The expectations are high for the women's hockey team this year. They have gotten off to a solid start, including last weekend's sweep against Yale and Boston College.
After two wins in the friendly confines of Jadwin Gym, the men's basketball team took to the road last night, defeating University of Maryland Baltimore-County, 68-56, in the first of five consecutive road games.Princeton (3-0 overall) took care of an overmatched opponent, using a balanced scoring effort to earn the win.
Hobey Baker Memorial Rink has a seating capacity of 2,092.Yet on Saturday, March 6, 1971, about 2,400 fans packed into its stands to cheer on the hockey team in the season's final match.
Having a 200-pound player skating at you with a stick and one hell of a slap shot makes you wonder why anybody would want to be a goaltender.For sophomore standout Eric Leroux, it's precisely the challenge of fast breaks and quick pucks that keeps him in the net."I find goaltending to be interesting in that you'll always make a mistake, whether or not you get a shutout," Leroux said.
For years, Princeton basketball has been synonymous with a rigid offensive system. So when the home crowd gets its first live look at this year's women's team ? the Tigers (1-2 overall) host Lehigh (0-4) tonight in Jadwin Gym at 7 p.m.
This Saturday the men's and women's fencing teams will travel to Penn State's White Building to face some of the nation's top teams.
The men's hockey team was subjected to the hostile atmosphere of Yale's Ingalls Rink, fraught with inhospitable and uncouth Yale fans and the school's raunchy and rowdy band, on Saturday evening.
The wrestling team did its fair share of feasting over the holiday weekend, but not before making weight and competing on Wednesday at the Kutztown Invitational in Kutztown, Pa.With a final score of 51 points, Princeton finished in fifth place overall, with six Tigers placing high individually.
The men's basketball team takes to the road for the first time this season. Princeton will take on the University of Maryland-Baltimore County tonight in its first-ever visit to RAC Arena.
The last time the men's basketball team started a season 2-0, a center named Steve Goodrich led the Tigers to an eventual 27-2 record and a top-10 national ranking.Through two games this year, junior center Judson Wallace is doing his best Goodrich impression.The Georgia native scored a career-high 31 points and pulled down nine rebounds while playing every minute of the game as Princeton topped Holy Cross last Friday, 61-55.Wallace was 11-for-13 from the field, including three of five from beyond the arc.
Women's hockey cooked a pair of weaker opponents over Thanksgiving weekend. The first was tough and undercooked.
Quite often, a short stretch of just a few minutes of lopsided play determines the outcome of an otherwise evenly played basketball game.
"Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted. One moment, would you capture it or just let it slip?"Last night, men's hockey took that opportunity in a dominating 3-0 win over archrival Yale (2-7-0 overall, 2-5-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference). The Tigers' earned their third win of the season, matching their win total from a season ago.The game, however, was not Princeton's from the start, with the Elis coming out strong and outshooting Princeton, 10 to four, in the first period."The first period was a little scrappy," head coach Len Quesnelle said.
The men's squash team entered its season-opening matches against Western Ontario and Cornell looking to make a statement.
This weekend the men's and women's fencing teams took on some of the nation's top squads in the 31st annual Penn State Invitational.
Football players honored by Ivy LeagueThe senior defensive end duo of Tim Kirby and Joe Weiss capped off the first-team All-Ivy selections for Princeton football, announced yesterday.
The wrestling season got off to a bang Thursday night, with the team snagging a win over South Dakota State.
While they didn't exactly prove their doubters wrong, the results of the women's basketball team's season debut did not diminish the optimism of a new season.Princeton (0-1) opened its season with a trip to Nebraska (2-0) to play a game that few gave it any chance of winning.
Men's hockey contributed to two opponents' streaks and broke one of its own this weekend at Baker Rink.Princeton (2-6-0 overall, 2-4-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) rode a pair of first-period goals to a 2-1 win on Friday against Vermont (0-9-2, 0-5-0), during which the Tigers both prolonged the Catamount's ignominious position as one of only three winless teams in the country and snapped a personal 11-game winless run on home ice.
Yesterday the women's cross country team raced in the NCAA Championships, the first in program history, at the University of Northern Iowa in Waterloo, Iowa.Princeton did not let this opportunity go to waste.
