With two seconds left in overtime and the women?s water polo team still tied with Bucknell, sophomore utility Helen Meigs launched a perfect lob shot from five meters that sailed over the opposing goalie and hit the back of the net at the buzzer.
After racing in Orlando last weekend, the No. 1 women?s lightweight crew brought the Sunshine State?s pleasantly warm weather home for Saturday?s Class of 2006 Cup.
It was not supposed to end this way.The men?s volleyball team was supposed to go to the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) Championship game and maybe even to the NCAA tournament.
The women?s lacrosse coaches? display of electric intensity as they hollered at one another over the lacrosse stick being examined by the referees was only a fraction of the intensity shown on the field.
Hundreds of track athletes from around the Northeast arrived at Princeton?s Larry Ellis Invitational on Friday and Saturday, with many hoping to turn in a new personal record or qualify for the NCAA regionals.
Undefeated in Ivy League play heading into consecutive weekend series with Penn and Cornell, the softball team seemed primed to run away with the Ivy League title.
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.
Tune into the Daily Princetonian's sports blog for live updates on today's men's lacrosse, women's lacrosse and men's volleyball contests.
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.
