'Prince' staff writer Anuj Basil recently sat down with sophomores Alexis and Natalie Martirosian from the women's field hockey team.'Prince': Why did you choose Princeton?Natalie: Field hockey was by all means a factor.
When it rains it pours. This old adage not only applies to life, but to the world of sprint football.Over the break, Navy (5-0, 2-0 Collegiate Sprint Football League) defeated Princeton (0-5, 0-3) by a score of 59-8, handing the Tigers their worst loss of the season.The Midshipmen entered the contest riding an eight-game winning streak, which included five consecutive league victories.
Early in the fourth quarter against Harvard Oct. 26, football's star quarterback, junior David Splithoff, was crushed when trying to scramble for a first down.
American legend says that on the evening of Halloween strange things happen. Tradition has it that children hit the streets to trick-or-treat in costumes emulating the evil spirits thought to be roaming the world on this day.A strange thing did happen to the men's soccer team this fall break, only on the evening preceding Halloween.
Men's water polo breezed into the finals of both of its two tournaments over fall break, but on both occasions, the Tigers went home disappointed.The team's active break schedule began with a trip to the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament in Annapolis, MD.
With five matches in nine days, the volleyball team didn't have much of a fall break.The Tigers faced Dartmouth, Harvard, Villanova, Columbia, and Cornell this past week in a test of their endurance.Despite tough losses to Har-vard and Villa-nova, Princeton (13-5 overall, 6-3 Ivy League) steadily improved its play over the course of the week.
In overtime, playing on a snow-covered field, Princeton led Cornell, 32-25.Needing a touchdown to force a second overtime, Cornell called a timeout.
It's tough to win a championship when your competition comes in and blows the entire Ivy League ? plus Navy ? out of the water.The Princeton women's cross country team returned from the Heptagonal Championships this past week, where they dueled with eight other schools for the prestige of being crowned champion for the cross country season.The Tigers entered entertaining the hope that they could pull off the upset and win, since they had recently performed well against most of the other teams with title chances.It wasn't meant to happen.Columbia placed five runners in the top ten to crush the competition, and Princeton cruised to fourth place in a closely contested finish with Yale, Cornell, and Dartmouth, all of who finished within eight points of the Tigers.
With two key league wins in the first half of fall break, the field hockey team has secured at least a share of its ninth consecutive Ivy League championship, as well as another NCAA tournament berth.After a, 4-1, win over Harvard at home last Saturday, and a, 5-2, win over Cornell in Ithaca, the Tigers improved their Ivy League record to 6-0, with just one league game left to play.
The U.S. Postal Service prides itself that "neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" can stop its couriers from delivering mail.Like the most dogged postman, women's soccer was undeterred by the weather in Ithaca, N.Y.
Despite three All-Ivy finishes, Princeton's men's cross country team placed a disappointing third at the Heptagonal Championships, held Friday at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.Dartmouth defended it's title with 56 points, and was led by the one-two finish of Jared Shoemakker and Tom McCardle, the latter of whom is a multiple time All-America and visibly paced his younger teammate, often turning over his shoulder to shout encouragement.Columbia, who had beaten Princeton at the Paul Short Invitational earlier this fall, placed second with 63 points.
Women's soccer's No. 15 national ranking may frighten some of its opponents. But even though it is the weekend before Halloween, it is a sure bet that Harvard, which comes to Lourie-Love Field tomorrow evening, will not be scared of the Tigers.The Crimson have already played some of the top teams in the country this season, and while they haven't yet beaten a Top 25 opponent, they've demonstrated that they have the ability to play with any team in the country.
As clocks shift forward and frost impends, the men's and women's cross country team's will be numb to distractions as they approach the most heated Heptagonal Championship race in recent memory.Unlike in past years, where the men's team has quite easily dominated the league, the caliber of competition has been raised and four teams have legitimate shots at victory next Friday morning.The Heptagonal Championships ? the conference meet for the Ivy teams plus Navy ? are held annually in the extremely challenging urban Van Cortland Park in the Bronx.
While the bulk of the student body will be at home or on vacation over fall break, the field hockey team will be doing anything but relaxing as it tries to improve on a pair of season records: 4-0 in conference and 3-5 out of conference.The Tiger's unblemished Ivy League mark will be tested twice in the next week.
For a school with no rival, tomorrow's home football game with Harvard is about as big as it gets.The schools were favored to win the league coming into the season and have perfect 2-0 records in conference play.
The last time the football team beat Harvard was 1995. The Crimson's six straight victories since then encompass their longest winning streak in the history of the rivalry, which dates back to 1877.Princeton has lost close games to Harvard, such as last year's heartbreaker in Cambridge, Mass., when Taylor Northrop's '02 49-yard field-goal try sailed wide left.
Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Andrew Robinton sat down with men's soccer senior forward Matt Douglas.
This Saturday, Princeton football will play in its biggest game in quite some time. If the Tigers are to come out on top, they will have to have another banner day from senior running back Cameron Atkinson.Before this season, there was an opinion widely held on campus that Atkinson was an east-west runner ? more inclined to run sideways than straight up field.Ask the Brown defense if that's still accurate.Atkinson lit up the Bears' defensive front to the tune of 174 yards on the ground, including an 82-yard touchdown run in the first quarter.
With its fourth-straight Ivy League victory last Saturday against Brown, the field hockey team is in prime position to take the Ivy League Championship.Just as it has done in each of the past eight years.Under the guidance of head coach Beth Bozman, Princeton has become a powerhouse in the Ivy League, finishing in first place every year since 1994.While most undergraduates here were saying goodbye to our elementary school friends and moving on to junior high, Bozman was busy creating a field hockey dynasty that is still enjoying its golden age.Last season, the Tigers went undefeated in Ivy League play, and posted an impressive 17-3 overall record while reaching the NCAA semifinals.But despite a 4-0 Ivy League record so far this season, the Tigers are still in a heated race for the championship.
Though the women's soccer season is already past the midway point (Princeton is 12-0-0), in honor of midterm week we present the midseason awards.
