After an impressive showing at last week’s ECAC Championship, the No. 17 men’s water polo team was left only with questions at the end of their two-game stint over the weekend.
While the football team’s home loss against The Citadel turned into a blowout, its Saturday victory in the windy hills of Pennsylvania came down to the wire. But the Tigers did emerge victorious, 17-14, over Lehigh.
The women’s soccer team appeared to be the more poised, determined and talented team at Roberts Stadium on Saturday. But Yale (5-3 overall, 1-0 Ivy League), unlike Princeton (2-5-1, 0-1), made the most of its limited opportunities on the way to dealing the Tigers a deflating 2-0 loss.
The women?s soccer team just put together its most complete performance of the season. A good thing, too, because Princeton (2-4-1 overall) will formally begin its title defense this Saturday when a talented Yale (4-3) team visits Roberts Stadium. The Tigers soundly drubbed Hartford (3-5-1) in just about every way Wednesday night.
Despite a 38-7 loss to The Citadel in the team’s season-opener, Princeton (0-1 overall) remains optimistic about the season heading into its first road game of the year against Lehigh (0-2) on Saturday.
In the mid-19th century, thousands of Americans traveled westward in search of greater fortune. This weekend, the men?s soccer team (4-1-0) will travel to California on a similar quest.
The four-time defending champions kick off their league schedule Saturday against a Yale team that will be aiming for a considerable upset.
The No. 17 men?s water polo team will take on its second and third regular season games this weekend with a match against Bucknell in Lewisburg, Pa., on Saturday afternoon and a home game against George Washington on Sunday morning at DeNunzio Pool.
As I am sure you all know, the H1N1 virus is just like another flu bug that goes away in a week or so. So why does it matter? As some have feared, it appears as if swine flu might have a serious impact on the NCAA.
After a disappointing start to the season and only one win in the first five games, the women’s soccer team (2-4-1) earned a 3-0 shutout victory and a boost in confidence playing Hartford (3-5-1) in Roberts Stadium last night.
Toward the end of last school year, I decided to spend my summer on campus, and by mid-May, I had settled on a research group based in the computer science department to work with.
It is often said that tough losses build a team’s character. When a team suffers the agony of defeat, the pain creates moral fiber. On Wednesday night, the field hockey team proved its character.
Last Saturday, sophomore quarterback Tommy Wornham, a native of San Diego, Calif., made his first career start for the Tigers. Wornham completed 24 of 41 passes for 198 yards and a touchdown against The Citadel.
In keeping with form from Ivy League competition last season, No. 15 Dartmouth and Penn currently have the fourth and fifth best overall records in the league, respectively, and they trail No. 8 Harvard, No. 25 Brown and Princeton. Yale and Cornell lag behind the reigning champions, while Columbia has struggled through the early part of the season, remaining in last place.
They call him Doug. They call him Burnstick. They call him J-Burn. They also call him Dougie Fresh, Burnwall and Bernard, but that’s not his name. He is a junior defender who has quickly transitioned to help out on the offensive end of the pitch as the leading scorer this season for the men’s soccer team. His name is Joshua Doug Walburn.
My summer as a sports writing intern for The Washington Times was full of memorable moments. But nothing can top what happened to me at a Washington Nationals game one Wednesday evening in June.
It is often said that success breeds more success. That adage certainly applies to the women’s cross country team as of late.
Once again, the women’s soccer team edged its opponent in almost every statistical category — except the one that matters most.
The men’s tennis team hosted nine schools this weekend at the Lenz Tennis Center during the Farnsworth/Princeton Invitational. And though the Tigers lost a significant part of last year’s roster to graduation, Princeton finished the three days of competition with a few solid performances.
Five minutes into its first game in the inaugural Ivy League season, the men’s rugby team had reason to be confident.
