When you dream big, it’s easy to let the details slip. But the No. 4 field hockey team isn’t letting its bid for the NCAA championship overshadow another goal: the Ivy League title.
Both the American and National League Championship Series begin later this week, and the West Coast and East Coast powerhouses of each league will square off. And of the four teams remaining in the playoffs, only the Philadelphia Phillies lost a game in their divisional series.
Last night, the men’s soccer team (4-5-2 overall, 0-2 Ivy League) hosted St. John’s (3-2-7) at Roberts Stadium in a game that was televised on ESPNU, and the nation was treated to a 1-1 double-overtime tie. With the draw, Princeton extended its winless streak to seven, and St. John’s recorded its seventh tie of the season.
Unfortunately for Princeton (5-6-2), goals have been almost as scarce as for its offense as well. The result of the latest shutdown defensive performance was a scoreless double-overtime tie with Lehigh (7-3-4) on Wednesday in Bethlehem, Pa.
Last season, Princeton was hopeful about its running game. An offensive line that returned all of its starters was ready to block for then-junior running back Jordan Culbreath, who had broken out in a game on ESPNU against Cornell as a sophomore in 2007. With fullback Rob Toresco ’09 graduated and running back R.C. Lagomarsino ’09 out for the season, Culbreath was ready to take over.
This Saturday, Princeton students will have a great opportunity to cheer on their own as the men’s and women’s cross country teams host the third annual Princeton Invitational. On top of participating in the Princeton Invitational, the women’s team will send its top seven runners to the Pre-Nationals meet at Terre Haute, Ind., the site of the national championship meet later this season.
Sarah, Katie and Julia Reinprecht love to compete against each other. But it’s the nature of their competition that sets them apart from other sets of siblings and has made them an asset to the Princeton field hockey program.
It’s been a thrilling past few weeks in sports. Baseball playoffs are getting interesting, the college football season has been scintillating, and the NFL’s first month has produced some memorable games. But not everything is as it should be. These are just a few things that have been bothering me recently about sports, both in the professional world and here on campus.
Q: What was your welcome to college moment?A: When I realized I would have to spend the next four years [here].
Heading into this weekend?s road trip, which included games at Dartmouth and Brown, the men?s rugby team knew that the possibility of advancing to the Northeast Regional Tournament hung in the balance.
Over the weekend, the men?s water polo team battled the best the country has to offer. The Tigers came up short, dropping a tough match to No.
The scenario read as if it was from a storybook. It was the last match of the Columbia Invitational for the men?s tennis team, and freshman Matt Siow was locked in a third-set tiebreaker.
On a chilly and wet autumn evening in Ithaca, N.Y., the Princeton sprint football team once again found its offense frozen out.
Though its season is young, the women?s tennis team is already hitting the road. This past weekend, sophomore Hilary Bartlett and junior Taylor Marable had a strong showing at the ITA All-American doubles tournament in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
The Tigers dropped their second Ivy League game of the season in Providence, R.I., on Saturday. Princeton (4-5-1 overall, 0-2 Ivy League) fell 4-2 to No. 19 Brown (6-0-4, 2-0) to follow up a 4-2 loss to Dartmouth a week ago.
Junior midfielder Lauren Whatley?s shot in the second half hit the crossbar, missing the net by mere inches.
This season, the field hockey team ended the undefeated runs of powerhouses such as Syracuse and Connecticut. Last Wednesday, the No. 5 Tigers (10-2 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) almost took down No. 1 Maryland, falling to the Terrapins 3-2 in overtime.
The women?s volleyball team split its two matches this weekend, but the outcome was undeniably a triumph. In the first half of a four-game road trip, the Tigers (1-2 Ivy League, 3-11 overall) were swept by Yale (2-1, 12-2) before rebounding at Brown (0-3, 4-10) in four close sets.
Princeton, currently the top-ranked non-California team in the national polls, will face at least five Golden State teams, including No. 1 Stanford, No. 3 USC and either No. 7 Pepperdine or No. 9 UC Irvine.
Brown got off to an extremely slow start this season, dropping its first four games by a combined score of 11-2. Since then, however, the Bears have rallied to win three of their last four, though part of their recent success can be attributed to having played weaker opponents.
