Bulldogs Seek to Extend Winning Streak
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – It has been nearly a
month since Yale played a game on its home turf, as a stretch of
five straight road games has finally come to an end. Still within a
game of first place, Yale hosts Penn in a crucial Ivy League
contest Saturday at Noon at Johnson Field. The Bulldogs are then
right back on the road Sunday, but this time it's a short trip down
I-95 to play at Fairfield Sunday at 1 p.m.
While traveling throughout the Northeast over the last three
weeks, Yale (8-5, 3-1 Ivy League) solidified its spot near the top
of the Ivy League standings. The Bulldogs picked up wins at Cornell
and Dartmouth, and they enter play Saturday tied with the Big Red
for second in the league behind 4-0 Princeton. The Tigers host
Harvard on Saturday.
Yale is coming off a sweep of Dartmouth and Holy Cross last
weekend. Junior back Erin
Carter (Perkiomenville, Pa.) was named Ivy League
Player of the Week after scoring three goals, including two in the
come-from-behind win at Dartmouth Saturday. Freshman
midfielder/back Georgia
Holland (Stony Brook, N.Y.) was named Ivy League
Rookie of the Week for the third time this season after shifting
her primary responsibilities to the backfield and helping Yale
limit its opponents to just one goal in 140 minutes.
Junior midfielder Dinah
Landshut (Hamburg, Germany), who assisted on all three
of Carter's goals last weekend, has a team-high 12 assists for the
season and is within four of the school record set last season by
Katie Cantore '10. The Bulldogs enter their final four games with
35 goals. If they get to 40, it would mark Yale's first
back-to-back 40-goal seasons (they had 51 last year) since 1995-96.
Yale is also seeking its first back-to-back double-digit win
seasons since 2002-03.
Senior goalkeeper Katie
Bolling (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and sophomore goalkeeper
Ona
McConnell (London, England) combined on the shutout of
Holy Cross last Sunday, the fourth whitewashing of the season for
the Bulldogs. Those two, along with freshman Emily
Cain (Laytonsville, Md.), give Yale a combined .733
save percentage and 2.34 goals-against average.
Penn (3-11, 1-3 Ivy League) pushed Yale to overtime last season
before junior forward Mia Rosati
(Lower Gwynedd, Pa.) scored to win it for the Bulldogs.
The Quakers have won their last two games in overtime, beating
Columbia 3-2 and St. Joseph's 4-3. Attacker/midfielder Laurel
McGarvie, who scored goals in each of those games, is tied with
midfielder Kirstin Snyder for the team lead with three goals for
the season. Goalkeeper Danielle Rothman got the win in both games,
and she has a .655 save percentage with a 4.88 goals-against
average for the year.
Yale beat Fairfield (8-8) 6-0 last season, highlighted by the
first career goals for sophomore back Lexy Adams
(Lancaster, Pa.) and forward Lesley Kiger
'10. Forward Marit Westenberg leads the Stags with 10
goals and 26 points, while defender/midfielder Melanie Leo has a
team-best eight assists. Goalkeeper Maddy Sposito has a .748 save
percentage and a 3.06 goals-against average.
Every goal Yale scores this season brings the world closer
to a cure for myotonic dystrophy. Sophomore goalkeeper Ona
McConnell (London, England)
has been diagnosed with the disease, the most common form of
muscular dystrophy. The Bulldogs are taking pledges for a
season-long "Goal-a-thon" as part of their "Get a Grip" campaign to
raise awareness and funds for the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation.
For more information, visit http://www.yalebulldogs.com/getagrip
Report by Sam Rubin '95 (sam.rubin@yale.edu),
Yale Sports Publicity
