Stringing together two wins over the same weekend has been impossible for the men's hockey team this year.
The shot clock was working. Neither team resorted to Dean Smith's famed four corners offense. There was no cover on either hoop.And yet, on Saturday in Easton, Pa., the men's basketball team and Lafayette somehow managed to combine for just 78 points, despite presumably trying their best to score.In this low-scoring struggle, the Tigers' offense was a little less bad, and Princeton (2-2 overall) escaped with a 40-38 victory over the host Leopards (1-2).With both teams unable to connect from the field, it was the Tigers' defense that ultimately won the game.
Senior Charlie Wiggins placed eighth in the 157-pound weight class as the wrestling team got its season off to a promising start at the 38th annual East Stroudsburg Open tournament on Saturday.Wiggins dropped his first match of the day, but rebounded to win five consecutive matches before succumbing to Phil Bomberger of Penn State, who finished in fourth place.
Women's soccer is one game away from its first-ever appearance at the NCAA Final Four, referred to in soccer circles as the College Cup.With its 2-0 blanking of Boston College last Saturday, No.
Just two nights shy of Thanksgiving, the Princeton men's hockey team feasted on Yale. In game one of the fifth-annual Thanksgiving time home-and-home series and in the final game of their three-game home-stand, the Tigers roasted the Bulldogs, 6-3.
Men's basketballAfter a disappointing loss to Wyoming on Monday night, the men's basketball team returns to action Saturday afternoon against Lafayette in Easton, Pa.Princeton (1-2 overall) has already defeated one Patriot League squad this year, Bucknell, and, on paper at least, is favored to knock off the Leopards (1-1) as well.
Despite Katy Digovich and Rebecca Brown putting up 15 and 14 points, respectively, for the women's basketball team, Princeton lost to Lehigh 64-15.
The men's and women's swimming teams opened their campaigns to defend their Ivy League titles this weekend in Philadelphia, Pa., with dominating performances over Penn and Cornell.
If the idea that adversity breeds toughness ever needed to be supported with a concrete example, the women's cross country team would illustrate it perfectly.Racing against the best teams in America at the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., the Tigers fought their way through both a talented field and difficult conditions to finish in 18th place of the 31 teams competing."As a whole, the team is thrilled," junior Cack Ferrell said.Ferrell covered the six-kilometer course in 20 minutes, 56 seconds ? less than a minute off the lead ? to finish in 13th place of those who qualified as members of a team and 20th overall when individual runners were included.
Just as it did in the 2003-2004 season, the No. 8 women's hockey team split games with Mercyhurst this weekend.
For 44 minutes, senior guard Will Venable did everything he could to keep the men's basketball team (1-2 overall) in the game.
For Princeton's talented runners who often live in the shadow of the cross-country team's top seven, this weekend provided them with a chance to shine.While the women's varsity seven and men's team senior Austin Smith prepared themselves to race at the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., the remaining runners took the short trip to New York to compete in the ECAC and IC4A Championships on Saturday.Sophomore Caroline Mullen came up with the Tigers' top finish, covering the five-kilometer course at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, N.Y., in 18 minutes, 52 seconds, which was good for 40th place.Followed by senior Randy Buzzell (46th, 18:57) and sophomore Claire Filloux (50th, 19:00), Mullen led her team to an eighth-place finish out of 15 teams competing.Freshman James O'Toole led the men's team with a 60th-place finish and a time of 26:07 over the five-mile course.
Men's squash played its season-, leagueand home-opener against Cornell (1-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) on Sunday.
It came down to one bad period. That 20-minute lapse is all it took to prevent the Princeton men's hockey team from netting its first weekend sweep of the year.A four-goal third period gave Union (6-5 overall, 5-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League) a 6-4 win Friday night before the Tigers (3-4-1, 3-3) rebounded for a 3-2 win over Rensselaer (6-6-1, 2-4) on Saturday.Everything was going well for the Tigers against the Dutchmen on Friday.
If senior linebacker Zak Keasey winds up playing on Sundays next fall, it will be in large part due to the performance he turned in on the final Saturday of his football career.Keasey played like a man among boys on Saturday, making 22 tackles as the defense carried Princeton (5-5 overall, 3-4 Ivy League) to a 17-10 victory over Dartmouth (1-9, 1-6) in both team's season finales.
Your defense must be airtight when you're 18-0 when scoring a goal. The Tigers (18-2) advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals with their 12th shutout of the season ? a 2-0 win over Boston College (15-7-1) Saturday night in front of 1,822 fans at Lourie-Love Field.Although the 1982 women's soccer team did make it to the quarterfinal round, the tournament was only a 12-team affair that year.
The numbers will tell you that the women's basketball team got out-rebounded 47-40 on Saturday. They'll tell you that the Tigers shot just 35.2 percent from the field for the game, and only 46.4 percent from the free throw line.
The men's basketball team may be making its first ever trip to Wyoming, but head coach Joe Scott '87 is plenty familiar with Laramie, Wyo.Over the previous four seasons at Air Force, Scott coached against the Cowboys nine times, including two victories last year.
The women's volleyball team has had big problems with the Big Red all season long.The Tigers' struggles continued on Saturday, as they were swept 3-0 by Cornell in Schenectady, NY, to end their season just short of the NCAA tournament.Princeton, Cornell, Harvard and Yale finished as Ivy League co-champions after finishing the season with identical 10-4 league records, necessitating a four-way playoff to determine which team would get an automatic NCAA tournament bid. Playoff resultsThe No.
Football is a game of bounces, which in their fickle nature can go for or against you. Fortunately for Princeton (5-5 overall, 3-4 Ivy League), the biggest bounce in Saturday's season finale against Dartmouth (1-9, 1-6) fell into the arms of sophomore holder Colin McDonough.With 9:35 left in the fourth quarter and the score tied at 10, a series of events unfolded that could have buoyed or broken both teams.
