In the first round of last year's NCAA Tournament, the women's lacrosse team beat its opponent by the largest margin of victory in a tournament game ever, 25-3.
Baseball needed only one win in four tries against Cornell this weekend to clinch the Lou Gehrig Division championship and a birth in the Ivy League Championship Series.They got three.After dropping the first game of Friday's doubleheader at Clarke Field, 2-0, Princeton (25-19 overall, 15-5 Ivy League) found its bats in game two, blowing out the Big Red (16-20, 9-11) to secure the title with a 19-2 win.The teams played another doubleheader Sunday in Ithaca, N.Y., and the Tigers tuned up for the ILCS with 4-0 and 9-3 wins.Senior Ryan Quillian (5-4) got the first chance on the mound to clinch Princeton's sixth straight Gehrig Division title, but he got little help.The Tigers' bats were stifled by Big Red pitcher Dan Baysinger, who tossed a complete-game shutout in Cornell's 2-0 seven-inning first-game win.There were only five hits and no runs on the board going into the fifth inning.
For the last four years, senior Adele McCarthy-Beauvais has been one of the cornerstones of the women's water polo team.In a sport that has only existed at Princeton for a mere six years, McCarthy-Beauvais has certainly written her name into this program's history.In her sophomore season, she made her first mark on the team, setting the all-time scoring record for Princeton University.
Early Saturday morning, the softball team's main objective for the season was finally completed.The Tigers (24-19-1 overall, 11-3 Ivy League) had been forced to travel to Providence to finish the ninth inning of their suspended game against Brown (16-23, 5-9). Princeton hung on for an 8-5 victory, giving the team sole possession of the Ivy League title.The contest resumed with two outs in the top of the ninth, with sophomore pitcher Melissa Finley on first base.
With more drama than a Theta's bad self-tanning experience on the eve of houseparties, the men's Heptagonal Track and Field Championships concluded in a frustrating manner Sunday night.
Yasser El-Halaby, this year's Daily Princetonian male Athlete of the Year, made attending a squash match this season worthwhile.
Last year, men's lacrosse traveled to Brown on the last weekend of the regular season needing a win to clinch the Ivy title and get into the NCAA tournament.
Amidst the revelry and festivities of Houseparties on Saturday the women's lacrosse team was all business.
After two weeks of spring practice, the football team has gained little except more questions. The team lost 23 seniors to graduation and played spring ball with 17 players out either because of injuries or because they were playing another sport.One of the biggest losses, however, did not fit in either of those categories ? former junior linebacker Zak Keasey, who led the team in tackles the last two seasons, was announced as academically ineligible for the 2003 season on March 26.Head coach Roger Hughes described his defense as a "doughnut" because of the lack of strength in its center ? defensive tackle and linebacker.With Keasey gone along with his fellow starters at linebacker, seniors J.R.
As House Parties weekend begins, many visitors will arrive on campus to celebrate with their Princeton dates.
"If we beat Brown, we're in the [NCAA] tournament," men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney said.
Forget Dartmouth. Forget Cornell, Syracuse, Georgetown, Virginia and all the teams that may stand in the way of Princeton lacrosse capturing national titles this season.
Entering this week ranked No. 6 in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches' Association Poll, the women's lacrosse team did not just win its game against No.
Princeton baseball started its campaign for a return to the Ivy League Championship Series this season by being swept in four games by Richmond, going 4-8 on a brutal Spring Break road trip and dropping two of its first three home games.After 20 games, the Tigers were 6-14 and looked like anything but a contender.There was one important asterisk: Princeton had not started conference play yet.Since the slow start, the Tigers have gone 16-4 in their next 20 games and are suddenly the favorites in the Ivy League.
Under the lights in Jamaica, N.Y., on Tuesday night, the baseball team sunk its teeth into St. Johns, despite missing a couple of bicuspids.
One year ago, the Heptagonal Championships came down to the final event: the 4x400 meter in which Princeton lost to Penn by a single point.
A recent song by recording artist Avril Lavigne asks the question "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?"Whether or not you like it or even know it, the song was, for many months, just another icon of the teenybopper pop movement (masking itself as rock), receiving more than its fair share of radio play.
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.
