The phrase “keeping it in the family” frequently refers to dirty dealings and nefarious schemes, not high school athletics. For the Slovenskis of Brunswick, Maine, however, it applies to the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference pole-vault record.
He is the biggest story in sports these days. After a report last Friday by Sports Illustrated’s Selena Roberts, Alex “A-Roid” Rodriguez, the biggest superstar in baseball, publicly admitted to taking steroids.
After starting its season with six games on the road, the men’s volleyball team returned to the friendly confines of Dillon Gymnasium to play NYU last night. Much like the many fans who arrived late, it took Princeton a while to get started before the team rallied for a 3-1 victory over the Violets (2-9).
Many teams take years to start competing with the best teams in the country. This hasn’t been the case with the Princeton StarCraft team. The newly formed student group Smashcraft Heroes played its first match in the Collegiate StarCraft League — StarCraft’s equivalent of the NCAA — last Saturday.
The women?s basketball team struck back in the Empire State last weekend, rebounding from a pair of heartbreaking losses to Dartmouth and Harvard to defeat both Cornell and Columbia on the road.
At the Princeton Open last Saturday, several regional programs were featured. Yet the track meet quickly turned into a demonstration of Tiger dominance in nearly every event.
At the Ivy League ?South? Competition at Columbia on Sunday, the men?s fencing team defeated Harvard but lost to Penn, 15-12.
The women?s water polo team started its 2009 season by crushing Mercyhurst and Villanova at DeNunzio Pool this weekend.
Last season, the women’s squash team lost two matches in the regular season before winning the team’s second consecutive national championship. This year, Princeton played a perfect season, winning the Ivy League title over the weekend. The men's team also captured its fourth-straight Ancient Eight championship this past weekend.
The wrestling team lost 32-9 to Harvard and 41-3 to Brown in a dual meet in Dillon Gymnasium last Saturday.
After losing 30-28 in the second set against St. Francis on Saturday, the men?s volleyball team faced the possibility of getting swept in the first two Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) games of the match.
The men?s basketball team put together its best weekend in a very long time, shocking Ivy League rival Cornell 61-41 on Friday and demolishing Columbia 63-35 on Saturday.Princeton (9-8 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) headed into halftime with a nine-point lead over Cornell (15-7, 5-1), but with 15 minutes, 24 seconds left in the game, Big Red center Jeff Foote scored on a layup to close the gap to 34-31.
The men?s and women?s swimming and diving teams continued their undefeated seasons last Saturday, with the women?s team capping off a perfect season with a 156-123 defeat of Columbia (8-2 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) and the men extending their streak to seven this year with a slim 155.5-145.5 defeat of Navy (17-2 overall).Women roll over Lions
It?s a good thing the men?s hockey team isn?t superstitious.The pivotal conference showdown against No.
It was a bittersweet regular-season home finale for the seniors of the women?s hockey team on Saturday, as their final game on Baker Rink ended in a tie instead of a win.After posting a convincing 3-1 victory over Colgate on Friday and the 2-2 tie against the Big Red on Saturday, Princeton (14-9-2 overall, 11-6-1 ECAC Hockey) moved into a tie for fourth place in the ECAC standings.
The wrestling team enters the home stretch of its season this weekend with an Ivy League tri-meet at Dillon Gymnasium, when the Tigers (2-11 overall, 1-3 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association) host Harvard (1-8, 0-0) and Brown (0-4, 0-0) on Saturday.As was the case last season, Princeton has been spread thin by injuries.
Coming off a tough loss to Brown on Saturday, the women?s hockey team looks to bounce back this weekend at home against conference foes Colgate and Cornell.
The women?s basketball team (6-11 overall, 1-2 Ivy League) is ready to pick up the pieces after losses last weekend to Harvard (10-7, 2-1) and Dartmouth (8-9, 3-0) by scores of 82-73 and 71-67, respectively.
The men?s hockey team has struggled in 2009, but with a critical two-game road trip to upstate New York looming this weekend, the Tigers have a beautiful opportunity to reassert themselves as one of ECAC Hockey?s toughest teams to beat.
Not since 2004 has the men?s basketball team strung together five consecutive wins. Not since 2004 has the Ivy League Championship banner been raised in the rafters.
