With the loss of their first-team All-Ivy League senior quarterback Kyle Newhall-Caballero to a season-ending wrist injury two weeks ago, the Brown Bears may have less bite in store for the Princeton football team on Saturday.
The men’s soccer team will find it difficult to keep its feet on the ground going into Saturday’s game against Columbia in New York. Indeed, one can hardly blame the optimism in the Tiger camp after the team recorded its sixth victory in a row Tuesday night, soundly beating Lafayette 3-0.
When the men’s water polo team played Navy in the Eastern Championships last year, it was for a berth to the NCAA Final Four. This time, Princeton’s undefeated conference record is on the line.
If the first two weekends of Ivy League play are any indication, the women’s volleyball team knows how to play from behind. Princeton (8-6 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) opened league play with a come-from-behind upset against defending Ivy League champion Penn and followed that five-set performance with a thrilling win over Brown that also went the distance. A 3-1 victory over Yale last weekend, which ended a two-year drought against the Bulldogs, propelled the Tigers to first place in league standings going into this third weekend of Ancient Eight play.
With the Major League Baseball division series in the books, let’s take a look at the biggest questions about each remaining team in the upcoming American League and National League championship series, which start Friday and Saturday. Then I’ll make my patented predictions for the series winners.
One year ago, the men’s cross country team finished 10th at the Notre Dame Invitational. Then-sophomore Brian Leung led the Tiger pack with a sixth-place finish, and classmate Donn Cabral followed him, finishing 39th. The Tigers considered the results a good forecast for the championship season.
Just about every athlete has his or her traditions and superstitions. Baseball pitchers step over, not on, the white foul line between innings. Michael Jordan used to wear his North Carolina shorts under his Chicago Bulls uniform. Hockey players avoid mentioning a shutout when their goalie is working on one.
The women’s soccer team earned a hard-fought victory over Lehigh at Princeton Wednesday night to head into the final stretch of Ivy League season on a two game winning streak. Sophomore forward Jen Hoy’s seventh goal of the season powered the Tigers (8-4-0 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) past the visiting Mountain Hawks (7-3-2).
While sophomore setter Molly Bagshaw of the women’s volleyball team may not agree, the other players would certainly consider Bagshaw one of their quirkiest teammates. Bagshaw’s wit keeps the Ivy League-leading team’s training sessions and games particularly interesting.Bagshaw has been injured for part of this season with a stress fracture in her back, but she has still recorded 52 digs, 9.5 points and eight blocks. She is working to recover and looks forward to being back on the court before long.
One of my favorite things about college sports, as opposed to professional sports, is the occasional extremely silly nickname, like the University of California, Santa Cruz, Banana Slugs; the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs; or even the Centenary Gentlemen. But there was a time when pro sports teams had much better names than they do now. I present to you the 10 greatest nicknames in the history of American professional sports, as well as three that I’ve invented. Can you spot the ones that aren’t real?
As the eighth of nine children, sophomore Kristin Watson, the starting goalkeeper for the women’s soccer team, is used to being in the thick of things. Growing up in a family large enough to field its own starting line, soccer was part of everyday life.
The men’s soccer team earned a 3-0 victory over Lafayette in Easton, Pa., on Tuesday night. The Tigers (7-3-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) overwhelmed Lafayette (5-5-2) on offense and defense throughout the game.
Midway through the first quarter of the sprint football team’s game against Post University on Friday, Eagles running back Shaquille Williams ran untouched into the end zone for an easy 9-yard touchdown. At that point in the game, it looked like it was going to be a long night for the Tiger defense. It was.
Though it had been nearly a month since the men’s water polo team last played in its home pool, Princeton proved that it still rules DeNunzio Pool on Saturday. The No. 17 Tigers (10-5 overall, 4-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division) topped Bucknell (7-8, 0-4) 7-4 to continue their undefeated streak in league play.
The men’s golf team captured a tie for third place this weekend in the Philadelphia Big Five Invitational. Twenty-one teams competed in the weekend-long tournament at the Plymouth Country Club outside Philadelphia. Furman University finished in first, and St. John’s took second place, just one stroke ahead of Princeton and the University of Kentucky Wildcats.
The men’s rugby team could not overcome an early two-try deficit in an eventual 22-12 road loss to Columbia on Saturday night. Princeton (3-5 overall, 1-3 Ivy League) fell into a four-way tie for fifth place in the Ivy League with the defeat.
The men’s tennis team sent five players to New York to compete in the Columbia Invitational this weekend. The Tigers started the tournament off strong, collecting two victories in both singles and doubles on Friday.
After experiencing its first loss of the season last Sunday against American, the field hockey team looked to rebound this weekend against No. 4 Virginia and No. 8 Louisville. The No. 3 Tigers (9-2 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) achieved mixed results in their midseason gauntlet of ranked teams.
One comeback might have been a fluke. Maybe the second tough match could have been written off to an easier opponent. But with three straight wins over top Ivy League teams, the women’s volleyball team has silenced the doubters and catapulted to the top of the Ivy League totem pole.
In just 90 minutes on Saturday afternoon, the men’s soccer team was able to do what a combined nine teams could not do in more than 13 hours: score multiple goals against Brown. With a dominant 3-0 victory, the Tigers (6-3-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) capped off a five-game home stand with their fifth consecutive victory and moved into sole possession of first place in the Ivy League.
