No. 5 Women's Lacrosse Closes Regular Season At Dartmouth Saturday

No. 5 Princeton (12-2, 5-1 Ivy) at Dartmouth (9-5, 2-4 Ivy)
April 26 | 12 p.m.
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IVY CHAMPIONS!
Princeton's 15-13 win over Brown last weekend clinched at least a share of the program's 17th Ivy League title and first since 2022. A victory at Dartmouth will assure the team's seventh outright Ivy League championship.

THE ALL-TIME SERIES WITH DARTMOUTH
A long-time rivalry reconvenes this weekend in Hanover as Princeton and Dartmouth meet for the 51st time. The Tigers hold a 30-20 lead in the all-time series, and have won seven of the last nine meetings. Princeton is 13-9 all-time in Hanover, but dropped the last game played between the two teams in the Granite State, 15-14, in 2023. Last year, the Tigers picked up a 17-11 win in New Jersey after jumping out to a 9-0 lead after the first quarter and owing a 15-3 lead at halftime. Haven Dora had an eight-point game with two goals and six assists, while McKenzie Blake scored four times and had a helper.

TIGERS IN THE NATIONAL POLLS
Princeton entered the week ranked No. 5 in the IWLCA Coaches Poll, No. 7 in the USA Lacrosse Magazine rankings and No. 5 in the KANE ILWomen.com Media Poll Looking down the line, Princeton is set to play six teams ranked in the preseason IWLCA Coaches Poll this season – No. 8 Virginia, No. 9 Yale, No. 12 Penn, No. 13 Stony Brook, No. 14 Loyola, No. 22 Penn State.

This marks the highest IWLCA poll ranking for the Tigers since they were No. 5 at the close of the 2017 season.

Princeton's 2025 record against teams ranked at the time in the IWLCA Coaches Poll is 5-2.

The Tigers were slotted No. 3 in the Preseason Ivy League Media Poll, receiving one first place vote.

CAN'T SPELL PRINCETON WITHOUT RPI
Princeton slots in at No. 4 in the RPI this weekend, leading a group of seven Ivy League teams inside the Top-30. 12 of Princeton's 14 games this season have come against teams currently inside the RPI Top-40. Dartmouth is No. 20 in the RPI heading into this weekend.

SETTING THE SCENARIOS
With one weekend of play remaining in the regular season, three of the four teams are set for the 2025 Ivy League Tournament. The Tigers have clinched at least a share of the Ivy League title and will be either the No. 1 or No. 2 seed next weekend. A win this weekend and Princeton secures the No. 1 seed and the ILT will head to Sherrerd Field for the first time since 2022. The Tigers can still host the Ivy Tournament with a loss and a Brown win at Penn.

The Quakers and Bears are the other two teams assured of competing next weekend at the ILT. The final spot will come down to the winner of the Yale-Cornell game.

BALL CONTROL
Princeton has protected the rock through 14 games, committing 157 total turnovers and ranking No. 4 in the country in turnovers-per-game (11.2) -- trailing Florida (10.9), Harvard (11.0) and Yale (11.1).

FOOT ON THE GAS
Princeton ranks No. 8 in the country in Scoring Offense, averaging 15.9 goals-per-game. The Tigers have been dominant in first quarters, outscoring opponents by a 58-33 margin in the opening period (+25). The second quarters have been even better as the Tigers own a +26 margin (60-34).

AMONG THE ACTIVE LEADERS
Senior McKenzie Blake's 206 career goals rank her No. 5 among active NCAA players. She trails only BC's Rachel Clark (284), BC's Emma Lopinto (241), Loyola's Chase Boyle (225) and Northwestern's Madison Taylor (219). Amelia Hughes enters the week with 9.44 saves-per-game over her career which ranks No. 5 among active D1 keepers and her 453 career saves rank No. 9 among active NCAA D1 goalies.

SHE LIKES GOALS!
McKenzie Blake enters this week with goals in each of her last 32 games covering the entire 2024 season and each game this year. Over that stretch here's the breakdown.
• She has 2+ goals in 29 of 32 games
• She has 3+ goals in 25 of 32 games
• She has 4+ goals in 21 of 32 games
• She has 5+ goals in 14 of 32 games
• She has 6+ goals in 6 of 32 games (all in 2025)

For her career, Blake has scored at least one goal in 63 of 65 games played.

DYNAMIC DUO
McKenzie Blake is No. 4 in the country in goals-per-game (4.6) and is No. 4 in total goals (64).

Haven Dora is No. 6 in the country in assists-per-game (3.2), and her 45 total assists are No. 10 in the nation.

Blake is also No. 4 in the nation in shots on goal-per-game (7.1) and No. 2 in shots-per-game (9.6).

TERRIFIC TRIO
McKenzie Blake (No. 17; 5.1), Haven Dora (No. 23; 4.8) and Jami MacDonald (No. 27; 4.6) give Princeton three of the Top-30 scorers in the country in terms of points-per-game -- Princeton is one of three teams in the nation with three players inside the Top 30 in points-per-game (Boston College, Furman).

INCHING UP THE IVY RANKS
Not only are the Princeton record books undergoing revisions, so is the Ivy League's.

McKenzie Blake's 206 goals make her only the third player in Ivy League history to reach the 200-goal mark behind Harvard's Francesca DenHartog (249; 1980-83) and Princeton's Kyla Sears (209; 2018-22).

Sophie Whiteway's 208 career draw controls rank No. 7 in the listed Ivy League record books.

Haven Dora's 45 assists this season rank No. 9 in a season by an Ivy Leaguer.

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