As men's lacrosse has slowly piled up losses this season, head coach Bill Tierney has desperately searched for that one change that would turn around the freefall of the team that last year made it to the Final Four.
Not only did several women's golf players experience individual victory this past weekend at the James Madison University Lady Dukes Invitational Golf Tournament, but they also enjoyed team success.Princeton, which now has four tournament victories on the season, cut the two-stroke deficit it accumulated on the first day of play, Friday, to just one stroke after Saturday's 36 holes were completed.
The quintessential spring day consists of a warm temperature, a clear sunny sky and a low-pressure baseball game in the afternoon.
Princeton's crew teams competed on four courses in three states this weekend, but in each case, the result was the same ? a victory for the Tigers.The No.
Men's lacrosse is a complicated sport in general, and the game at Princeton is no exception. Without Class of 1952 Stadium, we wouldn't have a place to watch our team play; without senior attack Jason Doneger, we wouldn't have beaten Penn; without head coach Bill Tierney, we wouldn't be able to revel in the memory of six NCAA National Championships, and we definitely wouldn't be "sweet" at "lax."But every pass, every shot and every goal ? the building blocks of a win ? starts in a player's stick.
Sophomore Richard Stewart makes running the hurdles look natural, but his victory in the 400-meter hurdle race on Saturday was in fact the result of using a carefully calculated formula.
In Ivy League baseball, there's Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton, and then there's everyone else.Those three teams have combined for every Ivy League championship in the past nine years.
The Nittany Lions' Aaron Smith set the tone for the Penn State-Princeton volleyball game this past Saturday by hitting five service aces in a row within the first few minutes of the match.
It was an extended weekend for the Tigers (24-9 overall; 5-1 Ivy League) as they took on both Columbia (14-18 overall, 1-1) and Cornell (16-13, 2-2) in tough doubleheaders.
Last summer, Geoff Petrie '70, the Sacramento Kings' president of basketball operations, offered fellow Princeton alumnus Chris Young '02 a guaranteed two-year contract and the chance to become an NBA center.Petrie had every reason to pursue Young ? in just two seasons at Princeton, Young proved he could score points from in the paint or beyond the arc, while becoming the Tigers' second leading all-time shot-blocker.
All eyes were on the women's tennis team's No. 3 doubles match Saturday against Yale (10-4 overall, 1-1 Ivy League). Down 8-7, senior Stephanie Berg and sophomore Laura Trimble rallied to push the match to a tiebreak, but soon found themselves in a 6-2 hole against Reshmi Srinath and Rashmee Patil.
The women's water polo team (23-7 overall, 8-0 College Water Polo Association Southern) faced an unusual obstacle to success when it hit the pool Saturday in its first game of the day against George Washington (11-12, 4-3). Princeton often finds itself competing against top teams with strong players, but for this matchup, the most daunting threat on the field was not any player but the pool itself."The pool is shallow on one side and deep on the other," sophomore driver Danielle Carlson said.
Sophomore goaltender Colleen O'Boyle played 35 minutes in the women's lacrosse team's first nine games.
PISCATAWAY ? It's hard to be perfect for 16 years ? just too hard, it seems, for the Tigers.The men's lacrosse team (1-6 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) lost to Rutgers on Saturday for the first time since 1989, 8-5, amid the same face-off and shooting problems that have plagued the Tigers throughout the 2005 season.
With each passing day of warm weather, more and more boat shoes are popping up around campus. But speak to any member of the Princeton sailing team, a proud group of about 30 students, and they will tell you that the majority of those who adorn their feet with these shoes are just wannabes.
When the newest Princeton shell is christened in a few weeks, both the current Tigers who will enjoy the boat and the former Tigers who funded its purchase
Even the wind's hard blowing from rightfield was not enough to knock down Princeton's home run power as the softball team (21-8 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) swept Lehigh (22-6) twice on Thursday afternoon.
Tomorrow, senior Will Venable and the baseball team (9-12 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) will return to Hanover, N.H., where, in the Ivy League championship last May, the Tigers were powered by their star outfielder's six hits to a sweep of Dartmouth.If Princeton's perfect Ivy League record survives its bout with the Big Green (5-9, 2-2), fans in attendance for Sunday's matchup at Harvard (11-7, 4-0) could be treated to a battle of conference undefeateds.As the Tigers fight through this season's first pair of true Ivy challenges, they will be led by some holdovers who came up big as last year's squad secured the league title.
This Saturday the men's lacrosse team travels just a few miles north to New Brunswick to face Rutgers in the team's final non-Ivy League game of the season.
When the women's lacrosse team meets Yale in New Haven, Conn., on Saturday, something will have to give.The matchup promises to pose a classic sports conundrum: what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
