On a cloudy Saturday afternoon at Berman Field in Ithaca, New York, Princeton women’s soccer (5–3 overall, 1–0, Ivy League) shutout the Cornell Big Red (1–5–4 overall, 0–1 Ivy League) by a score of 3–0.
The two Ivy League teams have a history of heated competition. The last time these teams had met in Ithaca was in 2022, when the Big Red pulled out a narrow 2–1 win, ending the Tigers’ 25 year win streak in the series. In their 2023 matchup, however, the Tigers secured a 4–2 win.
“We had nine days from our game against Fairfield [University] to our game against Cornell,” senior forward and captain Heather MacNab told The Daily Princetonian, “We had time to reset, get some injured people healthy, and recenter our trainings around things we needed to focus on.”…