The 2009 Women?s Junior World Cup in field hockey will be hosted at Harvard, where Constance Applebee introduced the game to the United States in 1901.
The sprint football team took on Cornell this past Friday at home on Powers Field. In one of the team?s best overall performances this season, the Tigers scored their first two touchdowns but came out on the losing end of a 40-14 battle.
It has been almost two years and exactly 18 league matches since the women?s volleyball team has lost in the Ivy League.
If head coach Roger Hughes had known before Saturday?s game that the Tigers would outrush Colgate, he would have felt good about the football team?s chances.
A theme has become apparent for the men?s soccer team: close losses.The Tigers were tied or held the lead for nearly 42 minutes in Saturday's game, but a Brown goal with three minutes, 18 seconds left on the clock sealed Princeton?s eighth loss of the season, 3-2.Despite two goals by sophomore midfielder Brandon Busch, the Tigers (2-8-1 overall, 0-1-1 Ivy League) fell short, allowing two second-half goals by Bears midfielder Nick Elenz-Martin.Elenz-Martin?s first came at 60:13 when the midfielder pushed a long throw-in from the far touchline into the net.
Two weeks ago, Princeton was ecstatic after a last-second Connor Louden field goal sealed a 10-7 victory over Lehigh.
The women?s soccer team, often blessed with lucky last-minute opportunities this season, was poised to pull off another heart-stopping win in the closing moments of Saturday afternoon?s game against Brown.
The men?s soccer team came close enough to victory that it could almost taste it. After 90 hard-fought minutes and three more in overtime, the Tigers just couldn?t put the icing on the cake, losing to Adelphi 2-1 in yet another hotly contested loss.After rallying to score a goal in the second half, Princeton (2-7-1 overall, 0-0-1 Ivy League) was called for fouling an attacking Panther in the box.
Colgate?s Jordan Scott is unquestionably the best running back in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), so when the Princeton football team heads to Hamilton, N.Y., for its final non-league game of the season against Colgate (3-2 overall), the Tigers will have to be perfect on both sides of the ball to come away with a victory.The Tigers (2-1, 1-0 Ivy League) are coming off an exciting win in their Ivy opener at Columbia, in which senior quarterback and tri-captain Brian Anderson capped a sensational afternoon with a 52-yard bomb to up-and-coming sophomore wideout Trey Peacock for the go-ahead score late in the fourth quarter.
Fresh off last Saturday?s dominating victory over Penn in its first Ivy League matchup, the women?s volleyball team is looking to stay undefeated in league play as it travels to Columbia and Cornell this weekend.
Beating Brown ? which was recently ranked No. 19 in the College Soccer News poll ? is one of the hardest things an Ivy League soccer team can do.
If there is one thing the No. 15 men?s water polo team has learned in the past two weeks, it?s that the Tigers can hang with just about anyone.
Perhaps more impressive than the women?s soccer team?s seven-game unbeaten streak is that the team keeps finding ways to improve with each win.
Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment?A: The first day of practice freshman year, coach sat [senior] Drew Maliniak and I down during a team lunch and started talking about the next few years.
The landscape of Ivy League football seems a little topsy-turvy right now. In a wild first round of league play, the two favorites to capture the Ivy League crown ? Yale and Harvard ? were toppled by Cornell and Brown, respectively.
Editor?s note: This is the eighth and final in a series of postcards that Daily Princetonian sports staff writers and others wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.
As the women?s volleyball team seeks to repeat its historic 14-0 Ivy League-winning 2007 season, the Tigers have the advantage of returning most of their starting players ? except one.
With a maximum capacity of 1,500, Princeton University?s Dillon Gym isn?t what one would consider the most luxurious of sporting venues.
Anderson wins Ivy League Co-Offensive Player of the Week honorIf anyone who?s witnessed the football team in recent weeks believes they?ve just seen the spitting image of former quarterback Jeff Terrell ?07, they don?t necessarily need to have their vision checked.
Editor?s Note: Look for more articles in the coming months featuring Princeton?s club and intramural sports teams.
