In a quest for a league title that is decided over only seven contests, every match is critical. This weekend was no exception, resulting in important consequences for both the men's and women's tennis teams.
Men's VolleyballThe Tigers finished their season with a 3-1 home loss to EIVA rival Penn State on Saturday.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ? In trying to knock off the reigning Ivy League champs, Harvard took a novel approach.
The Round of 16 in the NCAA basketball tournament. A 16th birthday. Sixteen runs for the baseball team in yesterday's nightcap.
Kim Smith was not having fun. The sophomore attack saw Harvard players streaking by, screaming encouragement to their teammates and spinning around stunned, silent Princeton players.The women's lacrosse team was losing to Harvard (4-4 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) 3-0, just four minutes into the first half.
For a team with perennial national championship aspirations, such as men's lacrosse, the progress of other national powerhouses must always be followed.This week saw major developments beyond Old Nassau with the breakdown of the old guard and the introduction of a new disorder in the college lacrosse landscape.In the first half of the season, two teams ? Syracuse and Virginia ? clearly separated themselves from the masses below.
Eight runs and 11 hits: good numbers that usually leave a team satisfied and with a win. Not so for the baseball team yesterday.When the Tigers traveled to Monmouth to take on the Hawks (12-18), they were outdone at the plate in a 10-8 shootout.
When you are one of the top teams in the country, there is no time to relax.Even while compiling a gaudy 10-1 record so far this season, the women's lacrosse team is not satisfied with its play going into tomorrow's contest with Harvard in Cambridge, Mass.After a series of impressive wins over top teams to start the season, Princeton has been inconsistent recently, following up a 17-5 thrashing of Delaware with two sloppy wins over Yale and Temple.
While most students are suffering from spring fever, another bug has been pervading the women's water polo team (18-3 overall, 8-0 Collegiate Water Polo League) ? the entire squad appears to have been infected with an intensity like no other.Hot off an 11-game winning streak, Princeton travels to Villanova this weekend with hopes of claiming its first Mid-Atlantic title.
Men's volleyball has a lot on the line this weekend.Sunday Princeton (8-11 overall, 4-9 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) looks to defend its Ivy League crown.Saturday, the Tigers take on No.
It's already been a week, but I still don't think reality has set in.It's been a week since that shocking phone call from Athletic Director Gary Walters '67.It's been a week since Princeton lost one of its best coaches and most interesting personalities.It's been a week since former men's hockey head coach Don "Toot" Cahoon decided to leave Old Nassau and take over as the new head coach at UMass.For the past seven days, I have tried to picture a Princeton hockey game without "Toot" behind the Tiger bench ? I just can't seem to do it.
The Temple Owls began the game against the Princeton's women lacrosse team like country bumpkins performing at a county fair.
In a midweek battle for state supremacy, the women's tennis team easily dispatched Rutgers yesterday afternoon by a score of 9-0.
Cornell's defending Ivy League champion softball team has not won a league game yet this year.Cornell's defending Ivy League champion softball team has also not played a complete league game this year.The Big Red's game versus Harvard this year was called in the fifth inning of the first game of the doubleheader due to rain, giving the team its lone loss, 1-0.Cornell's other Ivy League games have all been postponed entirely due to bad weather.
While the Tiger basketball faithful may still be smarting from a second-place Ivy League finish this season, next year will see some new faces aiding Princeton in its quest to reclaim the top spot.Though player recruitment is for the most part complete, Carmody and Director of Athletics Gary Walters '67 will have their hands full recruiting a replacement for former assistant Joe Scott '87 ? who left Monday to become head coach at the United States Air Force Academy."As a player and coach he's given his heart and soul to the program," Carmody said.
In preparation for the most hectic part of its schedule, the men's lacrosse team will be spending this week working on its fundamentals.The Tigers ? ranked No.
Sophomore diver Danielle Stramandi continued her stellar season with a victory in the 10-meter platform competition at the U.S.
Coming into this weekend, the baseball team's pitching staff was running on fumes. Princeton had to take an extended road trip to New England and allow some of its pitchers to have big games to get back on track.The Tiger hurlers had not been at full strength, and up until this weekend their regular starters could do nothing more than watch from the sidelines and nurse their injuries.
Three years had passed since junior Casey Hildreth last took the mound. Then, he was pitching for his high school team in Westfield, Mass.
