Situated in the middle of a region that has more than a handful of high schools, the University is home to a few members of a minority smaller than that of student-athletes: student-athletes from the town of Princeton.
Basketball games are supposed to be 40 minutes long. They just are. So why did Monday night’s NCAA basketball final last all of five minutes?
The baseball team was looking for a spark heading into the stretch run of the Ivy League season. What Princeton (9-14 overall, 2-6 Ivy League) received was a 6-0 drubbing from in-state rival Rider (12-12) that was not even as close as the score might indicate. Broncs southpaw pitcher Derek Caldwell had his fastball in tip-top shape, scattering just four hits over eight innings for the win.
On Tuesday, hundreds of seniors in three departments — English, history and the Wilson School — turned in thousands of pages and millions of words in their senior theses. But they might have only needed two words to describe the men’s volleyball game that night.
After celebrating an impressive 12-8 victory over then-No. 2 Syracuse on Saturday, the men’s lacrosse team had to switch gears quickly and prepare for a Tuesday evening matchup against Ivy League rival Penn. Led by four goals from senior attack Tommy Davis, Princeton eked out a 10-9 overtime win in Philadelphia.
After spring break, the baseball team seemed to be firing on all cylinders and was peaking right before the start of the Ivy League season.
Sophomore righthander Michelle Tolfa was not just effectively wild in her second start of the weekend ? she was spectacularly wild.
Members of the men’s and women’s track teams cleaned up at the Sam Howell Invitational, held last weekend on their home turf of Weaver Stadium. Both Tiger squads competed against 16 other schools, including Ivy League opponents Columbia, Dartmouth and Yale.
The men’s golf team traveled to coal mine country last weekend to compete in the Marshall Invitational in Huntington, W. Va., and finished last in the field of 16. The tournament was the Tigers’ first of the spring season, and the competition, the difficult course and the windy conditions did not make their return to the golf course easier.
After taking the opening set of its match by a sizable 11-point margin, the men’s volleyball team was looking to avenge its Feb. 28 loss to Springfield College on Springfield’s home court last Friday.
EAST RUTHERFORD — The first quarter of the men’s lacrosse team’s monumental 12-8 win over No. 2 Syracuse at Giants Stadium on Saturday was relatively uneventful. But in the first five minutes of the second quarter, while holding a fragile 3-2 lead, the No. 5 Tigers set the tone for the rest of the game.
Sophomore attack Lizzy Drumm was held scoreless for the first time this season last Wednesday night. Four days later, she bounced back in a big way, scoring five goals to lead the No. 7 women’s lacrosse team to a 15-6 rout over hapless Yale (3-8 overall, 0-4 Ivy League).
Despite finally showing a resolve that has been lacking for much of the season, the women?s water polo team fell 11-9 in overtime against No.
The conditions were windy and blustery on Lake Carnegie this Saturday, but that didn’t prevent the men’s and women’s lightweight crews from succeeding on the water. The No. 1 lightweight men performed especially well in their race against No. 3 Navy.
EAST RUTHERFORD — Coming into the men’s lacrosse team’s showdown against Syracuse last Saturday, the biggest question was who would triumph in the battle between the Tigers’ young but talented defense and the Orange’s dynamic offense. The answer was clear.
One week after pulling out a close victory over Penn to open its Ivy League season, the men’s tennis team suffered disappointing back-to-back losses, falling 4-3 to Yale on Friday and 5-2 to Brown the next day. Princeton (9-8 overall) appeared to be evenly matched against both teams, and key moments in either match could have easily shifted the momentum the Tigers’ way.
On Friday evening, Princeton (13-9 overall, 2-2 Collegiate Water Polo Association [CWPA] Southern Division) travels to Lewisburg, Pa., to face Bucknell (15-11, 2-1) for the second time in one week.
The baseball team enters play this weekend in a precarious position. There are only five weeks of Ivy League games each season, and the Tigers have already dug themselves a hole.
Sports writers discuss the men's hockey team's gut-wrenching 5-4 overtime loss to UMD at the NCAA tournament last weekend, the baseball team's recent struggles and the much-anticipated men's lacrosse matchup between No. 5 Princeton and No. 2 Syracuse at Giants Stadium on Saturday.
EAST RUTHERFORD — In a game that featured stellar play on both sides of the restraining line, the No. 5 men's lacrosse team defeated No. 2 Syracuse 12-8 in a game at Giants Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
