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Women’s Soccer Set For Matches At Penn, Princeton This Weekend
8/30/2018 10:31:00 AM | Women's Soccer
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RALEIGH – The No. 13 NC State women's soccer team will head up north for a pair of matches against Ivy League opponents this weekend. The Wolfpack will face Penn at Rhodes Field Friday at 5 p.m., then travel to No. 20 Princeton Sunday for a 7 p.m. matchup at Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium. Both contests will be broadcast on ESPN+.
The Pack enters the weekend with a 3-0-1 record, while the Quakers and Tigers are both 2-0-0 on the season. Princeton will host Saint Joseph's Friday evening before its match with the Red and White.
Series History
NC State and Penn have only met once before in program history. The teams met on Sept. 18, 2005 in Philadelphia, and NC State fell 1-0.
Sunday will be the fourth meeting between NC State and Princeton, as the teams met twice last year. The Tigers traveled to Raleigh on Sept. 2 for a regular-season match, and won 2-0. They met again in the NCAA Second Round in Cary, N.C., on Nov. 17 where the Tigers ultimately advanced 5-4 in penalty kicks after a 1-1 result.
Last Time Out
The Pack hosted 10th-ranked South Carolina on Sunday and earned a 2-1 victory thanks to a pair of second half goals by Tziarra King and Kia Rankin as well as key defensive play.
The victory marked the eighth time since the program's 2016 breakout season that the team has beaten or tied a top 25 program.
Homecoming
This weekend will be a homecoming for King, Maxine Blackwood and head coach Tim Santoro. King is a Sicklerville, N.J., native, which is approximately 30 minutes from Philadelphia and an hour from Princeton.
Santoro, a Cumberland Regional High School graduate, is from the same area as King. Blackwood hails from Somerville, which is roughly 30 minutes from Princeton and an hour and a half from Philly.
Record Watch
King scored her 28th career goal on Sunday, which ranks her 10th all-time in NC State's record book.
Sydney Wootten picked up her 18th career shutout in Monday's 1-0 win over Monmouth, which puts her one away from ranking fourth all-time among the program.
Latest Rankings
NC State jumped three spots to 12th in the latest Soccer America poll and 13th in United Soccer Coaches. The team also moved up one spot to 15th in this week's TopDrawerSoccer poll.
Player Of The Week
After scoring a pair of goals in her first two matches back since overcoming an injury, Rankin was named ACC Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday.
Undefeated Streak
Sunday's win marked the 13th consecutive match the team has not had a loss on its home turf (since Sept. 7, 2017), and extended the program's unbeaten streak in regular-season competition to nine (since Oct. 8, 2017).
Scouting Penn
The Quakers opened their season last week when they hosted Mount St. Mary's on Thursday and Army on Sunday. The squad shut out both teams, as it defeated the Mountaineers 5-0 and Black Knights 1-0.
Penn returns nine of its starters from last season, three of which were All-Ivy selections, and added eight members to its 2018 roster.
Scouting Princeton
The Tigers won their second Ivy League title in three seasons last year with a 1-0 win over Penn in the championship final. The team secured an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament, and reached the Elite Eight for the first time since 2004.
Princeton was selected to win the Ivy League in 2018, receiving 15 of 16 first-place votes in the preseason poll. The team returns its top goalkeeper and three leading scorers from last season, but graduated four All-Ivy honorees.
Princeton opened its season last weekend with a pair of shutout wins over New Hampshire (2-0) and Boston University (1-0).
RALEIGH – The No. 13 NC State women's soccer team will head up north for a pair of matches against Ivy League opponents this weekend. The Wolfpack will face Penn at Rhodes Field Friday at 5 p.m., then travel to No. 20 Princeton Sunday for a 7 p.m. matchup at Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium. Both contests will be broadcast on ESPN+.
The Pack enters the weekend with a 3-0-1 record, while the Quakers and Tigers are both 2-0-0 on the season. Princeton will host Saint Joseph's Friday evening before its match with the Red and White.
Series History
NC State and Penn have only met once before in program history. The teams met on Sept. 18, 2005 in Philadelphia, and NC State fell 1-0.
Sunday will be the fourth meeting between NC State and Princeton, as the teams met twice last year. The Tigers traveled to Raleigh on Sept. 2 for a regular-season match, and won 2-0. They met again in the NCAA Second Round in Cary, N.C., on Nov. 17 where the Tigers ultimately advanced 5-4 in penalty kicks after a 1-1 result.
Last Time Out
The Pack hosted 10th-ranked South Carolina on Sunday and earned a 2-1 victory thanks to a pair of second half goals by Tziarra King and Kia Rankin as well as key defensive play.
The victory marked the eighth time since the program's 2016 breakout season that the team has beaten or tied a top 25 program.
Homecoming
This weekend will be a homecoming for King, Maxine Blackwood and head coach Tim Santoro. King is a Sicklerville, N.J., native, which is approximately 30 minutes from Philadelphia and an hour from Princeton.
Santoro, a Cumberland Regional High School graduate, is from the same area as King. Blackwood hails from Somerville, which is roughly 30 minutes from Princeton and an hour and a half from Philly.
Record Watch
King scored her 28th career goal on Sunday, which ranks her 10th all-time in NC State's record book.
Sydney Wootten picked up her 18th career shutout in Monday's 1-0 win over Monmouth, which puts her one away from ranking fourth all-time among the program.
Latest Rankings
NC State jumped three spots to 12th in the latest Soccer America poll and 13th in United Soccer Coaches. The team also moved up one spot to 15th in this week's TopDrawerSoccer poll.
Player Of The Week
After scoring a pair of goals in her first two matches back since overcoming an injury, Rankin was named ACC Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday.
Undefeated Streak
Sunday's win marked the 13th consecutive match the team has not had a loss on its home turf (since Sept. 7, 2017), and extended the program's unbeaten streak in regular-season competition to nine (since Oct. 8, 2017).
Scouting Penn
The Quakers opened their season last week when they hosted Mount St. Mary's on Thursday and Army on Sunday. The squad shut out both teams, as it defeated the Mountaineers 5-0 and Black Knights 1-0.
Penn returns nine of its starters from last season, three of which were All-Ivy selections, and added eight members to its 2018 roster.
Scouting Princeton
The Tigers won their second Ivy League title in three seasons last year with a 1-0 win over Penn in the championship final. The team secured an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament, and reached the Elite Eight for the first time since 2004.
Princeton was selected to win the Ivy League in 2018, receiving 15 of 16 first-place votes in the preseason poll. The team returns its top goalkeeper and three leading scorers from last season, but graduated four All-Ivy honorees.
Princeton opened its season last weekend with a pair of shutout wins over New Hampshire (2-0) and Boston University (1-0).
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