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.
There was no child?s play at the misleadingly named Childs Cup. In a riveting race, the men?s heavyweight crew ? which won last year by a margin of more than 10 seconds ? beat Columbia and Penn on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia to defend its prize.
Mike Scioscia, manager of the 2002 World Series champion Anaheim Angels, espoused a baseball rationale known as ?small ball.? The tactic emphasizes getting runners on base, moving them over and driving them in, one step at a time ? more commonly ?get?em on, get?em over, get?em in.? The softball team has benefited from many home runs this season, but the small-ball approach and an emphasis on each play are the reasons for its 12-0 Ivy League start.Princeton (13-19 overall, 12-0 Ivy League) completed a home-and-home doubleheader series against the Columbia Lions (12-23, 3-9), sweeping all four games.
The silverware for the men?s hockey team just keeps piling up.Senior forward Landis Stankievech was recently named winner of the 2008 Lowe?s Senior CLASS Award, adding to his impressive stable of individual awards.
The men?s and women?s tennis teams had colorful weekends as they both faced off against the Dartmouth Big Green and the Harvard Crimson.
Personal record. Career best. Phrases such as these lead many to think of track as an individual sport.
After a slow and steady first half, the women?s lacrosse team used a second-half streak to turn a 9-8 contest into an 18-9 landslide.
While the men's lacrosse team typically relies on big saves and big shots to win close contests, it also got help from a mid-afternoon downpour en route to a key Ivy League victory.
The highlight of this season was probably the men?s volleyball team?s March 1 home win over No.
After preserving its winning streak in a close match against Yale last weekend, the women?s lacrosse team will be on the road tomorrow to face Harvard in Cambridge, Mass.
