Juinor outside hitter Lydia Rudnick had 25 kills as Princeton handed Yale its first Ivy League loss and pulled into a tie for first place with a 3-1 win.
The women’s soccer team traveled to Bethlehem, Pa., to face Lehigh last night and came away with a one-goal victory, giving the Tigers their first back-to-back wins of the season.
It was the Orange against the Black this weekend. The men’s hockey team and the wrestling team faced each other in a “man-off” instead of practice last Saturday morning, with the hockey players dressed in orange and the wrestlers in black. After a series of strength and fitness contests, the hockey team took the title.
By a large margin, Super Bowl XLII was the most fulfilling experience I’ve had in my dozen or so years as a sports fan. Let me put it another, less rational way: I could say with a fair amount of confidence that the Giants’ win over the Patriots in February 2008 fits somewhere in the middle portion of a list of the twenty greatest moments of my life.
The Wisconsin Adidas Invitational is the place to be this weekend for a nationally ranked NCAA cross-country team. When the gun goes off for the men’s 8K race at 1:40 p.m. on Friday, of the 40-team field, no fewer than 20 of the top 30 ranked teams in the nation will toe the line. Not to be outdone, the women’s 6K race will likewise feature 18 ranked squads.
In the world of sports, the goalkeeper holds a unique role. The position varies subtly from sport to sport, but the basics are simple — goalies organize and oversee the team’s defense during the course of play and must be willing to sacrifice their bodies to prevent goals.
Princeton University has made it a priority to position itself at the forefront of knowledge and achievement. Our students are innovative, our professors are inspiring and our alumni are both successful and generous. This has held true for centuries. Sadly, in recent years, our sprint football team’s accomplishments in the classroom have not been mirrored by victories on the field.
As the men’s golf team’s fall season comes to a close this weekend, senior Patrick Wasserman will certainly miss his “good walks spoiled” with his friends and teammates on the course. The ‘Prince’ sat down with the self-proclaimed quirkiest member of the men’s golf team to hear about his athletic and collegiate experiences.
Two Saturdays ago, the football team took a major step of success. Princeton (1-3 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) took its first Ivy League victory in over a year with a win over the Columbia Lions. With the win, the Tigers moved into an early-season tie for first place. As the team looks to continue its untarnished Ivy League record, we look at League teams that stand in their way.
The men’s soccer team got a much-needed win on Tuesday evening at Roberts Stadium, defeating the Lafayette Leopards 2-1 in a physical matchup that was televised by ESPNU. The game, although close in score, was generally dominated by Princeton, which hopes to turn around what has so far been a disappointing season. The Tigers had won only two of 10 games entering the evening.
The men’s and women’s tennis teams returned to team competition this weekend, after select players competed in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-America tournaments during the week. Both teams traveled to New York, with the men participating in the Columbia Fall Classic and the women competing in the United States Tennis Association Invitational in Queens.
The women’s soccer team continued its bizarre trend of controlling the game yet succumbing to defeat in its match at Brown on Saturday. Princeton travelled to Providence, R.I., and fell 2-1, extending their losing streak to six games and leaving the team floundering at the bottom of the conference. However, the Tigers comprehensively dismantled Francis Marion with wonderful, flowing soccer and clinical finishing to win 6-0 at Roberts Stadium on Monday, suggesting their scoring jinx has been put behind them.
What a difference a year can make. Last October, then-sophomore sprint football quarterback Jaison Zachariah of the sprint football team did not complete a single pass in 13 attempts against Army. But in Princeton’s home opener on Friday, Zachariah emerged anew, tossing for 197 yards and a touchdown.
The men’s golf team tied for 13th place in the Big Five Invitational Tournament at Plymouth Country Club in Norristown, Pa., this past weekend. The 22-team field was led by Dartmouth, which won with a plus-18.
Two close games marked by excellent defense ended differently for the field hockey team this weekend. The Tigers defeated Virginia 2-1 on Friday night but fell to Wake Forest 3-2 in overtime on Sunday.
On Saturday, after playing away for a month, the No. 13 men’s water polo team opened DeNunzio’s doors for a homecoming game against No. 19 Bucknell. The last time these two teams met was last season, during the Eastern Championships at Bucknell, where Princeton won by one goal. But this time, back in Tiger territory, the Bison took control of the game in the fourth quarter and won 10-6.
Leading Brown 2-1 with just eight minutes remaining in the game, the men’s soccer team appeared poised to take its first Ivy League win and continue to turn its season around. But with two late goals, the Bears stole the victory and disrupted the momentum the Tigers were hoping to maintain after a 7-3 victory over Seton Hall.
The women’s volleyball team split two matches on the road this weekend, suffering its first Ivy League loss to Columbia 3-0 before beating Cornell 3-1. The Tigers came out of their first conference road trip with a 4-1 record in Ivy League play, good for second place behind Yale.
Six yards. The football team was that close to tasting victory for the second straight week. The Tigers traveled to Hampton on Saturday, looking to replicate the success they had against Columbia last week. In the closing minutes of the game, it looked as though Princeton could pull off a remarkable comeback win on the road. But the Tigers fell six yards short of a touchdown in the final minutes, falling to the Pirates in a hard-fought 28-23 contest.
The football team makes its first road trip of the season this weekend, traveling to Virginia to challenge the Hampton Pirates. In the Tigers’ final non-league game of the 2011 season, they hope to build on last week’s strong performance, in which they notched their first win of the season, 24-21 over Ivy League foe Columbia. The Pirates, on the other hand, are trying to recover from two difficult road losses that were decided by a total of seven points.
