After splitting its first two doubleheaders of the season, the softball team was looking for a sweep at Fairfield (10-19) on Tuesday in Connecticut.
Following the rousing response to my last column (a record seven hits on the website), I was hoping the 'Prince' would take the torch from WPRB and pay my way to Atlanta for the regional finals of the NCAA tournament last weekend.
When you can play a technically poor game and still wind up with a seven-goal advantage at the final whistle, you know you've got a solid season in the making.The No.
For those of you who were not awake at 5 a.m. yesterday morning ? and your excuse better be good if you weren't ? you missed the New York Yankees take on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays as Major League Baseball kicked off its 2004 campaign in Tokyo, Japan.The game was the lead story yesterday on ESPN's two hit afternoon talk shows, Around the Horn and Pardon the Interruption, but only partly because of the surprising result.
Four men's and four women's fencers set out for Brandeis University's Gosman Sports Center in Waltham, Mass., last week for the NCAA Championships.
When junior center Kathryn Parolin's shot hit the back of the net, putting the women's water polo team up, 7-6, over George Washington on Sunday, it sealed Princeton's fourth win for the weekend and its fifth consecutive win since returning from Spring Break.Over the break, the Tigers (17-7) traveled to the competitive arena of California and played seven teams over the course of six days.Why?
The sunny skies brought nothing but good tidings for Princeton tennis Saturday, as both the women and the men came out with a victory on their home courts.
Heading into this season, the baseball team's biggest question mark was an inexperienced pitching staff.
The members of the women's lightweight crew team didn't have any trouble pulling their own weight this weekend at the Windermere Collegiate Crew Classic in Redwood Shores, Calif.
We've all had an Olympic dream. I don't care if the heaviest thing you've ever lifted is your violin or if the fastest you've ever sprinted was that time you were late for the bus to the math team competition ? if you've ever seen coverage of an American athlete standing atop a podium, weeping, while the stars and stripes are slowly raised to the rafters, you've wanted to be him, even if just for a second.I've sampled a lot of sports in my quest to realize my Olympic dream.
Last weekend the Nassau County (N.Y.) Aquatic Center was filled with tension, excitement, broken records and guys in Speedos.
Up a man with the clock winding down, the potent Princeton attack stood at midfield looking back toward its own goal, watching the Syracuse Orangemen (4-1) deftly evade the trapping Tiger defense.
This weekend the men's heavyweight and lightweight crew teams opened their 2004 season against some of the nation's elite programs.
As Thomas Paine once wrote, "the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."Such sentiment aptly described the game this weekend for women's lacrosse.
Coming into the toughest weekend of its 2004 season, the men's volleyball team was hoping to finish at least 2-1 in three very important matches.
Aldous Huxley once wrote, "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." This weekend, softball helped to confirm this truth, splitting its second set of home games against Boston University after going 1-1 against Rutgers just last Wednesday.Even though the Tigers stumbled in their first game, the weekend was also an excellent example of the defensive abilities and offensive potential that Princeton possesses.
This weekend is the last chance for the men's and women's tennis teams to perfect their games before the Ivy League matches officially begin.
Fresh off a come-from-behind victory in the tail end of a doubleheader against Rutgers, the softball team hopes that it can keep its momentum going as it plays two against Boston University on Saturday at Class of 1895 Field.After splitting the doubleheader with Rutgers on Wednesday, the Tigers stand at an 8-9 record.
The baseball team, coming off an exhaustive Spring Break trip in which the Tigers played 11 games in 10 days, will get back in action this weekend with a pair of doubleheaders against Stony Brook (8-7 overall). The home-and-home will open up in Princeton on Saturday, after which the teams will travel to Long Island for Sunday's games.The Seawolves represent a nice change of pace as far as Princeton's (8-6) opponents go.
For women's lacrosse over the past seven seasons, games against Columbia have adhered closely to a satisfying script ? the Tigers win their opening game of the Ivy League season and score at least 15 goals in the process.
