For its final home series of 2007, the men's hockey team (5-7-0 overall, 4-4 ECAC Hockey) welcomed No.
Burning for a sweep to pull itself out of an up-and-down season, the women's hockey team set its opponents' goals on fire as soon as it hit the ice this weekend.
When No. 12 UC Berkeley visited Jadwin Gym, the women's basketball team knew it would face a battle just to stay in the game."A team of this caliber tries to put you out in the first four minutes," head coach Courtney Banghart said.
For the first seven minutes of the men's basketball team's game against Evansville on Wednesday night, it seemed as if the first team to reach 30 points was destined to win.
The men's hockey team has just two games standing between it and a three-week break from action, but the pair of games coming up this weekend will be anything but an early Christmas present.No.
The women's basketball team spent Wednesday night in Newark engaged in a battle for New Jersey.After just 15 minutes on the court, Princeton (3-6 overall) had clear control over rival New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). The winds changed in the second half, as the Highlanders (1-6), having defeated a formidable University of Maryland Baltimore County team earlier this season, appeared to be working on another upset.
Though the women's hockey team seems to dominate shooting in its matches, a season spattered with as many losses as victories clearly displays the Tigers' most fatal flaw ? accuracy.Entering the weekend two games under .500 after last week's 3-2 loss to Cornell, Princeton will look to pull itself out of a mediocre season as it travels to the Capital Region to take on Union and Rensselaer.Thus far, Princeton (5-7-2 overall, 3-5-1 ECAC Hockey) has been unsuccessful in finding the back of the net, a weakness that will cripple it in this weekend's matches if left unchecked."You obviously want to take a lot of shots, but keeping them quality is important," senior forward Marykate Oakley said.
While Princeton might not have an alumnus playing for the Harlem Globetrotters, the Tigers do have a successful globetrotting coach to call their own.
The men's ice hockey team squares off against No. 6 Notre Dame tonight at 7 p.m. at Baker Rink, looking to pull off an upset.
Four weeks into basketball season and eight weeks until the Tigers begin conference play, the Ivy League is as unpredictable as it was previously.
Hockey is a Canadian game.It may have been invented in Europe, and the world's premier league may be here in America, but those familiar with the game know the truth.Canada is the home of Wayne Gretzky, the first official ice hockey game ? played in Nova Scotia in 1886 ? and home of one of the most enjoyable and time-honored traditions in sports: the junior hockey leagues."The life of a junior hockey player is the best thing in the world," said senior captain and defenseman Mike Moore, who spent two years playing in the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL). "The teams are very community-based, tight-knit groups of guys, and everyone in town knows your name.
The cross country season may be over, but look for the same familiar distance standouts to be a force on the track this winter.
After being dominated by an Egyptian in a Tiger uniform for four years, Princeton foes are getting little rest with another foreigner leading the men's squash team.
On the nationally televised stage of Sunday Night Football, in a city where the game is a religion, in front of a sea of black and gold and high-flying Terrible Towels, Jon Dekker '06 made his long-anticipated debut in the National Football League as a Pittsburgh Steeler last weekend."I've been [on Heinz Field] for preseason games, but it's not the same," Dekker said.
The best word to describe the Bowl Championship Series match-ups in college football this season cannot be printed in a newspaper.
The New Orleans Saints, New York Knicks' head coach Isiah Thomas, Disney's Wide World of Sports and General Mill's Wheaties ? these are just a few clients that have employed Frank Vuono '78 over the years.
