{"id":141742,"date":"2025-09-13T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141742\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T20:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:11:07","slug":"tigers-dominate-villanova-3-0-princeton-university-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141742\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Dominate Villanova, 3-0 &#8211; Princeton University Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VILLANOVA, PA. \u2013 Princeton earned a dominant 3-0 victory over the Villanova Wildcats on Saturday on the road in Pennsylvania. Three Tigers scored in <a href=\"https:\/\/goprincetontigers.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/bardia-hormozi\/24042\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24042\" target=\"_blank\">Bardia Hormozi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goprincetontigers.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/jack-jasinski\/24045\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24045\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Jasinski<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goprincetontigers.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/daniel-ittycheria\/24044\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24044\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Ittycheria<\/a>, with keeper <a href=\"https:\/\/goprincetontigers.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/andrew-samuels\/24053\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24053\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Samuels<\/a> securing the shutout in goal.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWith the win, Princeton improves to 2-1 on the season, while Villanova falls to 2-2-2.<\/p>\n<p>HOW IT HAPPENED<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Tigers started pressing from the whistle, earning a corner in the first minute and starting to take shots as one from <a href=\"https:\/\/goprincetontigers.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/liam-beckwith\/24037\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24037\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Beckwith<\/a> was blocked by a Wildcat defender.<\/p>\n<p>Another good chance would come at the feet of Ittycheria in the 11th minute, but it would go just high of the goal.<\/p>\n<p>A ball looping into the box from <a href=\"https:\/\/goprincetontigers.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/roka-tsunehara\/24056\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24056\" target=\"_blank\">Roka Tsunehara<\/a> and Ittycheria would find the foot of Hormozi, who launched it into the upper left corner of the net to score his first career goal and put the Tigers up 1-0.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe half would continue to be all Princeton, as the Tigers stayed on offense generating a total of 13 shots to Villanova&#8217;s two through the first 45.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIn the 36th minute, Ittycheria opened his 2025 account and doubled the Tiger lead as he headed the ball into the upper right of the net off a corner from Jasinski.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nJust two minutes later, another cross from Tsunehara was sent in front of the goal where Jasinski found it and finished with his second goal of the year, making it 3-0 Tigers going into the break.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nComing out of the half, the Wildcats turned up the heat as they fought to generate chances.<\/p>\n<p>In the 56th minute, a foul in the box resulted in a penalty kick awarded to Villanova. Fynn Lahrsen stepped up and sent the ball towards the bottom left of the net, but Tiger keeper <a href=\"https:\/\/goprincetontigers.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/andrew-samuels\/24053\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24053\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Samuels<\/a> was there to deny the Wildcats and keep the shutout.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Tigers continued to dominate, taking another 11 shots and forcing three saves from the Villanova keeper Alex Yagudayev.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe 3-0 score stood final, securing the Tigers a clean sheet and dominant win on the road.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nOf Note&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tHormozi&#8217;s goal was his first career goal.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tJasinski&#8217;s goal was his second of the year. WIth an assist on Hormozi&#8217;s goal, he had three points on the day &#8211; his second three-point performance in two games.&#13;<br \/>\n\tIttycheria&#8217;s goal was his first of the year.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tSamuels made two saves in the shutout, including one on the PK for his first clean sheet of the year.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tPrinceton outshot Villanova 24-6.\u00a0&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nUp Next<br \/>\nThe Tigers will return home to face UMass on Tuesday, September 16 in Roberts Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VILLANOVA, PA. \u2013 Princeton earned a dominant 3-0 victory over the Villanova Wildcats on Saturday on the road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-141742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}