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Women's Basketball: Princeton comes home to resume chase for 3rd straight title

Women's Basketball: Princeton comes home to resume chase for 3rd straight title

Stephen Wood

Coming off a resounding win at Penn on Saturday that extended its winning streak to four games, the women’s basketball team is looking to keep its momentum as it comes time to defend last year’s Ivy League championship.

SPORTS | 01/10/2012

On Tap with ... Will MacDonald

Stephanie Gati

Junior Will MacDonald, a mechanical and aerospace engineer hailing from Georgia, is a forward on the men’s ice hockey team. After learning about his singing talents last year from former teammate Matt Arhontas ’11, the ‘Prince’ decided to sit down with MacDonald to hear about how his singing career is shaping up, his mechanical engineering feats and his rare fights on the ice.

SPORTS | 01/10/2012

Recruiting: Early action changes game for recruits

Luc Cohen

A week and a half after Hans Brase, a senior at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., sent in his application to Princeton, he received a phone call from the admission office letting him know he was likely to be admitted.It is not uncommon for recruited athletes like Brase, who will be joining the men’s basketball team next fall, to receive so-called “likely letters” from the admission office before official decisions are sent out. But unlike in previous years, Brase and many other recruits of the Class of 2016 received their official admission decisions in mid-December, very shortly after being told that such an outcome was likely.

SPORTS | 01/10/2012

Men's Hockey: Junior leads by example

Tory Roberts

For junior defenseman Michael Sdao, his passion started early. The Colorado native has been playing hockey since he was four years old.

SPORTS | 01/10/2012

Men's Basketball: Princeton downs TCNJ, has won 8 of 10

Vijit Kapoor

Playing its first game at Jadwin Gymnasium since November, the men’s basketball team rolled to one of its easiest wins of the season against The College of New Jersey. The 79-68 victory followed another comfortable win against Florida A&M last week. Princeton (9-7) has won eight of its last 10 games after a poor start and will try to extend its good run into the Ivy League conference matches.

SPORTS | 01/08/2012

Men's Squash: Tigers prove ranking, drop No. 4 Rochester

Kevin Henneck

The men’s squash team started the 2012 portion of its schedule with a critical victory over No. 4 Rochester on Sunday. The No. 3 Tigers had to play without senior All-America Kelly Shannon and key senior David Pena, who are both injured, but still managed to win soundly in their toughest match to date.

SPORTS | 01/08/2012

Wrestling: Krop’s Midlands performance highlights grapplers’ strong run

Ben Koons

Princeton’s wrestlers kept busy over the break with impressive performances at the Midlands Championships tournament at Northwestern at the end of December and a quad meet at Pittsburgh on Saturday. Sophomore 141-pounder Adam Krop earned himself a top-15 national ranking after a third-place finish at Midlands. The team went 2-1 at this weekend’s meet, clobbering Davidson 48-0 and beating Virginia Military Institute 26-10 before succumbing 23-13 to No. 10 Pittsburgh.

SPORTS | 01/08/2012

Women's Basketball: Title defense begins with 83-48 rout

Tobias Citron

The women’s basketball team has gone on a tear the last several weeks, winning four consecutive games, including an 83-48 victory at Penn in Saturday’s Ivy League opener.

SPORTS | 01/08/2012

Women's Hockey: Hosts upset No. 10 Harvard, rank 3rd in ECAC

Beth Garcia

Just like last year, the women’s ice hockey team did not allow the three-week winter break to cause a slump. Competing in four tough games, the Tigers recorded three ties and one win. A 3-0 victory over the No. 10 Crimson and a 2-2 tie against the Big Green propelled Princeton into third place in the league’s standings.

SPORTS | 01/08/2012

Men's Hockey: Shootout, OT win mark thrilling week

Jake Brown

While many students slept comfortably in their own beds for hours on end during this winter break, the men’s hockey team was in action all across the country. In the Mariucci Classic in Minneapolis, the Tigers tied Northeastern in an exciting 3-3 battle but lost a wild eight-round shootout. Princeton’s third-place game against Niagara ended in another 3-3 tie. After an overtime 3-2 win at Brown on Friday snapped Princeton’s five-game winless streak, the Tigers traveled to No. 20 Yale on Saturday, where they suffered their only loss of the winter vacation, 6-2.

