Believe it or not, Chuck Norris did not invent the roundhouse kick to the face. It was made famous by Korean taekwondo. Princeton’s own Chuck Norrises, members of the taekwondo team, spend much of their time in the Dillon Gymnasium Multipurpose Room.
Under gray clouds at Clarke Field on Tuesday afternoon, the baseball team fell to Monmouth 24-7. The Tigers (8-20 overall, 3-5 Ivy League) struggled early and were unable to get on track against a powerful Hawks offense. Princeton committed five errors and surrendered 15 hits before the game was called due to darkness at the end of the seventh inning.
Last weekend, the men’s heavyweight, women’s open and women’s lightweight crews competed away from Princeton’s home at Lake Carnegie. The men traveled to New York City, where they claimed the Childs Cup by defeating Penn and Columbia. The women’s open crew kept its hold on the Class of ’75 Cup by besting Cornell and Radcliffe (Harvard) in Ithaca, N.Y. Far off in Redwood Shores, Calif., the women’s lightweight crew suffered close losses to top-ranked Wisconsin and Stanford but beat Sonoma State by a wide margin.
The women’s golf team defeated Columbia in a dual match while the men’s team placed ninth in the Princeton Invitational over the weekend.
Seniors Carl Hamming and Jeff McCown, co-captains of the men’s volleyball team, have had an eventful week. Not only are the two dealing with the stresses of senior year, but with a postseason spot on the line, a struggling team looked to its seniors to deliver.
On Saturday, the men’s rugby team beat The College of New Jersey, Montclair State University and William Patterson University to win the New Jersey State Tournament for the second consecutive year.
As the track and field season grinds on, Princeton’s athletes seem to have hit their groove. The men’s team won seven of 10 events to lead the field when it hosted Penn, Villanova and Rutgers on Saturday. The runners were particularly dominant, winning the 400m, the 800m and the 4x400m relay.
After rain on Friday moved the softball team’s games back a day, the Tigers (7-25 overall, 1-7 Ivy League) earned their first Ivy League victory in the second game of a Saturday doubleheader against Brown (13-12, 1-5). Princeton split its series with Brown and dropped both games of a twin bill against Yale (8-17, 4-4).
It was a result that shocked the college lacrosse world.Playing in front of a crowd that numbered in the thousands, the men’s lacrosse team fell to No. 3 Syracuse by a 13-4 margin at the Konica Minolta Big City Classic. The lopsided game closed out the first ever event at the New Meadowlands Stadium and left a shaken Princeton team (7-2 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) searching for answers as it looked toward the tail-end of its regular season.
It was a wild weekend for both the women’s and men’s tennis teams as they faced off with Ivy League foes Harvard and Dartmouth. The No. 28 women’s team continued its domination in Ivy League play, defeating No. 53 Harvard (11-7 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) 5-2 at the Lenz Tennis Center on Friday. The Tigers (18-5, 5-0) followed with another strong performance at home on Saturday, beating No. 48 Dartmouth (16-3, 3-1) 6-1. Overall, Princeton has beaten 10 of its 13 ranked opponents.
Sophomore goalie Kristen Ward jumped across the goal, treaded out of the water and met the opposing shot with two flexed arms, preventing the Bucknell goal late in the fourth. Ward played her best game of the year on Sunday afternoon in DeNunzio Pool to lead the women’s water polo team to a 4-3 victory over the Bison (12-5 overall, 4-1 Collegiate Water Polo Association).
Before Saturday, the women’s lacrosse team had yet to see a win on its own turf. But the No. 17 Tigers (5-6 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) were able to reverse the trend and pick up their first win at Princeton Stadium on Saturday in dominating style, topping Yale (5-7, 2-3) 11-2.
In its first four Ivy League games, the baseball team allowed its opponents to score just 12 runs.In its fifth, Brown needed only six innings to top that mark.Princeton (8-19 overall, 3-5 Ivy League) could not keep Brown (9-17, 6-2) off the base paths on Saturday, allowing 29 runs on 38 hits in a pair of contests in Providence, R.I. The Tigers lost the first game 17-4, and though their offense put on a show in the nightcap, it was not enough to avoid a 12-11 defeat. Princeton picked up an 8-7 win in its opener on Sunday at Yale (15-12-1, 3-5) but dropped the second 6-5.
Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams look to extend their perfect Ivy League records to 5-0 this weekend. The men’s squad (7-10 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) first squares off against No. 69 Harvard (9-10, 0-2) in Cambridge, Mass., on Friday.
With spring weather having officially arrived, the baseball team heads north this weekend for four critical Ivy League games. On Saturday and Sunday, the Tigers (7-16 Overall, 2-3 Ivy League) will conclude the divisional crossover portion of their schedule with a pair of road doubleheaders against Rolfe Division foes Brown (5-17, 2-2) and Yale (12-11-1, 0-4).
On Saturday, when the No. 4 men’s lacrosse team takes on No. 3 Syracuse, Princeton fans are hoping that three will be the Tigers’ lucky number. Princeton (7-1 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) will play in the third game of the day in the Konica Minolta Big City Classic, which will christen the New Meadowlands Stadium.
After a disappointing loss to Ivy League opponent Cornell last weekend, the women’s lacrosse team fell out of the top 20 ranked teams in the country. But the Tigers have high hopes to rebound on Saturday against Yale. Princeton (4-6 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) will host the Bulldogs (5-6, 2-2) in an Ivy League matchup that could have important postseason implications for both teams.
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.
