Women's Lacrosse Closes Out Season on Saturday, Hosts No. 12 Princeton

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown women's lacrosse team will close out the 2016 season hosting No. 12 Princeton on Saturday, April 30 at Stevenson-Pincince Field, starting at 1:00 p.m. The Ivy League game will be Brown's Senior Day, where seniors Rebecca Dahle, Victoria Holland, Sarah Nesi, Lauren Toy, Dianne Vitkus and Richael Walsh will be honored prior to the start of the game. Saturday's contest will also be streamed live on the Ivy League Digital Network and ESPN3.

FOLLOW THE BEARS
Brown (6-8, 1-5 Ivy League) vs. No. 12 Princeton (10-4, 5-1 Ivy League)
Saturday, April 30 – 1 p.m.
Providence, R.I.
Stevenson-Pincince Field
ILDN
ESPN3
Live Stats

ALL-TIME VERSUS PRINCETON
The Bears are 4-32 all-time against the Tigers, with Princeton winning last year's contest, 14-8, at Sherrerd Field. Brown upset the then No. 16 Tigers in 2014, 14-13 in overtime, with six current Bears seeing time in the victory.

SCOUTING THE TIGERS
Princeton enters Saturday's with a 10-4 overall record and shares the lead for first place with Cornell and Penn in the Ivy League standings at 5-1. Last weekend the Tigers defeated Columbia, 14-9, in New York City. Olivia Hompe leads the team with 50 points, on a team-best 40 goals and 10 assists. Her 2.86 goals per game rank second in the Ivy League. Colby Chanenchuk carries the team-lead in assists with 17, to go along with six goals for second on the squad in points with 23. Ellie DeGarmo has been in net all of the games of record, and carries a 9.07 goals against average and .548 save percentage into the final regular season game. Her save percentage and saves per game (10.57) are tops in the conference.

LAST TIME OUT: STRONG DEFENSE LEADS BEARS PAST DARTMOUTH, 8-5
The Brown defense held Dartmouth below its season-scoring average of nine goals; leading the Bears to an 8-5 Ivy League win on Saturday (April 23) at Stevenson-Pincince Field. Sophomore Rose Mangiarotti and freshman Zoe Verni paced the Bears' offense with two goals apiece. The victory marks Brown's first over Dartmouth since 2008, which was also an 8-5 showing.

After Dartmouth (6-8, 2-4 Ivy League) scored two-straight goals to open the game, the Bears' (6-8, 1-5 Ivy League) defense held the Big Green scoreless for the next 33 minutes, all while taking a 4-2 lead into halftime. Mangiarotti got the scoring started for Brown at 21:35 when junior Jillian Lee caused a turnover in the defense end, and rushed the ball up-field where she fed Mangiarotti who was cutting to the net for the score. Senior Dianne Vitkus followed shortly after at 20:44 with a free position tally to knot the score (2-2). Verni scored the next two goals to close the half on a 4-2 Brown advantage. The rookie's first score came at 6:37 with senior Lauren Toy providing the assist, while her second tally was a free position goal with just .07 remaining in the opening stanza.

The Big Green opened the second half much like they started the game, scoring two straight, bringing the score to 4-4. From there Brown would tally four unanswered goals and again hold Dartmouth in a scoring drought to take the conference win. Mangiarotti again started the goal scoring, this time at 18:39 with a pass from Vitkus. Junior Kerianne Hunt next picked up her ninth goal of the year on a free position score at 11:38 to give the Bears a two-goal lead (6-4). Freshman Hafsa Moinuddin registered a goal at 9:52 to keep her point-streak alive at 10-straight games. Toy recorded the last Brown goal of the game at 5:02 on a free position shot.

Senior Victoria Holland recorded seven saves in the win while Charlotte Wahle of Dartmouth tallied four stops. Brown outshot Dartmouth 18-13 in the contest. The draw controls were split evenly between the two teams, each squad winning seven. The Bears were 14-for-16 on clears while Dartmouth was 11-for-13. Brown went 4-for-8 on free position shots while Dartmouth was 1-for-3.

POINT STREAK
Freshman Hafsa Moinuddin enters Saturday's game with a 10-game point streak. Moinuddin scored her first collegiate points in an 11-10 win at Bryant on March 9, recording two goals and two assists, and had her first hat trick at Sacred Heart on April 2. She has had five multi-point games in the streak. The rookie currently ranks second on the team in points with 20 (12G, 8A).

BROWN RANKS SECOND IN IVY LEAGUE IN GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE
The Bears' stellar defense combined with senior goalie Victoria Holland have recorded a 8.17 goals against average this season, which ranks second in the Ivy League, trailing only No. 16/18 Cornell (6.57).

IVY LEAGUE DIGITAL NETWORK
Video of all home contests and all Ivy League games, home and away, will be broadcasted live on ildn.tv/brown. Fans can subscribe and view games by purchasing yearly, monthly, weekly or daily packages. The Bears' last two games, against Dartmouth on April 23 and versus Princeton on April 30, will also be broadcasted on ESPN3.