Twice this weekend, sophomore No. 5 Frances Comey pulled out tough comeback wins for women's squash.
The men's track and field team returned to Penn State for the second time in two weeks for a scored triangular meet against host Nittany Lions and the University of Connecticut.
They didn't travel to Princeton from all over the East Coast, Canada and New Zealand to be disappointed.Many parents of men's squash players trekked across great distances to witness a pair of exciting matches this past weekend and watched as their sons clinched the Ivy League Championship for the third time in four years.An undefeated men's squash team (7-0 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) knew it had to be in top form as it faced Dartmouth (10-4, 2-3) and Harvard (6-2, 4-1).The first test was the Big Green on Saturday afternoon.
The Princeton wrestling team started off a busy weekend of competition with a dramatic victory last Friday night over Harvard.With the Tigers down 19-16, junior heavyweight Joe Looke took the mat for the first time this season needing a victory to propel his team to its first EIWA dual win of the year.Late in the third period of the match, with the score tied 1-1, Looke scored a two-point takedown, sealing the deal in the heavyweight bracket and driving the final nail into Harvard's coffin.Looke's 3-1 victory tied the overall match score at 19-19.
It has been 15 years since a school not named Princeton or Penn represented the Ivy League in the NCAA tournament for men's basketball.
As is the tradition for such a momentous game as tonight's showdown in the Palestra, The Daily Princetonian and The Daily Pennsylvanian exchange columns bashing each other.
Now I may go to Penn, but I do know a couple of things. Literally.The first is that motor oil is not flammable.The second is that alcohol is flammable.Alcohol, like that (allegedly) served illegally by two former presidents of Princeton's most famous of institutions: eating clubs.
Six-love, six-one, and done. It was a hearty beating, like a tennis match between Serena Williams and Anna Kournikova, only on ice.Women's hockey hardly broke a sweat this weekend on its tour of New York, picking up four points in the standings with a 6-0 win over Cornell and a 6-1 win over Colgate.Princeton (14-6-2 overall, 7-3-0 ECAC) skated into Ithaca Saturday night and chewed up the Big Red (3-15-2, 1-8-1) in a 6-0 shutout.The game-winning goal came 26 seconds into the first period when senior defender Nikola Holmes put the Tigers on the board with assists from junior forward Gretchen Anderson and senior forward Andrea Kilbourne.
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The desire to look past Columbia and Cornell on the road, and to peer ahead to Tuesday's game against Penn, was enormous for the men's basketball team this weekend.
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It was the kind of win that just made everything seem right for the struggling women's basketball team.On Friday night, Princeton (7-12 overall, 2-3 Ivy League) fell 75-66 to Columbia (10-8 overall, 3-2 Ivy League). The next night, the Tigers overcame a 37-26 halftime deficit to defeat Cornell (7-12, 1-5), 66-63, while also snapping a three-game losing streak in front of 3,000 screaming fans at Jadwin Gymnasium.
The Golden Knights of Clarkson University (11-14-1 overall, 8-6-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference) had hockey's version of the Midas touch Friday versus Princeton ? everything they touched turned to goals.Clarkson recorded five goals in the first period en route to a 7-3 victory against the Tigers (3-20, 2-14-0) at Baker Rink.Friday's game was far from close due to the Golden Knights barrage of goals in the first frame.
Women's hockey will be seeing red this weekend as the Orange and Black take a tour of New York to face the Big Red of Cornell (2-14-1 overall, 0-7-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference) Friday and the Red Raiders of Colgate (10-14-0 overall, 2-6-0 ECAC) Saturday, and they hope to see two wins along the way.Princeton (12-6-2 overall, 5-3-0 ECAC) had little trouble with either squad when the upstate foes visited Baker Rink in November.
The Princeton wrestling team is bearing down for a tough weekend of competition in which they will have dual meets against three of their Ivy League rivals.
With the men's basketball team's first game of two against Penn coming up on Tuesday, it can be tough to focus on the present.
This weekend offers the women's basketball team (6-11 overall) the opportunity to revive its 1-2 Ivy League record with back-to-back home games against Columbia and Cornell.Columbia is currently in third place in the Ivy League standings, right above fourth-place Princeton.
For those of you who had barely heard of squash before coming to Princeton, this weekend is an excellent chance to get acquainted with the sport.
Coming down the stretch at last weekend's double-dual swim meet in Cambridge, the men of Princeton and Harvard sprinted neck-and-neck towards the finish line, as Yale languished behind in the dust.With only the 400 meter freestyle relay still to be swum, the Tigers and the Crimson were knotted at 168 points.
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