Someone ought to turn this into a Hollywood movie. The women's hockey team ended its season on Senior Night with a 3-0 victory over Yale this past Saturday, claiming the Ivy League crown.
The women's basketball team has its eye on the prize, and after an unprecedented performance this past weekend, that prize ? the Ivy League championship ? is within grasp.Princeton (18-6 overall, 9-2 Ivy League) propelled itself into a tie with Dartmouth for second in the Ivy League after beating the Big Green (18-6, 9-2) on Friday and Harvard (10-14, 6-5) on Saturday.
Who owns Harvard University? The students? The alumni? The school's secretive, seven-member governing body known as the Harvard Corporation?Following the Crimson's loss to the Princeton men's basketball team on Saturday night, it appears as though the answer to that question is "none of the above."Kyle Koncz owns Harvard.The Tigers' sophomore forward set a career high in points for the second time in as many games against the Crimson this season, netting 23 to lead Princeton (10-14 overall, 8-3 Ivy League) to a 75-48 thrashing of a reeling Harvard squad (12-13, 4-8). His previous career high of 20 points had come against the Crimson in a 60-59 win on Feb.
With its sights on the playoffs, men's hockey picked up three more points over the weekend to secure the ninth seed in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League by passing Quinnipiac in the standings.Princeton's (10-16-3 overall, 7-12-3 ECACHL) three points came from a tie at Brown (4-18-7, 3-14-5) on Friday and a win over Yale (8-18-3, 6-14-2) on Saturday."We played well," senior forward Patrick Neundorfer said.
The forecast was for rain, yet the sky was cloudless all afternoon. Apparently the weathermen knew that Princeton's men's lacrosse team had a game on Saturday and would be raining shots, instead.The Tigers (1-0 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) made short work of Canisius (0-1) in their season opener, ripping past the Golden Griffins in a 16-6 win that made for an impressive start to the 2006 season."[It's] better than being 0-1 ... it was a good opener for us," head coach Bill Tierney said.Everything that went wrong last season, especially the '05 team's shooting woes, went right for the Tigers.
Someone ought to turn this into a Hollywood movie. The women's hockey team ended its season on Senior Night with a 3-0 victory over Yale this past Saturday, claiming the Ivy League crown.
If one were to pick a Tiger to come through with a dazzling three-point play in the paint to give his team the lead with under 34 seconds remaining, only to turn around and make a huge block on the other side of the floor to help secure the win, the obvious choice would not be Edwin Buffmire.However, a look at the stat sheet reveals that ? when exactly those events transpired Friday night ? chance was decidedly in Buffmire's favor.The junior reserve guard ? who not only leads the team in shooting at 49 percent but also in blocks with 10 ? came through for Princeton (10-14 overall, 8-3 Ivy League) offensively and defensively when it mattered most, helping to secure a 63-60 comeback victory over Dartmouth (5-20, 3-9).With his team trailing 57-56, less than a minute on the clock and the Tigers out of timeouts, Buffmire muscled his way up for a picture-perfect left-handed hook off the glass.
If one were to pick a Tiger to come through with a dazzling three-point play in the paint to give his team the lead with under 34 seconds remaining, only to turn around and make a huge block on the other side of the floor to help secure the win, the obvious choice would not be Edwin Buffmire.However, a look at the stat sheet reveals that ? when exactly those events transpired Friday night ? chance was decidedly in Buffmire's favor.The junior reserve guard ? who not only leads the team in shooting at 49 percent but also in blocks with 10 ? came through for Princeton (10-14 overall, 8-3 Ivy League) offensively and defensively when it mattered most, helping to secure a 63-60 comeback victory over Dartmouth (5-20, 3-9).With his team trailing 57-56, less than a minute on the clock and the Tigers out of timeouts, Buffmire muscled his way up for a picture-perfect left-handed hook off the glass.
With its sights on the playoffs, men's hockey picked up three more points over the weekend to secure the ninth seed in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League by passing Quinnipiac in the standings.Princeton's (10-16-3 overall, 7-12-3 ECACHL) three points came from a tie at Brown (4-18-7, 3-14-5) on Friday and a win over Yale (8-18-3, 6-14-2) on Saturday."We played well," senior forward Patrick Neundorfer said.
The forecast was for rain, yet the sky was cloudless all afternoon. Apparently the weathermen knew that Princeton's men's lacrosse team had a game on Saturday and would be raining shots, instead.The Tigers (1-0 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) made short work of Canisius (0-1) in their season opener, ripping past the Golden Griffins in a 16-6 win that made for an impressive start to the 2006 season."[It's] better than being 0-1 ... it was a good opener for us," head coach Bill Tierney said.Everything that went wrong last season, especially the '05 team's shooting woes, went right for the Tigers.
The women's basketball team has its eye on the prize, and after an unprecedented performance this past weekend, that prize ? the Ivy League championship ? is within grasp.Princeton (18-6 overall, 9-2 Ivy League) propelled itself into a tie with Dartmouth for second in the Ivy League after beating the Big Green (18-6, 9-2) on Friday and Harvard (10-14, 6-5) on Saturday.
Junior Michael Gilman was the No. 8 player on the Ivy League Championship-winningmen's squash team this year.
Junior Michael Gilman was the No. 8 player on the Ivy League Championship-winningmen's squash team this year.
The men's and women's track teams will be making the long drive up to Hanover, N.H., this weekend to compete in the Indoor Track Heptagonals, otherwise known as the Ivy League Indoor Track Championships.
The two weeks spent away from home by the men's basketball team, which returns to Jadwin Gym tonight after a five-game tour of the Ivy League, did little to clarify just how fully the once miserable Tigers are ready to turn around their season.Princeton (8-14 overall, 6-3 Ivy League) finished with a 3-2 record over the road stretch, but was outscored by an eight-point margin.
Last year's 5-7 season was highly uncharacteristic of the perennially great men's lacrosse team. This year's squad, too, strives to be different from previous Princeton teams, save one particularly important quality: the Tigers remain fired up about shooting for a national championship in May.The Tigers (0-0) will field a slightly young but highly talented team against Canisius (0-0) in the first regular-season display of a revamped offense that discards some of the hallmarks of Princeton lacrosse strategy in favor of a more aggressive approach.For years, the Tigers have slain opponents with a controlled, methodical offense that kept the ball in Princeton sticks until a prime opportunity presented itself.
Women's squash (5-3) will travel to Harvard this weekend with hopes of returning with the Howe Cup, the team national championship of women's collegiate squash.Every year, the top eight teams in the country battle for the Cup.This year's participants, in order of their current standing, are Yale, Trinity, Harvard, Princeton, Penn, Dartmouth, Brown and Williams.Despite ranking in the middle of the pack, the Tigers remain confident about their chances for victory."They haven't seen what we can do yet, we haven't put it all out there," sophomore No.
The fate of the women's basketball team lies in its own hands. After a strong sweep through Cornell and Columbia last weekend, and with the help of Brown's win over Dartmouth in Providence, R.I., the Tigers are facing the two biggest games of their season this weekend against the Big Green and Harvard.
With only two games left in the regular season, the future is looking pretty bright for the women's hockey team.
The fate of the women's basketball team lies in its own hands. After a strong sweep through Cornell and Columbia last weekend, and with the help of Brown's win over Dartmouth in Providence, R.I., the Tigers are facing the two biggest games of their season this weekend against the Big Green and Harvard.
