The objective in softball is simple: score more runs than the other team.Princeton softball understands this point well.
The sights are set.After a sweep of Gehrig Division rival Penn, the Tigers' baseball team is 4-0 in the Ivy League and is poised to take a commanding lead in the race for the Ivy crown.Princeton (8-12 overall) ? which has won six of its last seven games ? looks to build on the success of last weekend and take out Ivy foes Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend.
The drive from Durham, NC to Old Nassau is about 430 miles. That gives the Duke men's lacrosse team a seven-hour bus-ride to think about how it is going to beat Princeton this evening at 1952 Stadium.So what will the team dream about first when the light goes off and the seats go back?It might first ponder the category in which, compared to Princeton, it is the strongest.
Parties on both U.S. coasts could take place this weekend if crew steps up to its challengers and has them eating their bubbles.This weekend all four crew teams will get their feet wet for the first time in the same weekend this spring.
Many people know about the Princeton's men's lacrosse team. They know about the swim team, the women's lacrosse team and the men's basketball team.
Senior pitcher Bill Broome was facing a chance to send the game into extra innings for his team. He had managed to fight his way out of an opening hit double as his infield took care of the first two runners in a position to score.
Five minutes into yesterday's women's lacrosse game, University of Delaware head coach Denise Wescott called a timeout.Her team was already losing 4-0.Two minutes later, her team was losing 5-0.In fact, for the first seven minutes of the game, Princeton averaged about a goal a minute.
No one expected this. No one could have even imagined this. After winning its sixth national championship in 10 years last May, the men's lacrosse team now sits at 2-4 overall and on the brink of missing the postseason for the first time in over 10 years.
After the tough weekend loss against Yale, the Princeton men's lacrosse team (3-4 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) rebounded with an easy 18-4 victory over visiting Penn yesterday afternoon at 1952 Stadium.It was a bittersweet victory, however, playing so well only three days after playing so poorly and losing to Yale."[Winning today] is certainly not a euphoric feeling," head coach Bill Tierney said.
"M-A-R-Y-L-A-N-D. Maryland will win."I have been singing those last two lines of the University of Maryland fight song since I was about 10 years old.
"Go Texas!" yelled a man at the same time he waved the one-starred flag in the middle of the women's water polo game.
The date is Feb. 7, 1995. Casey, a freshman at Columbia High School in New Jersey, walks on to the indoor track team.
Success was the story of the women's golf team this weekend. The team came from behind to take second place at the William and Mary Invitational.
Only a week since spring break and the men's track and field team returned to sunny Californian and Carolinian climates.
It is official: the men's volleyball team is back ? with a vengeance. Last weekend the Tigers settled an old score with Rutgers, a team that had swept them in Feb., and reminded rival Juniata why winning in Dillon is no easy task.Earlier this season, Princeton (12-10 overall) struggled against the Eagles on the road,winning 3-2, but had no trouble whatsoever last Friday as the Tigers routed Juniata in just three games.The turning point for Princeton came in the second game when the Tigers jumped out to a big lead en route to a 30-11 massacre.
Penn.The Princeton tennis teams had different expectations for the big Ivy opener. The teams ended their matches as far from parallel as possible.
The spring crew season started off on March 30th for the women's open crew team. The varsity teams picked up second places, while the novices won their races.In a race against Brown and Michigan State, the first varsity eight team finished a distant second (6:47.58) to Brown (6:35.58), while the Spartans rounded out the race in third place (6:51.09). Against the same teams, the second varsity eight squeezed into second (6:57.87) in a much tighter race, which saw another victory for the Bears (6:55.02) and a Michigan State loss (6:59.65).Princeton's varsity fours (A and B) finished second (7:41.02), just edging out Brown by .21 seconds, and fourth (7:44.23) respectively, while the Spartans notched their only win, by just under three seconds.The Tiger novices, racing only against the Bears, faired better, winning both their races.
The baseball team was a frustrated nomad this weekend, roaming a desert of early-season losses thirsty for victories to set its 4-11 record straight.
Princeton softball has dominated Penn more than it has dominated any other program.In 1983, in just the second meting ever between Princeton and Penn in softball, the Tigers beat up on the Quakers in a 20-0 romp.Moreover, in nearly 40 meetings between the two schools, Penn has won just twice.In the past two seasons alone, senior pitcher and reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Brie Galicinao has thrown two perfect games against this conference foe.So it wasn't much of a surprise when Princeton swept Penn this weekend in Philadelphia, defeating the Quakers, 2-0 and 4-2, in games that only continued Princeton's 20-year domination.Princeton's pair of two-run victories were a departure from the blowouts the Tigers have dealt Penn in the past, but nevertheless reflected a domination seen time and time again."I think we're just a better team than they are," junior outfielder Jen Neil said of the recent domination.In the first game of the doubleheader, a duo of seniors teamed up for the win.Senior shortstop Kim Veenstra gave the Tigers a 2-0 lead ? a lead which they would not relinquish ? in the third inning when she belted a home run over the left field fence.Galicinao, on first after reaching on a fielder's choice, crossed home off of Veenstra's hit.Galicinao, who has dominated Penn from atop the mound in the past, continued the trend by holding the Quakers to four hits and no runs.Galicinao struck out eight, and preserved the win despite Penn putting runners on first and second with one out in the game's final inning."I'm always confident with Brie on the mound," Neil said."There were some pretty intense moments, but Brie's great under pressure.
Two more wins ? that's all the men's lacrosse team needed to match Cornell's record, set between 1972-1979, of 39 Ivy League wins in a row.Going into its first Ivy League game of the season on Saturday against Yale, it was logical to expect that the Tigers would emerge one game closer to the record.As of Monday, Princeton (2-4 overall, 0-1 Ivy) was ranked No.
