Despite finally showing a resolve that has been lacking for much of the season, the women?s water polo team fell 11-9 in overtime against No.
The conditions were windy and blustery on Lake Carnegie this Saturday, but that didn’t prevent the men’s and women’s lightweight crews from succeeding on the water. The No. 1 lightweight men performed especially well in their race against No. 3 Navy.
EAST RUTHERFORD — Coming into the men’s lacrosse team’s showdown against Syracuse last Saturday, the biggest question was who would triumph in the battle between the Tigers’ young but talented defense and the Orange’s dynamic offense. The answer was clear.
One week after pulling out a close victory over Penn to open its Ivy League season, the men’s tennis team suffered disappointing back-to-back losses, falling 4-3 to Yale on Friday and 5-2 to Brown the next day. Princeton (9-8 overall) appeared to be evenly matched against both teams, and key moments in either match could have easily shifted the momentum the Tigers’ way.
On Friday evening, Princeton (13-9 overall, 2-2 Collegiate Water Polo Association [CWPA] Southern Division) travels to Lewisburg, Pa., to face Bucknell (15-11, 2-1) for the second time in one week.
The baseball team enters play this weekend in a precarious position. There are only five weeks of Ivy League games each season, and the Tigers have already dug themselves a hole.
Sports writers discuss the men's hockey team's gut-wrenching 5-4 overtime loss to UMD at the NCAA tournament last weekend, the baseball team's recent struggles and the much-anticipated men's lacrosse matchup between No. 5 Princeton and No. 2 Syracuse at Giants Stadium on Saturday.
EAST RUTHERFORD — In a game that featured stellar play on both sides of the restraining line, the No. 5 men's lacrosse team defeated No. 2 Syracuse 12-8 in a game at Giants Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
The softball team’s Ivy League title defense is hitting the road for the first time this weekend. Its show opened to mixed reviews last weekend, as the Tigers split doubleheaders with both Yale and Brown. A week of solid practice has the star-studded cast aiming for a clean sweep against Ivy North co-leaders Harvard and Dartmouth.
Coming off strong wins against Cornell and Columbia, the women’s lacrosse team will head to New Haven, Conn., this weekend to play rival Yale in Princeton’s third Ivy League game of the season.
The men?s lacrosse team?s year so far has gone almost as well as anyone could have imagined.
The No. 7 women?s lacrosse team overcame sloppy weather and sloppy play to outdo a feisty Columbia (5-4 overall, 0-3 Ivy League), 15-5, on Wednesday evening at Class of 1952 Stadium.Though Princeton (8-1, 2-0) won by 10 goals, the game was closer than that for most of the night.The score was knotted at one more than eight minutes into the matchup when senior attack Christine Casaceli forced a turnover.
After the first weekend of Ivy League play in baseball, Princeton has the best overall record of the Ancient Eight at 8-10.
From a professional standpoint, there are two advantages for John Calipari ? the former men?s basketball head coach at the University of Memphis ? taking the head coaching job at the University of Kentucky: more money and more tradition.
Princeton’s golfers seem to be shaking the rust off quickly, however, as they finished second overall at the Hoya Invitational.
When the men’s volleyball team faced NYU nearly two months ago, it struggled to an ugly 3-1 win at Dillon Gymnasium.
Last night, Princeton (8-10 overall, 1-3 Ivy League) fell to Monmouth (11-10) by a 12-3 margin. The Tigers have scored three or fewer runs in four of the last five games, and they are currently on a three-game skid.
Before the volunteer could finish his sentence — “If your favorite color is green…” — half a dozen 3- to 7-year-olds in brightly colored swimming gear were propelling themselves across the water of the Dillon Gymnasium Pool. Such was the scene during the last day of the women’s swimming and diving team’s “SPLASH: Swim Safe Week” last Thursday.
For sports fans, the most enduring images often are of moments of greatest defeat. And after the men’s hockey team’s heartbreaking 5-4 overtime loss to the University of Minnesota Duluth in its NCAA West Regional semifinal, I have a new image burned into the back of my skull.
Coming off an impressive 3-0 win over Harvard on March 13, the men’s volleyball team was no match for defending national champion No. 8 Penn State on Friday at University Park, Pa.
