The guest list hasn't quite been finished yet. Some already know that they'll be going; others aren't so sure.
After losing a 3-1 halftime lead last night and facing a suddenly hot Villanova team, the freshman-laden women's water polo team could have folded.Princeton (1-0 overall, 0-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) responded like veterans, however, and came back to score eight of the last nine goals to take a 12-5 victory at DeNunzio Pool.The Tigers came back from a 4-4 tie and dominated the second half, pulling away with a surge over a Wildcat team that looked lethargic in the latter stages of the game."It's good to have the first game out of the way," head coach Luis Nicolao said.
Normally, this weekend would be seen as a much-needed reprieve from a grueling Eastern College Athletic Conference schedule.
After seeing its 1999 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tournament come to an end at the hands of New Jersey Institute of Technology, the men's volleyball team had revenge on its mind heading into last night's rematch at Dillon Gym.
A ray of light fell on the wrestling team last weekend at Duquesne. Just when everything seemed to be bleak, the future got brighter.The Tigers solidly defeated Waynesburg, 29-18, and just narrowly lost to Duquesne, 19-18.
The last few seconds of last night's game went by in slow motion. It was an out-of-body experience.
Down nine with four minutes, 37 seconds to play, the men's basketball team needed someone to step up and make a few clutch outside shots.
Only seven games into the Ivy League season, it is do-or-die time for Princeton.Men's basketball's loss to Yale gave Penn, which comes to Jadwin Gym tonight, a one-game lead in the conference.
While the women's squash team's weekend performance in Cambridge, Mass., was not quite as dramatic as that of the Tigers' male counterparts, it was nonetheless a win.
Okay Penn fans, you're probably expecting the usual list of cheap shots and insults that so often grace our pre-game columns whenever your basketball team is involved.
Peter Yik crouched on the court with the sound pounding behind him. The Harvard stands were packed for the men's squash meet that would decide the Ivy championship, a title that Harvard had hoarded for nine straight years.
With the score tied, 4-4, in the men's squash team's match against Harvard Saturday, there were two men left playing ? senior No.
In the men's swimming team's final tune-up before the Eastern Championships, the Tigers sailed past visiting Navy with a dominating 186.5-112.5 victory Sunday at DeNunzio Pool.With the win, Princeton finished the regular season with a 10-1 record as head coach Rob Orr notched his 59th consecutive home meet win at DeNunzio.With strong performances up and down the roster, the Tigers surpassed Navy in 12 of 16 events.In the freestyle competition, sophomores Kevin Volz and Nathan Rebuck combined for three winning performances.
Chris Young, you must really love this time of the year ? baseball season is just around the corner.Just think, Chris.
Going into the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet Saturday in Cambridge, Mass., the men's indoor track team knew that it had more talent and depth than its rivals, event for event.
After months of turmoil, all is finally well in Carmodyville. For the first time this season, the entire roster was medically cleared to play, and the men's basketball team turned in two dominating performances.The entire 15-player roster got involved in a 72-47 thrashing of Dartmouth Friday, and rode on the back of sophomore center Chris Young for a 73-55 win over Harvard Saturday.
Finally.All season, the women's hockey team has been working towards a victory over one of the nation's elite teams, only to fall short every time.A last-minute goal by No.
After last weekend, the women's basketball team thought it was on the right track. It had won its first Ivy League game, 55-52 over Brown, bringing its season total for wins to four.Princeton (4-17 overall, 1-6 Ivy League) has run into lots of problems over the first part of its season, but on Thursday night the Tigers took that to a new level.As the team bus traveled through southern Connecticut, a car and an 18-wheeler bumped yards ahead of Princeton's bus.
Men's hockey head coach Don Cahoon has tried many things this season to turn his team around.This weekend, it was not the new power play scheme or any tweak in the lineup that boosted Princeton.
The men's track teams on campus ? cross country, indoor track and outdoor track ? have dominated the Heptagonal championships the last two years.
