So much for home ice advantage. The men's hockey team (1-5-1 overall, 1-3-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference) seriously should consider forsaking Baker Rink and moving all its games to Bright Hockey Arena.
Speaking of the women's hockey team's 3-0 loss to No. 9 New Hampshire last Saturday, head coach Jeff Kampersal '92 sounded like the Tigers had been involved in an ultimate fighting match rather than a hockey game."The first goal was like a surprising left jab to the face, the second was a hard right uppercut in the stomach, and the third was a kick to the butt," Kampersal said.
The Boston area received a royal beating when the women's swimming and diving team rolled into town this weekend.
For seniors Jeff Hare, Gianfranco Tripicchio, Marty Shaw, Jason Bell and Vincent Vitale, the past four seasons of playing Ivy League soccer for Princeton have created lasting memories of triumphs, teamwork and tough wins.Unfortunately, this Saturday's season finale against Yale was not a game any Tiger, senior or underclassman, will want to remember.Princeton entered the weekend contest on Lourie-Love Field firmly entrenched in the spoiler's role, trying to upset Yale's chances for a tie for first in the Ivy League.
The women's cross country team achieved a season-long goal this past Saturday, as its second place finish in the Mid-Atlantic NCAA Regional meet in Lock Haven, Pa., qualified the entire team for the NCAA Championship.
Four wins for an Ivy League title. That's easy. Four wins in four games for an Ivy League title. That's pressure.This is what the women's volleyball team was up against entering the final stretch of its season.
Last week the football team considered itself two plays from being 4-1 in the Ivy League. Now the Tigers (2-7 overall, 2-4 Ivy League) are three plays away from being 5-1 after losing Saturday to Yale, 27-24, in double overtime."Take one play away," junior running back Jon Veach said.
For the field hockey team, winning on Saturday would have meant proving that it could be successful outside of the Ivy League.
When the women's soccer team first learned that it would play Villanova in the first round of the NCAA tournament, excitement spread like wildfire.
Julie Shackford, head coach of the women's soccer team, is disappointed to see the Ivy League trophy leave her office for Hanover, N.H., where Dartmouth will hold it.
Don't mess with the Tigers when they are on the prowl. It was only two weeks ago, on Nov. 2, that the men's water polo team demolished the Southern Division Championships and brought home their third Southern title in the team's seven year history.The Tigers, with an overall record of 21-3, will travel to the U.S.
The Class of 1952 Stadium is no stranger to national championship banners. Each spring, the fences are adorned with banners from the renowned lacrosse program.Each fall, on the other hand, the field hockey team inhabits a stadium whose walls are conspicuously bare of any such decorations.Until now, that is.For the past two weeks, new signs proclaiming "2003 National Championships" have adorned the sides of the goal cages at either end of the field.
When all the weapons are holstered after Saturday's football game at Princeton Stadium, the result could be one for the record books.Six of the last eight contests in the 125-game rivalry between Yale (5-3 overall, 3-2 Ivy League) and Princeton (2-6, 2-3) have been decided by one score.The Bulldogs take to the road after a firefight with Brown last week at the Yale Bowl, which the Bears won, 55-44."It's as difficult a loss as I have ever been through," Yale head coach Jack Siedlecki said.
All good things must come to an end. For seniors Jeff Hare, Gianfranco Trippichio, Marty Shaw, Jason Bell and Vincent Vitale of the men's soccer team, that end comes tomorrow afternoon at Lourie-Love Field.The Tigers host Yale in their final game of the season, and for these seniors, their final game donning the orange and black.
For most students the weekend is a time to relax, recuperate and recharge. That does not describe the prospects for the members of the men's hockey team.
This weekend the women's volleyball team will try to clinch one of the top two seeds in the Ivy League, facing both Harvard (8-14 overall, 7-5 Ivy League) and Dartmouth (9-14, 3-9) in two of its most significant home matches of the season."Since these games are very important and will determine whether or not we have a chance to win the Ivy League, we all know we have to step up and play to our full potential," freshman libero Jenny McReynolds said.Princeton (15-6, 8-2), currently ranked No.
For the women's ice hockey team, this weekend's home games will be a chance to prove that last year's success was not a fluke.
It's Yale.Let's face it ? next to the game against Harvard, Saturday's contest with the Elis is the biggest of the year.Regardless of who is winning the Ivy League (which is Penn, in case you haven't figured it out yet), or what team in Division I-AA football is playing stellar this season, no other football game is as big as this one for Princeton fans.It is no coincidence that this weekend is Homecoming.This means that not only will Tiger fans and alumni be able to watch the game on the Yankees Entertainment Sports (YES) Network, but a whole lot of them will be in town to see the game.While the Tigers (2-6 overall, 2-3 Ivy League) are out of the running for the H-Y-P championship ? and hence the bonfire ? because of the loss to Harvard three weeks ago, and nearly mathematically eliminated from Ivy League championship contention, they still have pride to play for.
With all the established confidence of a Vanderbilt at the Waldorf, the women's swim team will cavalcade into Boston this weekend and launch its long awaited winter season with just one phrase on their lips: 41-0.Surging in off several seasons full of more success than a post-World War I Wall Street, the Tigers will use their four consecutive Ivy League titles as well as an amazing 41-meet winning streak to provide the momentum to launch them into what could be their most dazzling season to date."Most people dream of having an undefeated season, and we've had five in a row," head coach Susan Teeter said.The crown jewel of this opening weekend, however, will not simply be an extension of the Tigers impressively resilient string of victories, but the prospect of breaking a heavily coveted Princeton sports record: most consecutive wins for any Princeton team.The record, now at 43-0, was set by the men's tennis team in the late seventies and has been left untouched for over 25 years.
Known to many as "Killer Kilpatrick," Gary Kilpatrick came to Princeton in 1971 as coach of the men's freshman lightweight crew team.
