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Women's Hockey: Big upset highlights opening weekend

Women's Hockey: Big upset highlights opening weekend

If the first game of the season is any indication of the 27 to come, the women’s hockey team is in pretty good shape. The Tigers (1-1 overall) dealt No. 8 Northeastern (5-1) its first loss of the season Friday night in the home opener at Baker Rink.

SPORTS | 10/25/2011

On Tap with ... Peter Maag

Peter Maag, a senior on the men’s track and cross country teams, finished third for the Tigers two Saturdays ago at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational, a big reason for Princeton’s impressive fourth-place finish. Now ranked ninth in the nation, Maag and the Cross Country Tigers look to defend their Ivy League title Saturday when Princeton hosts the 2011 Heptagonal Championships. The ‘Prince’ interviewed this not-so-hipster track star from Portland, Ore., to find out about his basketball prowess, his teammates and the unicycle pole vault.

SPORTS | 10/25/2011

Men's Hockey: Offense strong in exhibition

The men’s hockey team racked up two dominant exhibition wins this past weekend and will attempt to further their success in the upcoming days as the Tigers travel to Hanover, N.H., for the Ivy League Shootout against Yale and Brown. Princeton will compete in a back-to-back series against the No. 10 Bulldogs on Friday and the Bears on Saturday.

SPORTS | 10/25/2011

Sprint Football: Squad forfeits against Navy due to lack of healthy players

Teddy Schleifer

The sprint football team forfeited its home game against Navy scheduled for last Friday night, saying in an announcement on Wednesday that the team had an insufficient number of healthy players to safely compete. The last game the team forfeited was a home matchup against Army in October 2007.

SPORTS | 10/23/2011

Field Hockey: 4-1 victory gives team control of Ivy destiny

Ben Koons

After a resounding 4-1 rout of Harvard, the field hockey team stands poised to earn its seventh Ivy League title in a row.

SPORTS | 10/23/2011

Women's Soccer: Early-season finishing woes return in Cambridge

Vijit Kapoor

The women’s soccer team’s aspirations of winning the Ivy League have ended with two conference games remaining in the season. Harvard won Saturday’s fixture 2-1 in Cambridge, Mass., sending the Tigers on an undoubtedly gloomy bus ride back to Princeton. The hosts scored once in each half before junior striker Jen Hoy grabbed a consolation goal minutes before the final whistle.

SPORTS | 10/23/2011

Women's Volleyball: Visitors sweep rivals at Palestra

After an impressive first half of the conference season, the women’s volleyball team came away from Penn with its fourth straight victory on Friday. After recent victories against Cornell, Yale and Brown, the Tigers maintained their position at the top of the Ivy League, still tied with Yale for first place.

SPORTS | 10/23/2011

Football: Comeback falls short at Harvard

Shayan Rakhit

A deficit is almost never easy to deal with. A deficit of 26 points is definitely never easy to handle. A deficit of 26 points on the road against a bitter rival that looks well on its way to winning the league might as well be insurmountable. But when he found his team down 35-9 early in the third quarter at Harvard on Saturday, senior quarterback Tommy Wornham would not let the Tigers simply roll over.

SPORTS | 10/23/2011

Men's Water Polo: Princeton clinches regular-season Southern Division title at home

Kathy Qu

Despite some pipe damage at DeNunzio Pool earlier in the week that kept the men’s water polo team from regular training, the No. 14 Tigers showed their strength in a three-game weekend against George Washington, Fordham and Iona. A 12-8 win against George Washington on Friday night allowed the Tigers to clinch their second CWPA Southern Division regular season title in three years with a 6-2 record.

SPORTS | 10/23/2011

Men's Soccer: Tigers net 1st conference win

Luc Cohen

Struggling to accumulate momentum in a disappointing Ivy League season, head coach Jim Barlow ’91 made a number of changes to the men’s soccer team’s lineup on Saturday night at Harvard, hoping that different combinations of players on the field would yield a different result.