SPORTS | 01/08/2012

Men's Basketball: Tigers upset FSU in 3OT thriller

The men’s basketball team has saved its best play for its biggest opponents. In November, the Tigers battled North Carolina State for 40 minutes, eventually losing on a last-minute jumper. In December, Princeton beat Rutgers on junior forward Ian Hummer’s game-winning shot. And last night, against their toughest opponent yet, the Tigers played their most thrilling game. Princeton held a 27-10 lead at halftime against Florida State but gave it all away in the second period, and both teams had chances to win the game in regulation and two extra frames. It wasn’t until a third overtime – when senior guard Doug Davis hit two huge three-pointers and the visitors made their free throws – that the Tigers finally pulled out a dramatic 75-73 victory.

SPORTS | 12/29/2011

Men's Basketball: Threes not lucky for Tigers

ALBANY, N.Y. – The men’s basketball team made shots from seemingly every spot along the three-point arc on Thursday night, hitting 13 of 31 attempts for the game. But the Tigers added only eight two-point field goals and four free throws. Despite a career-best game from sophomore point guard T.J. Bray and seven triples from senior guard Doug Davis, Princeton lost at Siena, 63-59, falling to 6-7 entering a short holiday break.

SPORTS | 12/21/2011

Live Blog: Men's Basketball at Siena

ALBANY, N.Y. — Our live blog takes on a holiday theme as we cover the men's basketball team's game at Siena from the Times Union Center. Follow the action here starting at 7 p.m.!

SPORTS | 12/21/2011

Men's Basketball: Princeton brings momentum to Boston

Damir Golac

The men’s basketball team will travel to Boston this weekend, taking on Northeastern in what will be the team’s fourth straight away game. The Tigers (5-6) are coming off of a dramatic come-from-behind overtime victory over Rider.“It was more a sense of relief than anything else,” junior forward Mack Darrow said of his game-winning three-pointer against Rider. “It got [junior forward] Ian Hummer to notice me, though, which has always been a dream of mine.”

SPORTS | 12/15/2011

Wrestling: Grapplers look to repeat last year’s success at Bucknell

Matt Siow

Coming off of a tough 29-7 home loss to No. 17 Rutgers last weekend, the wrestling team will begin a seven-match road trip in Lewisburg, Pa., on Saturday against Bucknell, No. 19 Central Michigan and Sacred Heart. The Tigers (1-4) currently boast three nationally ranked wrestlers in the Wrestling Report College Rankings: No. 24 junior 125-pounder Garrett Frey, No. 27 sophomore 141-pounder Adam Krop and No. 27 senior 157-pounder Daniel Kolodzik.

SPORTS | 12/15/2011

Sports Shorts: Fitzpatrick inducted into USTFCCCA Hall of Fame

Keene Fitzpatrick was one of six people officially inducted into the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame on Wednesday. Fitzpatrick coached Princeton’s track and field team from 1911-1932 — leading the Tigers to four national second-place finishes — and served as the kicking coach for the football team and the trainer for several sports.

SPORTS | 12/15/2011

Best of On Tap: Fall 2011

As the fall semester comes to a close with our last issue of 2011, we take a look back at the most memorable quotes from Princeton athletes that we put “on tap” the past four months.

SPORTS | 12/15/2011

Women's Basketball: Tigers hit the road, face No. 4 Stanford

Tobias Citron

The women’s basketball team will look to get back on track as it faces the fourth-best team in the country: the Stanford Cardinal. Stanford’s only loss came to No. 2 Connecticut early in the season. The Cardinal (6-1) will present a difficult test for the Tigers (7-3), as a top-ranked team that features some of the best players in college basketball and has not lost at home since the 2006-07 season.

SPORTS | 12/15/2011

Women's Hockey: From rivals to teammates to the top

Tory Roberts

One is a little bit quiet. One is small in stature, and the third has a sharp wit. But put the three leading scorers on the women’s hockey team on skates, and they can all be described similarly.Fast. Aggressive. Good.Sophomores Sally Butler, Denna Laing and Olivia Mucha lead the team first-second-third in points and assists this season. They combine for 17 of the team’s 33 goals and 20 of the 55 assists. As freshmen, the trio tallied 26 goals last season, and Mucha tied for the team lead in points.

SPORTS | 12/14/2011

Column: Ivy athletes succeed on more than brains

Alex Moss

Professional athletes from Ivy League schools — like the Jaguars' Colin Cloherty, who scored a touchdown last week — have their academic background brought up whenever they make headlines. But do their brains really help them on the field?

SPORTS | 12/14/2011

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