As its season winds down, the men?s lacrosse team faces new adversity on a daily basis. The Tigers have found themselves in a must-win situation going into tomorrow?s game against No.
Shaken from its first defeat of the season at the hands of No. 6 Penn on Wednesday, the women?s lacrosse team will return to Class of 1952 Stadium on Saturday to face the only other Ivy League team that has beaten them at home since the 1991 season: Dartmouth.
As the New England Patriots learned this past February, perfection is not an easy standard to maintain.
Princeton (17-19 overall, 12-0 Ivy League) took a break from the pressure of maintaining a perfect Ivy League record yesterday as it traveled to Villanova (15-21-1) for its annual doubleheader against the Wildcats.
To misquote Yogi Berra, 90 percent of the game is physical. The other half is math.In 2002, the Red Sox management, including Larry Lucchino ?67, the team?s president and CEO, hired sabermetrician Bill James as a senior baseball operations advisor.
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If the men?s volleyball team (11-9 overall, 6-6 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tait Division) has a favorite book, it must be Robert Louis Stevenson?s ?The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.? At the very least, this oft-read classic is rather symbolic of Princeton?s rollercoaster season.
When you come from the Delbarton School ? which has produced dozens of great lacrosse players, most recently Princeton senior All-Americans Alex Hewit and Dan Cocoziello ? are named the lacrosse state player of the year in a high school lacrosse hotbed and are ranked the No.
As the buzzer sounded on the women?s lacrosse team?s 9-5 loss to Penn, the Quakers screamed in triumph and surrounded their fiercest, most impressive player of the night: goalie Sarah Waxman.
Leave it to a Princeton alum to discover that the world of Canadian professional sports extends beyond hockey.
Each season, every team has a make-or-break weekend. For the baseball team, that weekend has come, in the form of a four-game series against Ivy League rival Penn (12-15-1 overall, 4-7-1 Ivy League).In the pair of doubleheaders the Tigers (14-17, 6-6) will play at Clarke Field on Saturday and Sunday, they will attempt to break their habit of splitting weekend series.
There?s only so many times I can wait in line for a machine in Stephens Fitness Center without becoming overwhelmingly bored with watching other people run, bike and ellipticalize (I don?t think English has a real word for what you do on an elliptical machine). And though it may be tempting to dismiss this problem, the bottom line is that overcrowding will not fix itself.
The baseball team received solid pitching from sophomore Langford Stuber and a quartet of freshman relievers yesterday afternoon but was unable to overcome an early deficit in an 8-4 loss to in-state rival Seton Hall (20-13 overall) at Clarke Field.
Of Princeton?s many nationally competitive teams, fans ought not forget the Table Tennis Club, which again neared the national title this year.Junior Adam Hugh led Princeton to the finals of the team competition, in which the Tigers fell to Texas Wesleyan for the third consecutive year.
After three months of early-morning conditioning and three weeks of practice, the football team finally took to Powers Field at Princeton Stadium on Saturday afternoon for its annual Spring Game.
Since 1991, the women?s lacrosse team has not lost an Ivy League match at home to any team besides Dartmouth.
The women?s water polo team had a tough weekend on the road, splitting its last two games of the regular season by clinching an important 10-6 win against George Washington but falling 12-9 to a strong Maryland squad.
All good things must come to an end, or at least they did for the women?s golf team. After sweeping the 14-team Hoya Invitational, the Tigers seemed poised to be major players during the Ivy League Championship.
No Princeton team is more deserving of complementary frequent-flyer miles than the women?s crew.
The baseball team continued to live and die by the bat in its four-game series against Columbia this weekend, exploding for 23 runs in a doubleheader sweep on Saturday before cooling off at the plate in a pair of Sunday losses.
