The women's basketball game against league-leading Harvard Saturday was billed not as Princeton versus Harvard but rather as Princeton versus Allison Feaster.
It was a tale of two cities and two Ivy League rivals. And two very different results.Saturday the women's swimming and diving team (8-2 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) exploded into the water to capture a thrilling 180-120 victory over Harvard in Cam-bridge, Mass.
You win some, you lose some.This season the women's hockey team has certainly proven this adage to be true, and once again it split a pair of games this weekend.After falling 5-2 to Cornell (12-6-1 overall, 11-4-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference, 3-2-1 Ivy), the Tigers (10-11-1 overall, 7-9-0 ECAC, 3-4-0 Ivy) pulled themselves back together to deliver St.
Both men's and women's track have hit their stride going into the home stretch of the season, a stretch that sees them face traditional rivals in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet and also in the upcoming Heptagonal Championships.The weekend saw seven meet records broken, and although the men fell short of victory, the future appears bright for both squads.The women squared-off against Penn, eventually winning handily by 18 points, 68-50.
No. 9 Penn State men's volleyball (3-6 overall) has lost only twice in the past 20 regular seasons in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association.Friday, Princeton looked to make it three times.It didn't happen.After a strong first game which Princeton (2-3) won, 15-12, the Tigers proceeded to drop the next three ? 12-15, 8-15, 11-15 ? losing by a score of 3-1.Fatigue and conditioning were a factor in the loss for the Tigers, whose season is still young, coming off a long, hard match against Juniata Thursday night."We're still getting used to playing a lot, and with two big matches in a row, we were beat up," freshman outside Steve Cooper said. Wrong play, wrong timeKey points did not go the Tigers' way, and errors came at the most inopportune times."We didn't play as well as we could've when we needed to," senior opposite Scott Birdwell said.Overall, Princeton played a consistent match, but Penn State had that extra edge that turned the tide in its favor.Essentially in their second season ? Penn State also has a fall season ? the Nittany Lions were on top of their game, finishing the match with a season-best .508 hitting percentage.The first game, though, was all Princeton, which rattled off a string of points after the score had been tied at eight to take a 14-9 lead.
For 32 consecutive games, the Harvard women's basketball team had been a cut above its Ivy League opponents.
Don't let its record fool you. This men's hockey team is good. But not so good that it can't destroy themselves.In what has been an up-and-down season, this weekend the Tigers went on another rollercoaster ride, quashing Col-gate 4-0 Friday night before dropping a 4-1 decision to Cornell Saturday night.Earlier in the season, Princeton (11-6-3 overall, 5-6-3 Eastern College Athletic Conference) seemed unable to put together a complete game.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. ? The juggernaut that is the men's basketball team rolled into Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend.
Going into this weekend's Harvard-Yale-Princeton Invitational, head coach Rob Orr equated his team's chances of winning to throwing a deck of cards into the wind ? luck would determine who had more aces showing.But for the Tigers, the deck was all aces.With an onslaught of first-place finishes, Princeton (8-0 overall, 8-0 Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League) jumped to a surprisingly large lead on the first day of the two-day meet, en route to convincing victories over both Harvard and Yale.A meet that was supposed to be close turned into a relentless drubbing, as the Tigers beat Harvard (6-2, 5-1), 114-49, and Yale (8-3, 5-3), 141-22."They swam beyond expectations," Orr said.
Friday 7:30 p.m. Cornell. Saturday 7:00 p.m. Colgate. That was Nov. 21 and 22 in upstate New York.This weekend, same teams, same times, but a different place, and, hopefully for the men's hockey team, a different result.Two months ago, Princeton (10-5-4 overall, 4-5-3 Eastern College Athletic Conference) lost both games, a national ranking and its No.
While senior center Steve Goodrich was starting his 100th game and scoring his 1,000th point for the men's basketball team (16-1 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) last Saturday, Mason Rocca could only watch from the bench.Rocca, Goodrich's sophomore backup and future replacement, played only one minute in the Tigers' defeat of Columbia.
Now is not important. What matters is later.As men's volleyball prepares for its match at No.
It is a meet of epic proportions. Harvard. Yale. Princeton. The three schools atop the Ivy League collide this weekend in the tradition known as the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Invitational.In what is usually the deciding meet in the race for the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League dual meet title, the Tigers square off against Harvard, their toughest competition in the league."It's going to be one intense environment," freshman backstroker Andrew Chadeayne said.
It's no surprise that Harvard is atop the women's basketball Ivy League standings.What may catch one's eye, though, is that this weekend's matchup between Harvard and the Tigers Saturday at Jadwin Gym could be for first place.
For the men's volleyball team, games do not hold immense importance until April, when it plays in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Tournament for a chance at a spot in the NCAA Final Four.The team's two games in the next two days are the early season's only rival for the late spring excitement.
To the average team, a training week is no better than prison. After a week spent locked in a dungeon of a weight room or running until the players drop, shackles and bars would be a relief.
All-state. Few high school athletes maintain the commitment and possess the sheer athletic ability necessary to claim such a distinction.
Pssst, have you heard? There's this basketball team down at Jadwin Gym that's playing some pretty good ball.
Women's hockey owes a good bit of its offensive strength to the former players of Little Caesar's club hockey team in Michigan.
With the men's basketball team now firmly entrenched in the heart of its Ivy League schedule, high-profile games against Texas, North Carolina State, North Carolina and Wake Forest are a distant memory.Instead, the No.
