PRINCETON, N.J. — Playing in their fourth-straight Ivy League Women’s Lacrosse Tournament championship game, Yale avenged their 2022 title game loss to Princeton by defeating the Tigers, 17-6, becoming the first Ivy League team to win back-to-back titles since Princeton in the late 2010s.

It was a dominating performance from the Bulldogs, who, despite heavy rain setting in during the second half, rewarded their contingent of fans who made the trip to Class of 1952 Stadium in Princeton, N.J. with a resounding victory. Sky Carrasquillo, who was on the field the last time these two teams met with an Ivy League championship on the line, turned in a career-best performance to ensure a Yale victory this time around. She had a career-high six goals and seven points, scoring on all six of her shots on goal. Fellow senior, Jenna Collignon, had another impressive showing on the league’s biggest stage, turning in five goals and eight draw controls on the afternoon.

The Bulldog defense swarmed Princeton’s 10^th-ranked offense all game, limiting the Tigers to just 19 total shot attempts and 12 shots on goal. Yale goaltender, Niamh Pfaff, stopped six-of-11 shots she faced, holding the Tigers to offense to just three goals in the first half.

Fallon Vaughn got things started for Yale, scoring the first goal of the game, a man-up goal, to give the Bulldogs the 1-0 lead, then assisting on Taylor Lane’s 31^st goal of the season to put Yale up 2-0 early in the first quarter. Princeton came back quickly as McKenzie Blake scored her first goal just 30 seconds later to cut the deficit to one, and then Sophie Whiteway scored a man-up goal to tie the game at two apiece with five minutes remaining in the first quarter. The teams went up and down the field for a few minutes, but Carrasquillo ended the seven-minute scoring drought for the Bulldogs with her first of the game and gave Yale a 3-2 lead at the end of the first.

Carrasquillo’s goal seemed to jump start the Bulldogs as Yale came out firing on all cylinders in the second quarter. A save by Pfaff started a break the other way and at the end of it was Collignon, who scored her first goal of the day to put Yale up 4-2. That goal was the second in what became a 6-0 run for Yale that turned the 2-2 tie into an 8-2 lead with just under 2 minutes remaining in the second quarter. During the stretch, Collignon added a free position goal, Carrasquillo completed her first-half hat trick, and Lane tacked on her second goal of the half to put Yale up by six. Princeton got a late goal from Jami MacDonald for the Tigers’ first goal in over 20 minutes to make it 8-3 at halftime.

The Tigers showed signs of life early in the third quarter, forcing a couple of turnovers and working their way into the attacking zone, but Yale made them work for it as it took nearly five minutes of game time for Princeton to turn that effort into a goal. Nina Montes potted a free position goal to make it 8-4 and bring some momentum back on their side. Yale wouldn’t let Princeton get any closer than that, though, as Carrasquillo and Collignon found pockets in the Tiger defense four times over the final five-plus minutes of the third quarter to break the game open and make it 12-4 at the end of three quarters.

The eventual 7-0 Bulldog run continued into the fourth quarter with a pair of Carrasquillo’s goals sandwiching Lane’s third of the day, bringing it to 15-4 with 11:12 left in the game. Princeton did get goals from Lane Calkins and Blake, but with the running clock in place, the final 10 minutes was a coronation for the Bulldogs as Yale waltzed to the 17-6 victory.

With the win, Yale earns the Ivy League’s automatic berth into the 2025 NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Tournament. In what has been a stellar season for the Ivy League, multiple Ivies will find out their fate during the NCAA Selection Show, which airs tonight at 9 p.m. on ESPNU.

All-Tournament Team
Taylor Lane, Yale (Most Outstanding Player)
Jenna Collignon, Yale
Sky Carrasquillo, Yale
Fallon Vaughn, Yale
Emmy Pascal, Yale
McKenzie Blake, Princeton
Jami MacDonald, Princeton
Dylan Allen, Princeton
Anna Brandt, Penn
Orly Sedransk, Penn
Leah Caputo, Brown
Annie Burton, Brown