Sports

Men's volleyball withers against No. 8 Penn State

Men's volleyball withers against No. 8 Penn State

No. 9 Penn State men's volleyball (3-6 overall) has lost only twice in the past 20 regular seasons in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association.Friday, Princeton looked to make it three times.It didn't happen.After a strong first game which Princeton (2-3) won, 15-12, the Tigers proceeded to drop the next three ? 12-15, 8-15, 11-15 ? losing by a score of 3-1.Fatigue and conditioning were a factor in the loss for the Tigers, whose season is still young, coming off a long, hard match against Juniata Thursday night."We're still getting used to playing a lot, and with two big matches in a row, we were beat up," freshman outside Steve Cooper said. Wrong play, wrong timeKey points did not go the Tigers' way, and errors came at the most inopportune times."We didn't play as well as we could've when we needed to," senior opposite Scott Birdwell said.Overall, Princeton played a consistent match, but Penn State had that extra edge that turned the tide in its favor.Essentially in their second season ? Penn State also has a fall season ? the Nittany Lions were on top of their game, finishing the match with a season-best .508 hitting percentage.The first game, though, was all Princeton, which rattled off a string of points after the score had been tied at eight to take a 14-9 lead.

SPORTS | 02/08/1998

Thirolf leads women's basketball to upset of league power Harvard

For 32 consecutive games, the Harvard women's basketball team had been a cut above its Ivy League opponents.

SPORTS | 02/08/1998

Men's hockey inconsistent, splits contests versus Colgate, Cornell

Don't let its record fool you. This men's hockey team is good. But not so good that it can't destroy themselves.In what has been an up-and-down season, this weekend the Tigers went on another rollercoaster ride, quashing Col-gate 4-0 Friday night before dropping a 4-1 decision to Cornell Saturday night.Earlier in the season, Princeton (11-6-3 overall, 5-6-3 Eastern College Athletic Conference) seemed unable to put together a complete game.

SPORTS | 02/08/1998

M. hoops reaches No. 9 after pair of blowout victories

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. ? The juggernaut that is the men's basketball team rolled into Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend.

SPORTS | 02/08/1998

Men's swimming defeats Harvard, Yale, sets two records

Going into this weekend's Harvard-Yale-Princeton Invitational, head coach Rob Orr equated his team's chances of winning to throwing a deck of cards into the wind ? luck would determine who had more aces showing.But for the Tigers, the deck was all aces.With an onslaught of first-place finishes, Princeton (8-0 overall, 8-0 Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League) jumped to a surprisingly large lead on the first day of the two-day meet, en route to convincing victories over both Harvard and Yale.A meet that was supposed to be close turned into a relentless drubbing, as the Tigers beat Harvard (6-2, 5-1), 114-49, and Yale (8-3, 5-3), 141-22."They swam beyond expectations," Orr said.

SPORTS | 02/08/1998

M. hockey readies for critical pair of conference battles

Friday 7:30 p.m. Cornell. Saturday 7:00 p.m. Colgate. That was Nov. 21 and 22 in upstate New York.This weekend, same teams, same times, but a different place, and, hopefully for the men's hockey team, a different result.Two months ago, Princeton (10-5-4 overall, 4-5-3 Eastern College Athletic Conference) lost both games, a national ranking and its No.

SPORTS | 02/05/1998

Sophomore Rocca adds strong bench play for m. hoops

While senior center Steve Goodrich was starting his 100th game and scoring his 1,000th point for the men's basketball team (16-1 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) last Saturday, Mason Rocca could only watch from the bench.Rocca, Goodrich's sophomore backup and future replacement, played only one minute in the Tigers' defeat of Columbia.

SPORTS | 02/05/1998

Men's volleyball defeats Juniata, readies for Eastern rival Penn St.

Now is not important. What matters is later.As men's volleyball prepares for its match at No.

SPORTS | 02/05/1998

Men's swimming to battle Harvard for EISL lead

It is a meet of epic proportions. Harvard. Yale. Princeton. The three schools atop the Ivy League collide this weekend in the tradition known as the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Invitational.In what is usually the deciding meet in the race for the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League dual meet title, the Tigers square off against Harvard, their toughest competition in the league."It's going to be one intense environment," freshman backstroker Andrew Chadeayne said.

SPORTS | 02/05/1998

W. hoops hopes to surprise Crimson, seize first in Ivies

It's no surprise that Harvard is atop the women's basketball Ivy League standings.What may catch one's eye, though, is that this weekend's matchup between Harvard and the Tigers Saturday at Jadwin Gym could be for first place.

SPORTS | 02/05/1998

Men's volleyball faces Division III power Juniata in early season test

For the men's volleyball team, games do not hold immense importance until April, when it plays in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Tournament for a chance at a spot in the NCAA Final Four.The team's two games in the next two days are the early season's only rival for the late spring excitement.

SPORTS | 02/04/1998

Club Skiing travels to Mt. St. Ann, races against other N.J. schools

To the average team, a training week is no better than prison. After a week spent locked in a dungeon of a weight room or running until the players drop, shackles and bars would be a relief.

SPORTS | 02/04/1998

Shirreffs sparkles for men's hockey

All-state. Few high school athletes maintain the commitment and possess the sheer athletic ability necessary to claim such a distinction.

SPORTS | 02/04/1998

Feaster, Harvard pose litmus test for young but maturing women's hoops

Pssst, have you heard? There's this basketball team down at Jadwin Gym that's playing some pretty good ball.

SPORTS | 02/04/1998

Freshman Fox excels for women's hockey

Women's hockey owes a good bit of its offensive strength to the former players of Little Caesar's club hockey team in Michigan.

SPORTS | 02/04/1998

Men's basketball tries to keep focus in Ivies

With the men's basketball team now firmly entrenched in the heart of its Ivy League schedule, high-profile games against Texas, North Carolina State, North Carolina and Wake Forest are a distant memory.Instead, the No.

SPORTS | 02/03/1998

Men's swimming bests trio of league foes; divers shine

On a team dominated by athletes slicing through the water, it's sometimes easy to overlook what goes on above the water.For the men's swimming team, three members have been quietly dominating their own portion of the pool: the diving well.

SPORTS | 02/03/1998

Young wrestling gains experience in losses to more established teams

Any rebuilding athletic program needs at least three or four years to return to its former prominence.

SPORTS | 02/03/1998

Defeats to Columbia harm fencing's quest for Ivy title

Oe knew it would be close but we were hoping to pull it off," epee sophomore Jason Burrell said.His words captured the sentiments of both the men's and women's fencing teams going into their much anticipated competitions with Columbia.

SPORTS | 02/03/1998

Women's swimming drops first dual meet of year to Penn State

In swimming, the timing of a team's training can raise it to a higher level. Without careful planning, swimmers can enter meets too exhausted to swim well.Saturday, Penn State showed the importance of this principle for the fans assembled at DeNunzio Pool.

SPORTS | 02/03/1998

Most Popular