Matt Behncke '02 describes his job as "dirty work," but he has no complaints. He doesn't view it as hard work because he enjoys it and always has.
Pitching is, by definition, throwing the ball toward the plate in hopes that the batter will miss.
Like mushrooms, poker games have been multiplying on campus over the past couple of years. And like any predominantly masculine endeavor, poker games tend to breed poker stories.
In one of the most storied and competitive matchups the crew world features, the men's heavyweight crew lost its first race of the season against Ivy League rivals Harvard.Though the Tigers were the higher seed, ranked No.
For Princeton's golf teams, good things came in pairs this past weekend. Both the men's and women's teams dominated the Ivy League Championships, placing first in their respective divisions.
Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Sofia Mata-Leclerc sat down to chat with Pulitzer Prizewinning writer David Maraniss, a visiting Council for the Humanities Robbins Professor who is teaching HUM 440: 'The Literature of Fact' this spring.In 2002, Sports Illustrated named his biography of famed Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, "When Pride Still Mattered," to its list of the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time.
The tennis teams saw a painful shade of red this weekend, as the Crimson men's and women's squads descended on the Lenz Tennis Center on Saturday.
In the first game of a doubleheader on Sunday, the baseball team found itself down three runs with only two innings left to play.
Junior Meredith Lambert has been running well in practice all season, but she has still been unhappy with her race day execution.
"I really believe that when we get the first one we're going to be a tough team," men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney said after the team's 10-8 loss to Syracuse on March 26.
On match point, all it took was a glance.Friday night at Dillon Gym, the men's volleyball team led Mercyhurst College, 29-28, in the fourth set, and Princeton (7-12 overall, 4-9 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) was serve-receiving.
Now that senior attack Lindsey Biles is done writing her senior thesis, she can move on to her next project ? rewriting the women's lacrosse team's record book.
When junior pitcher Erin Snyder stepped onto the mound at Class of 1895 Field on Sunday afternoon to face Dartmouth, no one in the stands ? or even in her own dugout ? would have thought that she would be able to improve upon her virtuoso performance in her previous day's outing against Harvard, when she struck out a staggering 21 Crimson batters.
Texas Rangers hurler Chris Young '02 picked up his first victory of the season Sunday afternoon, allowing four runs on six hits in five and two-thirds innings of work as the Rangers topped Tampa Bay , 6-5.
With the crowd standing outside the locker room, you would have thought you were at a Giants game at the Meadowlands.
The Four Leafs Tournament began when one of the Tigers' four subs broke his ankle on the way to the bus.
Five proved to be a lucky number for the women's lacrosse team on Wednesday night in Philadelphia.
Although the softball team is in the midst of a three-game losing streak Princeton (25-12 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) might have had trouble asking for a better way to begin its second Ivy League weekend.The last time the Tigers dropped three-straight games was in early March, and they followed up that skid with a string of six consecutive wins.
Following two of the most decisive victories the women's lacrosse team has posted all season, the Tigers hope to continue this streak of dominance as they face off against league bottom-dweller Harvard at Class of 1952 Stadium on Saturday.Princeton's last two wins over Yale and Penn have been by margins of seven and six, respectively.
Four games in two days against the same team is usually quite a grueling challenge. But for the baseball team, it will be the norm, as Princeton begins divisional play in its Ivy League season.The Tigers (11-15 overall, 5-3 Ivy League) will play doubleheaders at Penn (9-18, 5-7) as they start play in the Gehrig division.Their previous Ivy League games have come against teams in the Rolfe Division, against whom Princeton only plays one doubleheader apiece.The Tigers come in fresh off a 10-0 drubbing of Seton Hall on Tuesday.
