The month of April is tough on many a sports fan. The memory of playoff football begins to fade, and after surviving the delirium of March Madness, we find ourselves at a crossroads where the sports world loses some of its steam.
While the sun played hide-and-seek behind the clouds and the Clarke Field DJ blared bad '80s music between batters and innings, the baseball team continued its frustrating season of ups and downs yesterday afternoon with an 8-3 loss to Monmouth.Not much went right for the Tigers (8-16 overall, 4-4 Ivy League), who fell to the Hawks (15-10-1) for the fourth straight time dating back to 2005.
It was just another routine night in Dillon Gym as the men's volleyball team steamrolled past the Division III Stevens Institute of Technology (33-6 overall) yesterday, putting the Ducks' eight-game winning streak to a decisive end.The Tigers kept the match out of Stevens Tech's reach, winning in four sets, 30-25, 30-26, 26-30, 30-15.Princeton (10-8 overall, 6-5 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tait Division) will end its season Saturday against league rival George Mason in Fairfax, Va.
Fencing has taken Maya Lawrence '02 on a long journey from anonymity to the cusp of Olympic glory.
It was a successful Saturday for the three Princeton crews in action. The men's heavyweight crew defeated Rutgers in the Raritan River in New Brunswick, the women's open crew placed second in a tri-meet against Cornell and Harvard in Ithaca and the women's lightweight crew hosted and beat MIT and the University of Central Florida.The Tiger women's lightweight team rowed well over a windy, choppy and cold Lake Carnegie.The first varsity eight boat won the 2,000-meter race in seven minutes, thirty-seven seconds, nearly 20 seconds ahead of second-place UCF and 25 seconds ahead of MIT.
In certain "realistic" video games, characters' breathing patterns alter their aim; to compensate for this perturbation, there is usually a control to hold one's breath before firing.
This past week's Masters Tournament ? the first major championship of the year ? marked the golf season's unofficial start.
It's always good to be home. After facing some tough opponents on the road in recent weeks and walking away both victorious and not, the men's volleyball team was ready to light it up at Dillon Gym.
Despite the chilly weather, the men's and women's track and field teams put on their light running clothing this weekend to host their first invitational of the outdoor track season.
After last weekend's 5-3 victory over Yale, head coach Bill Tierney wanted one thing from his offense: more goals.
It's not over until it's over. On Saturday, the women's lacrosse team faced this bitter lesson as the Tigers (4-4 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) found themselves on the wrong end of a 6-5 scoreline after conceding the winning goal to Yale (10-3, 3-1) with 10 seconds left.Lauren Taylor scored the vital goal for the Bulldogs, giving her 49 goals on the season to lead all of Division I.
On a weekend that saw unusually brutal April weather knock out major league and college baseball games alike, the Tigers managed to evade the worst of the inclement weather and come away with a pair of wins for the second consecutive weekend."It's worked out well for us so far," junior pitcher Steven Miller said.
The softball team bounced back from two Saturday losses to Harvard by sweeping Dartmouth yesterday in its second doubleheader of the weekend.
The men's tennis team (9-5 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) broke its three-match losing streak this weekend with two big road wins over Ivy League foes Brown and Yale.
With a little less than nine minutes remaining in the men's lacrosse team's game against Syracuse on Saturday, Princeton fans and players were starting to get edgy.
Early spring weather in this and other Ivy League locales may be welcomed by jacket retailers, hot chocolate profiteers and snowman building enthusiasts, but it sure isn't winning any friends among Ivy League baseball players.Because of the long winter, Princeton and other Ivy schools are forced to squeeze an entire season's worth of games into just two months, usually playing back-to-back doubleheaders on weekends.The Tigers (6-13 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) will play their second of five consecutive four-game weekends beginning Saturday at Harvard (6-10, 2-2) and continuing Sunday home versus Dartmouth (4-13, 1-3). The weather in Hanover will prevent the Big Green from hosting the Tigers.For those keeping score at home, that is 36 innings in scarcely more than 24 hours.
When it rains, it pours. This adage doesn't just describe Princeton's schizophrenic weather ? it can also be applied to the softball team, whose streakiness this season has been well-documented.Princeton (13-18 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) comes into this weekend on a four-game win streak ? an impressive run that began with two wins against Brown (7-15, 1-3) last Saturday.
