After a tough 5-0 loss to No. 2 Maryland on Wednesday, the No. 12 field hockey team looks to rebound against Brown and Villanova this weekend.
When a high-octane offense matches up against a stalwart defense, the final score may be hard to predict, but you can be sure there will be high-paced action.
The men?s golf team played a rare midweek tournament, traveling to Loveland, Ohio, to take on a 20-team field at the Xavier Invitational.
It?s the end of regulation on Friday night at Jadwin Gymnasium. The game is tied, your player is at the line, and you are lifting your hands up in anticipation among a swarm of students.
It had all the makings of a classic trap game. Sandwiched between two weekend matchups with Ivy League contenders and played in front of a mostly empty Roberts Stadium, a midweek game against Lehigh would have been easy to overlook.Judging by the women?s soccer team?s at times lackluster play, the Tigers seem to have done just that, as Princeton (8-1-2 overall, 2-0-1 Ivy League) was unable to control possession against the Mountain Hawks (4-8-1). In the end, however, the Tigers defeated their non-conference foe, 1-0, to run their unbeaten streak to nine games and extend their astonishing scoreless streak to 690 minutes.?It was a midweek game,? head coach Julie Shackford said.
The men?s soccer team is sick and tired of coming up short in close games, and that frustration seemed to have a positive effect
It?s fall at Princeton, and that means only one thing for hundreds of students around campus: participation in a wide variety of intramural sports.
Q: What has been the greatest highlight in your sports career?A: Best moment would have to be last year at our last Ivy League game against Penn.
The numbers are gaudy ? three goals allowed in 10 games, seven clean sheets, a 600-minute goalless streak, a goalie with a .914 save percentage ? but perhaps more impressive than the women?s soccer team?s defensive statistics so far this season are its expectations for the rest of the year.?No goals against for the rest of the season,? senior defender Taylor Numann said.A lofty goal?
Weller Evans ?76 never thought that his summer job as a locker-room attendant, which consisted of handing out cool drinks to tennis players and collecting dirty towels at a tennis club, would someday lead him to his dream job.
The field hockey team was in action last night in its toughest matchup of the season against No. 2 Maryland.
Though rugby may not be the most popular or well-known sport on campus, the athletes on the women?s rugby team certainly regard it as fun and rewarding.Just ask junior co-captain Elaine Bigelow how she feels about rugby.?I had a best friend who played all through college and told me how much fun it was,? Bigelow said.
The men?s water polo team faced off against five top-20 teams this past weekend, including three top-six programs, and finished 11th overall at the annual SoCal Tournament.
Each season, every team has one regular-season game that gets circled on the calendar during preseason, one showdown that could instantly turn the year into a success.
Five members of the men?s tennis team traveled to New York City last weekend for the Columbia Invitational, a 12-team tournament that included Harvard, Penn, Columbia and Cornell.The Tigers posted a mixed performance at the three-day event, with unexpectedly strong showings from two underclassmen, sophomore Parker Preyer and freshman Yohei Shoji, and disappointingly early exits for two of the squad?s top players, senior Alex Vuckovic and junior George Carpeni.
The 2009 Women?s Junior World Cup in field hockey will be hosted at Harvard, where Constance Applebee introduced the game to the United States in 1901.
The sprint football team took on Cornell this past Friday at home on Powers Field. In one of the team?s best overall performances this season, the Tigers scored their first two touchdowns but came out on the losing end of a 40-14 battle.
It has been almost two years and exactly 18 league matches since the women?s volleyball team has lost in the Ivy League.
If head coach Roger Hughes had known before Saturday?s game that the Tigers would outrush Colgate, he would have felt good about the football team?s chances.
