The No. 8-ranked women's hockey team needed some late-game heroics in both of its weekend contests, a 2-1 win over Clarkson (9-3-1 overall, 4-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League) and a 1-1 tie with St.
Brown-Columbia: The Crowning MomentThe Ivy League football championship trophy was at Wien Stadium in New York City this Saturday, waiting on the result of the game between Brown (9-1 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) and Columbia (2-8, 0-7). Needing only one more victory to claim the coveted prize, the Bears controlled their own destiny and delivered easily by beating the Lions, 52-21.Senior running back Nick Hartigan, the Ivy League's leading rusher and a finalist for the Walter Payton Award, had an outstanding game.
Ivy League footballers have reason to be glad that this year's season is over, because only now can they avoid one particularly dangerous Tiger.With the help of a 100-plus yard field goal return for a touchdown by senior cornerback Jay McCareins ? yet another game-changing play in a season where McCareins could fill a highlight reel with his own spectacular performances ? Princeton's football team (7-3 overall, 5-2 Ivy League) capped off an unexpectedly successful season with a 30-0 shutout of Dartmouth (2-8, 1-6) in Hanover, N.H.
Playing two of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Hockey League's top five teams this weekend, the men's hockey team displayed a flair for the dramatic, but it still came home from upstate New York with two losses.Princeton (2-6 overall, 1-5-0 ECACHL) forced Friday night's game against Clarkson into overtime and on Saturday night stayed with St.
Playing two of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Hockey League's top five teams this weekend, the men's hockey team displayed a flair for the dramatic, but it still came home from upstate New York with two losses.Princeton (2-6 overall, 1-5-0 ECACHL) forced Friday night's game against Clarkson into overtime and on Saturday night stayed with St.
Brown-Columbia: The Crowning MomentThe Ivy League football championship trophy was at Wien Stadium in New York City this Saturday, waiting on the result of the game between Brown (9-1 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) and Columbia (2-8, 0-7). Needing only one more victory to claim the coveted prize, the Bears controlled their own destiny and delivered easily by beating the Lions, 52-21.Senior running back Nick Hartigan, the Ivy League's leading rusher and a finalist for the Walter Payton Award, had an outstanding game.
Ivy League footballers have reason to be glad that this year's season is over, because only now can they avoid one particularly dangerous Tiger.With the help of a 100-plus yard field goal return for a touchdown by senior cornerback Jay McCareins ? yet another game-changing play in a season where McCareins could fill a highlight reel with his own spectacular performances ? Princeton's football team (7-3 overall, 5-2 Ivy League) capped off an unexpectedly successful season with a 30-0 shutout of Dartmouth (2-8, 1-6) in Hanover, N.H.
After a dismal shooting performance in the first half of the women's basketball team's game against St.
Anyone in attendance at the women's volleyball team's last match of 2005 at Penn on Wednesday must have felt like they were watching an instructional video on setting the ball.
If the result of past meetings are the basis for predicting the outcome of the women's basketball game against St.
"Being a blind climber is kind of like being a Jamaican bobsledder," Erik Weihenmayer joked.
Anyone in attendance at the women's volleyball team's last match of 2005 at Penn on Wednesday must have felt like they were watching an instructional video on setting the ball.
After being knocked out in the first round of the Preseason NIT, the men's basketball team will have almost a full week of practice before returning to the court to work on the many mistakes the team made in Monday's loss to Drexel.On Sunday, the Tigers (0-1) will see if the long practice time paid off, as they travel to Bethlehem, Pa., to take on Lehigh (1-2).Princeton certainly has plenty to improve upon.
With a season resume that boasts an early-season win at the Fordham Invitational, finishes of fifth and seventh at the Griak and Pre-National Invitationals, decisive victories over Harvard and Yale, a runner-up finish at Ivy League Heptagonals and a convincing victory last week at NCAA Regional Championships, women's cross country has already achieved most of its ambitious preseason goals.
"The neat thing about football," Princeton head coach Roger Hughes said Wednesday, "is that you get to wipe the ugly taste out of your mouth from last week and get to put a better taste in your mouth."It's hard to imagine that only seven days could rid Princeton (6-3 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) of the bitter taste left by last weekend's punch-in-the-stomach defeat ? tragic not only in the way the team lost but also in the magnitude of the defeat.But with a matchup against Dartmouth (2-7, 1-5) looming Saturday, and with second place in the Ivy League still up for grabs, the Tigers have no choice but to move on.
"Being a blind climber is kind of like being a Jamaican bobsledder," Erik Weihenmayer joked.
In America, field hockey is undoubtedly a women's game, but last weekend, the Princeton club field hockey team was forced to turn to a man to save its season.
With a season resume that boasts an early-season win at the Fordham Invitational, finishes of fifth and seventh at the Griak and Pre-National Invitationals, decisive victories over Harvard and Yale, a runner-up finish at Ivy League Heptagonals and a convincing victory last week at NCAA Regional Championships, women's cross country has already achieved most of its ambitious preseason goals.
"The neat thing about football," Princeton head coach Roger Hughes said Wednesday, "is that you get to wipe the ugly taste out of your mouth from last week and get to put a better taste in your mouth."It's hard to imagine that only seven days could rid Princeton (6-3 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) of the bitter taste left by last weekend's punch-in-the-stomach defeat ? tragic not only in the way the team lost but also in the magnitude of the defeat.But with a matchup against Dartmouth (2-7, 1-5) looming Saturday, and with second place in the Ivy League still up for grabs, the Tigers have no choice but to move on.
In America, field hockey is undoubtedly a women's game, but last weekend, the Princeton club field hockey team was forced to turn to a man to save its season.
