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.
With four games left in the Ivy League season, the men's baseball team faces a simple choice: win three of them ? or go home.Princeton (14-22 overall, 8-8 Ivy League) currently sits one game behind Cornell (15-18, 9-7) in the Lou Gehrig Division standings.
Although the Ivy League crown is out of its reach, the women's lacrosse team will look to finish league play with a bang this weekend as Brown (3-9 overall, 1-4 Ivy League) comes to the Class of 1952 Stadium on Saturday.
After the end of last year, the baseball team found itself with only one catcher returning for the next season, junior Zach Wendkos.This situation was especially unfortunate since the player deficiency concerned catching, the most strenuous and demanding position in baseball day-in and day-out, where having a backup is absolutely critical to success.So head coach Shawn Bradley turned to an unlikely candidate, sophomore Sal Iacono, who had played nothing but third base throughout his high school and college career, starting every game at third for the Tigers last season as a freshman."We needed another catcher, and coach [Bradley] asked me to do it," Iacono said.
Not since 1989, head coach Bill Tierney's second year at Princeton, has the men's lacrosse team played a game without any post-season implications.
The swagger that accompanied the softball team's securing the Ivy League crown just last weekend seemed to have vanished completely by the time Princeton (33-18 overall, 12-2 Ivy League) finished dropping its third and fourth games in a row at the hands of Villanova (34-23) on Thursday afternoon at Class of 1895 Field.
After the baseball team's performance in their first night game of the season against St. John's on Tuesday night, it was clear that Princeton should stick to playing during the day.
The women's lacrosse team bounced back from its disappointing loss to Dartmouth in a decisive manner, destroying Delaware, 16-3, on Tuesday evening in Newark, Del.Everything was clicking for the Tigers on a night when even senior defender Lauren Vance was able to secure her first career goal.
This May, for the first time in six years, the men's basketball team will graduate a senior class that includes two players who scored more than 1,000 points over the course of their Princeton careers ? guard Will Venable and center Judson Wallace.
Despite the ill-fated varsity men's lacrosse season this spring, Tiger fans still had one dominant men's lacrosse team to cheer for: the club squad, which completed an undefeated regular season before being upset by Westchester in the national tournament quarterfinals last week.Ironically, it's the varsity team's tradition of success that is at least partly responsible for the club team's prowess.
