Women's hockey will spend its holiday on ice, getting acquainted with some teams outside the Eastern College Athletic Conference.
With three minutes, 19 seconds left in the third period, three Massachusetts skaters came down the center of the Princeton defensive zone, taking a shot on senior goaltender Nate Nomeland.
The road to the Ivy League championship just got a little bumpier for the men's basketball team.A source close to the team who did not wish to be identified confirmed yesterday that junior forward Andre Logan will likely miss the rest of the season due to the continuing problems he has been experiencing with his injured knee.The source indicated that Logan and the team were still waiting for confirmation and acceptance of the paperwork they were seeking which would allow Logan to redshirt this season.
If the men's hockey team were a baseball team, it would have a leg up on its competition in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference.The team dresses three goalies, who play based on a rotation system much like pitchers do in baseball.
Like an automobile left out in 30 degree weather, the women's basketball team was slow to get started.But after getting pushed around in the first half, the women's basketball team put up a remarkable 58 points in the second half to come back and tally an 89-71 win over Hofstra at Jadwin Gym.The Tiger defense was the key factor in the turnaround, holding Hofstra to shooting 39 percent from the field in the second half after the Pride shot a remarkable 70 percent in the first half.At the outset, Hofstra had the upper hand on the Tigers, and jumped out to a 10 point lead within the first four minutes.
Women's basketball has greatly improved under head coach Richard Barron. One of Barron's best players, junior wing Kelly Schaeffer, recently sat down with 'Prince' senior writer Chandra Russell.'Prince': Where are you from?Schaeffer: I was born and raised in South Huntington, Long Island, New York.
Just as last year's winter was the hottest in recent years, so was Ivy men's basketball. The parallel maintains its accuracy this season, too.After last year's success, the Ivy League teams loaded up solid pre-conference schedules for this year, but as the six inches of snow approached, they went cold.The overall Ivy record is 15-29, and its RPI ranking is 25th out of 32 ? a long walk through a blizzard from last year's mid-season ranking of 14.Before the season began, there was a lot of talk of two schools from the Ivy League play in the NCAA Tournament in March.
Defense may win games, but poor offense can certainly lose them. In its first four games out of the blocks this year, the men's basketball team went a sloppy 2-2, and struggled on the offensive end.After shooting well in their two games at the Sooner Invitational, the Tigers went cold from the field, shooting just 40 percent over their next two games.
So far this season, Eastern College Athletic Conference women's hockey has shaped up into "probably one of the most competitive leagues of all time," according to Cornell (0-8-1 overall, 0-5-1 ECAC) head coach Melody Davidson.
In the pool, Princeton swimming and diving is accustomed to pummeling Dartmouth without much effort.
Just as other University students, varsity athletes at Princeton are above all else jugglers: of classes, practices and social lives.
This weekend may have been a break from NCAA competition for Princeton fencers, but for juniors Soren Thompson and Eric Stodola and freshman Ben Solomon, there was nothing restful about it.Thompson, Stodola and Solomon traveled to Columbus, Ohio for the first North American Cup ? an important national tournament ? of the season.The 173 competitors included top fencers from the United States as well as from Europe and Canada.Solomon and Thompson tied for third in a very strong men's epee field.
The men's squash team traveled to Providence to take on the Bears (0-3 overall, 0-3 Ivy League) Saturday in a test of Princeton's depth.A sweep of No.
Men's swimming invited some friends over for a dip in DeNunzio Pool last weekend. Over three days of competition, the Tigers made sure everyone knew whose house it was.
Continuing its unbeaten streak, women's squash swept both Vassar and Franklin & Marshall last Sunday.
After almost three weeks without a major team competition, the wrestling team is preparing for what may be its most difficult dual match of the season, as the team will wrestle Missouri on Saturday.Over the past two weekends, a number of the Tigers' younger wrestlers have competed in various tournaments in the region.A few of the starters, including juniors Brian Kirschbaum and Matt Hawrilenko, competed in the Kutztown Open two weeks ago, and a number of the less experienced wrestlers split up to wrestle in State College, Pa.
EASTON, Pa. ? In its first game since the Monmouth Miracle, men's hoops showed that when the Princeton offense is properly blended with a more up tempo style, the result is a thing of beauty.The basketball team beat Lafayette 89-75 Saturday night in Easton, Pa., to improve to 3-2 overall.Granted the win came against the hapless and winless Leopards, but it was still a sight to see the offense executing its sets with precision passing and sharp jumpshooting.Princeton finished 33-51 from the field, hitting 64.7 percent of its field goals.
Highlighted by a record-setting performance by junior Sarah Frauman, the women's swimming team dominated all three days of competition to win the Princeton Invitational, scoring 1,127 points, 386 points better than second-place Rutgers.
The women's basketball team lost 69-61 to Sacred Heart (3-1) Saturday at Jadwin Gym, but the game was much closer than the margin indicates.In a game that saw 14 lead changes, neither team built more than a four-point lead until seven minutes, 17 seconds remained.Princeton (3-4) led 29-27 going into the break.
The big dogs came to Baker Rink this weekend, and it wasn't pretty.The struggling men's hockey team hosted Harvard and Brown this weekend in a showcase of the Eastern College Athletic Conference's elite ? the Crimson and Bears are ranked Nos.
