While students linger in the Orange Bubble with unavoidable, pessimistic thoughts about midterms week, the women?s tennis team has bright expectations for the weekend.
No matter the venue, Mark Zalewski leaves an impact. Since he arrived on campus in fall 2006, the senior left attack for the men’s water polo team has made a name for himself through hard shots, big laughs and legendary snores.
In a fall season of Princeton athletics choc full of ups and downs, the field hockey team has provided some stellar consistency. The No. 4 Tigers are currently 11-2 and undefeated in the Ivy League. A large part of the team’s success can be attributed to its core nucleaus of seniors, including striker and co-captain Christina Bortz.
Imagine playing full-court basketball with two players per team, or full-field soccer with five players per team, and you may begin to appreciate rugby sevens, a much faster, more open variation of rugby played with seven players per side for seven-minute halves — instead of the standard 15 players and 40-minute halves — on a full-size pitch.
I wonder who was more surprised about the abysmal loss of the Philadelphia Eagles to the lowly Oakland Raiders on Sunday — Eagles or Raiders fans. The Raiders were coming off an embarrassing loss to the New York Giants, in which Raiders’ quarterback JaMarcus Russell only completed eight passes. The Eagles, on the other hand, were coming off an easy win over the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
After a seven-game winless drought, the men’s soccer team has reached an oasis and drunk deeply. After a commanding 3-0 win over Columbia last Saturday, the Tigers earned another 3-0 victory, this time over Colgate.
I was waiting outside Roberts Stadium on a cold and rainy Friday. My assignment was to have a penalty-kick contest against Alyssa Pont, the junior starting goalkeeper for the women’s soccer team.
The sailing team arrived at Washington College last weekend focused on just one goal: to place well enough to earn one of the two remaining berths for the War Memorial Regatta. After posting a disappointing 13th-place finish at the first qualifying event last month at Ocean County College, the Princeton sailors had little room for error if they hoped to participate in the fall championship.
Most freshmen come to Princeton filled with a mix of anticipation and anxiety, eager to hone the familiar while exploring new avenues of expression. A few excel in one or two activities. And some win regional tennis tournaments. Such is the story for freshmen Matt Siow and Matija Pecotic, two members of the men’s tennis team who have enjoyed success in tournament play during the fall season.
In its final weekend of regular season play, the No. 17 men?s water polo team captured two impressive wins and put up a tough fight against No.
Sophomore Evan Harmeling polished off his opponent eight and seven in the men?s golf team?s tournament this weekend.
The sprint football team started strong in Friday?s tilt against Navy, but the Midshipmen (5-0 overall) proved too much to handle in the second half, running past the Tigers (0-5) en route to a 42-0 victory.
If there?s ever a time to realize that a team has room for improvement, that time is Pre-Nationals. The No.
Few things can salvage a losing season like a last-second, come-from-behind road victory against a bitter rival.
It had been seven games and almost a month since the men’s soccer team won its last game — a 2-1 defeat of Farleigh Dickinson back on Sept. 18. The team had followed up its perfect 4-0 start with five losses and two draws, and it was starting to wonder when it would get its season back on track.
Despite its youth and relative inexperience, the women’s volleyball team had no trouble rebounding from a heartbreaking loss on Friday, pulling through to finish the weekend with a commanding victory 24 hours later.
The women’s soccer team ran its shutout streak to its 403rd minute on Saturday afternoon at Roberts Stadium. Unfortunately for Princeton (5-6-3 overall, 1-2-1 Ivy League), it also ran its ongoing scoreless streak to 220 minutes. The end result was another scoreless tie for the Tigers, this time against Columbia (6-5-3, 2-1-1).
Last Saturday, the No. 4 field hockey team beat Brown, 5-1, at Warner Roof behind a total team effort.
The Tigers (1-4 overall, 0-2 Ivy League) and the Bears (3-2, 1-1) put up a combined 37 points in the first half before the game turned into a defensive battle that didn’t see an offensive touchdown scored until the 1:32 mark of the fourth quarter.
Late last Thursday night, as the football team attempted to stop Colgate’s attack in the first overtime at Princeton Stadium, things were looking up for the Tigers. Princeton held a 14-7 lead and seemed to have a chance at building serious momentum heading into the heart of its Ivy League season. Then the Red Raiders scored twice, dashing the Tigers’ hopes and confirming one of the team’s worries. That success this season would certainly not come easily to them.
