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.
His freshman year at Princeton, junior running back Jordan Culbreath was a walk-on to the football team.
The women?s soccer team extended its unbeaten streak to seven games Tuesday afternoon as it steamrolled American, 4-0, in Washington, D.C.
It?s official. I hate fantasy football.
Senior co-captain Susannah Aboff added another individual title to her name, and the women?s golf team came back in a big way after an undistinguished showing at the Johnie Imes Invitational, winning the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championship by an impressive 16-shot margin at the Kiskiack Golf Club in Williamsburg, Va.Aboff has been a consistent performer this season, having notched the top finish among the Tigers in each of their four tournaments this season.
After two challenges this weekend, the field hockey team remains unscathed in the Ivy League and poised for a strong second half.
This past week the women?s tennis team sent three players to attempt to qualify for the Riviera/ITA Women?s All-American Championships.
