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Princeton Tigers: Nov. 21–Dec. 4
Twenty-five games and matches were played across 13 sports and nine U.S. states over the past two weeks. Of the 31 games where only one team came out on top, the Tigers won 64.7 percent of matches — not quite as successful as the 74.2 percent in last week’s games. Multiple day meets and tournaments are counted individually for each day of the competition. Competitions with more than one event or individual results — such as golf and cross country — are not included in our win percentage analysis.
This week, the Tigers won over three-fifths of their games. They routed their opponents when they had home-field advantage, taking seven of eight at Old Nassau. The Tigers almost broke even when playing on the road, winning four of their nine games away from Princeton, including women’s ice hockey’s impressive win over top-10 Quinnipiac — more on that to come.
Gimme five
With their 2–1 win over Long Island University last night, No. 14 women’s ice hockey has now won five straight games to close out the 2024 portion of their season. During this streak, the Tigers have taken down two ranked opponents, No. 13 Boston and No. 9 Quinnipiac.
Heaven after a long seven
The men’s ice hockey team now has four wins in a row, their longest streak since 2017–18 — the last time they had a winning season. The Tigers got two goals each from junior defenseman David Ma and junior forward Brendan Gorman.
After a slow start to the season, the Tigers’ hot streak on the ice has finally come into fruition under new Head Coach Ben Syer. Syer took the job in the spring following assistant coaching gigs at Quinnipiac and Cornell, where he helped turn their respective programs into Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) powerhouses.
Rule the pool
In their home race at the Big Al Invitational this weekend at Princeton, the men’s 400 freestyle set a pool and program record with a time of 2:49.93. The foursome of Schott, Feyerick, Hong, and Dinu now have the 19th fastest time in the nation.
Catch her if you can
Senior Mena Scatchard shattered the standing women’s indoor track record for the 3000m race by over 11 seconds with a time of 9:00.86. Scatchard, coming off an appearance at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, also has the Tiger indoor record for the 1000m.
First race, first record
Continuing the Tiger track success, first-year Jazmyn Singh certainly has started her Tiger career fast, running the fastest 300m in Princeton history. Her time of 39.04 shot her up the leaderboards, right in front of Katie DiFrancesco ’21 and her time of 39.29.
From excellence on the ice to the swim and track records, the Tigers notched many successes in the rink and in the pool and look to continue their strong start to their winter seasons into next semester. Check back in January to learn about all things Princeton Athletics — By The Numbers.
Harrison Blank is an assistant Sports editor at the ‘Prince.’
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