For senior catcher Ty Ries and senior centerfielder Melissa Finley, yesterday's doubleheader against Rider was bittersweet.
After missing a chance to play for an Ivy League championship by a single game, the baseball team's season came to an end Wednesday with a solid 5-1 win over Rider.Princeton (17-24 overall, 10-10 Ivy League) used a strong outing by sophomore pitcher Wills Sweney and a three-hit effort from sophomore third baseman Sal Iacono to overcome the Broncos (12-26). Though the Tigers had hoped to use the game as a warmup for the Ivy League Championship series, a weekend split against Cornell relegated Princeton to second place in the Gehrig Division, leaving the team without a post-season.Sweney allowed only four hits and one unearned run over five innings to improve to 2-5 on the year.Rider's lone run came in the top of the second, when centerfielder Mike Poalise reached on a throwing error by junior shortstop Matthew Becker.
For the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall, men's lacrosse already knows when its season will end.
Whether causing the pitching rubber to shake by sending shivers down the spines of opposing hurlers or by the impact of her own deadly windup, Erin Snyder, junior pitcher and first baseman for the NCAA tournament-bound softball team (35-18 overall, 12-2 Ivy League), raises the expectations for a two-way player in every game she plays.Far from a novelty act, Snyder's ability to consistently secure victories with both her arm and her bat has been the driving force behind the Tigers' successful season.
As Maryland's Brooke Richards emerged from behind the net and scored against senior goaltender Sarah Kolodner in the second sudden-death overtime session, the horn sounded on Princeton's regular season.
All too often, the only time a goalie receives any attention is when he does something wrong. This year, however, senior Peter Sabbatini rightfully gained notoriety for doing something ? many things, in fact ? right.Sabbatini had already amassed an impressive record before this fall's men's water polo season even began.
As the final seconds of the first half expired, freshman goalie Natalie Kim hurled the ball toward Brown's cage.
For twelve straight years, at least one of the women's lacrosse powerhouses of Maryland and Princeton has played in the NCAA final.
In its 111th year, the Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia is heralded as America's largest track meet and the world's first relay meet.
A postseason isn't in the cards for the baseball team this year, as it split a four-game weekend series with Cornell.
On a cold and windy day in late November on Lourie-Love Field, senior forward Esmeralda Negron and her teammates on the women's soccer team did the unthinkable.
After finishing 19th out of 21 teams at last year's NCAA Central Regionals, the women's golf team hopes that a change of region will bring it better results this year.
The bricks in front of the far stands at Class of 1952 Stadium weren't the only brick wall there on Saturday.Freshman goalie Alex Hewit had an incredible 16 saves, leading Princeton's men's lacrosse team (4-7 overall, 3-2 Ivy League) to a 10-8 win over league rival Dartmouth (6-4 overall, 3-2 Ivy).The win wiped away some of the bitterness left over from last weekend's ugly 17-4 loss to Cornell, which ended the Tigers' hopes of playing in the NCAA Tournament later in May.
In their entire careers at Princeton, the seniors on the women's lacrosse team have lost just two Ivy League games, tallying an overall record of 26-2.
After going undefeated in the Ivy League regular season, the women's open team had one more race to win if they were going to have a perfect season overall.
The women's water polo team finished its season with a fourth-place finish at Eastern Championships this weekend in Bloomington, Ind.After opening play Saturday afternoon with a 10-6 victory over Brown, the Tigers fell to eventual champion Michigan, 8-3, Saturday night in the semifinals.
For the first time since 1995, the baseball team will not play in the Ivy League Championship Series for a shot at an NCAA tournament bid.Needing to win three of four games against Gehrig Division foe Cornell this weekend, the Tigers (16-24 overall, 10-10 Ivy League) could only muster splits both Friday afternoon at Clarke Field and Sunday afternoon in Ithaca, N.Y.
While their friends have been worrying about what to wear and who to take to Houseparties for the past few weeks, the players of women's rugby have had something much more pressing on their minds.
The largest track and field meet in the country, this weekend's Penn Relays, may be more aptly described as a carnival than a meet.
When junior defender Lauren Vance scored the first goal of her Princeton career Wednesday night in the Tigers' 16-3 rout of Delaware, her reaction was simple: "It's about time."It wasn't the first occasion this season that Vance has found herself in an unfamiliar role.
