Down on match point in the fourth game against Juniata, the men?s volleyball team reeled off six straight points to win the fourth game and take a 3-0 lead in the deciding fifth.
The track and field team has been so dominant in recent meets that the coaches decided to sit out some of their top athletes on Sunday to give the other schools a chance.Actually, the Princeton Invitational served as a final tuneup before next weekend?s Heptagonal Championships at Harvard, where the eight Ivy League schools will compete for the indoor title.
After two weeks, two cities and a combined 297 bouts, Princeton fencing is back on the map. The men and women?s teams concluded their regular seasons on Sunday at the second half of the Ivy League Fencing Round-Robin Championship, also known as the Ivy ?North? Competition, held at Brown.
The wrestling team finished its season on an optimistic note last Saturday. While the Tigers (2-18 overall, 2-14 Ivy League) fell 37-7 to Boston University (7-8) and 24-19 to Sacred Heart, they were forced to forfeit in the 133-pound and 141-pound brackets in both matches.
Playing in front of a standing-room-only crowd, the No. 10 Tigers (20-7-0 overall, 14-6-0 ECAC Hockey) rode the stellar play of junior goalie Zane Kalemba to a thrilling 2-0 shutout win against No. 7 Yale (19-6-2, 14-4-2). The win over the Bulldogs came a day after Princeton cruised to a 4-1 victory over ECAC cellar-dweller Brown (3-20-4, 3-14-3).
One night after snapping a three-game losing streak with a 58-55 victory over Harvard (11-13 overall, 3-7 Ivy League), Princeton (10-12, 5-4) ran out to a 25-14 lead over the Big Green (8-16, 6-4). The Tigers pushed their lead to 13 points with eight minutes, 22 seconds remaining when junior center Zach Finley found junior guard Marcus Schroeder on a great backdoor cut for an easy layup.
The men’s lacrosse team played a strong third quarter in its season opener against Canisius, changing the course of the game by scoring eight goals to the Golden Griffins’ one in Princeton’s 14-6 victory.
The women’s hockey team ended its regular season on a high note, defeating Yale 4-1 and Brown 3-0 this weekend to finish third in the ECAC Hockey conference. Because of its ranking, the team will receive a home series in the quarterfinals of the ECAC championship tournament. This best-of-three series against Rensselaer (16-13-4 overall, 11-8-3 ECAC Hockey) will begin Friday at Baker Rink.
The women’s basketball team fought until the end against both Harvard and Dartmouth on the road last weekend, ultimately losing both games.
It was billed as a clash of the titans, the squash equivalent of “The Godfather: Part II.” Once again, the men’s squash team was left feeling like Fredo Corleone as Princeton fell 5-4 to Trinity in the College Squash Association national championship match on Sunday at Jadwin.
The men's squash team fell to Trinity 5-4 on Sunday evening in the College Squash Association's national championship match. This marked the fourth consecutive year in which the Tigers and the Bantams have faced off for the national title. The Bantams posed a familiar and formidable opponent, as the two teams squared off last weekend in a match that the Bantams won 5-4. Trinity has now prevailed in 202 straight matches and has won the national title 11 years in a row.
Correction appended With seedings in both the ECAC and NCAA playoffs at stake, the importance of Princeton?s home games against Brown and Yale this weekend cannot be stressed enough.
Sitting at 1-1 after the first round of the Ivy League competition two weekends ago, the No. 9 Princeton men?s fencing team looks to capture its first Ivy League title in eight years this weekend.
After a disappointing 62-55 overtime loss to Penn on Tuesday evening, the men?s basketball team will face off against Ivy League opponents Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend.
The men?s lacrosse team will open its 2009 season against traditional opening-day opponent Canisius (0-1) on Saturday.
The NBA trade deadline is today, but several teams have already shot themselves in the foot. This time of the year, trade rumors spread like wildfire, and NBA analysts speculate on what might or might not happen. They get you fired up, and then they let you down.
Though they hail from vastly different parts of the globe — Mexico, Malaysia and Egypt, respectively — the trio of Mauricio Sanchez, Kimlee Wong and Hesham El Halaby feel most at home in one location: the squash courts of Jadwin Gymnasium.
One match rarely changes the course of a sport, but last Saturday’s Princeton-Trinity squash match may have done just that.
Most siblings, no matter how well they claim to get along, have relationships characterized by healthy degrees of rivalry. Whether it’s in the classroom, on the playing field or in a household game of Monopoly, brothers and sisters always look for ways to get a leg up on their competition.
