The men?s and women?s tennis teams stayed busy this weekend with two matches apiece, both facing off against Brown and Yale.
On a bad day, the typical golfer may find himself trapped in the sand or caught in the rough. On Friday, however, the men?s golf team was stuck in a different place ? indoors.
Looking at the box score, the women?s lacrosse team seems to have scored a clean 9-6 win over Ivy rival Yale.
For the first time this season, the softball team has strung together a series of wins, gaining momentum for the rest of its Ivy season.
The women?s lacrosse team remained undefeated halfway through its season after dominating Columbia in New York on Wednesday.
After a disappointing loss to Monmouth on Wednesday night, the baseball team returns to Ivy League play this weekend with back-to-back doubleheaders against Yale and Brown.
On the first Saturday in April last year, the men?s lacrosse team faced a Syracuse squad far different from the team it will battle tomorrow.
Fore! Watch out! The Princeton women?s golf team was taking everyone out at the Hoya Women?s Invitational tournament as it secured its first tournament win of the spring season Tuesday in Beallsville, Md.Not only did the Tigers win the team title, but junior Susannah Aboff beat out Rollins College?s Joanna Coe by two strokes, winning her second-straight individual title.
In 1869, Princeton invented America?s most popular sport, football, when it allowed ?blocking? in a match against Rutgers.
Having a nearly month-long break in the middle of the season makes it easy for a team to lose focus and lose sight of its goal.
It?s been three long years, but my Tar Heels are finally going back to the Final Four!It?s not that I?m giddy just because my roommate now owes me a whole sandwich from Hoagie Haven (we bet half a hoagie on whether the Heels would make the Final Four, plus the half he already owes me after I picked Tailor Made to win ?I Love New York? season two). But when you grow up in North Carolina, you learn to pick a shade of blue (or red if you?re a loser and like NC State) ? and bleed that color for life.
In the classic baseball movie ?Bull Durham,? Crash Davis, an impetuous veteran of the minor leagues, tells Ebby Calvin LaLoosh, a promising rookie who Davis takes under his wing, that America?s favorite pastime is ?a very simple game.
Three weeks came and went between the men?s volleyball team?s tough loss to Penn State and its contest last night against New York University.
If you ask freshman Graham Ezzy how he spends his summers, you will likely receive an unassuming response about windsurfing or traveling.
Fresh off a tight 8-7 victory over Virginia and a 19-10 thrashing of Cornell last weekend, the women?s lacrosse team (7-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) is currently on a roll.
Q: What was your welcome to college moment?A: Every year all of the incoming freshmen on the lacrosse team go to Princeton?s summer lacrosse camp, which is partially staffed by many of the current players.
One might have looked at the weather for the baseball team?s game against Monmouth yesterday and thought, ?When it rains, it pours.?You could almost say the same thing about the scoreline.Monmouth (8-8 overall) boasts a relentless lineup that produced 44 runs in its three most recent games ? all victories ? before facing the Tigers (10-12, 2-2 Ivy League). Princeton gave the Hawks a run for their money, piling up eight runs in the first four innings before the bats went cold, allowing Monmouth to come back for an 11-8 victory.?They kind of got runs throughout the whole game,? head coach Scott Bradley said.
Both Princeton women?s crews turned heads at their opening races this weekend, defeating key opponents at home and on the West Coast.
Certain things are revered as part of the American culture ? baseball, apple pie, hot dogs and F-22s ? but then there are things so foreign that Americans neither understand nor care about them.?That?s why we decided to make a cricket team,? Paul O?Malley ?09 said.
