Men’s basketball (5-9 overall) split a quartet of non-conference matchups over winter break. Pairs of away losses bracketed a couple of home wins against opponents relatively unfamiliar to the program.
Women’s basketball remains on fire, extending its season-long winning streak to 15 games over winter break as head coach Courtney Banghart passed her 150th career win.
The past year was a saw major change for the men’s hockey team, perhaps most evident by the transition from former head coach Bob Prier to current skipper Ron Fogarty.
The wrestling team (4-3, 1-2 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association) kept busy over winter break, competing out of state on three separate occasions as a prelude to the heart of its conference schedule. After falling to Binghamton at home on Dec.
The undefeated women’s basketball team will host the Binghamton University Bearcats this Saturday looking to continue its nine-game winning streak.
The men’s hockey team enters the homestretch of 2014 this weekend as it travels to Minnesota State University for a two-game out-of-conference battle.
After a strong 3-1 finish at the Windy City Duals last weekend, the wrestling team (3-1, 0-0 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association) will take on conference rival Binghamton University (1-4, 0-0 EIWA) Friday evening for the Tigers’ first home match of the season.
Following a disappointing 60-46 loss to St. Peter’s University (4-6 overall), men’s basketball (3-7) will turn to a full slate of winter break contests.
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We’re quickly approaching your favorite sportswriter’s favorite time of the year, and it doesn’t have that much to do with Christmas (though high on my list is Christmas dinner — the thought of a home-cooked meal has carried me through these last two weeks). December, as some of you may know, is bowl season for college football.
Last year was hailed as the Ivy League’s best-ever postseason.
Notes from Nationals While most of the men and women of Princeton Swimming and Diving were in Rhode Island for the three-day Brown Invitational last weekend, nine of their teammates competed at the USA Swimming AT&T Winter National Championships. Senior Michael Strand; juniors Sandy Bole, Teo D’Alessandro, Byron Sanborn and Nikki Larson; sophomores Sam Smiddy and sophomore Olivia Chan; and freshmen Lindsay Temple and Elsa Welshofer traveled to Greensboro, N.C., to represent Princeton at Nationals. The quartet of Chan, Larson, Temple and Welshofer impressed with a top-20 finish in the 400 medley relay, finishing No.
This past weekend, women’s hockey (7-7-1 overall, 5-4 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference) took on Ivy League opponents Harvard (6-2-2, 5-1-1 ECAC) and Dartmouth (4-5-1, 2-4-1 ECAC) away on Friday and Saturday, respectively.
With 8:45 left in Saturday afternoon’s matchup against Georgetown, Princeton women’s basketball led by a comfortable score of 59-48.
The Princeton wrestling team was just shy of a perfect weekend, as the squad posted an impressive 3-1 mark in its four matches at the Windy City Duals on Saturday. The grapplers started strong on Saturday morning, as they took six of the final seven individual bouts to secure a 26-11 victory over Eastern Michigan.
Cook tallies season-high 28 points in comeback win over Stony Brook In the first meeting between the two schools, men’s basketball (3-6 overall) put together a late second half rally to earn a 77-64 victory over Stony Brook (5-6). This home win Saturday night comes on the heels of 89-85 shootout loss at Fairleigh Dickson (3-4). In the second meeting between the schools – Princeton won last year’s matchup 77-55 – the Tigers established an eight-point lead over Fairleigh Dickinson through twenty minutes of play.
Men’s basketball has not started the season on the right foot. Princeton has already had a five-game losing streak, its worst in six years.
The men and women of Princeton Swimming and Diving will take their talents on the road this weekend for the final competitions of 2014.
After a strong runner-up finish at the Navy Classic two weeks ago, the Princeton wrestling team will return to the mat this weekend as head coach Chris Ayres and his squad heads out to Evanston, Ill., for the Windy City Duals.
