The women’s open and men’s heavyweight crews maintained their undefeated records last weekend, going on the road and defeating their first Ivy League opponents of the season.
With the weather warming up and the sun shining, the No. 59 men’s tennis team (12-6 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) defended its home courts at Lenz Tennis Center by defeating Dartmouth (11-6, 2-2) 4-3 on Saturday before grinding out a 4-3 win over Harvard (13-9, 2-2) on Sunday to remain perfect in league play.
The men’s golf team hosted the Princeton Invitational tournament at Springdale Golf Club this past weekend, finishing tied for third place in a field of 12 teams. This finish was the Tigers’ best in three years at this tournament. Yale finished in first place in the tournament, Penn finished in second at six strokes behind Yale, and the Tigers tied with Georgetown for third place, 37 strokes behind the leader.
As a basketball fan here at Princeton, I want more. More wins, more tournament berths and more exciting finishes. More wins against Harvard, more wins against Penn and more storming the court after one of the most clutch buzzer-beaters I have had the privilege of witnessing. After former men’s head coach Sydney Johnson ’97 announced that he would be coaching at Fairfield next season, my first reaction was, “Who the heck is Fairfield?” My second reaction was a mixture of sadness, betrayal and gratitude.
It was an interesting juxtaposition. The West Windsor Fields played host to the fifth annual Rickerson Weekend from Saturday to Sunday, an event meant in part to raise funds and awareness for pancreatic cancer, the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in American men and third leading in American women according to the National Cancer Institute. How can we raise awareness of this condition? An exhibition of one of the toughest, most physical sports on Earth: rugby.
The baseball team’s nine-game win streak came to an end on Sunday, as Dartmouth ruined what had previously been a perfect Ivy League season for the Tigers with two low-scoring victories on Sunday in Hanover, N.H. With a strong sweep of Harvard in the previous day’s doubleheader, however, Princeton remained tied with Penn for first place in the Lou Gehrig division.
The plague of injuries that has devastated the men’s lacrosse team this season left it with few offensive options when playing powerhouse No. 1 Syracuse this weekend. Though the Tigers played with a strong defense and challenged the dominant squad with a second-half rally, Syracuse pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 7-5 victory.
Playing its second road league game in as many weeks, the No. 11 women’s lacrosse team turned in its best defensive performance of the season at Yale. Senior goalie Erin Tochihara stopped five of the eight shots on goal she saw as the Tigers rolled to a 9-3 victory.
The softball team continued a trend from its last three doubleheaders, splitting two-game series with both Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend. The win at Harvard was a particularly strong sign for the Tigers, as the Crimson came in undefeated in conference play.
The best sports victories are the ones that you cannot stop celebrating. You play the memory over and over again in your mind, savoring the small details that made it great. In the moment, victory is rather like witnessing a great rock concert: You share a moment of amazing exhilaration with thousands of other enthusiastic fans. Upon reflection, you retain not only some of that initial excitement, but also a sense of satisfaction. I’m glad I was in this place to witness this event.
One week after a thrilling quadruple-overtime victory over Brown, the men's lacrosse team faces undefeated No. 1 Syracuse at Princeton Stadium. Follow the action with our live blog!
After a week of successes and honors, the women’s lacrosse team is looking forward to continuing its undefeated Ivy League season with a game at Yale this Saturday.
After enduring a spring break filled with bad bounces and narrow losses, the baseball team has done no wrong in April. This weekend, Princeton (10-13 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) takes its seven-game winning streak on the road with a pair of doubleheaders against Harvard (3-21, 0-4) on Saturday and Dartmouth (13-6, 2-2) on Sunday.
The softball team will continue its quest for an Ivy League title this weekend as it travels to face Harvard (18-10 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) and Dartmouth (9-12, 2-2). The Tigers (11-15, 2-2) face a pair of doubleheaders, starting at 2 p.m. on Friday in Cambridge, Mass., and heading north for two games on Saturday against the Big Green beginning at 12:30 p.m.
After a marathon victory against Brown in the second longest game in program history, the men’s lacrosse team is looking to build on its four-overtime win. The Tigers (2-5 overall, 1-2 Ivy League) will face No. 1 Syracuse (8-0) at 4 p.m. on Powers Field at Princeton Stadium in what could be their most difficult battle of the year in a game that will be broadcasted on ESPNU.
Sports prognosticators, although rarely highly accurate, hardly ever make predictions that are drastically wrong. So it was much to the surprise of seasoned journalists, such as Boston’s own Gordon Edes, when the Boston Red Sox — a team many “experts” predicted to win the World Series — began the season 0-6.
Since trading Carmelo Anthony to the New York Knicks, the Denver Nuggets have gone 15-5, with wins against quality teams such as the Los Angeles Lakers, the San Antonio Spurs and the Boston Celtics. It would seem the Nuggets fans have gotten over the mid-season melodrama and have moved on to anticipating the playoffs.
For most athletes, the final game of a season means the end of competition for that year. Football players removed their pads, soccer players untied their cleats and swimmers loosened their goggles. After months of balancing class, practice and gameplay, their schedules become less packed with athletic responsibilities. But a small group of Princeton atheletes dons the orange and black again and competes in more than one season.
In the men’s volleyball team’s loss to Harvard on Saturday, there was a point in the third set when the tide turned for the Tigers, thanks to sophomore middle blocker Michael Dye. Princeton started the set lagging behind Harvard, but a kill and a block from Dye tied the game at four, and he later provided another kill for the side-out and served Princeton ahead 11-8.
Wednesday afternoon, the softball team split a two-game series while hosting Lehigh at Class of 1895 Field. The Tigers lost the first game in a 4-0 shutout but rebounded the second time around to win 3-2.
