Along with Princeton and Columbia, two other teams opened their Ivy League slate last weekend, while the rest split four non-league games. Here’s how they fared:
The sprint football team continued its steady improvement despite a loss to previously winless rival Mansfield on Friday night, coming as close to victory as it has in years. The Tigers ultimately fell to the Mountaineers 10-6.
The women’s volleyball team will travel to face Penn tonight to open its Ivy League season. The Tigers (5-6) had a strong start to their season at the Lafayette Tournament, where they came away with three straight wins, but have struggled in their past two tournaments.
Last weekend, the men’s water polo team conquered the East Coast, winning all three of its games against league opponents Johns Hopkins, No. 18 Navy and George Washington. This weekend, the No. 16 Tigers (8-2 overall, 3-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division) will travel to the West Coast in an attempt to repeat their victorious weekend.
At 3:07 p.m. on Oct. 3, 2009, the football team took the field at Princeton Stadium in its Ivy League opener against Columbia with every expectation of extending Princeton’s dominant head-to-head record against its New York City rival. The final whistle blew at 6 p.m., and the Tigers were bounced from their home field in a 38-0 shutout —Princeton’s worst loss against Columbia in school history.
Princeton will send both its cross country teams out of state this weekend to prepare for the important Pre-Nationals meet later this month. The men will send their top runners to Madison, Wis., to compete in the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational. The women will field a squad at the Notre Dame Invitational in South Bend, Ind. Both teams will also send runners to the Paul Short Invitational in Bethlehem, Pa.
The women’s soccer team is looking to continue its unbeaten Ivy League record this weekend with its second Ancient Eight match of the year. The Tigers (5-3 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) host Dartmouth (3-4-1, 1-0) on Saturday at Roberts Stadium.
Vikram Rao and Gabriel Debenedetti discuss this week in sports.
This weekend, the field hockey team (7-0 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) hopes to put two more teams away and continue its seven-game winning streak. At 6 p.m. tonight, the No. 4 Tigers travel to the Big Apple to play their third Ivy League game against Columbia (4-3, 1-1). Then on Sunday at 1 p.m., the Tigers return home to play No. 16 American (7-2) in the annual Play 4 the Cure game, the proceeds from which help support breast cancer awareness and research.
As the men’s soccer team kicks off its Ivy League campaign Saturday afternoon against Dartmouth at Roberts Stadium, it’s safe to say the team is back on track following a jittery start.
If the men’s soccer team were “mic’ed up” during an average practice session, you might hear this line from senior goalkeeper and team captain Sean Lynch: “Daddy wants some pancakes.”Say what?
What is the most unbreakable record in baseball history? Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hit streak? Not quite. Cy Young’s incredible 511 career wins? Probably unbreakable, but theoretically assailable. How about 101 losses — on the road? No, nobody will ever pass the tremendous futility of my all-time favorite baseball team, the immortal 1899 Cleveland Spiders.
Sophomore midfielder Caitlin Blosser just wanted to pick flowers and stare at the sky when she was playing for her first soccer team at the age of 4. Her parents were worried she was not the athletic daughter they wanted her to be. But to their relief, Blosser soon found her athleticism in more ways than one, in tennis, football, baseball, basketball and — of course — soccer.
Tennis — unlike football, baseball or any other American pastime — has become a truly international sport. When one examines the draw for any Grand Slam tournament, abbreviations for obscure countries like Uzbekistan, Croatia, Chinese Taipei and Cyprus often litter the pages, next to the names of various players. The sports that generate the most fanfare in the United States, however, are largely Americentric.
In the women’s soccer team’s fourth match ever against Fairfield University, it continued the tradition of shutting out the Stags. The Tigers (5-3 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) won the game 2-0, with sophomore midfielder Caitlin Blosser scoring both goals of the game.
The Bowl Championship Series sucks. The vast majority of college football fans can agree on that. Don’t try to tell me that a playoff “devalues the regular season.” A playoff is the only fair way to determine a championship. Unfortunately, though, a college football playoff won’t be happening anytime soon. The BCS TV contract is not up until 2014, and it will likely be extended, as the current one rakes in a sweet $125 million per year.
After one semifinal loss in the NCAA tournament and 11 years of tough losses to Maryland, the field hockey team scored a triumphant 4-2 victory over the No. 1 Terrapins on Tuesday night at Class of 1952 Stadium.
After three seasons as a Tiger, senior center Michael Crowder took the field on Saturday to help lead the men’s football team to its 36-33 victory over Lafayette.
