The men?s and women?s track teams will host the Princeton Elite Meet this Saturday as both teams look to get into full form in anticipation of next weekend?s Ivy League Heptagonals.
The No. 7 women?s lacrosse team finished undefeated at home this season with a 13-7 win against Loyola on Wednesday evening in Class of 1952 Stadium.
Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment?A: As [junior linebacker] John Callahan can attest, it was my first run test during our FSI [Freshman Scholars Institute] summer before school even started.
As my exit through FitzRandolph Gate looms, I ponder this question: Was Princeton a good place for the sports fan?
Princeton never put a dent in Cornell’s 9-0 first-inning lead, and the score held up, sending the Big Red into the Ivy League Championship Series.
Like a quarterback on the football field or a point guard on the basketball court, the coxswain is the engineer of the offense in crew. As is the case for the quarterback and the point guard, how the coxswain performs can make or break a team’s results during competition. And in many ways, the coxswain is the mouthpiece for the head coach of the team while the crew is on the water.
After reclaiming the state championship to break a two-year drought, the men’s rugby team closed out its season at the Ivy League Championship. Unfortunately for the Tigers, they were put on the same side of the draw as heavily favored Dartmouth, the No. 5 team in the country.
The Tigers will get one last shot at Cornell this afternoon in a one-game playoff that will decide the champion of the Gehrig Division. The winner will face Dartmouth in the Ivy League Championship Series (ILCS) this weekend. Faced with a do-or-die situation, the Tigers look to senior righthander Brad Gemberling to pitch them into the ILCS.
What if the players were instead able to choose what teams they would play? While it’s an unlikely scenario, take a look at how how the players and teams who picked first would be better off if the roles were reversed.
The softball team has faced Cornell, one of its division rivals, many times before. Despite that familiarity, it would be understandable if the Tigers (14-22 overall, 8-12 Ivy League) had failed to recognize the Big Red (40-10, 17-3) team that showed up in this weekend’s two doubleheaders.
The men’s golf team was mired in the middle of the pack throughout last weekend’s Ivy League Championship, but sophomore Eric Salazar narrowly lost an intense battle for the individual title to Dartmouth’s Pete Williamson. The team finished fifth overall, while Salazar took second in the individual competition.
At the three-day-long Penn Relays, the men’s and women’s track and field teams turned in several top performances, led by a fourth-place finish from senior Alex Pessala in the hammer throw and a pair of third-place finishes from junior Liz Costello and freshman Alex Banfinch in the 3,000m and 5,000m runs, respectively.
With their schedules intensifying in the final weeks of the season, all the Princeton crews were away this weekend, but that did not stop them from achieving victory in their respective races last Saturday.
After fighting its way to an overtime victory over Bucknell in the Southern Championship semifinals on April 18 to qualify for the Eastern Championships, the women?s water polo team bowed out of Easterns in the first round with a 12-7 loss to No.
Saturday was Senior Day at Class of 1952 Stadium, and it certainly lived up to its billing. In the 8-7 defeat of Brown (6-8 overall, 2-4 Ivy League), Princeton?s senior class was responsible for seven of the team?s eight goals.Senior attack Christine Casaceli scored four goals while senior midfielder and tri-captain Holly McGarvie earned two points for the Tigers (12-2, 6-1). McGarvie noted that Casaceli had a great game on Saturday in front of the home crowd.?Christine had a tremendous game for sure,? McGarvie said.
Fresh off its first loss since spring break, the men?s lacrosse team sent a message to the rest of the Ivy League on Saturday: The Orange and Black is far from finished.
There?s a saying in volleyball that the fifth game is a ?race to eight?: If a team falters early, there isn?t much time for it to get back in the game.
Baseball, if nothing else, is a game of inches. Whether it?s a ball rolling just under the shortstop?s glove or a called third strike on the outside corner, a baseball game often boils down to a few chance occurrences that defy explanation.Princeton (18-18 overall, 10-10 Ivy League Gehrig Division) found this out the hard way Sunday afternoon against Cornell (15-21, 10-10). The Tigers were only two innings away from clinching a spot in the Ivy League Championship Series when a home run from Cornell infielder Frank Hager gave the Big Red a 4-3 lead it would not relinquish.
What a difference a week can make. Seven days ago, Princeton (10-2 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) stood atop the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association rankings, looking to go to Ithaca, N.Y., to extend its six-game winning streak and seize the Ivy League crown.
