A No. 8 national ranking is nothing to be modest about, especially when it marks the highest ever ranking attained by an East Coast team.
Looking for its second road win of the season, the men’s soccer team (2-2-2) came out of Philadelphia with a 1-0 victory on Wednesday evening against Drexel University (2-4-2). Junior forward Thomas Sanner’s conversion of a 53rd-minute penalty kick proved to be the deciding factor in a match where the Tigers’ dominance was not justified by the final score. Until Wednesday night, the Tigers had struggled to find the consistency to play a full 90 minutes in a majority of their games.
Ivy League women’s volleyball action will kick off this upcoming Friday as Princeton travels to Penn and Yale to Brown.
During a championship effort in 2013, senior quarterback Quinn Epperly became the third Princeton quarterback to win the Bushnell Cup as Ivy League Player of the Year.
After edging out a win against Millersville on the opening day of the season, Princeton continued its winning ways with an impressive performance against Ivy League rival Columbia and secured a 38-29 victory.
Results were mixed for women’s volleyball this past weekend. In their final set of games before the opening of Ivy League play, the Tigers (5-6 overall) went 1-3 during the course of the nearby Rutgers Invitational. Friday’s 9:30 a.m.
Men aim to take back Ivy Championship, perform at nationals On Sept. 12 in New Haven, Conn., senior Sam Pons led the Princeton men’s cross country team to victory against Harvard and Yale and to an exciting start for their fall season. The Tigers hope to use this momentum to help take back the Ivy League title from Columbia, who won the Heptagonals Championships race last year. “This is the first year in four or five years where we are not defending the Ivy League title,” senior co-captain Connor Martin said.
There appears to be good reason for excitement and optimism for the Princeton sprint football team.
The football team’s 2014 campaign kicked off with a trip to San Diego, the longest journey the Tigers have made since head coach Bob Surace ’90 took over.
After failing to score a goal in its first two matches to begin the 2014 campaign, the women’s soccer team begun to shift gears.
Coming off a 6-8 Ivy League record and a 10-14 record overall, a young but experienced women’s volleyball team that has already played three tournaments this season looks forward to opening Ivy League play at Penn on Friday.
It had been a slow start for No. 20 Princeton field hockey (2-4), their most frustrating in years.
It was on Nov. 8 of last fall that the men’s soccer team faced a must-win showdown on the road in Philadelphia.
Right out of DeNunzio Pool, the men’s water polo team has been off to the races with the start of its 2014 fall season.
No. 8 men’s water polo (8-1 overall, 4-1 Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division) saw their six-game unbeaten streak snapped on Saturday following a 10-9 decision in favor of conference opponent Johns Hopkins (4-3, 1-3). Later that evening, Princeton righted the ship against longtime rival Navy (8-3, 0-1), topping the Midshipmen by a score of 12-7.
Despite glimmers of rhythm reminiscent of last season, the Tigers showed rust from a summer apart in their season opener on Saturday when they headed to California to take on the University of San Diego.
Coming off a 3-1 home loss against No. 13 Georgetown on Wednesday evening, the men’s soccer team (1-2-2) saved itself from a second consecutive loss on Saturday afternoon, as the Tigers battled to a 2-2 draw against Boston University (4-2-1). It was early in the match when Princeton looked like it was heading straight for its second loss of the week, as BU forward Dominique Badji scored in the eighth minute and then again in the 36th minute to put the Terriers up by two.
Bedford Field saw No. 20 Princeton field hockey (1-4 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) put together its first win of the season this past Saturday.
Full of hopes of emulating last year’s success, Princeton football will start its season with a trip across the country to face the University of San Diego.
