Mimi Hammerberg was nervous and rushing and stood all alone last Sunday, cradling the ball and caught in the spotlight.
Coming into the Spring Break road trip, the baseball team faced three teams that had played 41 games between them.
As junior forward Shane Campbell won the faceoff and fired a shot past Clarkson goalie Karl Mattson to give the men's hockey team a 2-0 lead with three minutes, 30 seconds left in the first period, it looked as if the Golden Knights' streak was coming to an end.However, Clarkson, winner of 15 consecutive home playoff games, would not be stopped last weekend by the Tigers.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. ? Not even the return of injured senior forward Mason Rocca could dig the Tigers out of an early hole Wednesday against Penn State, as the Tigers ended their season by bowing out in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament, 55-41.Rocca entered the game with eight minutes, 27 seconds remaining in the first half after having missed the last three regular season games.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. ? For the men's lacrosse team, slowing things down has accelerated its ability to win.During Spring Break, Princeton exhibited an uncharacteristically impatient and sloppy offense in a 15-8 loss to Virginia on Mar.
For the last three years, the men's hockey team has won its first-round Eastern College Athletic Conference playoff series and made the trip to Lake Placid, N.Y., for the semifinals.To make it back for a fourth straight year, Princeton (10-14-4 overall, 8-9-4 ECAC) will have to break an even more impressive streak.Clarkson (15-14-3, 9-8-3), whom Princeton will face in the first round, has won its first-round series for the past 10 seasons and has appeared in the championship game for the last three of those.
Two outs was all the baseball team needed from Jeff Golden '99. It was the final game of the Ivy League Championships, and the Tigers held a two-run lead over archrival Harvard.
One would think that following last Saturday's victory over then-No. 3 Johns Hopkins, the men's lacrosse team would look to play a lesser team this weekend.
It's a choice more and more high school seniors are having to make. Go to school and get an education, or chase down your dreams of playing professionally.For senior catcher Buster Small, the opportunity to play professional baseball had presented itself, and the temptation was strong."Like every kid, I wanted to be a major leaguer," Small says.
In David Benjamin's last season as the head coach of men's tennis, his team is looking to make him proud.The Tigers (6-2 overall) are hoping to cap off Benjamin's 26-year coaching career by winning the Ivy League title and advancing to the NCAA tournament.The team is in good shape.
The offense spurted out like mustard from a plastic container, starting smooth, then squirting out in bits and bursts that resulted in a messy but satisfying end.
Great expectations could be the theme for the women's tennis team this year. The Tigers are looking to win the Ivy League and by doing so, earn an NCAA tournament berth.
This year, before deciding on the schedule for the 1999-2000 campaign, head coach Cindy Cohen presented her softball team with a choice.Coming off a year in which the Tigers never recovered from early season losses, Cohen wondered whether the team would benefit from playing easier competition during Spring Break, and thereby boosting its confidence for the rest of the season.
Every softball player dreams of hitting a game-winning home run in the last inning of a close contest.
For the men's and women's fencing teams, the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championship may be unlike any other event of the season.
There's something about March.While college basketball teams across the country await their fates at the hands of the NCAA Selection Committee, the men's volleyball team still controls its own destiny going into its last five matches before the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association tournament in mid-April.
PHILADELPHIA ? Entering last night's season finale at the Palestra, fans and observers wondered which women's basketball team would show up.
Tournaments always provide the opportunity for underdog sports teams to shock the world. For the wrestling team, its opportunity to play Cinderella was this weekend at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships in Annapolis, Md.Unfortunately for Princeton, however, the glass slipper did not quite fit.The Tigers ? despite a strong individual performance from junior Jeff Bernd in the 149 lb.
PHILADELPHIA ? For a brief time during the second half last night, it seemed the men's basketball team was on its way to pulling off another 'Palestra Miracle.'But on Senior Night at the Palestra, Penn had a different ending in mind.
With the Ivy League title already decided, men's basketball's matchup with first-place Penn tonight at the Palestra is all about pride.Penn humbled the Tigers (19-9 overall, 11-2 Ivy League) Feb.
