CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. ? With just over three minutes remaining in the third quarter last Saturday, senior attackman B.J.
It might not be the Big Dance, but the National Invitational Tournament still involves some strutting on the national stage.
Maryland is undisputably the heart of lacrosse in the United States, but recently, central New Jersey has laid claim to be considered the liver.The men's national championship was held in Piscataway last year and was won by Princeton, and the women's lacrosse team was the second best team in the country.The women's team, with nine of its 26 players hailing from the Old Line State, headed down I-95 over the weekend for a showdown with Loyola in the city of Lord Baltimore.The Tigers returned to the land of jughandles and diners with a 10-6 victory, improving their record to 2-1 on the season.Sophomore midfielder Theresa Sherry, a Baltimore native, scored three goals in the win.
Like a group of Old West bandits, the Harvard Crimson found success in their best-of-three playoff series with the Princeton women's hockey team (15-11-3 overall) with a simple formula: shoot the lights out.The Crimson (18-10-2) relished a combined 84-33 advantage in shots this weekend, beating the Tigers 3-2 and 3-1 at Hobey Ba-ker Rink to advance to the second round of the Eastern College Athletic Confer-ence-North playoffs.In the series opener, Princeton jumped out early when sophomore forward Gretchen Anderson scored at four minutes, 37 seconds of the first period after a pass from sophomore forward Susan Hobson from behind the net.Just 2:47 into the second, Anderson struck again as she stuffed home a rebound on a Princeton power play to put her team up, 2-0.The rest of the weekend was not so enjoyable.A pair of Crimson freshmen took the game over from there.
Picture Shaquille O'Neal (or Chris Young on his tiptoes). Now add four inches. That's how high Princeton senior Tora Harris soared Friday night to win his first NCAA indoor championship.Competing in Fayetteville, Ark., seven-time Heptagonal champion Harris entered the meet with a No.
The last time the men's ice hockey team made it past the first round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament was the 1998-99 season, when the team was led by the NHL's Jeff Halpern '99 and the AHL's Syl Apps '99.
With the disasterous mess that was the end of the Eastern College Athletic Conference men's hockey season now a memory, the playoffs can finally begin.
Princeton and Harvard. The two titans of higher learning are used to confrontation. Whether it be academics, athletics, or a glee club sing-off, the Tigers and the Crimson are no strangers to competition.
On Sunday, the woman's lacrosse team, ranked No. 3 in Lacrosse Magazine's preseason poll, suffered a two-point loss to No.
This season, the men's basketball team was perfect against league opponents ? except for Yale and Penn.Princeton's depth gave it an advantage against thinner, less-talented teams, but its lack of star power hurt it against the Elis and Quakers.The Ivy League announced the all-Ivy basketball teams yesterday, and the selections bore out the theory that Princeton's lack of a dominant player cost it the conference's automatic berth to the NCAA tournament.No Tigers were selected as First Team All-Ivy for the first time since 1987.
PHILADELPHIA ? The men's basketball team went into the first leg of the Ivy playoffs against Yale knowing that it needed to break out of its shooting slump to advance to the finals.
The list of possible outcomes for the wrestling team in its last tournament of the year is a short one.
It was the final game of the 2001 Eastern Championship. Princeton was playing Brown at Providence, R.I., and the winner would head on to the NCAA final four.
After a rough season of surprising losses and finishing somewhat behind their expectations, both the men's and women's fencing teams came back to defend themselves.Shaking off the bruises of the Ivy season, the Tigers placed fifth in the men's bracket and third in the women's among the fourteen colleges and universities who competed this past weekend at Vassar College at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championship.The overall format of the meet consisted of a two-day, back-to-back tournament.
Having already squandered one chance to win the outright Ivy League title, the men's hoops team knows it only gets one more.For the first time in the 46 year history of the league, there will be a two-game playoff to determine the champion and who gets the automatic bid to the NCAA Championships.Princeton (16-10 overall), Yale (19-9), and Penn (24-6) finished the season tied atop the standings with identical 11-3 records in league play.Princeton had a chance to avoid the playoff, but lost to Penn at the Palestra, 64-48, on Tuesday night.Princeton and Yale get the playoff started tonight at the Palestra.
Last night the women's basketball team did two things the men's team could not do this season.And Maureen Lane found a spectacular way to end the Tigers season on an individual level, scoring 30 points ? including three clutch shots.The Tigers (11-16 overall, 5-9 Ivy League) not only won their last game of the season, but also defeated Penn (12-15, 8-6) ? at home, 66-65.In perhaps the team's most exciting game of the season, coming on the heels of a one-point overtime loss to Columbia last Saturday, Princeton led by as many as nine points in the first half.The Quakers managed to cut ? and even erase ? that lead, but Princeton junior wing Maureen Lane's jumper with 33 seconds left in the first half gave the Tigers a 39-38 halftime lead.Lane would continue to haunt the Quakers throughout the night.The scoring on both sides slowed considerably in the second half.
PHILADELPHIA ? I'll admit it. I was a doubter. I thought that Ahmed El Nokali couldn't carry the men's basketball team.He couldn't create his own shot, make the big free throws, hit the open jumper.
The men's basketball team ? a team that was 16-9 overall (11-2 Ivy League) before last night's loss to Penn ? was 3-9 when shooting under 46 percent from the field.Make that 3-10.Princeton made just over 37 percent of its shots at the Palestra, and in keeping with the trend this season, lost a game in which they were outshot.Just as on the scoreboard, the margin on the score sheet at half time was close.
PHILADELPHIA? Fran Dunphy watched in dismay. As the halftime buzzer blared across the court, the Penn coach traced Ahmed El Nokali's last second shot from just inside the halfcourt line as it sliced through the air and into the net.
Men's tennis faced a back-to-back duel this weekend against Rutgers and George Washington University.
