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.
With less than two minutes remaining and the score tied in the championship game of last weekend's Collegiate Water Polo Association Crossover Weekend tournament in Grove City, Pa., men's water polo desperately needed a hero.Freshman Jamal Motlagh came to the rescue, netting the game-winning-goal to defeat Navy, 9-8.As expected, after breezing through the first three games, Princeton, seeded second, found itself facing top seeded Navy ? ranked No.
"Just don't get burned." This is phrase enters a defensive back's head almost every time he is tested in man-to-man coverage.
All season long the Tigers have aspired to defend their Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union league championship ? and with Saturday's win in the semifinals, the Tigers are now one game from being back-to-back champions.After losing its first game of the season to Westchester on Sept.
It was a somber group that walked off Lourie-Love Field after the men's soccer team tied Brown, 1-1, on Friday night.With the tie, the Tigers (2-6-4 overall, 0-2-1 Ivy League) remain winless in the league and equal their record for most ties in a season, set last year.
Both the men's and women's cross-country teams ran in Pre-Nationals last weekend, in one of the last regular meets of the season.
You can't run a solid offense without a solid setter.After the graduation last year of setter Ana Yoerg '02, the Tigers needed someone to fill her shoes.Jenny Senske was up for the challenge.Senske, a freshman from Long Beach, California, didn't take long to prove to the team she was ready to take on the position that controls the pace of the offense.
On a gusty day at Class of 1952 Stadium, Princeton reaffirmed its position as the team to beat in Ivy League field hockey, and sent a message to their rivals up in Cambridge ? get ready.Princeton has looked vulnerable at times this season, and its 6-5 overall record heading into Saturday's contest against Brown was not what was expected of this team at the beginning of the season.The Tigers eliminated any of those doubts with a dominating 9-1 victory over the Bears to give the Tigers a perfect league record.Princeton (7-5 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) outshot Brown (4-7, 1-3) 29-3 and earned 22 penalty corners to Brown's one ? not to mention the difference in goals."Today we showed how we can really play," sophomore attack Natalie Martirosian said.
For the second week in a row, sophomore cornerback Jay McCareins saved the day for the football team.
In a game that boasted the top passing offense in I-AA football, one would expect that the Princeton-Brown game played Saturday would be filled with huge offensive plays in the air.
The sprint football team just cannot catch a break.For the second week in a row Princeton (0-4 overall, 0-2 Collegiate Sprint Football League) was unable to find the end zone, despite edging Cornell (2-2, 1-1) in three major offensive categories."To say that the outcome of this game was disappointing would be an understatement," sophomore wide receiver Adam Farren said.
The women's soccer team must really hate losing, because so far it has avoided it like the plague.
Everybody on the football team knows that the Ivy League season is all that matters.Even though Princeton has had its best non-Ivy record in seven years, it does not mean anything going into Saturday, as it plays Brown in the first of six-straight Ivy games.Princeton (3-1 overall) is currently 1-0 in league play, and Brown, having lost by two points to Harvard, is 0-1.
When the field hockey team returns to Ivy League play against Brown tomorrow at the Class of 1952 Field, one question will be on everyone's mind: Will the Tiger offense be able to turn scoring opportunities into goals?The Tigers (6-5 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) have been playing solid field hockey.They control the ball well, and place constant pressure on opponents on the offensive end of the field.At the same time, however, the Tigers have become notorious for having too few goals to show for their level of play.In last Sunday's 2-0 loss to Boston University, the Tigers dominated the game statistically.
There is only one Div. I women's soccer team in the nation that remains both unbeaten and untied ? Princeton.
It is do or die time for the sprint football team. The Tigers (0-3) have three games remaining on their schedule ? three more chances to save their season.Tonight, the road to redemption begins at Frelinghuysen Field against Cornell (1-2).The added incentive for Princeton is that the Big Red handed the sprint football team its first loss of the season just three weeks ago.The 22-12 score of the first meeting fails to do the Tigers justice, as Princeton played well enough to win that game.
The men's soccer teams at both Princeton and Brown are used to the view from the top.The Tigers and Bears have combined for each of the last five Ivy League championships, with Princeton taking one, Brown taking three and the two sharing the honors last year.Trips to the NCAA tournament, while always exciting, are nothing new to either of these teams.
