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Field Hockey Weekly Release - Week 4
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PRINCETON, N.J. -- The opening weekend of Ivy League play saw Columbia and Yale persevere to earn one-goal road victories at Brown and Harvard, respectively. The Princeton Tigers carried over their dominant form in league play from a season ago to earn a win against Dartmouth. Cornell saved its most complete performance of the season thus far for when it hosted Penn as the Big Red matched their season high for goals (4) and did not allow the Quakers to get on the board. Highlights outside of League play included Brown's first win of the season, 6-2 over Bryant, and Princeton's defeat of eighth-ranked Syracuse, which was earned by a Michelle Cesan game-winning goal with 1:16 to play.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Junior forward Leslie Springmeyer (New Vernon,
N.J.) led the Bears with four goals in a 1-1 weekend, scoring two
against both Columbia and Bryant. Against the Lions in the Ivy
League opener for both squads, Springmeyer, who did not start,
entered the game at 5:47 and just 25 seconds later she scored her
first goal of the year to give Brown a 1-0 lead. After Columbia had
taken a 3-2 lead at the 44:04 mark, Springmeyer answered for Brown
just 1:19 later to tie the score at 3-3.
Less than 24 hours after the Columbia game, Springmeyer helped
lead Brown to its first win of the season with a pair of goals
against Bryant. After the Bulldogs had taken a 1-0 lead just 1:40
into the game, Springmeyer answered just 2:19 later to tie the game
at 1-1. After Bryant had tied the score at 2-2, Brown would take a
3-2 lead. Just 27 seconds after Brown's third goal, Springmeyer
knocked another one in to give the Bears a 4-2 lead with 25 minutes
remaining.
Her offensive outburst helped her climb the in the Brown record
books, finishing the weekend ranked sixth all-time at Brown with 22
career goals (one shy of fifth) and ranking seventh all-time with
58 career points (one shy of sixth). Springmeyer was also the last
Bear to earn Ivy League Player of the Week honors, having done so
on Noveber 11, 2008.
Springmeyer's Weekly
Stats
2-1 GP/GS, 4 G, 0 A, 8 Pts., 11 Shots, 9 SOG, 0 GWG, Team: 1-1
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Freshman goalkeeper Christina Maida (Doylestown,
Pa.) opened the weekend by playing in the first half of Princeton's
9-1 defeat of Dartmouth without conceding a goal. Then, in a
showdown of top-10 ranked teams, Maida led the Tigers to a 1-0 win
against eighth-ranked Princeton. She turned in six saves in that
contest, all of which proved vital as the game hung in the balance
until Cesan's late game winner.
The Syracuse offense entered Sunday's game averaging 3.14 goals
per game and had scored at least one goal in each of its previous
seven contests, but Maida and the Princeton defense blanked the
Orange. Maida's shutout was her second of the season. She is
Princeton's first League Rookie of the Week since November 10, 2009
when Cesan earned the honor.
Maida's Weekly
Stats
2-2 GP/GS, 105:00 Min., 0 GA, 0.00 GAA, 6 SVS, 1.000 SV%, 1 Sho,
2-0
HONOR ROLL
Michelle Cesan, Princeton, So., ST (Harding, N.J.)
2-2 GP/GS, 2 G, 1 A, 5 Pts., 11 Shots, 6 SOG, 1 GWG, Team: 2-0
Julie Garrison, Columbia, Sr., M, (Virginia Beach, Va.)
2-2 GP/GS, 2 G, 0 A, 4 Pts., 4 Shots, 3 SOG, 1 GWG, Team: 1-1
Torie Stearns, Brown, Fr., F (Rye, N.Y.)
2-2 GP/GS, 1 G, 3 A, 5 Pts., 7 Shots, 4 SOG, 0 GWG, Team: 1-1
Catie De Stio, Cornell, Sr., F (Sea Cliff, N.Y.)
1-1 GP/GS, 1G, 2A, 3 Pts., 6 Shots, 4 SOG, 0 GWG, Team: 1-0
Cynthia Tassopoulos, Harvard, So., GK (Dallas, Texas)
2-2 GP/GS, 140:00 Min., 4 GA, 2.00 GAA, 17 SVS, .810 SV%, 0 Sho,
0-2
THIS WEEK
The Ivies are set for the second week of League play. In an
interesting scheduling quirk, each of last weekend's League game
winners will play each other, with each of last weekend's losers
also meeting. But before League play gets underway, the Ivies will
be involved in a pair of rivalry games on Wednesday night. Local
bragging rights are on the line when Northeastern plays at Harvard
and Penn plays at Villanova.
Then on Friday, a battle of Ivy League unbeatens will take place
in New York, N.Y. when Cornell and Columbia square off. The other
matchup with 1-0 League teams will be played at Yale on Saturday
when the Bulldogs play host to No. 4 Princeton. Also on Saturday,
Brown, Dartmouth Penn and Harvard will each be looking to get in
the Ivy League win column. The Bears play at Dartmouth, while the
Crimson travel south to face the Quakers.
The weekend non-conference slate is highlighted by No. 3
Virginia's trip to Ithaca, N.Y. to take on the Big Red on Sunday.
Also on Sunday, Yale hosts Hofstra and Dartmouth hosts Holy Cross.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Wednesday, September
22
Northeastern at Harvard -- 6 pm
Penn at Villanova -- 7 pm
Friday, September
24
*Cornell at Columbia -- 3 pm
Saturday, September
25
*Harvard at Penn -- Noon
*No. 4 Princeton at Yale -- Noon
*Brown at Dartmouth -- Noon
Sunday, September
26
No. 3 Virginia at Cornell -- Noon
Hofstra at Yale -- 2 pm
Holy Cross at Dartmouth -- 2 pm
*Ivy League contest
