Bodies were strewn across the floor, battered, bruised and beaten. The massacre of the 2009 dodgeball tournament is legendary, and new information about the proceedings has just now emerged.
The baseball team is counting on its defense to be a major strength this season. Princeton committed just two errors in 38 innings during four Ivy League games last weekend. But its defense failed to come through on Tuesday afternoon against in-state rival Rutgers, leading to a blowout loss.
Away from the tennis court, sophomore Hilary Bartlett is a vivacious, bubbly individual. Often seen laughing and joking around with her teammates, she has a carefree mentality. But when she gears up for a match, Bartlett transforms into a serious competitor.
We were robbed. Monday night could have been a night in which each and every one of us witnessed a truly historic sports moment. We would have remembered exactly where we were, who we were with and what we were doing when Butler guard Gordon Hayward launched a shot with no time left on the clock to beat the Duke Blue Devils in the finals of the NCAA basketball tournament.
The softball team played Hofstra in a rare midweek, single-game matchup on Tuesday afternoon in its last chance to tune up before the bulk of the Ivy League season. Pitcher Olivia Galati, recently crowned Colonial Athletic Association Rookie of the Week, led the Pride to a 6-2 victory over the Tigers (6-22 overall, 0-4 Ivy).
With the help of senior Mike Lombardi, the men’s heavyweight crew had a remarkable opening weekend, beating Georgetown in all three varsity races. Lombardi’s first varsity boat toppled the Hoyas by crossing the finish line more than 25 seconds before the opposition’s first boat.
Twenty years ago, no one except for a small group of statisticians cared or had heard about OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging), the statistic commonly considered the best measure of a baseball player’s offensive abilities. Batting average, home runs and RBI were the three statistical categories worth noting for people who wanted to measure hitting power.
As far as races go, the 3,000m, 28-barrier, seven-water-jump steeplechase is hardly typical. But, luckily for the men’s track and field team, sophomore Trevor Van Ackeren is hardly a typical runner.
The women’s golf team finished 19th out of 20 this weekend at the Ole Miss Rebel Intercollegiate Tournament at the University of Mississippi’s course in Oxford, Miss.
In a non-league exhibition match on Saturday, the men’s rugby team defeated the Marauders of Millersville University 20-5. Freshman outside center Ross Powell, playing in his first game as a starter, led Princeton with two tries.
The men’s heavyweight crew began a new era under head coach Greg Hughes ’96 with a bang on Saturday morning by beating Georgetown in convincing fashion. The Tigers (1-0) dominated on Lake Carnegie, sweeping the Hoyas in all three 2,000m races.
No matter what the men’s volleyball team does, its matches at Dillon Gymnasium always seem to go the distance. Luckily, Princeton is finding that the fifth set is where it shines the brightest.
The men’s and women’s tennis teams continued their undefeated runs in the Ivy League, defeating Yale and Brown this weekend. The No. 33 women’s team (16-5 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) defeated No. 40 Yale (11-5, 0-1) 6-1 in New Haven, Conn., on Friday afternoon. The next day, it topped No. 66 Brown (13-6, 1-1) in Providence, R.I.
A back-and-forth series of winning and losing makes for exciting games, but frustrating seasons.
With an inexperienced lineup that lost a lot to graduation last year, the baseball team knew that its hopes of contending for the Ivy League title rested on its pitching and defense. In the first weekend of league play, Princeton’s run prevention came through. The Tigers allowed just 12 runs in 38 innings en route to a solid 2-2 start to conference play.
After a career-high 15 saves in last week’s win over Yale, it seemed reasonable that sophomore goalie Tyler Fiorito might fall back to his average performance of just under eight saves per game. Fiorito, however, defied that logic with a new career high of 17 saves, as the men’s lacrosse team beat Brown 9-7 in a back-and-forth contest.
When senior pitcher Jamie Lettire audibly urged a towering fly ball to stay fair in the bottom of the seventh inning of a 6-4 loss to Dartmouth on Saturday afternoon, the moment seemed to encapsulate the softball team’s weekend. The ball faded into foul territory but cleared the left-field fence, a close miss like much of the weekend was for Princeton (6-21 overall, 0-4 Ivy League). The Tigers dropped all four of their Ivy League games at Class of 1895 Field, falling twice to Harvard (9-15, 3-1) and twice to the Big Green (3-17, 2-2).
Coming off two losses in a midweek series against Lehigh, the softball team kicks off its Ivy League season with doubleheaders against Harvard and Dartmouth at Class of 1895 Field this weekend.
The men’s lacrosse team will face off against No. 16 Brown tomorrow afternoon in the second game of an Ivy League doubleheader at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. Dartmouth will play No. 6 Cornell before No. 5 Princeton takes the field. Both the Tigers (6-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) and the Bears (3-3, 1-0) are currently undefeated in league play, and at least half of their collective games so far this season have been one-goal decisions.
As a young team, faced with a brutal early season schedule, the women’s lacrosse team didn’t hit its stride right away. With a spotless Ivy League record and a win against No. 9 Georgetown — the first win of the season against a ranked opponent — the Tigers were starting to look sharp as of this Monday. But inconsistency reared its ugly head on Wednesday afternoon, however, as Princeton dropped a 14-12 decision to unranked Temple fresh off its victory over Georgetown.
