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.
The Hun School of Princeton sits one-and-a-half miles down the road from FitzRandolph Gate. The school has supplied Princeton with stellar athletes for decades, and one of the school’s recent graduates could go down as one of its most important contributions to Princeton athletics.
“Twenty turnovers, 18 offensive rebounds and Princeton lost to Penn.” That was head coach Sydney Johnson ’97’s quick account of what went wrong in the men’s basketball team’s 62-55 overtime loss in Jadwin Gymnasium last night. “It’s a tough time for us to lose to Penn.” Though Princeton did a lot of good things against Penn, the little things — not boxing out, not taking care of the ball — proved to be the its undoing.
To the sports editors of The Daily Pennsylvanian:The sports editors at The Daily Princetonian sincerely apologize. It is customary for our papers to exchange columns on the eve of the first Penn-Princeton basketball game of the season, and Tuesday we were unable to keep that tradition alive. Please accept our deepest regrets.
The men’s volleyball team’s two losses to the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2008 stung for two reasons. The first, a regular-season loss in Newark, N.J., included 14 NJIT aces in a close 3-2 decision; the second, in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) quarterfinals, ended Princeton’s season.
The wrestling team dropped three matches last weekend in its final road action of the season. Princeton fell 54-0 at No.
Despite posting the equalizer late in the third period, the No. 19 women?s water polo team could not keep its momentum, falling 11-9 at Maryland (3-3 overall) on Sunday evening.
Many of the members of Princeton?s current track and field team weren?t even born the last time the Tigers failed to win the Harvard-Yale-Princeton (HYP) meet.
If victory is sweet, then three consecutive national championships, another Ivy League title and an undefeated season together are a three-scoop sundae with whipped cream and a cherry on top. But the women’s squash team’s Howe Cup victory last weekend was no thrashing. After cruising through their quarterfinal showdown with Williams, the Tigers clawed out the critical games and fought back from early deficits in both the semifinal against Trinity and the final against Harvard.
The No. 17 men?s swimming and diving team?s 178-119 win over Columbia (3-4 Ivy League) on Friday afternoon at Uris Pool was the perfect end to an undefeated season.
Though both the men?s and women?s tennis teams fell short at last weekend?s ECAC Championship, they proved that they will be formidable competitors in the upcoming Ivy League season.While the women?s team met with success early before being edged out by Yale, the men?s team suffered an early setback to Boston College before rebounding to defeat Dartmouth in the consolation match.The ECAC Championship represented an opportunity for both teams to watch their Ivy League rivals and see how they will fare in league play.?Generally, my teammates and I see this tournament as an opportunity to scout out the other Ivy League teams and to test ourselves in competitive matches against some of our biggest rivals,? freshman Hilary Bartlett said.
If Saturday?s men?s volleyball match had been a Valentine?s Day date, then the first game would have been the flowers: a nice gift from the Tigers to the visiting Rutgers-Newark Scarlet Raiders.
Though the women?s basketball team looked pretty in pink, it performed with mixed results against Yale and Brown this weekend at Jadwin Gymnasium.
If last weekend was picture-perfect for the men?s basketball team, then this weekend was a big sledgehammer that shattered it.Princeton (9-10 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) fell 60-48 to Yale (9-13, 4-4) and 61-43 to Brown (7-15, 1-7). These were painful results for the Tigers, who were riding a seven-game winning streak and had recently upset Ivy League favorite Cornell.
It was a successful weekend for the women?s hockey team, which defeated Clarkson and St. Lawrence to move into fourth place in its conference.
Despite great play from the entire ladder, the men?s squash team was unable to topple Trinity, the nation?s top-ranked squash team.
The men?s hockey team faced off against two of the hottest teams in its conference over the weekend, splitting games against Clarkson and St.
I’ve had tomorrow’s date, Feb. 14, in my AIM status for more than a month. No, I haven’t been counting down the seconds to Valentine’s Day, though I have been anticipating that as well. But ever since the New York Giants broke down against the Philadelphia Eagles — ever since their title defense vanished into the stiff Meadowlands breeze — I’ve consoled myself with the thought that pitchers and catchers would report to spring training soon.
The men’s basketball team is having its best start to an Ivy League season since the 2003-04 campaign. Two wins this weekend would give the Tigers (9-8 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) their first 6-0 start in conference play since 1999. If the Tigers can continue their current hot streak, their 2008-09 season will be forever remembered as a season of redemption.
