If serving an ace feels good, winning a whole match on an ace must feel even better.
Just hours before the United States would have its heart ripped out by Sidney Crosby in the Olympic gold-medal hockey game, the women’s water polo team suffered a similar defeat. No. 17 Princeton (5-2) fell one goal shy of an ECAC Championship, losing to No. 20 Brown (8-1) 10-9 in the finals on Sunday at DeNunzio Pool.
The women’s squash team was rested and ready for this past weekend’s national championship tournament. It had confidence that it could beat its first-round opponent, Yale, since it had already done so in the regular season. The seniors knew what it felt like to win it all, having done so the previous three seasons. This year, however, No. 4 Princeton (9-5 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) would not bring home the Howe Cup for a fourth straight year. The Tigers fell to No. 5 Yale (10-6, 3-3) in the quarterfinals of the tournament. Princeton followed the loss with wins over No. 8 Williams (15-9) and No. 7 Stanford (8-7) to take fifth in the consolation bracket.
The men’s volleyball team split two games at Dillon Gymnasium this weekend. Princeton (5-5 overall, 1-2 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tait Divison) completed a thrilling 3-2 comeback over St. Francis (8-7, 1-3) the day after its tough 3-0 loss to No. 7 Penn State (13-2, 5-0). Comebacks are always fantastic, and Princeton’s win over St. Francis was made a little more special by the fact that it gave the Tigers their first Tait Division victory of the season.
After a hard-fought loss at Cornell last Friday, the men’s basketball team rebounded with a victory over Columbia on Saturday night. It was the second time this season the Tigers (17-8 overall, 8-3 Ivy League) lost to Cornell (24-4, 10-1) by three points and posted a double-digit victory over Columbia (10-16, 4-8) in the same weekend.
With its season having ended earlier than it would have liked, the women’s hockey team came home after a disappointing weekend at No. 4 Harvard in the first weekend of the ECAC quarterfinals.
It was the sort of play that has typified the women’s basketball team this season. Late in the first half, the Tigers forced Columbia star forward Judie Lomax to cough the ball up, and sophomore guard Lauren Edwards outhustled everybody else, diving to control the loose ball. Edwards tossed the ball to a teammate before rolling out of bounds, igniting a fast break that ended with the ball in the hands of freshman forward Niveen Rasheed, who streaked ahead of the pack.
The women’s swimming and diving team emerged victorious from the three-day Ivy League Championship at Harvard to recapture the league title on Saturday. In the consistently close meet, Princeton, Harvard and Yale were all strong contenders entering the final night of competition. Nonetheless, a strong Tiger effort brought the title to Princeton, upholding the team’s solid reputation. Indeed, the women’s swimming and diving team has now won nine of the past 11 Ivy League titles.
For the first time in over a decade, both the men’s and women’s track and field teams came home from the indoor Heptagonal Championships with first-place trophies. The teams, which last swept titles in 1998, did so in convincing fashion this year. The men earned 181 points, besting two-time defending champion Cornell, who came in second with 149 points. The women won 125 points to defeat second-place Columbia, who had 110 points.
The men’s hockey team is winning. Dominating, even. The Tigers were up 3-1 against one of the top teams in the nation. Junior forward Mike Kramer forced a turnover and raced down the ice, decking a diving Yale defender and sending a pass to freshman defenseman Michael Sdao. Sdao gathered the puck and chipped it into the Bulldogs’ net for a commanding 4-1 lead. Baker Rink exploded.
With the abundance of youth on the women’s lacrosse team, the squad has placed significant emphasis on its experienced leaders. On Saturday, they did not disappoint.
The men’s lacrosse team’s highly anticipated game against Hofstra was far more than just a season opener. It was the first test of the Chris Bates era — one that the new head coach passed with flying colors. The Tigers won 17-14.
The rivalry is already brewing for the women’s hockey team as it heads to Cambridge, Mass. — where it pulled off a 2-1 regular-season upset win over Harvard — to play the Crimson in the ECAC quarterfinals this weekend.
Though the NCAA championships are not until June, this weekend’s Heptagonal Championships in Hanover, N.H., are still a major occasion during the track and field season.
After its second conference loss last weekend, the men's basketball team (16-7 overall, 7-2 Ivy League) sits second in the Ivy League behind Cornell (23-4, 9-1). The Tigers will travel to play the Big Red today and will face Columbia (9-15, 3-7) on Saturday.
The women’s squash team looks to win its fourth consecutive national championship in the Howe Cup this weekend. In its last match, No. 4 Princeton (7-4 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) suffered a tough 5-4 loss to No. 2 Trinity (15-1) at Jadwin Gymnasium.
This is it — or might be it. Depending on the outcome of this weekend’s games, the Class of 2010 — the winningest class in the history of the men’s hockey program — may be playing its final games at Baker Rink.
The women's basketball team (21-2 overall, 9-0 Ivy League) returns to Jadwin Gymnasium after a successful weekend in which it beat both Yale and Brown by more than 20 points.
To a certain degree, Jack McBride and Chris McBride are known commodities. You know they’re cousins. You know they attended lacrosse powerhouse Delbarton School in Morristown, N.J. You know they’re more than capable of putting points on the scoreboard, as their first two years at Princeton have shown. But what remains unknown, and what will be revealed this season, is how the pair of junior attackmen will adopt a veteran leadership role when joined together on the Tigers’ first offensive line.
Last season, the men’s lacrosse team fell to Cornell 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament. When the schedule came out for this upcoming season, No. 8 Princeton immediately looked to see when it could earn revenge against the Big Red. The Tigers will play Cornell in a home showdown on Saturday, May 1, the last day of their regular season.
