The Tigers showed no signs of despondence coming off their 38-0 loss to Columbia and went toe-to-toe with the Red Raiders for 60 minutes and two overtime periods before falling, 21-14.
When contemplating its upcoming match against Yale, the women?s volleyball team is torn between two distinct and overpowering emotions concerning its Ivy League foe: hatred and fear.
After one of its worst losses in recent years, the football team (1-2 overall, 0-1 Ivy League) faces a quick turnaround in a game against No. 23 Colgate (5-0 overall). The Red Raiders, who will play the Tigers tonight in Princeton Stadium, are likely the toughest team on Princeton’s schedule.
The Princeton men’s soccer team and opponent Adelphi each ended a streak last night, but neither team was satisfied with the result.
Last night in College Park, Md., the field hockey team almost took down a titan. But, as the saying goes, “almost” doesn’t count. No. 5 Princeton (9-2 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) lost in devastating fashion, dropping a 3-2 overtime game to top-ranked Maryland (13-0).
At the end of the summer, before heading back to Princeton, I became a huge fan of the U.S. Open. I can honestly say that I watched every match that ESPN2 and CBS televised from Flushing Meadows, N.Y.
The women’s soccer team returned to campus bleary-eyed and exhausted on Sunday at 2 a.m., hours after its 2-1 gut-wrenching double-overtime loss to Dartmouth. But Princeton (4-6-1 overall, 0-2 Ivy League) shook off the bad taste in its mouth by posting a 1-0 victory over American (6-7) on Monday.
Unlike many of my fellow sports staffers, I didn’t go anywhere exotic this summer. Instead, I stayed here in Princeton, working on campus and listening to my favorite baseball team, the Philadelphia Phillies, on the radio. Though I had noticed it during the school year, it was only when I had time to consistently tune into the games that the loss of legendary Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Kalas truly hit me.
It was the last afternoon of camp, and we were playing a huge game of “Capture the Flag,” campers against counselors. One caveat to being a member of the counselor team was that you had to put aside your competitive tendencies for 45 minutes and inevitably lose the game, preferably in style.
The professional tennis season is winding down, but the college scene is just heating up, as both the men?s and women?s tennis teams enjoyed moderate success in tournaments over the weekend.
The women?s cross country team passed its first big test of the season Friday at the Notre Dame Invitational.
When the men?s rugby team looks back on this season, it will point to Saturday?s 11-5 home victory over Columbia as the game when the players came together as a unit.
Despite its best efforts to start the Collegiate Sprint Football League season on a positive note, the sprint football team (0-3 overall) found itself outmatched Friday night, suffering a 57-0 loss to Army (3-0). For the second straight week, the Tigers found themselves in an early hole.
The women?s volleyball team fought hard in its Saturday Ivy League opener, but ultimately the obstacles of returning only three starters and adjusting to the style of a new head coach stood between them and a win.
Early in the first half on Saturday, the women’s soccer team was on pace to pick up its first conference win of the season. But after taking a 1-0 lead, the Tigers (3-6-1 overall, 0-2 Ivy League) were unable to close the door, eventually falling 2-1 to Dartmouth (5-4, 2-0) in double overtime.
With passes skidding short on the wet grass, shots stopping in puddles on the field and goals slipping through the goalies’ gloves, the men’s soccer team (4-4 overall) played a different kind of game at Dartmouth (6-2-1) on Saturday evening.
The No. 7 field hockey team trampled Columbia, 4-0, on Friday at Class of 1952 Stadium before trouncing No. 5 Connecticut, 3-1, on Sunday.
In the bowels of Princeton Stadium after the football team’s pummeling on Saturday at the hands of Columbia, head coach Roger Hughes was appropriately subdued.
If this past weekend was indicative of anything, it’s that the men’s water polo team can reach the NCAA Final Four this year, but only if it wants it. In the seniors’ last regular-season games in DeNunzio Pool, No. 19 Princeton (7-5 overall, 4-1 Collegiate Water Polo Aassociation Southern Division) controlled No. 10 Navy (9-6 overall, 1-2 CWPA Southern Division) on Saturday evening in a 7-3 upset, and then defeated No. 18 Bucknell (10-6 overall, 4-1 CWPA Southern Division), 12-5, on Sunday afternoon.
The stats tell the story of the game: 66 penalty yards, four turnovers on downs, two fumbles lost inside the 20-yard line, one interception. But the most painful numbers were those on the scoreboard: Columbia 38, Princeton 0.
