The football team will return home this week after a winless three-game road trip. The Tigers (1-5 overall, 1-2 Ivy League) will host Cornell (2-4, 0-3), which has yet to record an Ivy League victory.
As the leaves change color and the weather turns colder, the college cross country season arrives at what it’s all about: championship races. On Saturday, the men’s and women’s cross country teams will make a push for their first titles of the year at the Ivy League Championships. Entering as the reigning double-triple crown winners in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track, both teams have dominating legacies to uphold.
Over the coming weeks and months, many Princeton athletes will compete for Ivy League titles and even in national tournaments. But at 6:30 p.m. tonight, three field hockey players will have even more at stake — a bid to the 2012 Olympics with the U.S. National Team.
With two games left in the season, the women’s soccer team hopes to spend fall break finishing the campaign on a good note against Ivy League rivals Cornell and Penn. The Tigers host the Big Red at 1 p.m. on Saturday, their final home game of the year, before traveling to Penn the following week.
The rumblings surrounding corruption in high-profile college sports have reached an all-time high in the last year. Every couple of months, it seemed, a new “scandal” emerged — Jim Tressel and Terrelle Pryor at Ohio State, the Willie Lyles allegations at Oregon and Lousiana State University, and the all-you-can-eat buffet style violations uncovered at Miami over the summer, to name a few — followed by the requisite indignation on the part of the NCAA and the obligatory contrition from those involved.
The women’s tennis team’s biggest fall tournament ended mostly in disappointment for the Tigers. Despite coming in with a couple of highly-seeded entrants, no Princeton players advanced beyond the third day of play at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regional Tournament as the long weekend came to an abrupt end on Sunday.
This weekend, the crews traveled to Boston for the annual Head of the Charles regatta on the Charles River. For the past two years, this event has been more than a typical regatta for the Princeton rowers — they also participate in a fundraising event for breast cancer research.
If the first game of the season is any indication of the 27 to come, the women’s hockey team is in pretty good shape. The Tigers (1-1 overall) dealt No. 8 Northeastern (5-1) its first loss of the season Friday night in the home opener at Baker Rink.
Peter Maag, a senior on the men’s track and cross country teams, finished third for the Tigers two Saturdays ago at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational, a big reason for Princeton’s impressive fourth-place finish. Now ranked ninth in the nation, Maag and the Cross Country Tigers look to defend their Ivy League title Saturday when Princeton hosts the 2011 Heptagonal Championships. The ‘Prince’ interviewed this not-so-hipster track star from Portland, Ore., to find out about his basketball prowess, his teammates and the unicycle pole vault.
The men’s hockey team racked up two dominant exhibition wins this past weekend and will attempt to further their success in the upcoming days as the Tigers travel to Hanover, N.H., for the Ivy League Shootout against Yale and Brown. Princeton will compete in a back-to-back series against the No. 10 Bulldogs on Friday and the Bears on Saturday.
The sprint football team forfeited its home game against Navy scheduled for last Friday night, saying in an announcement on Wednesday that the team had an insufficient number of healthy players to safely compete. The last game the team forfeited was a home matchup against Army in October 2007.
After a resounding 4-1 rout of Harvard, the field hockey team stands poised to earn its seventh Ivy League title in a row.
The women’s soccer team’s aspirations of winning the Ivy League have ended with two conference games remaining in the season. Harvard won Saturday’s fixture 2-1 in Cambridge, Mass., sending the Tigers on an undoubtedly gloomy bus ride back to Princeton. The hosts scored once in each half before junior striker Jen Hoy grabbed a consolation goal minutes before the final whistle.
After an impressive first half of the conference season, the women’s volleyball team came away from Penn with its fourth straight victory on Friday. After recent victories against Cornell, Yale and Brown, the Tigers maintained their position at the top of the Ivy League, still tied with Yale for first place.
A deficit is almost never easy to deal with. A deficit of 26 points is definitely never easy to handle. A deficit of 26 points on the road against a bitter rival that looks well on its way to winning the league might as well be insurmountable. But when he found his team down 35-9 early in the third quarter at Harvard on Saturday, senior quarterback Tommy Wornham would not let the Tigers simply roll over.
Despite some pipe damage at DeNunzio Pool earlier in the week that kept the men’s water polo team from regular training, the No. 14 Tigers showed their strength in a three-game weekend against George Washington, Fordham and Iona. A 12-8 win against George Washington on Friday night allowed the Tigers to clinch their second CWPA Southern Division regular season title in three years with a 6-2 record.
Struggling to accumulate momentum in a disappointing Ivy League season, head coach Jim Barlow ’91 made a number of changes to the men’s soccer team’s lineup on Saturday night at Harvard, hoping that different combinations of players on the field would yield a different result.
The women’s soccer team confronts perennial rival Harvard on Saturday evening in a bid to continue its surge toward an unlikely but mathematically possible Ivy League title. The team travels to Cambridge, Mass., on the back of a four-game win streak, looking to topple the conference leader away from home.
The football team will play its second-straight Ivy League road match this weekend, going up to Cambridge, Mass., to take on Harvard in the annual rivalry game. The Tigers (1-4 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) are in the middle of the Ivy League standings, and a win over Harvard (4-1, 2-0) would not only put them in a solid position in the conference but also double last year’s win total.
The men’s soccer team will head up to Cambridge this weekend for a match against Ivy League rival Harvard. Both teams will be looking to capture their first conference victory of the season as they enter the second half of league play, entering the game at a disappointing 0-3 in the conference.
