By sheer numbers, the baseball team should not win this weekend's Ivy League championship series.
With the Ivy League season out of the way ? and struggles with national powerhouses forged through ? it's about time the men's lacrosse team shoved aside that famous sports cliche, "We'll just take it one game at a time." The Tigers are looking ahead to the NCAA tournament, and, if everything goes according to plan, this weekend's game against Hobart will count for two games at once.Although seeding in the NCAA tournament is not dictated by college lacrosse polls, it is likely that disposing of the Statesmen (7-4 overall, 5-1 Patriot League) will assure Princeton (9-2, 6-0 Ivy League) one of the top four seeds.
As a tune-up for some of the spring season's largest meets coming up, the men's track team hosted the Broadmeade Invitational Wednesday ? and ran away with several winning performances.In the 800, junior Tensai Asfaw was victorious with a time of 1 minute, 52.4 seconds.
Now that it has conquered the East, the women's water polo team (24-3 overall, 8-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) heads to Bloomington, Ind., this weekend to take on the nation.Competing in the Collegiate National Championships, beginning this morning, Princeton will battle Hawaii in its first round of action.
Going into this past weekend, the softball team needed a lot of help to have a shot at an Ivy title.
Bill Tierney is the head coach of the men's lacrosse team and the father of junior goalie Trevor Tierney and sophomore attack Brendan Tierney.
Cross country and distance track coach Mike Brady remembers clearly the moment he knew how good Paul Morrison could be.It was the NCAA cross country championships last year ? and Morrison was a freshman phenom lost in a pack of the nation's best runners.Brady was watching from across the field as the pack emerged from the woods and faced a treacherously steep hill."Everyone came gingerly down that hill," Brady says.
Faced with gusty winds and harsh rain in Cambridge two weekends ago, men's heavyweight crew's perfect record was swept up in the storm when Princeton fell to Harvard by three seconds.Under clearer skies this past weekend, the heavyweights rebounded from the loss, beating both Cornell and Yale in Ithaca, N.Y., Saturday.Both the Tigers and the Elis started strong early, with Yale holding a slight lead over Princeton.
Her list of accomplishments is almost too long. She owns two team national championships and two individual national championships.
One win. That's all the baseball team needed. A single win in a four-game series against Gehrig Division rival Cornell, and the Tigers would clinch the division title.But the win just would not come easily."Coming into the weekend our confidence was pretty high," junior first baseman Andrew Hanson said.
Athletes including Michael Johnson, Gail Devers, Marion Jones. 45,203 spectators on Saturday, 102,193 overall.
Trailing after only one minute of play, the men's lacrosse team found its streak of Ivy perfection that had taken four hard seasons to build in jeopardy.Princeton's seniors, however, were not about to let the league doormat snap a career's worth of work.The Tigers (9-2 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) scored nine consecutive goals and then held on to defeat Dartmouth (5-8, 0-5) 10-7, in Hanover, N.H.
Coming off back-to-back losses against No. 2 Dartmouth and No. 1 Maryland, the women's lacrosse team needed a convincing win heading into the NCAA tournament.Saturday, against a mediocre Brown team, the No.
With two-and-a-half minutes to play ? and the Eastern Championship on the line ? the women's water polo team and UMass were tangled in another test of endurance.For three straight years, the Minutewomen had come out on top of these battles.
An Ivy title was at stake, the national championship picture was up in the air and two potent teams were coming to town.While last weekend's men's lacrosse action at 1952 Stadium featured three of the top 10 teams in the nation battling for Ivy and national bragging rights, tomorrow's game at Dartmouth (5-7 overall, 0-4 Ivy League) is decidedly less interesting.The Big Green has finished in the bottom half of the Ivy standings for the past several seasons, and is once again struggling this year.
All season, the softball team has won on the strength of its dominant pitching ? and lost on the slipups of an error-prone infield.Yesterday's doubleheader at Villanova showcased both faces of Princeton's defense.The Tigers lost the first game, 3-0, on an error, but came back to win the second game, 1-0, on the strength of a one-hitter pitched by the combination of sophomores Sarah Jane White and Brie Galicinao.The host Wildcats were not very welcoming when Princeton first arrived.
All year the baseball team has been fighting to reach the Ivy League Championship Series and gain revenge on Harvard, which has captured the title three straight years.
The offense has sputtered recently like the engine of an aging car, stopping for stretches then speeding in spurts, causing consternation and several near-crashes.
The 'Street' isn't the only place to look for action this weekend. DeNunzio Pool will be in a water polo frenzy as the Tigers (20-3 overall, 8-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) host the Eastern Championships.
Men's tennis head coach David Benjamin ? who will coach his team for the final time tomorrow against Georgetown ? will be inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Men's Hall of Fame on May 24 in Athens, Ga.After 26 seasons at the helm of the Princeton program, Benjamin has built up a 362-161 record with the Tigers.
