The Tigers (13-3, 6-1 Ivy League) had fought hard to close the gap on a five-point deficit and bring the game to 7-5 in less than three minutes before ultimately falling to the Terps 20-12.
The track and field team seems to be peaking at the right time, with 21 Tigers recording personal bests Saturday, as the season enters its final phase.
In the final weeks of the spring crew season, all of Princeton’s boats are gearing up for the Eastern Sprints Championship.
For 15 years, from 1992 to 2006, Ivy League lacrosse was largely dominated by one team: Princeton. In that decade and a half, the Tigers nabbed 13 Ivy Championships, six national championships and a myriad of accompanying individual honors.
As both lightweight crews take the weekend off to train, the men?s heavyweight and women?s open boats will take to the water.Rowing at home on Lake Carnegie, the men?s heavyweights will take on Brown in the annual Content Cup on Saturday.
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.
