Weekend Wrap-up
CrewThe Princeton heavyweight men opened their season Saturday with a win in Annapolis, Md., against Navy.
CrewThe Princeton heavyweight men opened their season Saturday with a win in Annapolis, Md., against Navy.
Every match is crucial now for the tennis teams, whose Ivy League seasons include only seven contests.
Fresh off of an impressive showing at last weekend's Princeton Invitational, the softball team hoped to translate that momentum into a pair of wins against intrastate rival Rutgers yesterday afternoon at 1895 Field.But Princeton (9-15 overall), would lose a little bit of that steam, settling for a more modest result ? a split with the Scarlet Knights.The Tigers dropped the front end of the doubleheader, 6-3, in extra innings, before coming back to blank Rutgers, 5-0, in six innings before play gave way to darkness."Obviously, we did a nice job coming back in the second game," head coach Cindy Cohen said.
The bubble finally burst.The men's volleyball team, which needed to win all of its remaining matches following Tuesday night's loss at NJIT, dropped a 3-0 decision to Concordia last night at Dillon Gym.
Friday, March 31 Women's golf at William and Mary (through April 2 in Williamsburg, Va.) Women's lacrosse vs.
The time for lineup tune-ups and rotation roulette has passed. Now, the "preseason" is over."This is what we gear up for," head coach Scott Bradley said.
For the past four seasons, Princeton's men's lacrosse team has moved through the Ivy League season like a construction crew laying a section of interstate highway on a midwestern plain ? show up, flatten and move on to the next task.Tomorrow, the Tigers (3-1 overall) will try to keep pouring asphalt on the rest of the conference when they host Yale (3-2, 1-1 Ivy League) in their Ivy opener at 1952 Stadium.Under the guidance of head coach Bill Tierney, Princeton is poised for another run at the Ivy championship ? which would be the school's sixth consecutive crown.
The referee pushed through bodies, burrowing down through sweaty, kicking legs and linked arms, furiously trying to find the bottom of the human pile.
PISCATAWAY ? The baseball team knew its strength this season would be its pitching. The Tigers returned a cadre of starters and brought in a strong freshman class.
For most of the women's squash team, the beginning of the off-season means a chance to finally relax ? a chance to take some time away from squash after another grueling season.For junior Julia Beaver, however, the "off-season" has an entirely different significance.
So how about those folks over at Sports Illustrated? They just have such a sense of humor, don't they?By picking Boston to win the World Series, they managed to pile the SI cover jinx on top of the Curse of the Bambino, guaranteeing that the Red Sox have about as much chance of winning this year's Fall Classic as I do of marrying Marisa Tomei.Still, mocking New Englanders isn't the only thing this Washingtonian has to look forward to this year.
With the clunk of the driver, a golf ball rises high above the earth. But no matter how high it flies, it cannot escape its silent shadow, which traces the ground all across the sublunary world, tracking its lofted counterpart and waiting for the ball to return.The men's and women's golf teams both come into the spring season leaders of the Ivy League and with their sights set high.
The men's tennis team continued its pattern of decisive wins yesterday at Jadwin. After defeating St.
After two home-opening losses to a mediocre Rider squad a week ago, softball head coach Cindy Cohen realized that the team was not headed in the right direction.
One could say that the playoff bubble that the men's volleyball team was in has now burst. Heading into last night's match at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Princeton needed to win three of its last four matches.
Sophomore Kim Smith of the women's lacrosse team and the field hockey team recently sat down with senior writer Sophia Hollander.'Prince': Is it embarrassing to beat a team 18-0?Kim Smith: It's not embarrassing.
With the dawn of the Ivy League season on the horizon, the men's lacrosse team is facing a sort of identity crisis.
To say that the men's volleyball team is on the bubble would be an understatement.The Tigers (7-9 overall, 3-6 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) were not so much dominated by Juniata (8-11, 4-7) on Friday in Huntingdon Pa.