"Get me on the court and I’m trouble, last week messed around and got a triple double.”
Although he recently injured his ribs, freshman 174-pounder Ryan Callahan had one of the strongest starts of the wrestling team’s rookies this season. Callahan ended his high school career with an undefeated senior year and claimed the 2010 New Jersey state wrestling championship in the 171-pound classification. After coming to Princeton, Callahan began his freshman season by placing at his first three college tournaments.
After blowing a double-digit lead late in the second half, the men’s basketball team found itself down by three points in the final minute of overtime. But the Tigers, through an unlikely series of events, came back for a 62-59 victory over archrival Penn. Princeton (17-4 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) remains the only unbeaten team in the Ivy League and improves to 10-0 at home. It was Princeton’s fourth overtime victory of the season, a program record.
The men’s volleyball team suffered a close loss on Tuesday, dropping a 25-18, 22-25, 25-21, 25-19 match to NYU. Princeton (1-4 overall, 0-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) came into the match reeling from a heartbreaking 4-set loss to Rutgers-Newark and appeared to still be feeling the effects of that match early in the evening.
Each year, the sports editors of The Daily Princetonian and The Daily Pennsylvanian exchange columns before the first basketball game between the two rivals. Here is Penn's contribution.
The men’s and women’s track and field teams continued their seasons with strong performances over the weekend. The women’s team finished fifth at the Sykes and Sabock Challenge Cup at Penn State while a portion of the men’s team finished third; the rest of the men, primarily distance runners, competed at the GaREAT College Invitational in Geneva, Ohio.
With the capacity crowd on its feet, sophomore Charles Fox stepped onto the mat for the final match of the wrestling team’s Alumni Day meet on Saturday. Princeton (4-9 overall, 1-2 Ivy League) led Brown (0-10, 0-2) 18-16, but the outcome of this final match would determine the winner of the meet. After seven minutes, Fox and his opponent had each managed an escape, forcing overtime. Unfazed, Fox pulled off the overtime takedown to grant the squad a thrilling 21-16 victory over the Bears.
The men's basketball team defeated Penn, 62-59, in an overtime thriller at Jadwin Gymnasium on Tuesday night. Relive the unbelievable action with the replay of our live blog.
The men’s and women’s fencing teams traveled to Evanston, Ill., this weekend to compete in the Northwestern Duals. Last year at this meet, the two squads combined for a 23-3 record. The Tigers had similar success this weekend, finishing with 19 wins and four losses. According to the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association poll in late January, the Princeton women (14-3) rank fourth and the men (14-2) are sixth.
Entering the weekend, senior No. 2 and co-captain Dave Letourneau of the men’s squash team had never lost an individual Ivy League match. But after fighting a high fever all week, whether or not Letourneau would even take the court for the team’s final regular-season Ancient Eight contests remained unclear until Saturday. Though visibly weakened on the court, Letourneau capped his Ivy career with two more wins, and the rest of his teammates followed suit as No. 3 Princeton (8-1 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) topped No. 7 Dartmouth (8-6, 1-4) 9-0 on Saturday and No. 6 Harvard (7-3, 3-2) 7-2 on Sunday.
While the men’s basketball team celebrated with a packed student section after beating Harvard at Jadwin Gymnasium, the women’s team headed into the locker room 260 miles away in Cambridge, Mass., as the losing team. Despite the 73-67 loss, however, the Tigers (15-4 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) managed to rebound the next day in Hanover, N.H., defeating Dartmouth (5-14, 1-4) handily by a score of 75-50. Nevertheless, the loss to the Crimson (5-0, 13-6) means that the road to an Ivy League Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance won’t be quite as simple for Princeton as it was last season.
Things started well for the men’s volleyball team on Friday, which opened Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association play against Rutgers-Newark (7-0 overall, 1-0 EIVA Tait Division) with a win in the first set. However, despite the 25-21 start, the Tigers (1-3, 0-1) dropped the final three sets to the Scarlet Raiders, 25-19, 25-18 and 25-20.
It was a bittersweet road trip for the women’s hockey team, as Princeton beat No. 10 Harvard in a close battle only to be shut out 7-0 by Dartmouth in its worst loss of the year.
The men’s hockey team yielded nine straight goals over a three-period span as they dropped both of their games over the weekend. On Friday night, No. 11 Union (20-7-3 overall, 12-3-1 ECAC Hockey) battled back from a deficit to win 7-4. In a tightly contested game on Friday night, No. 8 Rensselaer (18-6-4, 10-5-1) hung onto their own lead to win 5-2. No. 19 Princeton (14-8-1, 9-6-1) is now sixth in the conference, trailing first-place No. 2 Yale (19-4, 13-3) by seven points.
Executive Editors for Sports Kevin Whitaker '13 and Kiran Gollakota '13 discuss the weekend in sports during the Season Three premiere of On the Prowl.
The last time the Harvard men’s basketball team won at Jadwin Gymnasium, Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson ’97 was a high school freshman in Towson, Md., seniors Dan Mavraides and Bobby Foley were two months old and no other player on either team’s current roster had been born. 21 times since then, the Crimson traveled south to New Jersey, and 21 times it left with a loss. Six minutes into Friday’s game, it seemed as if the streak would come to an end.
The men’s swimming and diving team won its first 92 meets at DeNunzio Pool, its record spanning for more than two decades. But the streak came to an end this weekend when Princeton (8-4, 4-1) fell to Navy (11-1) in a heartbreaking 167-133 defeat.
The women’s hockey team will face Harvard (12-7-3 overall, 11-3-2 ECAC Hockey) and Dartmouth (14-8, 10-6) on the road today in Cambridge, Mass., and Saturday in Hanover, N.H., respectively.
With victories in its first two Ivy League games, the men’s basketball team enters this weekend anticipating a huge contest with NCAA tournament implications.
While Princetonians are slowly beginning to return to the routine of classes, the men’s and women’s squash teams are also be hard at work preparing for tough matches this weekend. Both teams will be competing at home; the men will be facing Dartmouth and Harvard while the women will be facing Stanford as well as the Crimson and the Big Green.
