So, when it comes down to it, what's the biggest event during the outdoor track season?H-Y-Ps?
Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Zack Faigen sat down with men's lacrosse's dynamic duo of attackmen senior Sean Hartofilis and junior Ryan Boyle.Prince: Lacrosse isn't exactly the most popular sport yet.
Sophomore attack Leigh Slonaker of the women's lacrosse team kept the Tigers in the running for a share of the Ivy League title last Saturday.With 36 seconds left in regulation and the Big Green salivating for a victory that would automatically give them sole position of the Ivy crown, Slonaker streaked toward the goal and caught the eye of her teammate, sophomore midfielder Elizabeth Pillion, who quickly whipped her the ball.
The men's tennis season closed successfully last Friday. In a duel against Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., the Tigers leapt from behind to steal an impending victory from the Big Red and capture third place in the Ivy League, behind Harvard and Brown.The match was in effect an Ivy League playoff for third place, as both teams posted identical League records (3-3) going into the match.
Thirty-nine thousand, seven hundred eighty-three spectators, live prime-time television coverage and vendor-lined streets are not usually associated with the often glamourless sport of track and field, at least on this side of the Atlantic.The 109 year-old Penn Relays prove to be the exception.
The women's tennis team ended its season with a bang last Friday as it demolished Cornell in a 7-0 sweep.
The Tiger women's crew teams once again showed their league competitors who's boss this past weekend.Each of Princeton's races against Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges teams belonged to the Tigers.Members of the top lightweight boat did not compete, as they had already raced Harvard/Radcliffe three times this season.
Despite first-place individual honors on the women's side and third-place individual honors on the men's, both the women's and men's golf teams fell to superior Yale squads at the Ivy League Championships this weekend.The men's team, which has suffered through a variety of obstacles throughout the year, relinquished the Ivy title to the Elis and finished in third behind Yale and Penn.The women fared slightly better, with sophomore Avery Kiser winning her second consecutive league title.
Thanks to some help from Cornell, the baseball team's 2-2 performance in their series against Columbia was good enough to earn it at least a share of the Lou Gehrig Division title.The Tigers (21-18 overall, 12-4 Ivy League) accomplished this feat wit a 3-1 win yesterday in the third game of the series, but seemed to want to save the excitement of clinching their spot in the Ivy League Championship series for next weekend, falling 11-4 in the final game.The Tigers will have to win one of four games against Cornell (8-10, 18-25) to accomplish this task.Cornell gave the Tigers a little help last weekend, beating second place Penn twice.In the first game of the series, the Tigers edged out Columbia in an exciting 5-4 game.
A 5-4 upset of top-seeded University of Michigan by fifth-seeded Brown (18-8) in the semifinals of the Collegiate Water Polo Association Eastern Championship resulted in third-seeded Princeton (22-7) playing the Wolverines for third place.After a loss to Indiana, instead of meeting fifth-seeded Brown or even fourth-seeded Hartwick, the Tigers found themselves playing the team favored to win the whole championship, Michigan."[Michigan's] main problem was they didn't take [its first game against Brown] seriously," freshman defender Megan Donahue said.
With four starters not available to play, the men's lacrosse team ran into a cold day and a hot goalie as it lost to unranked Dartmouth on Saturday, 13-6.With the loss, Princeton (9-3 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) falls into a second-place tie with the Big Green (10-2, 4-1) in the Ivy League.
The men's volleyball team needed nothing short of a miracle last Thursday night. Apparently someone forgot to tell the volleyball gods.
Most sports have rules ? penalty kicks, tenth innings, sudden death and overtime ? put in place to prevent ties.But as far as possession of first place in the Ivy League is concerned, there is no such rule.
The softball team has a flair for the dramatic. Heading into this weekend's games against Dartmouth and Harvard, Princeton (20-16-1 overall, 10-3 Ivy League) had an opportunity to clinch a second consecutive Ivy League title.
Princeton. Dartmouth. Princeton. Dartmouth/Princeton. Dartmouth. Dartmouth. Dartmouth. Dartmouth/Princeton.
Always an overshadowed program, at least in comparison to its lightweight brethren, the women's open weight crew team has certainly caught the attention of crew aficionados this season.The women have gotten off to one of the best starts in program history, posting impressive wins against, among others, Brown, Michigan, and Yale.
The game of men's lacrosse is a fast, edge-of-your-seat, blink-and-you'll-miss-it kind of game. Much of a team's success depends on its ability to master the speed of the sport and use it to its own advantage.
The men's and women's golf teams will finish their Ivy League season this weekend with the 2003 Ivy League Championships.The men will hope to retain the title as the women try to regain the top spot from Yale.
It isn't over until it's over, and with just one match left in their respective seasons the men's and women's tennis teams are showing no signs of slowing down as they prepare for Cornell today.The women's team will have home court advantage as well as one last opportunity to end the season on a strong note in front of its own fans."Our last home weekend was a rough one," head coach Louise Gengler said, "so we're looking to make up for it this weekend."Based on the statistics, it is fairly reasonable to expect the Tigers (9-8 overall, 2-4 Ivy League) to end their season with a win, but the team is trying not to put too much emphasis on the numbers."Our record is certainly better than Cornell's going in," Gengler said, "but you can just toss that out the window."Cornell (2-13, 0-6) has been struggling to get through a season replete with defeats.
The hottest team in Ivy League baseball has a chance this weekend to clinch the Lou Gehrig Division title and home-field advantage for the Ivy League Championship Series.And if Princeton falters in their back-to-back doubleheaders with Columbia at Clarke Field Saturday and Sunday, they still have four more conference games to get the job done.The Tigers (19-16 overall, 10-2 Ivy League) are on a roll after starting the season 7-15.
