Weatherwise, it was a pretty crummy weekend in New Jersey. It was rainy, cold, even a little bit windy ? all in all, far from ideal conditions for a crew race.
It's the second game of a doubleheader. Tied game. Ninth inning. Two outs. Playing the league rival ? and Princeton had already lost the first game in the doubleheader.
With returning attackmen like junior B.J. Prager and senior Matt Streibel it would be easy to assume that a freshman would have trouble cracking into the rotation for the men's lacrosse team.Freshman Ryan Boyle has not only cracked into that rotation but has taken it over and now leads the team in scoring with 11 goals and 16 assists through the first eight games of the season.But it was one week ago when the freshman had his breakthrough game.
Nothing beats winning a championship.Except, perhaps, winning that championship by crushing a would-be rival and getting revenge for an earlier loss....The Princeton wo-men's water polo team did just that last weekend, and continued its postseason winning streak last weekend by cruising to victory over Michigan, 11-5, in the title game of the Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division Championships.
With an overall performance that fell short of the the women's golf team's full potential, the Tigers placed tenth in the James Madison Invitational this weekend.Despite favorable weather and a fairly standard course which would ordinarily favor good scoring, senior thesis stress plagued Princeton and kept the Tigers from attaining a higher finish.Princeton finished in tenth place, shooting a total of 643 ? 27 shots behind the winning teams.
The men's golf team captured a second place finish in the Navy Spring Invitational this weekend. Though a victory was within reach, Princeton fell short of a winning performance ? finishing seven shots away from gaining the crown.
Sometimes an early season loss can be a good thing. Starting the race fast does not always work. Look at the hare.Hoping to make like turtles and erase a shocking season-opening loss to Georgetown, the men's lightweight crew hosted Navy this weekend.
Sometimes the baseball team rides its pitching. Sometimes the bats carry the Tigers. And if there is one overriding message to be learned from Saturday's doubleheader against Dartmouth, it is this: Princeton can win either way.In a rematch of last year's Ivy League championship series, the Tigers (9-15 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) easily handled the Big Green (6-11, 2-4), winning the first game, 1-0, behind sophomore righthander Ryan Quillian, and then taking the second, 9-6.With every start, Quillian seems to get more and more comfortable in his role as the team's No.
As the clock ran out at the Soccer-Lacrosse stadium in New Haven, Conn. on Saturday, one could look out over the field and see two women's lacrosse teams that had battled, each vying for the top spot in the Ivy League.
There is nothing more satisfying than the sweet feeling of victory.Unless you are able to have that same feeling of success twice in a row.And what is the only thing more satisfying than back-to-back victories?
When the women's tennis team attempts to rebound from a disappointing loss, it does so with a vengeance.The Tigers lost to tennis powerhouse Virginia Common-wealth April 1, 4-3.
When the men's lacrosse team takes on an Ivy League opponent, the game isn't supposed to be close.
This is the most important weekend thus far in the baseball team's developing season. Period.In a four-game road trip north, the Tigers take on Dartmouth tomorrow and Harvard Sunday in back-to-back doubleheaders.
Coming off an upset of defending Ivy League champion Dartmouth March 24, the Yale women's lacrosse team has shot up in the national rankings and could pose as the greatest threat to No.
The women's lightweight crew team does not lose very often. Maybe once or twice a season ? rarely when it really matters.
There has been a long-standing rivalry between the Princeton and Dartmouth men's rugby teams which has grown deeper in recent years.
Water polo. Although most people have heard of the sport, many have little concept of what it looks like, or how it is played.
Seven minutes into women's lacrosse's game against Delaware last night, Princeton found itself in an unusual position, down 3-0 to a fiesty Blue Hen squad.That was when junior attack Kim Smith stepped up her game.Smith would score two goals in a three-minute stretch to tie the score at three, and would add two more later on in the game to lead the Tigers to a 9-6 victory over Delaware in Newark, Del.After Smith tied the score, 3-3, the two teams would trade goals until halftime when both teams went to the locker rooms with five goals.Delaware was the squad to come out of the half hot, however, as the Blue Hens took a 6-5 lead on Ashley Moderacki's second goal of the game one minute, 12 seconds into the second half.Junior attack Lauren Simone would even up the score four minutes later and the Tigers would never look back en route to their seventh win of the season.
It was the perfect day for a baseball game. The sun was shining, the skies were blue, spring peaked out from winter's shroud.
The softball team was getting anxious. Eight games had already been canceled due to rain this season.
