Fighting for a tie, Cornell was more interested in a tie for first place than for third.The Princeton wrestling team (12-9, 2-3) drove up to Ithaca, NY, on Friday hoping to finish its Ivy League schedule with a strong win.
Of the women's water polo team's four games this weekend at the UC-Santa Barbara Gaucho Tournament, not one was decided by more than a goal.
The Tigers were tied 9-9 after two rounds of fencing with Yale. The next four bouts went by quickly ? Princeton lost all of them.The Tigers were down 13-9 with Yale threatening to destroy all the women's fencing team's dreams of Ivy glory.One bout from defeat, the Tigers rallied.
Defensemen aren't supposed to be the leading offensive weapons on an ice hockey team.Neither are freshmen.But when freshman defenseman Matthew Maglione drove to the net two minutes, 54 seconds into overtime and scored on the rebound of senior forward Chris Corrinet's shot, the freshman had taken the spotlight on senior night.But merely scoring the game-winning goal that gave the Tigers their first three-point weekend of the season was not enough.
Two weeks ago, the men's squash match against Harvard came down to the final match.Sophomore No.
U2. Steeley Dan. The women's hockey team.Last week was certainly a week of comebacks. The Tigers may not have won a Grammy, but they turned in their own comeback performance this weekend.The Tigers had a solid effort, going 1-1 on the weekend.
It was the calm before the storm. While the women's basketball team had compiled a not-so-impressive 1-21 overall and 1-8 Ivy League record, Princeton was encouraged.
FencingIt was a tremendous Saturday for both the men's and women's fencing teams at Jadwin Gym.
Considering who was sitting in the stands Saturday night, all the backdoor cuts, the fluid passes and the three-point baskets were especially appropriate in the men's basketball team's home victory over Dartmouth.In front of 74 former Princeton basketball players and coaches, the Tigers (13-10 overall, 8-3 Ivy League) completed a weekend sweep, finishing off the Big Green (7-18, 2-10), 68-52, Saturday and putting away Harvard (12-12, 5-7), 62-48, Friday.
Schools have track teams. They don't have track and field teams, or even field teams. If you put the shot, you're on the track team.
After the obligatory celebrating steps, the Princeton women's swimming and diving squad felt unsatisfied.
It was a scene rarely seen in hockey. Football, yes. The gridiron has the 'Bob and Weave' and 'Eatin' at the the Table.' Soccer, yes.
Friday, Feb. 23 Men's basketball vs. Harvard (7:30 p.m. at Jadwin Gym) Women's basketball at Harvard (6 p.m.
Like a runner that bolts out of the starting gate and stays out in front, the Princeton women's swimming team has set its own pace this season.
There are a lot of over-used and tired cliches that can be used to describe the rest of the season for the women's basketball team.
Jadwin Gym ? the men's basketball team vaguely remembers the place.It certainly has been a while.
When the men's hockey team encounters Vermont on Saturday, two very even teams will take the ice.
For the first time in years, the pressure was off women's squash at the Howe Cup. At least that's the way it appeared."We weren't supposed to win, so it was a lower-pressure situation," senior No.
Last Friday Princeton notched three goals while playing its first of two games against Niagara. The Tigers, however, lost 3-1 to the Purple Eagles partly because they hit a shot into their own net.The weekend was just one of many in which the women's hockey team struggled with several offensive problems.
As men's volleyball's coach ambled off the court following his team's 3-1 victory over New York University at Dillon Gym last night, he was muttering under his breath.Though the Tigers had come back to win after dropping the first set, he was irritated that his team needed an embarrassing first-set loss to start playing with emotion."It's sad we had to hand them the first game before we were ready to play," Nelson grumbled.
