It’s the year of the Lou Gehrig division in Ivy League baseball. After opening weekend, the Tigers are on par with the three other teams in the division, as all currently hold 3-1 records in league play.
The softball team continues conference play this weekend, traveling for doubleheaders against Yale on Friday and Brown on Saturday. The Tigers have not had luck on their side to start the season, with 10 of their losses coming by a margin of just one or two runs.
The No. 11 men’s lacrosse team possesses a radically different kind of offensive line than it did a year ago when it played then-No. 1 Syracuse. With five games remaining in the regular 2011-12 season, the Tigers maintain a total goal count of 89, averaging 10.72 per game. In contrast, senior tri-captain goalie Tyler Fiorito and freshman goalie Eric Sanschagrin have allowed just 55 goals over the span of eight games, 6.62 per game.
Kentucky against the field was supposed to be a battle for college basketball’s soul. Less than half a century ago, freshmen weren’t even eligible to play on the varsity level, and now a handful of them were not only winning a championship but doing so convincingly, leaving no doubt as to where the best team in the country went to college.
Exactly half of the 28 Ivy League women’s lacrosse games have been played. So far, some familiar names are near the top of the league, but some important contests lie ahead in the final four weeks of the regular season.
The men’s golf team took third place out of 16 teams on Monday at the Penn Quaker Invitational, held at the Trump National Golf Club in Philadelphia. This marks the team’s seventh tournament this year and the first of the spring season. The men have two more tournaments before the Ivy League Championships at Galloway National Golf Club on April 27-29.
The women’s lacrosse team (5-4 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) reeled in a clutch win at Temple on Wednesday afternoon to keep its season record above .500. The Tigers fought back from a 12-9 deficit during the second half, finishing with a 5-1 scoring run to claim an exciting 14-13 victory.
Currently undefeated in the Ivy League, the men’s lacrosse team is fresh off of a 13-2 win against Brown this past weekend. As a defensive midfielder, junior Chris White plays a crucial role in both protecting the Tigers’ cage and bringing the ball and momentum up to the offense. The ‘Prince’ sat down with White to learn more about his odd experiences during games, getting to know the network of athletes on campus and the compilation of songs on his iPod.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – After 23 walks, 22 runs and 21 hits through eight-and-a-half innings on Tuesday afternoon, the baseball team’s game at Rutgers still came down to the last pitch. Leading off the bottom of the ninth, second baseman Nick Favatella swung at an offering from freshman reliever Tyler Foote and blasted it over the fence in left-center field, giving the Scarlet Knights a 12-11 non-conference victory.
When goalkeeper Erin Tochihara ’11 graduated last spring, she left behind an impressive legacy and big shoes to fill on the women’s lacrosse team. A two-time All-America honoree, her strong presence in the net helped lead her team to the 2011 Ivy League championship title. This season, the Tigers continue to succeed, despite the loss of their experienced veteran keeper. Protecting the goal for Princeton this year is freshman Annie Woehling, who has started in all eight games so far this season.
The softball team took on Seton Hall at home on Tuesday in only its third home series of the season. The Tigers (6-19 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) have not had much success so far this season, but they were able to split the series against a fairly strong opponent in Seton Hall (18-18, 0-5 Big East).
The men’s and women’s tennis teams enjoyed a successful opening to Ivy League play this weekend as the men defeated Penn in Philadelphia on Saturday and the women beat the Quakers at Jadwin Gymnasium. Despite falling behind 3-1 early, the men rallied off three straight singles victories to defeat Penn 4-3, with junior Matt Siow providing the clinching win in a third-set tiebreaker. The No. 70 women opened the match against the Quakers by sweeping the doubles point and continued to dominate on the singles courts to defeat Penn 6-1.
The indoor season for the men’s and women’s track teams was one for the record books. Shattering conference and school records across the board, having two athletes qualify for the NCAA championships and taking home the men’s Ivy League title, the Tigers ensured that the 2012 season will be remembered as one of the greatest. However, for both teams, indoors is not even supposed to be a main focus. It is really only a stepping-stone, a building phase, to the outdoor track campaign.
After a 3-0 victory for the men’s soccer team on Saturday afternoon, the defeated opponent approached the Princeton side and asked to trade jerseys. Long a fixture of international soccer, the tradition has not quite made inroads in the tightly regulated system of American college athletics.
Three Princeton crews saw on-the-water competition this weekend, with both the heavyweight and lightweight men racing at home on Lake Carnegie and a contingent from the women’s lightweight team traveling to California to open its season at the San Diego Crew Classic.
This weekend, the No. 12 women’s water polo team split its games, beating George Washington 13-9 on Friday but losing to also-No. 12 University of Maryland 7-6 on Saturday. The teams had tied for 12th in the national rankings due to an equal number of votes.
After 19 straight road games against nonconference foes, the softball team finally kicked up some dirt and grass on Class of 1895 Field, picking up a pair of wins this weekend to start Ivy League play. The Tigers (5-18 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) opened up with 4-0 and 5-2 wins over Dartmouth on Friday before being swept by Harvard the following afternoon.
A textbook performance from the men’s lacrosse team led No. 11 Princeton to knock down Brown 13-2 over the weekend. The win is the fourth straight for the Tigers (6-2 overall, 3-0 Ivy League), placing them at the top spot of the Ivy League along with Harvard and Cornell.
When senior attacker Barb Previ scored with 0.3 seconds left in the first half of overtime to reduce the women’s lacrosse team’s deficit to a single goal, spectators were left wondering if they were about to witness a sensational comeback by the Tigers after a careless start to the extra period. But No. 17 Cornell hung on in the second half of overtime to consign No. 19 Princeton (4-4 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) to its first Ivy League loss of the season on Saturday afternoon.
In what was a heartbreaking weekend for the men’s volleyball team, the Tigers dropped exciting matches to No. 8 Penn State and St. Francis. After winning its first individual set against the Nittany Lions in its last eight matches, Princeton took a 2-1 lead and was just inches away from handing Penn State its first EIVA loss since 2008 in what would have been the biggest upset of the season. But the effort of Friday night’s incredible game clearly left its mark on the Tigers, as they watched St. Francis rally for three sets to win 3-1 the next day.
