Admit it, Penn students: you wanted to go to Princeton. It's all right, I did too. In fact, I do.You, of course, don't go to Princeton, which really is too bad ? for you, at least.
Both the men's and women's squash teams dismantled Dartmouth in Jadwin Gym on Saturday, but neither team could repeat that success the following day against Harvard.Princeton's men's team fell behind, 3-1, against the Crimson (6-1 overall, 5-0 Ivy League), last year's national finalists.
Allow me to start with this disclaimer:As a "dumb" Penn kid, I need to put in reminders throughout my writings so I don't forget about important points.So here's one.
This weekend, despite pounding out shot after shot and giving themselves plenty of opportunities to score, the women's hockey team only managed a split against two conference foes inside Baker Rink.The No.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. ? Head coach Joe Scott '87 sounded a lot like he had the night before. Questions were many and answers were few after Harvard (8-11 overall, 3-3 Ivy League) topped Princeton (10-8, 1-3), 61-57, on Saturday ? the second consecutive night that the men's basketball team lost a late lead to a team it has traditionally dominated.This time, it was a four-point advantage for Princeton with five minutes, 40 seconds to play that drowned under a wave of turnovers, missed free throws and poor rebounding.
Despite an impressive defensive showing from the men's hockey team during their two-game road trip to northern New York, highlighted by 74 saves from junior goaltender Eric Leroux, the Princeton offense failed to present anything close to the same intensity.
Junior center Becky Brown summed up the women's basketball team's weekend with a bit of an understatement."Yeah, we're disappointed," Brown said after the Tigers' two weekend home losses, to Dartmouth (8-8 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) on Friday, 69-55, and to Harvard (12-6, 3-1) the next night, 67-51.Princeton (9-9, 1-4) failed to establish itself in either game.
HANOVER, N.H. ? The men's basketball team had won 18 of its last 19 contests against Dartmouth, had a better record both overall and in the conference and had better offensive and defensive numbers almost across the board.
Recovering from a close loss to Penn in double overtime on Tuesday, the women's basketball team is eager to take on conference powerhouses Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend in an attempt to regain their earlier momentum and success.
Let me be the only person this week writing about the Eagles who spares you the history lesson.Yes, the history of Philadelphia sports is long and painful.
Come Super Bowl Sunday, David Maass '08 will be a man on a mission."Since the object of the Super Bowl party is to recreate the experience of actually being at the big game, I plan to conclude the night fleeing naked from my friends at Public Safety with a bottle of malt liquor in one hand and a Patriot fan's wallet in the other," says Maass, who describes himself as "not a Patriots fan."He is a weekend warrior, determined, along with hundreds of fellow Princetonians, to enjoy Super Bowl XXXIX to the fullest.And the mechanism of fun this Sunday?
I know, I know, I'm not supposed to be doing this anymore. You weren't supposed to still have to read my mindless Boston sports fan drivel.
For guard Will Venable, center Judson Wallace and the three other seniors on the men's basketball team (10-6 overall, 1-1 Ivy League), victory is the only outcome associated with the Tigers' annual road trip to Dartmouth and Harvard.Although Princeton has swept its away games against the Big Green and the Crimson each of the past three seasons, the senior leaders cannot allow the team to become complacent.
Chances are, you've seen Howard Levy.Maybe the six-foot, 10-inch Class of 1985 Princeton graduate and former standout basketball center has blocked your view at a men's basketball game ? you, seated behind the home bench, and he, now an assistant coach, seated to the right of head coach Joe Scott '87.Or, perhaps while lunching in the Wilcox dining hall, the Wilson College faculty fellow has loomed large over your shoulder as you waited in line for some "vegetarian vegetable" soup.But while Levy's height makes him memorable, it does not make him approachable.
Sitting at his usual post behind the backboard, legs awkwardly bent backwards at the knees, Lior Levy intently follows every play of the men's basketball game."Oh no," he whispers under his breath when the Tigers' opponent hits a three-pointer.
Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Sofia Mata Leclerc sat down with two long distance runners, freshman James O'Toole and senior Dan Antalics, to discuss topics ranging from running to Bill Brasky.Daily Princetonian: How is the team doing?James O'Toole: I like the direction that the team is heading because people are starting to take the lifestyle a little more seriously after cross-country.
The blizzard that blanketed the East Coast with snow over intersession had a rival in ferocity: Princeton's squash teams.Battling poor travel conditions, injuries and post-exam fatigue, Princeton's squash teams fought their way to a split record in Ivy League competition over the break.The men's team defeated Penn, 6-3, this past Wednesday, and the women routed the Quakers by the impressive tally of 9-0, with all nine wins coming in three games."It was really big to beat Penn as far as getting a good seeding for the national championships this March," freshman No.
After winning its season opener against Georgia State, 5-2, the men's tennis team lost its next two matches by a wide margin.
Harvard and Princeton have dominated Ivy League men's swimming and diving since 1972, the last time a team other than those two powerhouses won the conference championship.The Tigers (4-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, 6-1 overall) and the Crimson (7-0, 7-0) battled again this past Saturday and Sunday in the annual H-Y-P meet.
While most of the track team spent intersession running circles around weaker opponents, two of the women's team's top distance runners took on the country's best in Boston.Juniors Cack Ferrell and Meredith Lambert ran in the Boston University Invitational on Friday evening and proved to be up to the task.
