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Princeton Tigers: April 2–9
Thirty games and matches were played across 14 sports and eight U.S. states over the past two weeks. Of the 19 games where only one team came out on top, the Tigers won 63.2 percent of matches. 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 all six back at Old Nassau. The Tigers almost broke even when playing on the road, winning six of their 13 games away from Princeton, including a record-filled women’s lacrosse win over Stony Brook Wednesday night.
To the power of ten
With their dominant 19–13 win over No. 19 Stony Brook Wednesday night, No. 5 women’s lacrosse extended their winning streak to 10, with their only loss coming in their season opener to No. 10 University of Virginia. The next biggest test for the Tigers will be in a week against No. 16 Penn in Philadelphia.
Piece of cake for Blake
Senior attacker McKenzie Blake broke the 200-goal mark Wednesday night with eight goals — tied for her career high — in women’s lacrosse’s win Wednesday night. With at least four games left in her career, Blake is on track to surpass the 209-goal mark set by Kyla Sears ’22.
Mora Mora Mora for Dora
In the record-setting night for women’s lacrosse, Haven Dora grabbed a piece of the action by setting the Tigers’ single-season assist record with 42 so far. The junior attacker’s six-assist afternoon against Stony Brook has her trailing Sears ’22 by only nine assists for the all-time assist record, 89 to 98.
One shining moment
Women’s basketball alumna Kaitlyn Chen ’24 stood atop the mountain of women’s college basketball on Sunday, winning the national championship with the University of Connecticut Huskies. The three-time Ivy League Player of the Year recorded four assists in 18 minutes for the Huskies.
Ferocious Four
With only four seconds remaining in the game, junior goalie Lindsay Lucas stopped a five-meter free penalty shot to secure No. 10 women’s water polo’s 9–8 win over No. 14 University of Michigan. The Tigers won all three games this past weekend during their trip to Ann Arbor.
The narrowest margin
In a stunning finish, senior Adelaide Asante broke the women’s outdoor track 200-meter dash record by only one-hundredth of a second with a time of 23.66 seconds. Asante’s blazing-fast time places her atop the extremely crowded record list, in which five runners have run times between 23.66 and 23.73 seconds.
From excellence in the pool to the lacrosse and track records, the Tigers notched many successes in the field and elsewhere and look to finish their spring seasons strong into the end of the semester. Check back in next week to learn about all things Princeton Athletics — By The Numbers.
Harrison Blank is a head Sports editor at the ‘Prince.’
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