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.
The women’s water polo team notched a 1-2 record in its games at DeNunzio Pool last weekend, falling to Iona and Bucknell before rebounding with a convincing victory over George Washington.
The Tigers (7-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) traveled to New Haven, Conn., last Saturday and took down Yale (4-4, 1-2).
MINNEAPOLIS, March 28 — With one minute remaining in the NCAA West Regional semifinal between the men’s hockey team and the University of Minnesota Duluth, the scene was one of jubilation for Princeton fans at Mariucci Rink. One minute later, all they could do was sit and watch in stunned silence.
Led by a gifted group of seniors, Princeton swept its Ivy League competition and finished its perfect Ancient Eight season with a dominating performance at the Ivy League Championships from March 5 to March 7.
In most sports, a Princeton-Yale matchup is expected to be closely contested, replete with recent and historical rivalry fodder. In men’s lacrosse, however, the story is slightly different. The No. 5 Tigers (6-1 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) have not lost to the unranked Bulldogs (4-3, 1-1) since before any of the current seniors donned the orange and black jersey.
