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.
In college sports, it doesn't get much bigger than the Penn Relays. On Saturday ? the most important day of the competition ? over 40,000 people regularly pack the stadium to witness one of the world's greatest track meets.
With one minute left in the first half it seemed as if an upset was brewing.The women's lacrosse team (12-3 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) had scored back-to-back goals in a 40 second span to bring the Tigers back within two goals at 6-4.Maryland (16-1, 2-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) made sure that burst of hope was short lived, however, as Terrapin midfielder Quinn Carney calmly flipped the ball to cutting attack Allison Comito for a quick goal with 14 seconds left on the clock.Off the faceoff after Comito's goal, junior midfielder Julie Shaner took the ball downfield on a fast break and fired an open shot just over the top of the net as time expired.Princeton would not regain the momentum for the rest of the evening and Maryland cruised to a 14-6 win last night at Princeton Stadium."I think if we had answered there it would have been a big momentum builder," head coach Chris Sailer said.
When children start playing lacrosse, they flock to the glamour positions.All youngsters like scoring goals, so many try to play attack.
Although the baseball team used three equally dominating pitchers to power its way past visiting Temple yesterday, one in particular made his mark at Clarke Field ? and in the record books as well.Freshman reliever David Boehle broke the single season saves record in the Tigers' 4-1 victory over the Owls (14-24-3), as the hurler garnered his eighth of the season.
The year was 1994. The women's lacrosse team was going into the NCAA final against a Maryland squad that had given the Tigers its only loss of the season.
Nearing the end of their collegiate tennis careers, seniors Amanda Hastings-Phillips and Ahn Ahn Liu are in similar positions ? both are completing strong seasons at No.
There was a glimmer of hope at the end of football's disappointing 1999 campaign. Going into the fourth quarter, the team held an 18-point lead over Dartmouth in the final game of the season.Roger Hughes, then offensive coordinator for the Big Green, extinguished that light, erasing the deficit and sending the Tigers to the bottom of the Ivy League.Now, the same man will try to restore hope and the winning attitude of past Princeton teams.
Sophomore Brie Galicinao is a pitcher/first baseman for the softball team. She recently sat down with senior writer Paul Esposito.Prince: Why did you play softball, as opposed to any other sport?Galicinao: It wasn't actually my first sport.
