Your empire is in shambles, Yankees fans. Your nation has fallen, Red Sox faithful. Out of the ashes of the old powers of Major League Baseball's American League East division, a new bird is rising.
Men's squash head coach Bob Callahan confirmed this week that three highly touted players, all originally hailing from outside the United States, will be members of Princeton's class of 2009.The talented triumvirate of Mauricio Sanchez, Hesham El Halaby and Kim Lee Wong are expected to make an immediate impact for the Tigers."They will be a strong trio next year that harkens back to the fall of '99, in which four young fellows came through and won three out of four Ivy League championships," Callahan said.
Not all that long ago, Kathleen Miller didn't always know what to do.Even as she blazed her way to Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors, she sometimes found herself so caught up in game situations that she froze in the middle of the lacrosse field.
There seems to be no limit to the women's water polo team's potential as they continually improve throughout the season.In a powerful showing this past weekend, Princeton (26-7 overall, 11-0 College Water Polo Association Southern Division) again asserted its dominance in the CWPA Southern Division, earning the Southern Championships tournament title with successive blowouts of Maryland, Salem International and Bucknell.Undefeated in the Southern Division during the regular season, the Tigers were considered the clear favorite entering the tournament.
Two helmets. Six pairs of shoes. Ten sticks. Two pairs of gloves. Three different kinds of uniforms.
The poor performance the softball team displayed against St. Joseph's University on a windy afternoon Tuesday at Class of 1895 Stadium hardly seemed to fit with the Ivy League championship it claimed Monday.
Rutgers-Newark knocked the men's volleyball team out of the EIVA playoffs in the quarterfinal match Saturday, ending the Tigers' season with an overall record of 7-13.
On Sunday evening, I gleefully watched something I hadn't seen in seven years, something that I once doubted I would ever see again: the Chicago Bulls won a playoff game.Yes, on the United Center floor where His Airness once reigned, the Bulls topped the Washington Wizards in Game 1 of their first round playoff series.
Dominating doubles has been the hallmark of the men's tennis team (14-8 overall, 3-4 Ivy League) this season.
The softball team is NCAA tournament-bound, as a 4-0 league weekend earned it the Ivy League crown and the subsequent automatic bid to NCAAs.
The last time the women's lacrosse team faced Delaware, the Tigers dominated en route to a 15-8 win.
Spring is the season of rebirth, and the football team is hopeful that after a strong spring season ? despite several notable absences due to injury and graduation ? it is prepared to rebound from its painfully disappointing 5-5 2004 campaign.The biggest focus of the practices was filling in the suddenly gaping holes on offense ? quarterback Matt Verbit, tailbacks Jon Veach and Brandon Benson and fullback Joel Mancl headline the graduating seniors who were responsible for most of the Tigers' production last year.At quarterback, a pair of freshmen, Bill Foran and Greg Mroz, and a pair of sophomores, Jeff Terrell and Chris Lee, are all in the running for the starting spot, with fierce, but friendly, competition driving them throughout the three weeks of spring practice.The two freshmen may bring the most talent, but are less experienced and more prone to error than the sophomores.
Under a bright, cloudless sky, I spent last Thursday afternoon enjoying one of our nation's great sporting traditions.
It was only damp and drizzly on the turf Saturday in Ithaca, N.Y., but the rain still fell in sheets on the Tigers.Princeton's men's lacrosse team (3-7 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) fell to Cornell (8-2, 5-0) in an ugly 17-4 loss that simultaneously eliminated the Tigers from the Ivy League championship race and extinguished their hopes of an NCAA tournament bid.The Big Red crushed Princeton's spirit early on in the game with a relentless barrage of goals that began with the very first face-off."We had a bad break on the opening face-off ? we had the ball and then lost it," head coach Bill Tierney said.
By the time the sun set in Hanover, N.H. on Saturday and the women's lacrosse team began its long bus ride back to New Jersey, the Tigers found themselves residing in unknown territory ? second place in the Ivy League.None of Princeton's current players have ever ended the regular season without at least a share of the Ivy League title.
With the baseball team's offense struggling, the Tigers' biggest hit of the day was the one its Ivy League title hopes sustained, as Princeton dropped three of four to Gehrig Division cellar-dweller Columbia.The Lions swept the Tigers, who were playing at home at Clarke Field all weekend, on Saturday.
Young beats YankeesFormer Princeton two-sport star Chris Young '02 improved to 2-0 on the season with a win over the New York Yankees on Friday night.On a cold night in the Bronx, the 6-foot, 10-inch Texas Rangers' pitcher scattered four hits and gave up just one run in five and two-thirds innings of work, and the Rangers bullpen held on for a 5-3 victory.
After suffering its first loss of the season last weekend at the hands of Harvard, the men's heavyweight crew could have asked for no better way to rebound than with wins against Ivy foes Cornell and Yale on Saturday at Lake Carnegie.Princeton dropped to fourth place in the country after last week's loss to the Crimson, a significant blow for a team accustomed to success.
Glory days. Everyone had them, Bruce Springsteen sang about them, and, most importantly, everyone wants them back.Nearly everyone at this fine institution had their glory days back in high school.
If the men's lacrosse team is going to beat Cornell this weekend, Princeton and its opening face-off man, junior Ryan Schoenig, will have to lunge at the Big Red ? quite literally."Cornell's always been notorious for being a fast-starting team ? their coaches do a great job of getting them emotionally and physically ready for games," head coach Bill Tierney said.
