PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Kayla Yelensky registered a career-high seven goals as the No. 8-ranked Princeton University women’s water polo team defeated the host/No. 21 Brown University Bears, 17-11, at Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center.
Yelensky scored a hat trick just 3:30 into the game as Princeton led 4-2 after eight minutes. The Tigers opened the second quarter with three straight tallies to expand their lead to five at 7-2.
Brown ripped off three of the next four to get within three, 8-5, before Shanna Davidson and Yelensky ended the threat with tallies. Princeton went into halftime doubling up Brown, 10-5.
Davidson and Ava Houlahan began the second half scoring as Princeton eventually led 13-6 after 24 minutes. The Tigers were never threatened in the fourth quarter, scoring four times highlighted by Yelensky’s seventh strike of the contest.
Yelensky’s seven tallies are the most goals in a game by a Tiger since Katie Rigler registered seven versus Bucknell University in April of 2011. Adele McCarthy-Beauvais and Elyse Colgan have the program record with eight each.
Release courtesy Princeton University Athletics Communications
