Three out of four ain?t bad. In baseball, it?s enough to get you through the first round of the playoffs, and in volleyball, ironically, it?s enough sets to win a match.
Despite an amazing last-minute performance against No. 20 Bucknell, the defending Southern Division champion men?s water polo team was unable to defeat No.
With a strong showing this weekend against top-ranked schools at the three-day Kitty Harrison Invitational, the women?s tennis team closed its fall season with a bang and proved it will be a force on the national scene this spring.?We competed hard and got some huge wins,? freshman Monica Chow said.
Worn down by a week of midterms, the men’s soccer team played to a draw with Cornell, 1-1, on Halloween, but after a week devoted solely to training, it bounced back with a 3-1 victory over Penn on Saturday.
The 2009 Ivy League Heptagonal Championships will go down in history: The women’s cross country team swept the top five spots, posting the first perfect score in the race’s history.
The women’s soccer team finished its 2009 season this past week with two Ivy League games against Cornell and Penn.
While the rest of the school was relaxing during Fall Break, the field hockey team was winning an Ivy League championship.
It was Penn’s homecoming game last Saturday, and the Quakers put on a show. Penn alumni, students and fans filled a respectable portion of the expansive stands at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, and they all left happy after the Quakers obliterated the Tigers, 42-7.
The women's cross country team captured its fourth straight Ivy League title after sweeping the top five spots at the annual Heptagonal Championships and reaffirming their dominance in the Ancient Eight.
The Tigers captured their first Ivy League victory of the season on Saturday at home, overcoming a fourth-quarter deficit to defeat Cornell, 17-13.
After their 2-1 double-overtime triumph over then-No. 9 Harvard, the men?s soccer team (7-5-2 overall, 2-2-0 Ivy League) is preparing for its last three games of the season. ?It was a really important win for us,? head coach Jim Barlow ?91 said.
While question marks have begun to crop up for many of the Ivy League contenders, the women?s soccer team is peaking as it enters the final week of the regular season.
Last weekend, the women?s volleyball team proved that, despite their struggles in the preseason, the Tigers still dream of adding their 15th Ivy League Championship to their trophy case.
Last weekend, league-leading Princeton obliterated Harvard, 9-0. Cornell, which is tied with Dartmouth for third place in the standings, lost at home to Harvard, 1-0, two weeks ago. The Tigers face off with the Big Red tonight in their home finale.
For the Tigers, the Ivy League title is out of the question. Now they need to win for their pride. Princeton hosts Cornell in what might be the most winnable game remaining on its schedule.
?Team cohesiveness? is the women?s hockey team?s mantra going into the regular season this weekend.
This season, the Tigers hope to contend for the ECAC Hockey championship again and play deep into March for a third consecutive year.
As the Tigers look to win the Ivy League title for the fourth consecutive year, they can’t rely on the work they’ve already done.
Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment? A: My ?welcome to college? moment had to be my first career start as a freshman at Stanford, in front of fairly large home crowd.
After a brutal four-day stretch, the semifinal round was where the show stopped for the members of the women’s tennis team on Tuesday morning. The Tigers traveled to New Haven, Conn., to compete in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Northeast Regional and, despite not returning with a first-place finish, had incredibly strong showings on the weekend.
