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.
PISCATAWAY ? When the final horn blew, it was hard to tell who had won the women's lacrosse game Sunday at Rutgers.In the battle for New Jersey prominence, all of the players had their heads hanging a little low.
Like a rising ocean, the women's basketball team has slowly been climbing up and submerging the Ivy league opposition, teams that had previously defeated it.
At the team level, Princeton squash faced a lot of changes this year. The women's team did not win the national championship for the first time in three years, and the men's team won the Ivy League outright for the first time since 1982.
The playoffs are still a week away for the men's hockey team, but a look at this weekend's games would seem to indicate that playoff intensity has already arrived.With the extreme parity of the Eastern College Athletic Conference this season ? a league in which third-place Rensselaer finished only two games ahead of eighth-place Dartmouth ? the final weekend weighed heavily in the standings.Princeton's first opponent, second-place Colgate, was fighting for the league title and its second foe, Cornell (13-12-2 overall, 10-9-1 ECAC), had home-ice playoff aspirations similar to those of the Tigers.
With 11 minutes, 55 seconds remaining in Saturday night's men's basketball contest at Jadwin Gym, the game just didn't seem to matter anymore.It wasn't because the Tigers were 26 points ahead and cruising to an easy 85-57 victory.Instead, it was due to a seemingly inevitable announcement: Penn 69, Yale 52.Despite the win over Brown, which followed a 56-46 win over Yale on Friday, Princeton will finish behind the Quakers in the Ivy League for the second year in a row.
An entire season hinged on a single weekend. The women's hockey team was on the bubble, and the Tigers needed only two points to gain a berth to the playoffs.Those two points, however, had to be gleaned off Eastern College Athletic Conference leaders Brown and Harvard.
BALTIMORE ? The partisan crowd at the men's lacrosse game at Homewood Field on Saturday had issues.
