The women’s lacrosse team dominated the state of Virginia over spring break, with two huge victories against James Madison and the University of Virginia.
The men’s hockey team had its back against the wall. After losing to Cornell 4-3 in the second overtime of its semifinal game in the ECAC Hockey Tournament at the Times Union Center, Princeton needed at least a tie against one of the hottest teams in the country to clinch a spot in the NCAA Tournament.
The No. 5 Tigers (5-1 overall) lost to No. 9 Hofstra (4-1) 9-7 on March 14 before rebounding with an 18-11 thrashing of No. 17 Albany (4-2).
If there was a sequence that epitomized the men’s hockey team’s two games at the ECAC Hockey Tournament this weekend, it came with less than 16 minutes remaining in Saturday afternoon’s consolation match against St. Lawrence.
The women’s water polo team split its games over spring break, ending its trip to California 4-4 with the four losses coming against nationally ranked opponents.
During the opening stretch of 2008, the women’s lacrosse team was fighting to preserve its unblemished record. This year, the Tigers (2-1 overall) are fighting to remain relevant on the top tier of the national stage while it’s still early in the season.
The women’s water polo team will face its toughest competition of the season this week when it travels to sunny California to compete in the Loyola Marymount University Invitational and challenge other local teams.
The men’s hockey team’s run for a second straight ECAC Hockey title ended Friday night with a heartbreaking 4-3 second-overtime loss to Cornell. Halfway into the second overtime, Cornell forward Colin Greening wristed a shot past junior goaltender Zane Kalemba to cap the Big Red’s comeback from a 3-1 deficit. With the loss, Princeton will face St. Lawrence in the ECAC Hockey tournament’s consolation game Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. in Albany, N.Y.
To find the last time the men’s lacrosse team started its season 4-0, one would have to turn the clock back to 1997. Head coach Bill Tierney now finds his team in that same position.
Forgive the men’s hockey team if it’s feeling deja vu heading into its ECAC Hockey quarterfinal playoff series against Union at Baker Rink this weekend.
With a 3-1 victory over Union on Sunday night, the men’s hockey team came out on top in its ECAC Hockey quarterfinal series, earning a trip to Albany, N.Y., for the second consecutive year. The team will play Cornell in the semifinal game on Friday at 7:30 p.m. for a chance to defend its title in the championship game Saturday against either first-seeded Yale or fourth-seeded St. Lawrence.
The baseball team’s spring break will be a whirlwind tour of the South, as the Tigers will travel to Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland to play 11 games in nine days against three schools. Two of the contests will be against No. 1 UNC, a formidable opponent.
The No. 3 men’s lacrosse team has jumped to a 4-0 record this season with big wins in Baltimore, Md., over then-No. 6 Johns Hopkins and then-No. 6 University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
When typical college sports fans hear “NCAA Tournament selection process,” they probably envision closed-door discussions and hordes of ESPN talking heads debating whether Penn State’s win over Michigan State is more important than Florida’s loss to Kentucky. For basketball fans, this image is relatively accurate, as the selection process is highly secretive and involves a good deal of subjective decision-making.
Zane Kalemba, junior goaltender of the men’s hockey team, lays out his equipment the exact same way before each game, with all the items spread equally far apart. Sophomore forward Sam Sabky listens to Eminem’s hit song “ ’Till I Collapse,” as he walks to Baker Rink. Sophomore forward Kevin Lohry fills two cups of coffee but never completely finishes the second cup.
When I was growing up on the West Coast, it became apparent that the sports world has an extremely unfair East Coast bias. For starters, “SportsCenter” on ESPN airs at 11 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, while NBA, NHL, MLB and NCAA games are still in progress on the West Coast.
Anytime collegiate athletes can describe debut performances the way junior Aaron Horvath did, something special must be afoot.
As Johnny trots off the field after football practice, he thinks about the long list of things he has to do that night: Complete the homework for his Advanced Placement classes, work on his college applications, eat dinner and field two or three phone calls from the college football coaches who are recruiting him.
Just four days after the men’s basketball team’s hopes for an Ivy League title died on the court at Columbia, the Tigers closed their season with a 59-56 win at Penn.
When the women’s basketball team stepped off the court at Penn’s Palestra a year ago, it had just suffered an 85-78 loss to the Quakers to end its Ivy League season at 4-10, second from last.
