After toppling Ivy archrival Yale and the rest of the competition at the Dartmouth Invitational Sept.
The men's soccer team had had enough.Yesterday afternoon in Teaneck, N.J., the Tigers put an end to their three-game losing streak and offensive frustrations by winning 2-1 over host Farleigh Dickinson.After the Knights (6-5-1 overall, 3-1 NEC) tied the game at one apiece in the 55th minute, junior forward Mike Nugent came storming back less than a minute later, scoring the game winner off an assist from sophomore Bob Nye.
The women's volleyball team is hot.After finishing a strong second in the Juniata ASICS Collegiate Invitational last weekend, Princeton will take the heat on the road, as the Tigers travel to face a familiar foe, Manhattan College, tonight.Princeton? now 9-4 on the season ? has already played the Jaspers once this year at the St.
Julie Shaner dribbled up the field through five defenders and lofted a shot towards the goal. The senior midfielder's shot popped up and over the tips of the Delaware goalkeeper's fingers, dropping down behind her into the net.With that, the women's soccer team took the lead for good last night at Lourie-Love Field against its Mid-Atlan-tic region rival.
Anyone who has been to one of Glenn Nelson's practices is well aware that "tight sets kill people." After all, it is one of the coach's most repeated volleyball mantras.
The skeleton of a great cross country team was already in place with seniors Tensai Asfaw, Pat Anglin and junior Wes Stockard returning from last year's team, which finished tied for 19th at the NCAA championships.
The men's team has fallen into a three-game slide. The women's team has registered shutouts in six of seven outings.But today, despite their different fortunes of late, men's and women's soccer plan a similar focus on fundamentals.For men's soccer head coach Jim Barlow, getting the first goal in this afternoon's match at FDU-Teaneck is a critical step toward "getting back on track after a few games we've given away."For women's soccer head coach Julie Shackford, getting back to basics is also part of the gameplan for tonight's match against Delaware."Anytime you lose, you reevaluate," Shackford said ? referring to the Tigers' heartbreaking 1-0 loss to Rutgers.
"It was a tale of two halves."Senior captain and tight end Mike Piazza summed up sprint football's 16-13 loss at Cornell Friday night as well as anyone.
In football's stirring 27-24 comeback win over Columbia last weekend, there was plenty of credit to go around.
NEW YORK ? Perhaps head coach Roger Hughes is on to something.All year, Hughes has preached the importance of "the next play." Standing all alone on the sideline, waiting to attempt a 24-yard field goal in the first overtime, the next play was the only thing junior kicker Taylor Northrop could think about."That's something coach Hughes has brought to this program ? the ability to focus here and now," Northrop said.
Columbia has Princeton's number. And they don't appear as if they're ready to give it up anytime soon.In the Lions' (3-3-1 overall, 1-0-0 Ivy League) league opener against the visiting men's soccer team (4-3-0, 0-2-0), Columbia maintained its dominance over Princeton by winning 1-0 ? its seventh straight victory over the Tigers.Princeton continued its disappointing slide, dropping its third straight game.
With the No. 1 team in the nation and defending NCAA champion in town, the undefeated field hockey team knew that it had to play well just to stay in the game.
Throughout the third quarter of men's water polo's Sunday match against UMass, the usually animated bench of the Princeton squad was in complete silence.
As sophomore defender Heather Deerin stepped up to the ball 74 minutes into the women's soccer team's game Saturday at Columbia, the Tigers were getting frustrated.After dominating the second half of Tuesday's game against Rutgers without scoring, the Tigers (6-1 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) were being stifled by a Lion team that seemed content to pack its players back in their own defensive half."They packed the defensive zone early," senior forward Tanya Kalivas said.
Like pigs, all Ivy League games are created equal, but some are more equal than others.Tomorrow the women's soccer team travels to New York to take on Columbia, and while the Tigers do not wish to overlook the Lions, this should be one of their least taxing league games.The Lions were 0-6-1 last year in the Ivy League, and, while many of their starters graduated, the players that filled in the ranks have not caused a dramatic turnaround in the team's fortunes.This season, Columbia is 2-4-2 overall, having lost its sole Ivy contest to Cornell ? the lowest-scoring team in the league.Princeton is coming off its first loss of the season, a 1-0 heartbreaker against Rutgers on Tuesday."[The loss] was a wakeup call," senior forward Amee Reyes said.
Friday, Sept. 29 Women's volleyball at Juniata (11 a.m. in Huntington, Pa.) Field hockey vs.
One doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to understand why field hockey wants to take down Maryland tonight.
It has been two weeks since the women's golf team's blistering performance in the Dartmouth Invitational, but the Tigers hope that the momentum built in that stellar performance can be sustained for at least one more weekend.Tomorrow, Princeton will begin the only home tournament on its schedule, when it hosts the Princeton Invitiational.
When trying out a new car, you submit it to a series of tests. You see how quickly it can go from zero to 60.
The Princeton sports headlines have been dominated by change recently. New coaches in football, softball and on both the men's and women's basketball teams have changed the face of Tiger sports in ways yet unseen.
