I had always wondered what it felt like to be jabbed with a sword. Thanks to my recent experience with sophomore epeeist Hannah Safford, I now know.
The men’s volleyball team fell to Rutgers-Newark in three sets on Tuesday night in Dillon Gymnasium. The loss marked the sixth consecutive defeat for Princeton (1-8 overall, 0-5 EIVA Tait Division), which has yet to win a league match. The Tigers kept things close throughout, dropping the first and third sets by only two points each, but the Scarlet Raiders (10-2, 3-2) controlled play in the third set to earn the victory.
F or a guy who shares the exact same name as another Princeton student, sophomore runner Peter Callahan’s individual accomplishments manage to distinguish him from his senior counterpart. Callahan won the 800m at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet two weeks ago with the fourth-fastest time ever in the Ivy League of one minute, 48.66 seconds, earning him the HepsTrack Male Athlete of the Week last weekend. Callahan also ran a personal best in the mile, almost breaking four minutes and posting the fastest Division I time of the weekend. Along with the men’s track team, Callahan will be competing at the Ivy League Heptagonals this weekend for the indoor title.
For the men’s volleyball team, Dillon Gymnasium used to be a haven where five-set matches were consistently won. But in the wake of the Tigers’ 3-1 loss to George Mason University (11-3 overall, 4-0 EIVA) last Friday, they have yet to win a home match.
This past weekend, Princeton received a rare gift for this time of year, customary of a more Southern city whose Macy’s does not have a coat section. While Princeton students enjoyed a rare 60 degree day in the middle of February, Los Angelinos and other residents of Southern California dealt with drizzling rain and temperatures in the 50s. Although I did not envy them for their weather, I do wish I had been in Southern California this past weekend for the NBA All-Star Weekend, which took place from Friday to Sunday in (not-so) beautiful Los Angeles.
Teams across campus are turning up the heat as the winter athletic seasons come to a close. On Saturday, the men’s and women’s track and field teams were no exception.
In its final dual matches of the regular season, the wrestling team fell to No. 23 Hofstra University and Boston University at home in Dillon Gymnasium. The losses, which came despite strong showings from the team’s upperclassmen, marked Princeton’s (4-13) last set of bouts before the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships.
Amid their vigorous dual-meet season, the men’s and women’s tennis teams competed at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships last weekend. The women’s team played to a second-place finish for a home crowd in Jadwin Gymnasium while the men’s team thrashed Harvard 6-1 on Monday in Cambridge, Mass., to claim a third-place finish.
After a grueling win over Yale on Friday night, the women’s basketball team went back to Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday night to do it all over again with Brown. Despite a close first half during which, according to head coach Courtney Banghart, the Tigers were experiencing a bit of a “hangover effect” from the previous game, they pulled away in the second period en route to one of their strongest performances on both ends of the court this season.
The women’s hockey team finished out its regular season play this past weekend with a pair of away matches against Brown and Yale. They finished the weekend with a perfect 2-0, beating Brown on Friday 4-2 before proceeding to beat Yale on Saturday 4-1.
Earlier this season, Brown came to Jadwin Gymnasium hoping for a repeat of last year, when the men’s basketball team fell to the Bears at home in the thick of a tight race for the Ivy League crown. The visitors burst out to an early lead, but the Tigers held them off for a win in the conference opener. But on Saturday, Brown did at home what it could not do on the road — take down Princeton, 75-65.
Playing on its home courts in Jadwin Gymnasium, the women’s squash team believed it could pull some upsets at the Howe Cup, the season-ending team tournament. Though the No. 5 Tigers fell to the eventual champion, top-ranked Yale, they upset a pair of higher-ranked foes, beating No. 4 Penn in the opener and No. 3 Trinity in the third-place match.
Despite snapping a four-game winless streak with a win over Brown (7-12-4 overall, 5-10-1 ECAC Hockey) and equalling its combined scoring output from the previous two weekends, the men’s hockey team’s homestand ended in disappointment as No. 3 Yale (22-5-0, 16-4-0) capped off a 5-4 comeback win on Sunday, scoring the game-winner with less than two minutes remaining in the third period.
This week in On the Prowl, Executive Editors for Sports Kevin Whitaker and Kiran Gollakota discuss the men's basketball team's loss to Brown, men's hockey's loss to Yale, and the mixed success of the tennis teams.
As the last meet before the all-Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, the men’s and women’s track and field teams will be hosting the Princeton Invitational this weekend and invited 10 teams to race. The Invitational will take place in Jadwin Gymnasium.
With the men’s hockey team’s season coming to a close, Princeton (14-9-2 overall, 9-7-2 ECAC Hockey) will play its final home games this weekend. The Tigers will try to break their season-high four-game winless streak with games against Brown (8-12-4, 6-10-1) and Yale (20-5, 14-4). With the ECAC Hockey conference tournament only a few weeks away, this weekend’s games are the most important of the season for determining seeding. Additionally, the team’s seniors will be saying goodbye to Baker Rink as they play their final regular-season home games of their collegiate careers.
Halfway through the Ivy League season, the women’s basketball team is heading into the weekend in first place in the league despite a loss to Harvard at Lavietes Pavilion. But the two teams the Tigers will face — Yale on Friday and Brown on Saturday, both in Jadwin Gymnasium — are the two that defeated the Crimson to send Harvard all the way down to a distant third place.
This weekend, the women’s squash team (9-4 overall, 4-3 Ivy League) will host the three-day Howe Cup national championship tournament at Jadwin Gymnasium. The No. 5 Tigers will compete in the A-Division along with the other teams ranked in the top eight nationally.
The men’s and women’s tennis teams enter a pivotal weekend of indoor play as they compete in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships. The No. 74 men (3-1) will travel to Cambridge as the No. 2 seed in a tournament of 10, while the No. 36 women (2-3) look to defend their home courts in Jadwin Gymnasium as they play host to seven teams.
This weekend, the women’s hockey team will travel to Brown and Yale for its final games of the regular season. Regardless of the results, the Tigers (14-12-1 overall, 11-8-1 ECAC Hockey) will participate in the ECAC Championship, a tournament featuring the top eight teams from the 12-team conference, for the 10th year in a row.
