Trip to Princeton on Deck for BC on Sunday Night

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – After opening up the 2019 season with a three-game home stand, the Boston College women's soccer team will face its first road test of the season on Sunday night in the form of the two-time defending Ivy League champion Princeton Tigers.

The game, which is set to kick off at 7 p.m., will be available for streaming on ESPN+.

Boston College at Princeton University
Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019 | 7:00 p.m.
Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium | Princeton, N.J.

A WIN OVER PRINCETON WOULD . . .
• Move Boston College to 4-0 on the year.
• Bump the Eagles to 2-3-0 in the all-time series against the Tigers.
• Move BC to 2-0-0 in regular season meetings with Princeton.

ABOUT PRINCETON
• The Tigers are coming off a season-opening 1-0 win over the Saint Joseph's Hawks ... rookie Grace Sherman scored in the seventh minute while Natalie Grossi made four saves for the shutout.
• Two-time defending Ivy League champion Princeton was tabbed as the Ivy League preseason favorite after receiving 10 of the 16 first-place votes ... the Tigers won the last four games of the 2018 Ivy League slate to split the title with Penn and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament (winning the tie-break over Penn).
• Princeton returns six of its seven goal scorers from last season and seven All-Ivy League honorees.
• Head coach Sean Driscoll, who is in his fifth year leading Princeton, was named the Ivy League Coach of the Year in 2015, 2017 and 2018.

SERIES HISTORY VS PRINCETON
• Boston College holds a record of 1-3 all-time in games against Princeton.
• The Eagles and Tigers have met once in the regular season, with BC taking that first-ever meeting in 1983 by a 2-0 line.
• Princeton and BC have clashed three times in the NCAA tournament, with the Ivy League foe holding a 3-0 mark in those meetings.

LAST TIME OUT
• Boston College moved to 3-0 on the 2019 season with a 3-0 win over UMass Lowell on Sunday night in Newton.
• For the third straight game, BC opened the scoring within the first 10 minutes ... captain Gaby Carreiro curled home her first goal of the season.
• Carreiro then assisted on Jade Ruiters' first career goal five minutes later before Gianna Mitchell capped the scoring with her first of the year in the 75th minute.
• Freshman Allie Augur made two saves to earn her first career shutout.

IT'S WORTH NOTING
• Current Boston College assistant coach Jami Kranich spent two years (2017 and 2018) on Sean Driscoll's staff at Princeton.
• Both BC and Princeton were both receiving votes in the first regular season United Soccer Coaches poll this week.
• The Eagles have four student-athletes from the state of New Jersey on the 2019 roster: Erin Convery, Kayla Jennings, Jillian Jennings and Olivia Vaughn.

UP NEXT
• BC will return home for another three-game home stand beginning with Northeastern at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5.

SPREAD THE WEALTH
• Through the first three games of the 2019 season, Boston College has received goals from seven different players and at least one point from 11 different Eagles.
• It marks the first time BC has had at least seven different goal scorers through the first three games of the season since 2010 ... seven different Eagles found the back of the net through the first three games of that season that ended in the College Cup.

FAST STARTS
• Boston College has scored in the fifth minute in two of the first three games of the season ... the Eagles have scored by the 10th minute in all three contests.
• Samantha Agresti's goal 4:01 into the season-opener against UMass on Aug. 25 marked BC's fastest goal to start a season since Lauren Bernard scored 6:12 into a season-opening 2-1 overtime loss against Stanford on Aug. 23, 2013.
• Olivia Vaughn put home a goal 4:48 into a win over UMass Lowell on Aug. 25.
• Samantha Agresti's goal was BC's first scored in the fifth minute since Hayley Dowd scored 4:36 into a 3-0 win against Pitt on Sept. 22, 2016.
• Stephanie McCaffrey once scored 31 seconds into a 3-2 loss to USF on Sept. 18, 2014.

FIRST SHUTOUT
• Allie Augur's two-save shutout against rival Boston University on Aug. 29 marked the first of her career.
• It was the first time a BC freshman goalkeeper earned a clean sheet since Erin Seppi did it against Pitt on Sept. 22, 2016.

ABOUT HEAD COACH JASON LOWE
• Jason Lowe was named the program's fifth head coach on Jan. 9, 2019.
• Lowe arrived on the Heights after serving on the coaching staff at Wake Forest since 2014, including 2017 and 2018 as associate head coach.
• The Shaker Heights, Ohio native helped the Demon Deacons reach the NCAA tournament Round of 32 in 2017 and the Sweet 16 in 2018.
• Prior to Wake Forest, Lowe served as an assistant coach at Alabama for five seasons and two years at Emory.
• Lowe served as a goalkeeper for the Wake Forest men's soccer team from 1994-97.
• In addition to receiving his bachelor's degree in 1998, Lowe also earned his MBA from Wake Forest in 2002.

BC BITS
• Boston College finished the 2018 season with an overall record of 14-5-1 and a conference mark of 6-3-1.
• The Eagles earned the program's 19th-ever NCAA tournament bid.
• The 2019 season marks the first under head coach Jason Lowe.
• BC added 11 new faces to the 2019 roster, with nine rookies and two transfers landing on the Heights.
• Senior forward Olivia Vaughn is BC's active scoring leader with 44 points on 20 goals and four assists.

Trip to Princeton on Deck for BC on Sunday Night

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Players Mentioned

Samantha Agresti

Allie Augur

Gaby Carreiro

Erin Convery

Jillian Jennings

Kayla Jennings

Gianna Mitchell

Jade Ruiters

Olivia Vaughn