SPORTS | 10/23/2011

Women's Soccer: Slim title hopes put on the line in Mass.

The women’s soccer team confronts perennial rival Harvard on Saturday evening in a bid to continue its surge toward an unlikely but mathematically possible Ivy League title. The team travels to Cambridge, Mass., on the back of a four-game win streak, looking to topple the conference leader away from home.

SPORTS | 10/20/2011

Football: Tigers prepare for rivalry date in Cambridge

The football team will play its second-straight Ivy League road match this weekend, going up to Cambridge, Mass., to take on Harvard in the annual rivalry game. The Tigers (1-4 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) are in the middle of the Ivy League standings, and a win over Harvard (4-1, 2-0) would not only put them in a solid position in the conference but also double last year’s win total.

SPORTS | 10/20/2011

Men's Soccer: Princeton, Harvard chase 1st league wins

The men’s soccer team will head up to Cambridge this weekend for a match against Ivy League rival Harvard. Both teams will be looking to capture their first conference victory of the season as they enter the second half of league play, entering the game at a disappointing 0-3 in the conference.

SPORTS | 10/20/2011

Women's Hockey: Team opens play at Baker Rink

The women’s hockey team takes the ice for the first time this season, opening up the 2011-12 campaign at home this weekend. The Tigers will start against Northeastern at Baker Rink on Friday, followed by another home contest on Saturday against Niagara. Princeton will look for early success in the start of the new season, attempting to improve on last year’s 16-14-1 record and fourth-place league finish with a team that returns 82 percent of its point production.

SPORTS | 10/20/2011

Field Hockey: Weekend games to help settle 5-way tie

Currently in a messy five-way tie for first place in the Ivy League, the field hockey team hopes to keep pace with the field when it takes on Harvard on Saturday.

SPORTS | 10/20/2011

Men's Water Polo: Burst pipe in DeNunzio spoils midweek practices

After sweeping three games to move into first place in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division, it was business as usual for the men’s water polo team this week. Business as usual, that is, until Tuesday afternoon, when an unexpected disaster struck — a pipe burst in the building of DeNunzio Pool, forcing the team to move practice to Dillon Gymnasium on Tuesday and Wednesday.

SPORTS | 10/20/2011

Column: Are you ready for some football (history)?

Alex Moss

I was at the New Meadowlands (or MetLife Stadium, as the many, many signs will remind you) this past Monday night, with tickets courtesy of the Butler College Office, to watch the Jets play the Dolphins, and it should have been an experience good enough to fill a column. I’ve probably watched somewhere in the ballpark of 300 NFL games on television in my life (or 900 hours, or ... 37.5 days, yikes), but this was the first one I had ever seen in person. More than that, it was Monday night.

SPORTS | 10/19/2011

Women's Volleyball: King ’01: Coming home to coach

Matt Siow

Princeton volleyball is a way of life for Sabrina King ’01. The first-year women’s volleyball coach has had Tiger blood running through her veins since 1997, when she won her first Ivy League title as a freshman. She capped a very successful undergraduate volleyball career with additional league titles as a junior and senior. King was also named Ivy League Player of the Year in 1999.

SPORTS | 10/19/2011

Feature: Off the field, but still in the game

Teddy Schleifer

Every year and every season, several athletes abandon their childhood pastimes and quit their sports teams, often leaving dismayed coaches, disheartened teammates and disappointed selves in their wake. A small number of these former athletes, though, do not voluntarily leave their sports, and they avoid the label of “quitter.” Though they resist change, these athletes ultimately succumb to a nagging, unsympathetic plague: injury.

SPORTS | 10/19/2011

Media: 2nd season of ‘That’s Debatable’ to air Friday

Stephen Wood

If there’s one thing the sports staff of WPRB loves, it’s a good debate. From their radio show “Timeout” and from the way they talk to each other between takes, you can tell that they are excited to take this attitude to television.

SPORTS | 10/19/2011

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