A dodgeball tournament full of upsets and intriguing storylines came to an end early Friday morning when the Hawaii Club upset Tiger Inn to claim the championship.
At the end of last year, when it was announced that former head coach Bill Tierney would be leaving Princeton to go to the University of Denver, the men’s lacrosse team knew it would be going into the 2010 season with a lot stacked against it. It would be playing under a new head coach, Chris Bates, who at the time was a relatively unknown and untested quantity.
This weekend the softball team hopes for a redeeming set of wins against two Ivy League rivals, with the Tigers (6-22 overall, 0-4 Ivy League) set to play doubleheaders against Brown and Yale. Princeton will face Brown (12-11, 1-3) in Providence, R.I., on Friday and then travel to New Haven, Conn., to challenge Yale (6-15, 2-2) on Saturday.
This weekend, three of Princeton’s four crews will be looking to follow up universally strong season openers. However, none will be at the Tigers’ home, Lake Carnegie. The men’s heavyweight crew will compete against the Penn and Columbia in the Childs Cup in New York City. The women’s open crew will travel to Ithaca, N.Y., to meet Cornell and Harvard in the Class of 1975 Cup. The women’s lightweight crew will head across the country to Redwood City, Calif., to race against Stanford and Wisconsin.
The men’s volleyball team is no stranger to tough contests, having clinched six of its nine home games in marathon five-set matches. And the Tigers don’t succumb to the pressure either, since they clinched three of these six wins with nail-biting two-point victories. This weekend is likely to be a similar story, as Princeton (10-8 overall, 4-4 Eastern Intercolleigate Volleyball Association Tait Division) takes on Juniata (8-12, 2-6) on Friday and George Mason (5-16, 2-4) on Sunday on the road.
If there’s anything that can be said about the men’s volleyball team, it’s that it must be the best-conditioned team in the league.
Though intercollegiate sailing is purported to have been founded at Princeton sometime in the 19th century, according to junior John Wetenhall, it’s been a long time since the club team has been a varsity program.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to watch stars from two different sports play each other in a third sport? I definitely have. Below is a description of what such an event might be like.
Bodies were strewn across the floor, battered, bruised and beaten. The massacre of the 2009 dodgeball tournament is legendary, and new information about the proceedings has just now emerged.
The baseball team is counting on its defense to be a major strength this season. Princeton committed just two errors in 38 innings during four Ivy League games last weekend. But its defense failed to come through on Tuesday afternoon against in-state rival Rutgers, leading to a blowout loss.
Away from the tennis court, sophomore Hilary Bartlett is a vivacious, bubbly individual. Often seen laughing and joking around with her teammates, she has a carefree mentality. But when she gears up for a match, Bartlett transforms into a serious competitor.
We were robbed. Monday night could have been a night in which each and every one of us witnessed a truly historic sports moment. We would have remembered exactly where we were, who we were with and what we were doing when Butler guard Gordon Hayward launched a shot with no time left on the clock to beat the Duke Blue Devils in the finals of the NCAA basketball tournament.
The softball team played Hofstra in a rare midweek, single-game matchup on Tuesday afternoon in its last chance to tune up before the bulk of the Ivy League season. Pitcher Olivia Galati, recently crowned Colonial Athletic Association Rookie of the Week, led the Pride to a 6-2 victory over the Tigers (6-22 overall, 0-4 Ivy).
With the help of senior Mike Lombardi, the men’s heavyweight crew had a remarkable opening weekend, beating Georgetown in all three varsity races. Lombardi’s first varsity boat toppled the Hoyas by crossing the finish line more than 25 seconds before the opposition’s first boat.
Twenty years ago, no one except for a small group of statisticians cared or had heard about OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging), the statistic commonly considered the best measure of a baseball player’s offensive abilities. Batting average, home runs and RBI were the three statistical categories worth noting for people who wanted to measure hitting power.
As far as races go, the 3,000m, 28-barrier, seven-water-jump steeplechase is hardly typical. But, luckily for the men’s track and field team, sophomore Trevor Van Ackeren is hardly a typical runner.
The women’s golf team finished 19th out of 20 this weekend at the Ole Miss Rebel Intercollegiate Tournament at the University of Mississippi’s course in Oxford, Miss.
In a non-league exhibition match on Saturday, the men’s rugby team defeated the Marauders of Millersville University 20-5. Freshman outside center Ross Powell, playing in his first game as a starter, led Princeton with two tries.
The men’s heavyweight crew began a new era under head coach Greg Hughes ’96 with a bang on Saturday morning by beating Georgetown in convincing fashion. The Tigers (1-0) dominated on Lake Carnegie, sweeping the Hoyas in all three 2,000m races.
No matter what the men’s volleyball team does, its matches at Dillon Gymnasium always seem to go the distance. Luckily, Princeton is finding that the fifth set is where it shines the brightest.
