Tigers accustomed to blood and mud
The Four Leafs Tournament began when one of the Tigers' four subs broke his ankle on the way to the bus.
The Four Leafs Tournament began when one of the Tigers' four subs broke his ankle on the way to the bus.
Four games in two days against the same team is usually quite a grueling challenge. But for the baseball team, it will be the norm, as Princeton begins divisional play in its Ivy League season.The Tigers (11-15 overall, 5-3 Ivy League) will play doubleheaders at Penn (9-18, 5-7) as they start play in the Gehrig division.Their previous Ivy League games have come against teams in the Rolfe Division, against whom Princeton only plays one doubleheader apiece.The Tigers come in fresh off a 10-0 drubbing of Seton Hall on Tuesday.
The men's lacrosse team will play its lone set of back-to-back games this season when it meets Harvard and Butler this weekend.
During his time at Princeton, Ryan Bonfiglio '01 was an athletic star, the captain of the wrestling team and a member of the sprint football team.
Following two of the most decisive victories the women's lacrosse team has posted all season, the Tigers hope to continue this streak of dominance as they face off against league bottom-dweller Harvard at Class of 1952 Stadium on Saturday.Princeton's last two wins over Yale and Penn have been by margins of seven and six, respectively.
Although the softball team is in the midst of a three-game losing streak Princeton (25-12 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) might have had trouble asking for a better way to begin its second Ivy League weekend.The last time the Tigers dropped three-straight games was in early March, and they followed up that skid with a string of six consecutive wins.
Five proved to be a lucky number for the women's lacrosse team on Wednesday night in Philadelphia.
With his Princeton basketball career now over, Judson Wallace joined 63 other senior standouts from across the nation at the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament last weekend and helped his team, Portsmouth Sports Club, win the tournament championship.The annual four-day tournament ? which draws hundreds of NBA representatives to Portsmouth, Va.
I was in luck. Even though I was late for the club field hockey team's practice, it had not yet started.
'The Bus' wins gold at World ChampsFormer women's hockey goalie Megan Van Beusekom '04 earned a gold medal at the 2005 International Ice Hockey Foundation Women's World Championship last week as a member of the U.S.
With the graduation of attackman Ryan Boyle '04, the men's lacrosse team was left looking for someone to step in and fill the void in the offense.
After starting the season slowly against tough Southern competition, the baseball team (11-15 overall, 5-3 Ivy League) has rounded into shape and currently sits in first place in the Lou Gehrig Division.
It was not an easy week for the baseball team as the Tigers took on Rutgers in Piscataway on Tuesday and then hosted Towson at Class of 1895 Field on Wednesday.The Tigers (25-12) managed only a split against Rutgers, despite outscoring the Scarlet Knights, 13-6, over the games.
Three games into the Ivy League season, the No. 4 Princeton women's lacrosse team stands in a familiar position ? undefeated atop the league standings.
As men's lacrosse has slowly piled up losses this season, head coach Bill Tierney has desperately searched for that one change that would turn around the freefall of the team that last year made it to the Final Four.
Not only did several women's golf players experience individual victory this past weekend at the James Madison University Lady Dukes Invitational Golf Tournament, but they also enjoyed team success.Princeton, which now has four tournament victories on the season, cut the two-stroke deficit it accumulated on the first day of play, Friday, to just one stroke after Saturday's 36 holes were completed.
The quintessential spring day consists of a warm temperature, a clear sunny sky and a low-pressure baseball game in the afternoon.
Men's lacrosse is a complicated sport in general, and the game at Princeton is no exception. Without Class of 1952 Stadium, we wouldn't have a place to watch our team play; without senior attack Jason Doneger, we wouldn't have beaten Penn; without head coach Bill Tierney, we wouldn't be able to revel in the memory of six NCAA National Championships, and we definitely wouldn't be "sweet" at "lax."But every pass, every shot and every goal ? the building blocks of a win ? starts in a player's stick.
Princeton's crew teams competed on four courses in three states this weekend, but in each case, the result was the same ? a victory for the Tigers.The No.
Sophomore Richard Stewart makes running the hurdles look natural, but his victory in the 400-meter hurdle race on Saturday was in fact the result of using a carefully calculated formula.