With the season drawing ever-closer to its finale at Heps, the women's track team has begun its last push to finish preparing for the all-important championship meet.
Eighteen days and counting. The Heptagonal championships are fast approaching, and the men's track and field team used a home meet last weekend to prepare for the focal league championship competition.Princeton hosted a trio of local schools: Rutgers, Iona and Manhattan, and came out victorious despite not fielding a full squad."This weekend was a tune-up for the beginning of the championship part of the season," junior half-miler David Dean said, "so a lot of people either rested or rabbited a race." Rabbiting is track vernacular for serving as a pacesetter for a portion of the race.
Champions show up to play when it counts. Last Saturday, it counted.Capitalizing on six straight goals over a 10-minute span in the second half, the men's lacrosse team moved into a tie for first place in the Ivy League with a 12-7 thrashing of Cornell at 1952 Stadium.The Big Red (9-2 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) suffered its first conference loss in the process, while Princeton (6-4, 3-1) now needs only to win its last two games against Dartmouth and Brown to capture its eighth straight Ivy title.
This weekend, amid soggy weather in New York City, division rivals Columbia and Princeton faced off in a four-game series to determine who would sit atop the Lou Gehrig Division of the Ivy League.
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The goal of softball is a simple one ? to score more runs than your opponent in seven innings.
The game was 2-1 seven minutes, 42 seconds in, and the fans were nervous. Dartmouth had won five of its last six games against the women's lacrosse team.
The baseball team traveled to South Orange, NJ yesterday to take on Seton Hall in out-of-conference action.
Softball's head coach Maureen Davies '97 won more than her fair share of Ivy League titles as a Princeton pitcher in the mid-90s.
The long and winding road to the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association championship goes through Penn State in more ways than one.
The women's lacrosse team is on fire. It has not lost since its first game of the season against Georgetown, in which the Hoyas edged past the Tigers in an overtime thriller.Princeton's record speaks for itself.
Everyone understands the importance of tomorrow's lacrosse game against No. 5 Cornell at 1952 Stadium.
After losing three of four non-conference games to start the season, the men's lacrosse team knew it would have to win the Ivy League title to guarantee a berth in the NCAA tournament.
With the Ivy League baseball season passing its midpoint last weekend, it is time to acknowledge the outstanding efforts that have led Princeton to an 8-4 conference start, good for a first-place tie in the Gehrig Division with upcoming opponent Columbia.
The Tigers' softball team is having a magical season. Though a handful of games remain to be played, Princeton could clinch at least a share of the Ivy League championship ? its first since 1996 ? if it sweeps its weekend contests against Brown and Yale.All facets of the game have been shining for Princeton.
After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said, "I fear we have but awakened a sleeping giant."Last night, when attack Crissy Book gave the Quakers a 2-1 lead over the women's lacrosse team at Class of 1952 Stadium, she may have found herself muttering Yamamoto's words.No.
With senior Brie Galicinao on the mound, the Tigers don't need much help to win. But the Monmouth softball team made the cardinal sin in softball, giving a strong hitting team extra outs in an inning.
Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Austin Starkweather sat down with men's lacrosse's junior attackman Josh White.P: Josh, I'm going to give you a couple names of guys on the team, and you tell me the first thing that comes to your mind.
The men's and women's golf teams both faced off against tough competition this weekend. The men's team played well enough to capture fourth at the Princeton Invitational at Springdale Golf Club, while the women's team finished third at the James Madison Invitational.The men's team took fourth this past weekend at the Princeton Invitational.The Tigers were led by sophomore Jon Nuger, who shot a two-day total of 141.Senior James Milam finished right behind him with a 143, and sophomore Greg Johnson rounded out Princeton's top three with a 147.
Yesterday afternoon, Princeton Director of Athletics Gary Walters '67 removed his name from consideration for the same position at UCLA, thus ending the possibility of his leaving his alma mater this year.Last week, he, along with a few others, was listed as being a finalist for the position at the prestigious California school.Yesterday, though, he announced that he would stay in Jadwin Gym."I am announcing my withdrawal from the selection process," Walters said.
