August while competing with the USA National Team, an injury that required surgery three weeks before the season began. Yeager also started every game at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
K – Know This
Princeton is making its 27th appearance in the NCAA tournament, with an all-time record of 32-26, nine Final Fours, four appearances in the finals and one NCAA title (2012). Princeton’s 32 NCAA wins are fifth all-time.
L – Lindsey
Pru Lindsey has at least one point in 12 consecutive games (all wins), during which she has seven goals and 10 assists. Prior to that, Lindsey had no points this season and one goal and three assists last year as a freshman. The last time a Princeton player had a 10-game scoring streak was a year ago, when Beth Yeager had a point in 15 straight games.
M – More Cash
Ella Cashman has four career goals against Harvard, more than any other current Princeton player. Beth Yeager has two, and Pru Lindsey has one.
N – NCAA Career Scoring
Princeton has four players who have scored goals in NCAA tournament games: Beth Yeager with three and Izzy Morgan, Pru Lindsey and Ella Hampson with one each. Morgan also has two career NCAA tournament assists, while Lindsey, Yeager and Anna Faulstich have one each.
O – Offense
Princeton has scored 53 goals this season, of which 12 came in the first seven games (1.7 per game, four wins, three losses) and now 41 have come in the last 13 (3.15 per game, 13 wins, 0 losses). Princeton has had 28 goals come from freshmen and sophomores and 25 come from juniors and seniors.
P – Pros
Carla Tagliente and Dina Rizzo are in their ninth season together at Princeton with a record of 117-54, seven NCAA tournaments and now three Final Fours.
Q – Quite A Stat
The team scoring first is 19-1 in Princeton’s 20 games so far this season. The only time a team scored first but didn’t win was in Princeton’s 3-2 loss to North Carolina back on Sept. 7, when Princeton scored the first goal.
R – Repton
Princeton’s Ottilie Sykes and Tabby Vaughan (who made her first two career starts in the two NCAA games last week in place of injured Ella Cashman) attended the same English high school — Repton — as Harvard’s Lucy Barker, Tilly Butterworth and Bronte-May Brough.
S – Series History
Princeton leads the all-time series with Harvard 46-12-2. The teams have split the last 14 meetings.
T – Thirteen
Princeton has won 13 straight games, its second-longest winning streak ever and longest since the run to the 2019 NCAA championship game. The only other time Princeton had a longer winning streak was a 17-game run between the 2012 NCAA championship season and into the 2013 season. Princeton has not trailed at any point during its current 13-game winning streak.
U – USA
Princeton was well-represented with USA Field Hockey this past summer. Beth Yeager, a 2024 Olympian, won a silver medal at the Pan Am Cup in Uruguay, scoring four goals in the tournament. Talia Schenck also won silver and also scored four goals, at the Junior Pan Am Games in Paraguay. Assistant coach Pat Harris was a silver medalist with the USA men’s team at the Pan Am Cup.
V – Very Young
Of the 22 starters between Princeton and Harvard in the NCAA quarterfinals last weekend, there were 13 freshmen and sophomores and nine juniors and seniors.
W – Winning
Princeton is 11-0 when leading at the half and 0-1 when trailing at the half. The other eight games were tied at the half.
X – X-Factor
Ottilie Sykes has played every minute of 19 of 20 games this season. Clem Houlden has played every minute of 16 of 20 games.
Y – Youth Movement
Princeton has started at least two freshmen in every game since the start of the 2023 season.
Z – Zinger
Princeton is 31-9 since the start of the 2024 season, with one Ivy League championship, one Ivy League tournament championship, two NCAA quarterfinal appearances and now a Final Four appearance.
