Princeton Upsets No. 7 Dartmouth, Makes Ivy Tourney
from press release
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Freshman Caroline Rehfuss
scored the game-winning goal in overtime and junior Erin Tochihara
made 14 saves to give the Princeton women's lacrosse team an 11-10
win over No. 7 Dartmouth on Sunday at Princeton Stadium.
With the win Princeton has clinched a berth to the first Ivy League
Tournament and will play host and No. 1 seed Penn on Friday, April
30 at 7 p.m.. The winner will play the winner of the No. 2
Dartmouth vs. No. 3 Cornell semifinal on Sunday, May 2 in the title
tilt at 12:30 p.m.
The Tigers rallied from a 7-3 deficit to come back and win the game
that decided their postseason fate.
Rehfuss led Princeton in scoring with a career-best four goals.
Sophomore Barb Previ tallied three goals and added an assist.
Junior Lizzy Drumm scored twice and sophomore Cassie Pyle and
freshman Jenna Davis had one goal and assist apiece.
Leading the Big Green was Greta Meyer with a four-point game,
scoring three goals and adding a helper. Sarah Parks had one goal
and two assists. Erin Massimi, Kirsten Goldberg and Hilary Smith
all contributed two points.
The teams opened the game trading goals with Meyer scoring for
Dartmouth and Rehfuss answering back. Parks connected with Sarah
Plumb at 23:30 to give the Big Green the lead it wouldn't give up
until the final minutes of the second half. Smith added a goal to
put Dartmouth up 3-1 before Lizzy Drumm made it a one-point game.
An eight-meter goal by Smith would send the Big Green on a
three-goal run as Massimi tallied the next two goals to make it
6-2.
Previ ended the run when she picked up a loose ball behind the cage
and came around the left side to score at 8:13. Princeton wouldn't
go away outshooting Dartmouth 6-2 in that last eight minutes but it
was Dartmouth that would get the final goal of the half by Meyer to
take a 7-3 lead into the locker room.
Princeton came out of the locker room and quickly scored two goals,
the first by Rehfuss with an assist to Pyle, the second was a
free-position goal by Pyle.
Dartmouth would sandwich a Drumm goal with two of their own to lead
9-6 with 13:22 left on the clock.
Princeton would tally three unanswered goals, sparked by a Rehfuss
goal at 12:27. Freshman Charlotte Davis and Previ followed up to
tie the game, 9-9, at 6:40.
Goldberg would score for Dartmouth with 2:26 left but Previ knotted
the game at 10-10 with 50 second to play in regulation.
With 50 seconds left, Tochihara made two saves, one on an
eight-meter attempt and another with just two seconds to play to
force the overtime.
Dartmouth won the opening draw and looked like it had won the game
1:09 into the extra session but a goal by Parks was called off due
to an illegal stick.
Tochihara came up with three huge saves for the Tigers, two by
Meyer and one on an eight-meter from Goldberg.
After a yellow card was called on Dartmouth, Princeton was awarded
a free-position attempt. The shot by Rehfuss went wide but
Charlotte Davis was at the endline to maintain possession. Davis
had the ball behind the net and with three second left passed it to
Rehfuss who was on the doorstep surrounded by two defenders but
threw the ball towards the net and it slipped by goalie Julie
Wadland. Wadland finished the game with seven saves.
Princeton had a 32-31 advantage in shots and won 14 draw controls
to Dartmouth's 11. The Big Green won the ground ball battle,
27-25.
Princeton improves to 6-9 overall and 4-3 in league play, while
Dartmouth drops to 10-3 overall and 5-2 in the Ivy League.
