Baseball in spring means little in the majors, but in college April and early May mean everything.A case in point is the scenario that the Princeton baseball team finds itself in.
The world of sports has a unique capacity to elevate mortal men to the status of heroes. Those who perform the best when the stakes are the highest earn the adulation of children and the respect of grown men.
In athletic competition, there are big games and BIG games. The Yankees and the Red Sox in a climactic seventh game or the Connecticut and Tennessee women's basketball teams in any game know about such stakes.This Saturday's showdown at Class of 1952 Stadium between Princeton and Dartmouth is that kind of battle, and at stake is the championship of Ivy League women's lacrosse.
This weekend will make or break the 2004 season for the women's water polo team. If the Tigers (22-7) win the Eastern Championships, they will earn a spot in the NCAA tournament and try to go all the way.
Newman's Day will have to wait for men's lacrosse on Saturday as the team goes for its fifth consecutive win, and a guarantee of at least a share of the Ivy League title, when it hosts No.
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How hard do you think it would be to perform in front of thousands of your peers, parents and coaches?
Although the chance of competing in postseason play all but evaporated for the men's and women's tennis teams with losses to Harvard last weekend, both are looking forward to this weekend's games against Cornell and Columbia as an opportunity to build toward the future.Tomorrow, the men (9-10 overall, 3-2 Ivy League), will host Cornell (13-7, 2-3) as they look to avenge their loss to the Big Red at Regionals earlier in the year.
It was 4-0 before Princeton retired a single batter in yesterday afternoon's baseball game against Monmouth.
Men's basketball head coach John Thompson III '88, a stranger neither to Princeton nor Georgetown, leaves behind a legacy at his alma mater as he moves on to Washington, D.C., to become the Hoyas' new head coach.Though he has only been head coach since the 2000-01 season, Thompson has spent a total of 13 years at Princeton ? first as a player, then as an assistant coach and finally assuming the top coaching position.Thompson's deepest roots, however, lie at Georgetown.
Recently, 'Prince' staff writer Mike Judd sat down with sister and brother Lindsey and Mike Biles, two important members of Princeton's lacrosse teams.
After over a month of speculation, Georgetown finally officially poached men's basketball head coach John Thompson '88 from Princeton yesterday.Air Force head coach Joe Scott '87 stands as the frontrunner to replace Thompson on the Tigers' bench.
Although women's lacrosse has seen a number of impressive players in recent years, the Tigers have always stressed team accomplishments over individual accolades.
Having dropped three of their last four Ivy League games, the softball team stood like a wavering army, seeing their hopes of a third consecutive Ivy League championship about to disappear in a rout.
The women's and men's crew teams took on top national competition this past weekend, and came away with mixed results.
An Ivy League title is something every Princeton team dreams of and few actually achieve. Out of those that have claimed the Ivy crown, even fewer can boast multiple victories.
It's not too often that a team can split its roster, send a group of its strongest athletes to a competition focused on individual results, send the rest of the squad to a team competition and be successful in both.
The results were the same, even if the means were different.After exploding for 33 runs to take both ends of a video-game-style doubleheader Saturday afternoon, the baseball team notched two more victories on Sunday in far more conventional contests.With the four-game sweep, Princeton (18-13 overall, 7-5 Ivy League) leapfrogged their hosts for the weekend, Columbia (9-21, 6-10), to grab the top spot in the Lou Gehrig division, turning a one-game deficit into a three-game lead and putting the Tigers in the driver's seat in the race to qualify for the Ivy League Championship Series."We always set our sights on three wins, and getting the fourth is a great bonus," head coach Scott Bradley said.
The Harvard men's lacrosse team was left shaking its head on Saturday at the 13-4 parting gift given to it by the Tigers.
With a victory over Harvard on Saturday, women's lacrosse is now just two games away from a perfect league season and sole possession of the Ivy League title.After dominating their contest against the Crimson (5-7 overall, 0-4 Ivy League) in Cambridge, Mass., the Tigers (13-0, 5-0) emerged with a 17-7 win.The victory essentially ensures that Princeton will remain the unanimous choice as the nation's No.
