Sports writers discuss the baseball team's huge four-game weekend against Columbia and the No. 2 men's lacrosse team's showdown with No. 17 Harvard.
As the No. 7 women’s lacrosse team is on a roll, having racked up seven straight wins this season, it’s easy to overlook one of the Tigers’ longer streaks: Princeton has not dropped a game against Harvard since the NCAA tournament in 1992. Both are streaks the Tigers are eager to protect this weekend.
On Feb. 7, the men’s volleyball team tasted the sweetest victory in a 15-13 fifth-set win over St. Francis. Thursday night at Dillon Gymnasium, Princeton tasted the exact opposite.St. Francis (14-12 overall, 7-5 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tait Division) fought off a late Princeton (9-10, 3-7) rally for a 22-30, 30-26, 30-26, 30-22, 15-13 victory.
The softball team hopes that the Lions it faces this weekend will prove to be toothless. After stumbling out of the gates against the Ivy League’s North Division, Princeton (8-14 overall, 3-5 Ivy League) is intent on righting itself against Columbia (12-20, 2-6) in a four-game homestand that begins this Saturday.
Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment?A: I gave up 21 runs in my first 10 innings as a freshman, and after a pretty bad inning at Western Carolina, [head coach Scott Bradley] told me in front of the team that, believe it or not, there had actually been worse starts to a Princeton career than mine.
Dust off that glove, pop some sunflower seeds, go watch “Field of Dreams” and head to the ballpark, ’cause it’s baseball season.
The men’s lacrosse team has seen an offensive resurgence this year that is beginning to conjure up memories of past championship teams. A complementary player his first three years, senior midfielder Rich Sgalardi, tied for first on the team with 31 points on the season, has been at the forefront of the team’s renewed offense.
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.
