When Yale's women's lacrosse team visits the Class of 1952 Stadium on Saturday afternoon, they will have Ivy League revenge on their minds.
Last weekend, still seeking dependable bullpen arms and productive bats for the bottom half of the order, the men's baseball team was swept by Dartmouth and Harvard in a pair of home doubleheaders to open its Ivy League season.As the Tigers (4-16-1 overall, 0-4 Ivy League) travel to face Brown (3-13, 3-1) and Yale (14-10, 3-1) tomorrow and Sunday, respectively, another week has been devoted to the search, but the same deficiencies that have doomed Princeton to its wretched start continue to make the immediate prospect of securing league wins unlikely.Not only are the Tigers mired in a seven-game winless streak, but their foes this weekend are each heating up just in time for their returns home.All three of the Bears' wins this season have been claimed over their last four games, and they should be eager to play their first game on their own field after rain cancelled what would have been their home opener Wednesday night.
What is the greatest highlight in your sports career?Traveling and playing all over Asia two summers ago with nine other girls from different Division I schools across the U.S.
What is the greatest highlight in your sports career?Traveling and playing all over Asia two summers ago with nine other girls from different Division I schools across the U.S.
Once the preseason favorite to win a national title, the Duke men's lacrosse team can now only watch from afar as the rest of the nation battles on.
In one of the few regions of the country where lacrosse is as commonplace as bread and butter, it's not so hard to believe that many of the college club lacrosse teams have players who could compete at the varsity level.
With 664 career strikeouts, a 0.92 earned run average and a .297 batting average on the season the numbers speak for themselves.
Going into Tuesday night's match with NYU (10-14, 0-12 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association), the men's volleyball team was feeling confident?after all, the Violets have been the worst team in the EIVA this year, and the Tigers (6-11, 4-7 EIVA) rolled over them in three straight games earlier this season.When the Tigers arrived in Manhattan to face the Violets in the Coles Sports Center, however, they found themselves in a stressful situation, to say the least.
In one of the few regions of the country where lacrosse is as commonplace as bread and butter, it's not so hard to believe that many of the college club lacrosse teams have players who could compete at the varsity level.
As far as good baseball omens go, not much beats the second hitter of the game blasting the first pitch he sees over the left-field fence for a solo home run.After Tuesday afternoon's 11-1 loss at Monmouth, though, the Tigers are probably wishing they had done themselves one better.Freshman shortstop Dan Degeorge went yard for the second time this season to stake the Tigers to a 1-0 lead with one out in the top of the first inning, and it looked like Princeton was ready to give its full support to sophomore pitcher Evan Alexander in his first career start.But the Tigers (4-16-1 overall, 0-4 Ivy League) were held scoreless over the game's remaining 26 outs, and the Hawks (13-10) exploded for eight runs off Alexander in the bottom of the first to pull away early.Alexander, who missed his freshman year after undergoing Tommy John surgery, had looked sharp in two appearances out of the bullpen this year.
Going into Tuesday night's match with NYU (10-14, 0-12 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association), the men's volleyball team was feeling confident?after all, the Violets have been the worst team in the EIVA this year, and the Tigers (6-11, 4-7 EIVA) rolled over them in three straight games earlier this season.When the Tigers arrived in Manhattan to face the Violets in the Coles Sports Center, however, they found themselves in a stressful situation, to say the least.
Making three key saves in the final 66 seconds of play, sophomore goalie Meg Murray helped the women's lacrosse team secure a victory Tuesday evening.
As far as good baseball omens go, not much beats the second hitter of the game blasting the first pitch he sees over the left-field fence for a solo home run.After Tuesday afternoon's 11-1 loss at Monmouth, though, the Tigers are probably wishing they had done themselves one better.Freshman shortstop Dan Degeorge went yard for the second time this season to stake the Tigers to a 1-0 lead with one out in the top of the first inning, and it looked like Princeton was ready to give its full support to sophomore pitcher Evan Alexander in his first career start.But the Tigers (4-16-1 overall, 0-4 Ivy League) were held scoreless over the game's remaining 26 outs, and the Hawks (13-10) exploded for eight runs off Alexander in the bottom of the first to pull away early.Alexander, who missed his freshman year after undergoing Tommy John surgery, had looked sharp in two appearances out of the bullpen this year.
Making three key saves in the final 66 seconds of play, sophomore goalie Meg Murray helped the women's lacrosse team secure a victory Tuesday evening.
With 664 career strikeouts, a 0.92 earned run average and a .297 batting average on the season the numbers speak for themselves.
Once the preseason favorite to win a national title, the Duke men's lacrosse team can now only watch from afar as the rest of the nation battles on.
Freshman Peter Capkovic spends his matches staring through the fence, urging the men's tennis team on with only his words.The sidelines are not a familiar place for Capkovic, an internationally-seasoned tennis veteran from Slovakia, who spent his junior years touring Europe and competing with some of the best young players in the world.Due to NCAA regulations, though, the 22-year-old freshman has only three years of eligibility.
Whenever a head coach hands his team over to a replacement, there are mixed emotions. With the recent naming of Zoltan Dudas to take over for Michel Sebastiani, who is retiring after 25 years at the helm, the men's and women's fencing teams are feeling their excitement for the new leadership overwhelm their regret at seeing their mentor depart.Hungarian native Dudas, who was an assistant coach at the University of Notre Dame, is eager to begin building his program and will officially take the reins of the Princeton fencing team July 1.Senior Associate Director of Athletics Michael Cross said the committee choosing the new fencing coach felt that Dudas clearly emerged as the best candidate for the job."There was a very strong feeling that he absolutely had the ability to do the job," Cross said.Looking at Dudas' record as an assistant, it is easy to see why.
The sports fan who stops and thinks about it for a moment will realize how much sports are part of his daily regimen.
As that annual sports bonanza ? the tournament known as March Madness that is beloved to each and every hardcore sports fan out there ? comes to a close, another national collegiate sports tournament is just getting started.Complete with Sweet Sixteen and Final Four, this tournament is none other than the women's rugby championships ? and Princeton has a chance to win the national title.Princeton has established a solid pattern of excellence in women's rugby.
