With last year's 15-13 loss to Yale still fresh in its memory, the men's lacrosse team jumped all over the Elis on Saturday, pounding the host No.
The softball team could use a lesson in manners after the way it behaved at the George Mason Invitational Tournament over the weekend.
Sporting events don't get much more exciting than the women's lacrosse team's 13-11 overtime victory against Georgetown (5-2) on Friday night to push their record to 4-3.Two minutes into the first overtime, senior midfielder Alex Fiore found a hungry Whitney Miller in front of the net and fed her the ball.
Four games in two days is nothing new to a baseball team that just ripped off 12 games in 11 days over Spring Break.
After just five wins in 17 road games, baseball will be ready for a little home cooking. Princeton (5-12) hosts Vermont (5-3) at Clarke Field in doubleheaders Saturday and Sunday, the Tigers' first home games of the year.The Catamounts visit New Jersey on the strength of a 7-6 home win over No.
With men's lacrosse playing three of the top four teams in the preseason rankings at the beginning of the season, one would be fooled into thinking that the important games are past the Tigers."The [Ivy] League is our number one priority," coach Bill Tierney said.No.
It's good to be home.After opening the season with a dozen consecutive road games, softball returned to the friendly confines of Class of 1895 Field on Thursday afternoon to host Monmouth (4-11). Princeton (4-9 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) earned a much-needed victory, easily defeating the Hawks, 4-2.The Tigers attacked early.
With Ivy League play nearing, both men's and women's tennis host tough non-conference opponents this weekend in preparation for the weeks of league play ahead.Women's tennis (5-3) got a head start to its weekend play ? and a much needed boost ? with a 5-2 win over Rutgers (6-5) on Wednesday.
Last year, the women's lacrosse team lost once. That was against Georgetown in the season opener, a fight that lasted all the way into double overtime and could easily have gone in Princeton's favor.
As every Princetonian knows, winter in New Jersey this year seemed to drag on, with warm weather refusing to break the snow and ice.
Victory seems to fit sophomore Avery Kiser and the women's golf team to a tee.The team began their season last weekend in Reston, VA at the first annual Georgetown Hoyas Invitational.
As the mercury rises and Lake Carnegie returns to liquid form, both women's crew teams are setting out to prove themselves as top Ivy League and even national competitors.If history tells us anything, we can count on the open and lightweight teams to continue a strong Princeton tradition in the sport.Open women's crew at Princeton dates back to 1972, when it was introduced as one of the original women's sports on campus.
Women's lacrosse both continued a streak and began a streak last night in its 15-2 victory over Columbia in Class of 1952 Stadium, its first Ivy League contest of the season.First, the Tigers (2-3 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) added one more game to its winning streak against Ivy opponents, bringing the count to 11 straight contests.Second, after setting a school record with 19 straight wins last season, the Tigers set in motion their first winning streak of the 2003 season.Last night's game put to rest for the moment any fears that might have accumulated earlier this season when the supposedly unstoppable Tigers lost three games in a row to Loyola, Virginia and Duke.Granted, the team it played, Columbia, has finished in the Ivy League basement in each of the relatively young program's five seasons.
Junior middle linebacker Zak Keasey of the fooball team was declared academically ineligible yesterday evening in a press release by the University.Keasey will be allowed to return to Princeton in the future, but there was no time specified for his return.
In an effort to gear up for the outdoor track season, the men's track traveled to Florida, and the women to California.The men concluded a week of training by heading north to temperate Myrtle Beach to compete at the Coastal Carolina Relays.
As the sky clears and the weather warms up, the baseball team has finally gotten its opportunity to emerge from the underground practice facility in Jadwin Gym to take the field.
Down 8-7 with just over nine minutes left in the game, the men's lacrosse team used a three-goal spurt over a 51-second span to retake the lead it had lost earlier in the fourth quarter and escape with a narrow 10-8 win over Rutgers in Piscataway last night.Down 7-5 after three quarters of play, the host Scarlet Knights (7-1) came out in the fourth quarter like the pacesetter at the Preakness.
The men's volleyball team went through the most critical three-game stretch of the season this break, raising itself from the dead after a loss to Juniata and salvaging its season with heart-wrenching wins against St.
Playing without Princeton's version of Babe Ruth won't be easy for softball this season, but things could have been worse.
Determined not to let the men's lacrosse team's struggles last any longer, junior attackman Ryan Boyle exploded over spring break last week, helping the Tigers to two crucial wins in their non-conference schedule.After losing its opening two games to Johns Hopkins and Virginia, Princeton had its back up against the wall with two more tough games against nationally ranked teams.A week ago, Boyle set a career-high in points when he scored three times to complement his six assists against Hofstra.
