"It was a tale of two halves."Senior captain and tight end Mike Piazza summed up sprint football's 16-13 loss at Cornell Friday night as well as anyone.
In football's stirring 27-24 comeback win over Columbia last weekend, there was plenty of credit to go around.
NEW YORK ? Perhaps head coach Roger Hughes is on to something.All year, Hughes has preached the importance of "the next play." Standing all alone on the sideline, waiting to attempt a 24-yard field goal in the first overtime, the next play was the only thing junior kicker Taylor Northrop could think about."That's something coach Hughes has brought to this program ? the ability to focus here and now," Northrop said.
Columbia has Princeton's number. And they don't appear as if they're ready to give it up anytime soon.In the Lions' (3-3-1 overall, 1-0-0 Ivy League) league opener against the visiting men's soccer team (4-3-0, 0-2-0), Columbia maintained its dominance over Princeton by winning 1-0 ? its seventh straight victory over the Tigers.Princeton continued its disappointing slide, dropping its third straight game.
With the No. 1 team in the nation and defending NCAA champion in town, the undefeated field hockey team knew that it had to play well just to stay in the game.
Throughout the third quarter of men's water polo's Sunday match against UMass, the usually animated bench of the Princeton squad was in complete silence.
As sophomore defender Heather Deerin stepped up to the ball 74 minutes into the women's soccer team's game Saturday at Columbia, the Tigers were getting frustrated.After dominating the second half of Tuesday's game against Rutgers without scoring, the Tigers (6-1 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) were being stifled by a Lion team that seemed content to pack its players back in their own defensive half."They packed the defensive zone early," senior forward Tanya Kalivas said.
Like pigs, all Ivy League games are created equal, but some are more equal than others.Tomorrow the women's soccer team travels to New York to take on Columbia, and while the Tigers do not wish to overlook the Lions, this should be one of their least taxing league games.The Lions were 0-6-1 last year in the Ivy League, and, while many of their starters graduated, the players that filled in the ranks have not caused a dramatic turnaround in the team's fortunes.This season, Columbia is 2-4-2 overall, having lost its sole Ivy contest to Cornell ? the lowest-scoring team in the league.Princeton is coming off its first loss of the season, a 1-0 heartbreaker against Rutgers on Tuesday."[The loss] was a wakeup call," senior forward Amee Reyes said.
Friday, Sept. 29 Women's volleyball at Juniata (11 a.m. in Huntington, Pa.) Field hockey vs.
One doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to understand why field hockey wants to take down Maryland tonight.
It has been two weeks since the women's golf team's blistering performance in the Dartmouth Invitational, but the Tigers hope that the momentum built in that stellar performance can be sustained for at least one more weekend.Tomorrow, Princeton will begin the only home tournament on its schedule, when it hosts the Princeton Invitiational.
When trying out a new car, you submit it to a series of tests. You see how quickly it can go from zero to 60.
The Princeton sports headlines have been dominated by change recently. New coaches in football, softball and on both the men's and women's basketball teams have changed the face of Tiger sports in ways yet unseen.
Strategically, football is far from a simple game. Coaches spend their lives figuring out ways to pick apart defenses or shut down offenses.
When junior Emily Eynon learned her freshman year that her twin sister Chrissy walked onto the Penn's cross country team, she had only one thought: "If she can do it, I can do it."But it almost didn't come to be.
The prospects looked bright indeed for the women's volleyball team last night as it headed to Jersey City to face Saint Peter's.
Like nine-year olds hiding dirty laundry under the bed and then forgetting all about it, the Princeton players shoved images of their soiled play into the back of their minds.It was early in the season and the men's soccer team saw a spotless 4-0 record.
In my ongoing attempt to avoid doing work during the first few weeks of school, I have found myself, more often than not, flipping from NBC to MSNBC to CNBC trying to catch bits and pieces of the Sydney Olympics.
Down 1-0 in the second half, you had the feeling that the women's soccer team was destined to score a goal.It just never happened.Against Rutgers last night at Princeton Stadium, the Tigers (5-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) seemed on the verge of finally putting a shot past Scarlet Knight goalkeeper Christine Caldwell.
At the end of one half in field hockey's matchup with upstart Darmouth on Saturday, the Tigers already held a 2-0 advantage.In the second half, however, that advantage became a full-fledged rout as Princeton punished the Big Green with three more goals.
