As April turns to May here at Princeton, most students look forward to the end of classes, a chance to relax and spend the day lounging outside or catching up on some reading.
What is it about Heptagonals that so excites the imagination?Is it the strange and illustrious history that it possesses?
In its last chance to rise in the rankings before the league championships, the women's open weight crew team hosts George Washington, Rutgers and Oregon St.
ESPN baseball analyst Peter Gammons quoted Tampa Bay center fielder Rocco Baldelli in a column on ESPN.com as saying that " 'if I had gotten into Princeton, I would have gone there mainly because of Scott Bradley.' No argument here."Gammons is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, the same alma mater as Bradley, the head baseball coach at Princeton."[Gammons] has followed me throughout my career," Bradley said, "and he's always looking out for his fellow Tar Heels."Bradley is on the verge of winning his sixth Lou Gehrig Division title in his six years on the job for the Tigers, though he plays down his role in the process, saying that he "was able to inherit a program that was on pretty solid ground."Bradley played in the major leagues as a catcher with the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds from 1984-1992 and then coached in the minor leagues for the Braves and Rockies."I think the first thing you learn [from the major league experience] is that you can never treat your players the same way," Bradley said.
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.
