The men’s and women’s fencing teams opened their dual-meet seasons in style on Sunday. The Tigers collectively took nine of 10 contests at the Sacred Heart Duals in Fairfield, Conn.
The men’s hockey team played host to two league opponents over the weekend, earning two of the possible four points. On Friday night, Clarkson (9-5-2 overall, 4-2-1 ECAC Hockey) out-scrapped Princeton (6-5, 6-3) in a very physical 5-3 game. The Tigers avoided their first losing streak in league play on Saturday, defeating St. Lawrence (3-8-3, 3-4) by a score of 5-1.
Executive Editor for Sports Vikram Rao '11 and Associate Editor for Sports Gabe Debenedetti '12 discuss the week in Princeton sports.
The wrestling team got off to a strong start on Friday but was ultimately incapable of sustaining thier momentum and ended up falling to both Liberty and Binghamton at the tri-meet in Dillon Gymnasium.
With a win against Brown on Saturday, the women’s ice hockey team finally broke a winless streak that spanned almost a month. Although the Tigers extended their winless record to seven games with a 2-1 loss to Yale on Friday, a 4-0 thrashing of Brown the next day ended the weekend on an uplifting note.
After the men’s basketball team’s superb opening half, the result of the game against St. Joseph’s never seemed to be in doubt. Still, the Tigers (5-3) survived a tough challenge from the Hawks (3-5) to extend their winning streak to three. Princeton showed poise and maturity down the stretch, winning 74-65.
By one account, the storyline of the women’s basketball game on Sunday afternoon was typical of the season so far. A star offensive performance by sophomore forward Niveen Rasheed capped off a balanced attack, and junior center Devona Allgood controlled the boards and shut down the opponents’ attack through her dominating inside presence. But in the 87-45 victory over Mercer County rival Rider University at Jadwin Gymasium, the Tigers added a new twist to the story when backups and rookies took advantage of significant playing time.
After a two-week break from meets for Thanksgiving, the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams are ready and excited for the Big Al Open, a three-day meet between six teams happening Friday through Sunday. The Tigers will host the event at DeNunzio Pool.
With a pre-Thanksgiving victory under its belt, the men’s hockey team looks to continue its solid performance in conference play this weekend with games against Clarkson and St. Lawrence. The Tigers (5-4 overall, 5-2 ECAC Hockey) host the Golden Knights (7-5-2, 2-2-1) on Friday at 7 p.m. and the Saints (2-7-3, 2-3) on Saturday at 5 p.m. to open a four-game homestand after having won five of their last six games.
The men’s and women’s squash teams will head to New England this weekend in hopes of extending their unbeaten records.The two squads will start the weekend in Providence, R.I., against Ivy League rival Brown. Then, on Sunday, they will square off against Williams and Middlebury colleges in Williamsburg, Mass. Historically, both Princeton squads have fared extremely well against all three opponents, and they will go into the match as the favorites.
As 2010 comes to a close, the men’s basketball team’s year-end evaluation proves difficult to analyze — despite the fact that it has only played seven games.Tagged as the favorite for the Ivy League in the preseason media poll — receiving 12 of 17 first-place votes to runner-up Harvard’s four — the Tigers (4-3) undoubtedly entered the season as the team to beat. And while the team has not done terribly this season, it has also failed to overwhelmingly impress. Four of Princeton’s seven games this year have been determined in the final seconds of regulation play — including two overtime victories and two one-point losses.
After closing out a five-game road trip by toppling previously undefeated Delaware 68-50, the women’s basketball team finally returns home on Sunday for a match against Rider at 2 p.m.
After a difficult road trip last weekend in which the women’s ice hockey team dropped two games to Boston University, Princeton is hoping that the support of the home crowd and the familiarity of Baker Rink will help it get back on track against Yale today at 4 p.m. The Ivy League matchup marks the beginning of a six-game homestand, including a game against Brown on Saturday at 2 p.m.
Fourteen teams in the NFL have never won a Super Bowl. That’s actually pretty surprising for a league that prides itself on parity. Four teams have never even been to the Super Bowl itself. Sure, the NFL has expanded many times in the past 20 years, but seven of these 14 teams hark back to the days before the merger of the National Football League and the American Football League.
Despite starting his swimming career at the age of 4 for his hometown team, senior Colin Hanna did not enter the world of serious competitive swimming until he was a junior in high school.
The women’s basketball team faced off against University of Delaware on Wednesday night at the Blue Hens’ home in Newark, Del. The Tigers made quick work of the Blue Hens, winning 68-50.
