After two challenges this weekend, the field hockey team remains unscathed in the Ivy League and poised for a strong second half.
This past week the women?s tennis team sent three players to attempt to qualify for the Riviera/ITA Women?s All-American Championships.
The sprint football team traveled to West Point last Friday to take on Army. The Black Knights (2-2 overall, 1-0 Collegiate Spring Football League) racked up points in a hurry, scoring eight touchdowns and one field goal.
Spectators will almost never see a solitary Princeton cross-country runner. The women?s cross country team prides itself on pack-running, a strategy that helped it battle through a tough field of 186 runners at the Notre Dame Invitational to claim second place overall.The men?s cross country team, meanwhile, finished 11th overall, with senior Michael Maag posting the eighth-best individual time.On the women?s side, the race featured a deep field that included a dozen nationally ranked teams.
?This game is there for the taking. How bad do you want it??That was the question posed to the football team?s offense by head coach Roger Hughes as it took the field down three points with 10 minutes left in Saturday?s 27-24 victory over Columbia.After a touchdown proved that the offense ?wanted it,? the defense made its stand, forcing a late fumble to preserve the three-point victory.
Last year, the women?s volleyball team clawed its way to a win during a tense five-game Ivy League opener against Penn.
After the women?s soccer team defeated Dartmouth 1-0 on Saturday afternoon, it left the men with a perfect setting for their matchup: beautiful weather, more than 2,000 fans and momentum in the home team?s favor.
Just call them the cardiac cats. For the third-0straight game, the women?s soccer team (6-1-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) used a combination of stingy defense, lights-out goalkeeping and offensive opportunism to pull out a hard-fought 1-0 victory against a talented opponent.?It?s a heart attack for me, but they?re finding ways [to win],? head coach Julie Shackford said.
New York, Oct. 3 ? With under nine minutes remaining in the football team?s 27-24 victory over Columbia (0-3 overall, 0-1 Ivy League) on Saturday afternoon, the Tigers (2-1, 1-0) were in dire need of an offensive jolt.
For the ninth-consecutive season, the Princeton football team will begin its Ivy League schedule by squaring off against Columbia.
Perhaps an extra week of rest did the women?s soccer team some good. Quickly shaking off the rust after their road trip to Texas was cancelled due to Hurricane Ike, the Tigers (5-1-1 overall, 1-0-0 Ivy League) have recorded four wins and one tie in their last five games.Considering that Princeton has won its last two games 1-0, the Tigers can be forgiven for thinking a magical season is in the making.
After a month of non-conference matches, the women?s volleyball team finally begins the most important, most anticipated and most challenging aspect of its schedule: the Ivy League season.
Against No. 16 Loyola on Wednesday night, the men?s soccer team ran into the same problem it has struggled with through the first half of the season: great opportunities, no goals.The Greyhounds (7-0-1 overall) defeated the Tigers, 1-0, in a rainy, evenly contested battle.
Sporting a new No. 12 ranking, the field hockey team hopes to build on its four-game winning streak this weekend with action Friday at Columbia and Sunday at home against Providence.
Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment? A: Field hockey pre-season ? 7 a.m.
New York City has at times been plagued by gun violence. The city?s criminals use guns to rob banks, take hostages and the like.
Many graduating Princetonians have been reading the headlines recently, dreading the latest financial news and job market statistics.
Editor?s note: This is the seventh in a series of postcards that Daily Princetonian sports staff writers and others wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.
The men?s cross country team has been one of the most successful Princeton sports teams over the past two years, winning two straight Ivy League Heptagonal championships and finishing third at last fall?s Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships.
Sarah Peteraf seems to have brought the Midas touch to Myslik Field, as the senior midfielder?s late-game heroics led the women?s soccer team to another victory last night.Princeton (5-1-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) got off to a slow start against Fairfield (7-2-2) and had difficulty maintaining possession and creating quality attacking chances.
