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Women's Soccer Weekly Release - Week 11
Complete Women's Soccer Weekly Release in pdf format
Photos courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications/Kevin Burns and Princeton Athletic Communications
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Suddenly, at approximately
5:15 p.m. ET on Saturday, a three-way tie for the Ivy League
women’s soccer title seemed imminent.
Entering this week, Princeton was holding on to first-place in the
standings by one game over Penn and Dartmouth with a contest
against the Quakers upcoming. Victories by the Big Green and Penn
would mean a three-way tie for the League championship and a
drawing by the Ivy Office to determine who would receive the
League’s Automatic Qualifier to the NCAA Tournament.
Dartmouth (13-4-0, 6-1-0 Ivy) took care of its business, scoring
three goals in the second half to defeat Cornell (1-14-1, 0-6-1
Ivy), 3-0. Junior Marina Moschitto tallied a goal
and an assist in the win. But after 55 minutes of action between
Penn and Princeton, it seemed that Dartmouth’s efforts were
for naught, as the Tigers held a three goal lead thanks to a hat
trick by sophomore Lauren Lazo. But in a 10-minute
span late in the second half, Penn sophomore Clara
Midgley scored twice and all of a sudden it was a 3-2 game
with 15 minutes to play.
Princeton held tough, however, and got an insurance score from
senior Caitlin Blosser in the 84th minute to win,
4-2, thereby winning the Ivy League title with an unbeaten/untied
League record at 7-0-0, the fifth team to accomplish that feat and
the first since the 2004 Tigers. Princeton (13-3-1, 7-0-0 Ivy)
takes its seventh title in program history, its first since 2008
and its first outright championship since 2004.
Penn (9-6-1, 5-2-0) dropped to third-place in the standings, while
Harvard (9-5-3, 3-3-1 Ivy) finished in fourth after a 1-0 win over
Columbia (6-9-1, 2-4-1 Ivy), which took fifth. Yale (8-7-2, 1-4-2
Ivy) and Brown (7-9-1, 1-5-1 Ivy) finished in a 2-2 tie after the
Bears’ Kiersten Berg scored the equalizer in
the 86th minute. For the Bulldogs, it was their third-straight
double-overtime game.
Princeton earns the League’s automatic berth to the NCAA
Tournament and will find out on Monday where and who it will play.
The NCAA Women's Soccer Championship Selection Show will be
streamed live on NCAA.com starting at 4:30 p.m.
It will be the ninth NCAA Tournament appearance for the Tigers
(1982, 1983, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2008), who are
on an 11-match winning streak, the third-longest in program history
after winning 12 in a row in 2002 and 14 in a row in 1980.
Dartmouth hopes to receive an at-large bid after a stellar season
in which the Big Green ended the season on a seven-game win streak
and finished with 13 wins, its highest total since the 2000 season
when it picked up 14 victories.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Princeton sophomore Lauren Lazo (Scottsdale,
Ariz.) chose a good time to record her first career hat trick. Lazo
scored in the 13th, 43rd and 56th minutes to give the Tigers a 3-0
lead over Penn. Lazo's third goal became the gamewinner after the
Quakers scored twice late in the second half. Lazo was on the
receiving end of a pair of assists from senior Jen
Hoy and an assist from senior Rachel
Sheehy.
Lazo has scored six goals over the last three games and has eight
goals in six Ivy League matches after missing the Ivy opener at
Yale. Her 10 goals on the season is a career-best and have come in
the last eight games, moving her into second-place in the League in
goals and points (25), behind Hoy. Lazo has set personal-bests in
goals, points and assists (five).
Lazo takes home her second-straight Player of the Week award and
her fourth Ivy League weekly award after being named Rookie of the
Week twice in 2011. She takes home her first career outright Player
of the Week honor after sharing the accolade with Dartmouth’s
Tasha Wilkins last week. Lazo’s award gives
Princeton an Ivy League-record six on the year, joining Hoy (Sept.
3, Sept. 24, Oct. 15) and Sheehy (Oct. 22). The previous mark was
five, accomplished twice, by the Tigers in 2004 and Dartmouth in
1998.
Lazo’s Weekly
Stats
1 GP, 3G, 6 Pts., 5 Shots, 3 SOG, 1 GW
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Harvard freshman Brooke Dickens (Bakersfield,
Calif.) does not always wait until the last minute, but in this
case the Crimson is glad she did. Dickens’ first career goal
came in the final minute of the final game of Harvard’s 2012
campaign, as she scored with five seconds remaining in regulation
to give the Crimson a 1-0 win over Columbia.
Dickens’ score came on a header off an assist from senior
Aisha Price. Dickens takes home her first career
Ivy League weekly award and the second Rookie of the Week honor for
Harvard this season, as Emily Mosbacher received
the accolade on Oct. 8.
Dickens’ Weekly
Stats
1 GP, 1G, 2 Pts., 1 Shot, 1 SOG, 1 GW
HONOR ROLL
Bethany Kanten, Harvard (So., GK – Park
City, Utah)
1 GP, 89:51 Mins., 0 GA, 0.00 GAA, 5 Svs., 1.000 Sv. %, 1-0
Clara Midgley, Penn (So., F – Seattle)
1 GP, 2G, 4 Pts., 3 Shots, 2 SOG
Marina Moschitto, Dartmouth (Jr., M –
Andover, Mass.)
1 GP, 1G, 1A, 3 Pts., 3 Shots, 2 SOG
Mary Kubiuk, Yale (Sr., F – Barrington,
Ill.)
2 GP, 1G, 2 Pts., 1 Shot, 1 SOG, 1 GW
Isabel King, Columbia (Sr., D – San
Francisco)
1 GP
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Monday, November 5
NCAA Women's Soccer Selection Show, 4:30pm
Saturday, November 10
1-Princeton at West Virginia, 7 pm
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1-NCAA Tournament First Round
