The advantage of playing at home is one of the most often-cited sports truisms thrown around by the talking heads on ESPN.
Colonial Club will host the annual Intramural Billiards Tournament tonight at 9:30 p.m., with "Intramural Champion" t-shirts awarded to the winners of both the men's and women's divisions and points awarded to intramural teams based on numbers of participants.The tournament will bring some of Princeton's finest pool players out of the woodwork, allowing them the chance to test themselves against each other and lay claim to a place among the sport's on-campus elite.The University-wide event will be a welcome change for students accustomed to playing billiards primarily at the local level at their residential colleges or eating clubs rather than in an organized tournament setting.While pool tables can be found scattered throughout the entire Princeton campus, the quality and quantity of competition varies.At eating clubs, pool tables are often an integral part of the social scene and a reflection of student priorities.
The men's hockey team has just two games left in its regular season and its opponents this weekend, Rensselaer and Union, are ranked one below and above Princeton in the league, respectively.Needless to say, these are big games for the Tigers.Relatively big, at least, considering that every team in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League will make the playoffs.
Since junior guard Katy O'Brien arrived at Princeton, the only team the women's basketball team has been unable to beat is Columbia.
The men's basketball team can keep alive the hope of finishing the Ivy League season with a winning record with a pair of wins this weekend.
My parents dropped in for a visit last weekend, which means two things. First, my laundry got done.
Recently, Daily Princetonian senior writer Sofia Mata-Leclerc sat down for a chat with a pair of middle hitters from the men's volleyball team, sophomore Evan Pasion and junior Brian Hamming.Daily Princetonian: How is the season going so far?Evan Pasion: It's been a disappointing start.
Junior Juliette Poussot has never felt like her collegiate performances during the indoor track season have met her high personal standards.
The women's swimming and diving team will have revenge on its mind as teams from across the Ivy League gather at DeNunzio Pool this weekend for the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships.Before January, Princeton had not dropped a meet to any league competitor since the 1997-98 season.
Everything that went right against Yale last Friday went wrong Tuesday night against the Quakers, who handed the Tiger women's basketball team a 58-50 loss at the Palestra.Princeton (12-11 overall, 4-6 Ivy League) ultimately lost the game on poor free throw shooting and an inability to control Penn's offense in the last eight minutes of the second half.
After a brief cameo at DeNunzio Pool ? where, two weekends ago during the Princeton Invitational, the Tigers played their first and last home games of the season ? the No.
The Princeton-Penn rivalry is intense no matter what sport is showcased, but so far this winter, the Tigers have come up short across the board.
Boston College's men's tennis team had some trouble finding its way into Jadwin Gym on Saturday, delaying their match against Princeton by five minutes.
When senior Catie Draper arrived at Princeton for her freshman year, fresh off an accomplished high school and club volleyball career, she expected to be a starter on the Princeton women's team.
Despite a start characterized by near-perfect play, the men's volleyball team could not sustain its initial intensity throughout the rest of its match.After capturing the first game easily, 30-18, the Tigers (2-6 overall, 1-4 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) were blindsided by New Jersey Institute of Technology (5-3, 2-0). The Highlanders came from behind to win the next three games, 30-27, 32-30 and 30-27, to steal a victory Saturday night in Dillon Gym.Princeton jumped to an early lead in the first game with an aggresive offensive attack.
Nothing changed atop the women's squash national standings this past weekend as a result of the Howe Cup, which determines the team national champion.
Believe what your sixth grade D.A.R.E. instructor told you: don't give in to peer pressure. I'm not talking about illegal drugs, because if major league baseball has shown us anything, it's that giving in to that kind of pressure could win you an MVP honor.
She thrust a long thin weapon at me and lunged, aiming for my chest. I freaked, my instincts took over, and I attempted to protect myself: I turned my back and ran, covering my head.Then I heard laughs ? a lot of them ? coming from the sidelines."We're laughing with you," onlooking women fencers called out.Sure.I can't profess that I've ever had a hidden desire to fence; we don't live in a culture in which little kids grow up wanting to be fencing stars.
It has been a frustrating season for the women's hockey team, and Saturday night's game in Hanover, N.H., was no different.On Friday night, the Tigers defeated Vermont, 2-0.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. ? Fans stood and applauded, the players let a few smiles come out and head coach Joe Scott '87 looked relieved.
