Sports

Serving up the 'sauce' before the 'top-cheese'

Of all the major sports, hockey's terminology is probably the most nuanced and foreign to mainstream observers, in large part due to the preponderance of Canadian-born skaters.To help bridge the gap, The Daily Princetonian sat down with some of the members of the men's hockey team to put together a two-part compendium of terms every fan should know.

Skating with the Squirts

Most college students do not spend what precious little free time they have playing laser tag and pond hockey with fourth and fifth graders, but Ian McNally and Colin Koch are not most college students.

Tigers top Terps in thriller

This weekend was all tennis all the time for the Tigers, as the men's and women's teams took on two opponents each.

On tap with ... Greg Seaman

Sophomore Greg Seaman, a midfielder on the men's lacrosse team, sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss his life beyond the playing field.

4x400 finish secures Heps win for men

The men's and women's track and field teams ran out of their shoes this weekend ? literally, in one case.

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Depth key as Princeton wins EISL

There's nothing like the emotional high of defeating a close rival. Mimicking the women's win over Harvard for the Ivy League title one week prior, the men's swimming and diving team continued its league dominance by capturing its second consecutive Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) title over Harvard, 1405 to 1220.5, a feat that hadn't been repeated since the 1990-1992 seasons.Entering the meet, the Tigers understood the challenge they faced.

Men finish third in Ivy League after split at Ivy North tourney

This past weekend, crowds of people in Boston, Mass., were entertained for a couple of hours by weapons and bodies flying through the air.

No. 5 Nittany Lions roar past Tigers

Third time's the charm? Not so for the men's volleyball team. While the Tigers kept up with No. 5 Penn State much better in the third game than in the first, the learning curve was too high Friday as the Tigers fell in straight games on their home court.The Nittany Lions (8-2 overall, 4-0 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) demonstrated why they are heavily favored to take the EIVA's Tait Division championship this season, coming into the match with all the momentum of a seven-match winning streak behind them.

Trinity too much for Tigers

A trinity usually means a group of three ? but that understates how many times the Bantams have had the Tigers' number in recent history.The Ivy League champion men's squash team (10-2 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) defeated Williams and archrival Harvard in the first two rounds of the Potter Cup this weekend to advance to Sunday's national championship match.The Tigers' run ended there, however, as top-ranked Trinity College (21-0 overall) once again proved its supremacy by shutting out Princeton to capture its ninth-straight national title.

Princeton starts year with rout

In a young season where many of lacrosse's big guns have already fallen ? then-No.1 Virginia to Drexel, No.

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Tigers fall from ECACHL quarters

In the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League (ECACHL) quarterfinals this past weekend, the Colgate women's hockey team traveled to Princeton and enacted sweet revenge over the Tigers.A week ago, the Tigers (16-11-3 overall, 14-6-2 ECACHL) successfully defeated both Colgate (16-14-2, 14-6-2) and Cornell (4-23-2, 4-17-1), securing fourth place in the league and the home-ice advantage for the quarterfinals, outranking fifth-place Colgate by one point.But the Raiders had the last laugh, as they took the first two games of the series, 1-0 and 3-2, at Baker rink on Friday and Saturday.Both of the games were hotly contested, as the teams battled back and forth, attempting to find the back of the net.

M. hoops drops two more road Ivy contests

Throughout the Ivy League season, the men's basketball team (11-4 overall, 2-9 Ivy League) has shown it can compete with anyone in the league ? for part of the game.

Ballers avenge Dartmouth loss

Revenge is sweet. Such a sentiment, surely repugnant to moralists, nonetheless rings true in the world of sports.

Team sweeps league's top two

"It's not how you start ? it's how you finish."The old sports adage neatly sums up this year's men's hockey squad, which wrapped up its regular season this weekend in fine fashion.

Speed makes Shields a danger in two sports

Unlike with the "chicken or the egg" dilemma, there does actually exist an answer for senior Brian Shields' dichotomy of sports: football or track and field?

Princeton aims to snap losing streak

Losing streaks happen to every team, at all levels of play. The need to avoid them is a given, but it is the manner in which a team breaks such a streak that shows its true colors.This weekend the women's basketball team (10-13 overall, 4-5 Ivy League) faces a challenge in its quest to break a four-game losing streak.

No. 4 Tigers welcome Canisius

The men's lacrosse team has won 13 of the last 15 Ivy League Championships. It has won six of the last 15 national championships.

Colgate visits for quarterfinals

In deciding who gets the home-ice advantage for the women's ECACHL quarterfinals, fifth place is the first loser.The women's hockey team (16-10-3 overall, 14-6-2 Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League) defeated both Colgate (15-14-2, 14-7-1) and Cornell (4-23-2, 4-17-1) last weekend, securing the coveted fourth-place spot in the ECACHL rankings and home ice for this weekend's ECACHL quarterfinals.Going into their weekend games, the Tigers, who were in fifth place, knew that they had to take both games to move up in the rankings.