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.
The softball team’s Ivy League title defense is hitting the road for the first time this weekend. Its show opened to mixed reviews last weekend, as the Tigers split doubleheaders with both Yale and Brown. A week of solid practice has the star-studded cast aiming for a clean sweep against Ivy North co-leaders Harvard and Dartmouth.
Coming off strong wins against Cornell and Columbia, the women’s lacrosse team will head to New Haven, Conn., this weekend to play rival Yale in Princeton’s third Ivy League game of the season.
The men?s lacrosse team?s year so far has gone almost as well as anyone could have imagined.
The No. 7 women?s lacrosse team overcame sloppy weather and sloppy play to outdo a feisty Columbia (5-4 overall, 0-3 Ivy League), 15-5, on Wednesday evening at Class of 1952 Stadium.Though Princeton (8-1, 2-0) won by 10 goals, the game was closer than that for most of the night.The score was knotted at one more than eight minutes into the matchup when senior attack Christine Casaceli forced a turnover.
After the first weekend of Ivy League play in baseball, Princeton has the best overall record of the Ancient Eight at 8-10.
From a professional standpoint, there are two advantages for John Calipari ? the former men?s basketball head coach at the University of Memphis ? taking the head coaching job at the University of Kentucky: more money and more tradition.
Princeton’s golfers seem to be shaking the rust off quickly, however, as they finished second overall at the Hoya Invitational.
When the men’s volleyball team faced NYU nearly two months ago, it struggled to an ugly 3-1 win at Dillon Gymnasium.
Last night, Princeton (8-10 overall, 1-3 Ivy League) fell to Monmouth (11-10) by a 12-3 margin. The Tigers have scored three or fewer runs in four of the last five games, and they are currently on a three-game skid.
Before the volunteer could finish his sentence — “If your favorite color is green…” — half a dozen 3- to 7-year-olds in brightly colored swimming gear were propelling themselves across the water of the Dillon Gymnasium Pool. Such was the scene during the last day of the women’s swimming and diving team’s “SPLASH: Swim Safe Week” last Thursday.
For sports fans, the most enduring images often are of moments of greatest defeat. And after the men’s hockey team’s heartbreaking 5-4 overtime loss to the University of Minnesota Duluth in its NCAA West Regional semifinal, I have a new image burned into the back of my skull.
Coming off an impressive 3-0 win over Harvard on March 13, the men’s volleyball team was no match for defending national champion No. 8 Penn State on Friday at University Park, Pa.
When asked to evaluate the softball team’s first weekend of Ivy League play, head coach Trina Salcido didn’t mince words.“I think we’re playing poorly,” Salcido said minutes after Princeton (7-11 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) dropped a 2-1 game against Brown (5-13, 1-3) to split their doubleheader on Sunday. The day before, the Tigers split a pair of 3-2 games against Yale (10-12, 1-1).
The women’s tennis team made a statement to the rest of the Ivy League on Saturday by earning a 7-0 sweep of Penn. The No. 48 Tigers (13-6 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) dominated the Quakers throughout the majority of the match and pulled out several close sets at crucial moments.
A light headwind swept down Lake Carnegie on Saturday morning as the open crew lined up to start the day’s races. The women hosted Brown, the defending NCAA champion, and Michigan on Princeton’s home course. The first varsity women defeated Brown by open water but fell short to a strong Michigan boat that won by about a length.
The baseball team’s performance during its four-game series at Clarke Field against Yale and Brown last weekend mirrored the weather.
The No. 7 women’s lacrosse team eventually managed a blowout 15-8 win over Cornell in its Ivy League opener on Saturday.
