The Princeton-Penn rivalry is intense no matter what sport is showcased, but so far this winter, the Tigers have come up short across the board.
Boston College's men's tennis team had some trouble finding its way into Jadwin Gym on Saturday, delaying their match against Princeton by five minutes.
When senior Catie Draper arrived at Princeton for her freshman year, fresh off an accomplished high school and club volleyball career, she expected to be a starter on the Princeton women's team.
Despite a start characterized by near-perfect play, the men's volleyball team could not sustain its initial intensity throughout the rest of its match.After capturing the first game easily, 30-18, the Tigers (2-6 overall, 1-4 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) were blindsided by New Jersey Institute of Technology (5-3, 2-0). The Highlanders came from behind to win the next three games, 30-27, 32-30 and 30-27, to steal a victory Saturday night in Dillon Gym.Princeton jumped to an early lead in the first game with an aggresive offensive attack.
Nothing changed atop the women's squash national standings this past weekend as a result of the Howe Cup, which determines the team national champion.
Believe what your sixth grade D.A.R.E. instructor told you: don't give in to peer pressure. I'm not talking about illegal drugs, because if major league baseball has shown us anything, it's that giving in to that kind of pressure could win you an MVP honor.
She thrust a long thin weapon at me and lunged, aiming for my chest. I freaked, my instincts took over, and I attempted to protect myself: I turned my back and ran, covering my head.Then I heard laughs ? a lot of them ? coming from the sidelines."We're laughing with you," onlooking women fencers called out.Sure.I can't profess that I've ever had a hidden desire to fence; we don't live in a culture in which little kids grow up wanting to be fencing stars.
It has been a frustrating season for the women's hockey team, and Saturday night's game in Hanover, N.H., was no different.On Friday night, the Tigers defeated Vermont, 2-0.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. ? Fans stood and applauded, the players let a few smiles come out and head coach Joe Scott '87 looked relieved.
NEW HAVEN, CONN. ? On Friday night, the men's basketball team found an answer to its inability to hold a second-half lead: don't have a lead.Yale led wire-to-wire Friday night, cruising to a 56-43 win over a lackluster Tiger team to keep Princeton rooted in the cellar of the conference standings.The Bulldogs (9-12 overall, 5-3 Ivy League) used a faux full-court press to take the Tigers (12-11, 3-6) out of their offensive rhythm, forcing Princeton to spend precious shot clock seconds just to set up a play.
On Friday night against Dartmouth, freshman forward Keith Shattenkirk did what the men's hockey team desperately needed to do ? he scored the game's first goal.Princeton (7-18-2 overall, 5-14-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League) entered the weekend 0-12-0 in games its opponents scored first.
On Friday night, after the women's basketball team thoroughly defeated Yale, 75-49, to start the weekend, junior center Becky Brown was optimistic about Saturday night's game against Brown."I think that we can take what we did tonight ? the effort and the intensity and the energy," she said.
Playing its last two home games of the regular season this weekend, the men's hockey team will look to send off four stars in winning fashion.
You would be hard pressed to find two more different teams for the women's hockey team to face on back-to-back nights.With its regular season winding down and playoffs looming in the distance, Princeton (13-6-5 overall, 7-5-3 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Hockey League) heads to New England this weekend for a pair of critical games against Vermont and Dartmouth.On Friday night, the Tigers face off against the Catamounts (5-22-3, 3-13-0), who are last in the nation in offense, averaging only 1.2 goals per game.
Recently, Daily Princetonian senior writer Rachel Cecil sat down with Stu Orefice for a quick chat.Daily Princetonian: Can you explain your job on campus?Stu Orefice: I'm the Director of Dining Services at Princeton, which oversees Frist Campus Center, the Residential Colleges and the concession stands at games, which is actually convenient because I can help with that, too, at the games if they need it.DP: What do you do with the basketball program?
Many of the people on campus who I've talked to don't know much about the sport of squash. Do a quick straw poll of all your friends, asking which of them can honestly say that they know how squash is played.
The second half of the Ivy League season will open for the men's basketball team (11-10 overall, 2-5 Ivy League) in the same fashion as did the first half ? with a pair of weekend games against Yale (7-12, 3-3) and Brown (9-11, 2-4).Yet just as the order of the opponents and the location of the games have been flipped ? the Tigers visit the Bulldogs on Friday night and the Bears on Saturday night ? Princeton's season has likewise been turned on its head over the past three weeks.When Brown and Yale came to Jadwin Gym in the last weekend of January, the Tigers had just wrapped up a tough non-conference schedule with a 9-5 record.
The women's basketball team (10-10 overall, 2-5 Ivy League) will look to sweep the season series from Yale (4-17, 1-7) tonight, then avenge the loss it suffered to Brown (14-7, 6-2) in its Ivy League opener.
When Mitch Henderson '98 walked off the court in Hartford, Conn., after a 63-56 loss to Michigan State in the second round of the 1998 NCAA tournament, the playing career of a great Princeton guard came to a close.The Tiger star refused to fade away, however, and his life in the basketball world was nowhere close to being over.Henderson has taken a career path increasingly common for former Orange and Black players ? he joined the fraternity of Princeton coaches.
In light of their high expectations heading into last weekend's H-Y-P meet in Cambridge, Mass., the mixed emotions the fencing team felt at the end of the matches against Yale and Harvard were understandable.
