What began as the perfect season came to a disappointing end on Friday afternoon when the women's soccer team was eliminated in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
As its season winds down, the women's volleyball team keeps finding ways to improve.The Tigers were in top form this weekend as they took on two tough Ivy League competitors.Plagued by illness and injury, Princeton refused to give up, beating both Yale and Brown ? 3-1 and 3-0, respectively.The victories, however, were bittersweet.
After posting a disappointing 4-6 non-Ivy record during the regular season, the field hockey team traveled to the NCAA tournament looking to prove itself against the best.The team accomplished that goal in the first round, surprising defending-champion Michigan with a 4-3 win at Penn State on Saturday.During second round play, however, the Tigers' season-long troubles with capitalizing on scoring opportunities resurfaced in their 3-2 loss to Penn State.They say that revenge is a dish best served cold.
New Haven, Conn. ? It was cold. It was rainy. It was miserable.It was Yale.On Saturday, football fell to the Elis, 7-3, dropping to 5-4 on the year, 3-3 in the Ivy League, and 0-2 in the H-Y-P series."We didn't win the statistic that matters the most," head coach Roger Hughes said.
There will be no heartbreaking losses for the men's soccer team this postseason. There will be no comebacks, no upsets, no squeakers.
The football team has not gotten the attention around campus it deserves. The perception is that the team just is not that good.That perception is wrong.After falling to the two No.
The Princeton volleyball team showed the rest of the Ivy League they are ready to fight for the conference title.Emotions ran high this past weekend on the last road matches for the team's seniors.
Strap it on Toto. This isn't Kansas anymore.For the first time all year, the women's soccer team will enter a game as the pronounced underdog.
After slipping in their non-conference schedule, field hockey knew they would have to win the Ivy League title to ensure they would qualify for the NCAA Tournament.It's hard to lose a title with a 7-0 conference record.Princeton (11-6 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) swept through their conference foes and now looks ahead to their NCAA first round match, Saturday, against Michigan (18-3) at Penn State.
Amidst the heralded success of the women's soccer team this fall, a far less publicized but perhaps similarly dominant women's soccer squad has been plugging away on campus.
After a hot start and tough stretch, the football team seems to be where you might have expected before the season started.
Question: what annual event features 64 of the top teams in college athletics, eliminated one-by-one as they compete for a national championship?Okay, so it's not March Madness.
Since she started coaching in 1979, the NCAA has limited recruiting, the students have become more diverse, and the green balls they use may not be the same brand or bounce the same way, but women's tennis head coach Louise Gengler's '75 goal for each season has not changed a bit:"Every year, we have wanted to win the Ivy League title."But she went on to add that winning the Ivy League does not mean the same thing it used to."It's a little tricky what they call an Ivy Title," Gengler said.
All of the thousands of miles that have been logged by the men's cross country team come down to one thing: The Mid-Atlantic regional NCAA championship qualifying race Saturday morning in Davis, W.
Notice a change?This year the Princeton women's cross country team took a giant step closer to its long term goal of winning the Heps crown.
You have not lived until you have been called for obstruction-hooking.Yes, it is hockey season again, and hat tricks and one-timers are afoot in Baker Rink as women's hockey has turned Princeton's cozy little ice rink into its personal slaughterhouse, outscoring their first four opponents of the season 17-1 en route to a 4-0 start in the friendly confines.Already riding high after a pair of non-conference shutout wins a week ago, the Tigers (4-0-0 overall, 2-0-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) greeted their first two ECAC opponents rudely this weekend, topping Colgate (4-4-0, 1-1-0) 4-1 on Friday and ripping Cornell (0-2-0, 0-2-0) 6-0 Saturday.A pair of new faces sparked the attack on Colgate.
If water polo players wore shoes, Peter Sabbatini would have had some large ones to fill.With the graduation of John Pharris '02, last year's College Water Polo Association Southern Division MVP, Sabbatini was thrust into the starting goalie position this year."We've been fortunate to have a great string of goalies here," coach Luis Nicolao said.
Having taken on two nationally-ranked competitors in its first two games of the season ? against No.
When the men's soccer team's game against Yale in New Haven hit its 90th minute this weekend, another Princeton men's soccer season came to a close.
In a football game, in order to win, a team must control three things ? the ball, the offensive line of scrimmage, and the defensive line of scrimmage.
