After a crucial weekend in which the baseball team won three of four games on the road against Penn, the Tigers suffered an overwhelming 17-2 road loss against St.
Players, coaches and fans alike knew that Wednesday night?s matchup between Princeton and Penn was going to be a close one.
?If you think I was motivated to do this once, I?m about 10 times as motivated to do it again,? senior tennis player Matija Pecotic said at the end of the season in 2011, his first undefeated season of Ivy League play.True to his word, Pecotic doubled down in 2012, going undefeated again on his way to the semifinals of the International Tennis Association All-America tournament.
The baseball team is looking to build on its strong performance in Ivy League play so far as it prepares for a crucial four-game series this weekend against Columbia.
The top two teams in the league both lost this past weekend, and teams on the brink of elimination kept their playoff hopes alive.
Following a disappointing loss to perennial powerhouse Dartmouth in the Ivy League semifinals the previous week, the men’s club rugby team was hungry for a win against Penn in the third-place match this past Friday.
This past weekend, the top of the Ivy League standings crystallized as Harvard beat Princeton and Columbia beat Yale.
In her first open 400-meter race of the outdoor season at the George Mason Patriot Open Invitational in Virginia last Saturday, sophomore Cecilia Barowski did not have high expectations.
The club equestrian team didn?t have particularly high hopes going into the Ivy League championships last weekend.
It has been a busy year for Sydney Kirby, who kicked off her fall semester by helping the U.S. Under-21 National Field Hockey Team lock up a bronze medal and Junior World Cup qualification at the Junior Pan American Games in Mexico.
Each year, the baseball team has just one series against a divisional rival in which four games are played away from Princeton.
The men?s tennis team was undefeated in Ivy League play coming into this weekend?s series against Harvard, with wins over Penn, Yale and Brown.
The 12th-ranked women?s water polo team wrapped up an impressive weekend with a 12-4 rout of Brown on Sunday in the final of the Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division championship in Providence, R.I.
It was a 29-second defensive lapse that the Tigers wish they could have back: Dartmouth senior midfielder Nikki Dysenchuck and freshman midfielder Cam Lee scored back-to-back goals just seconds apart, turning Princeton?s 9-8 lead to a 10-9 score in favor of the Big Green with only 4:40 left on the clock.
After 32 years as head coach of the men?s squash team, U.S. Squash Hall of Fame inductee Bob Callahan ?77 has announced that he will retire.
New clubs and organizations seem to pop up just about every day. For freshmen (and the prefrosh who will be on campus this weekend), walking into Dillon Gymnasium for the Activities Fair and seeing the wide variety of extracurricular options available can be overwhelming.However, despite the wide variety of opportunities Princeton clubs offer, several freshmen saw a glaring hole in the list of club teams that needed to be filled.
As the weather gets warmer, the heat of Ivy League play will continue to mount this weekend for the baseball team as it travels to Penn for a four-game weekend series.A strong weekend will be vital for Princeton (8-20 overall, 5-3 Ivy League) if it wants to keep pace in the Lou Gehrig Division of the Ivy League baseball standings.
Going on the road to face the number one team in the country is never an easy task, but the women?s lacrosse team could not have picked a better point in their season to give it a shot.
Leading the offense at 1952 Stadium against Ivy League foe Brown earlier this season, senior attack Jeff Froccaro earned his 100th point, joining only 26 others in the program’s storied history.
Senior guard Niveen Rasheed of the women?s basketball team has accumulated many honors throughout her four years as a Tiger and has become one of the most decorated players in Ivy League women?s basketball history.
