With the spring weather in full effect, the men's and women's tennis teams were able to take their home matches outdoors for the first time this season.
One more win. That is all men's volleyball needs to reach the .500 plateau for the first time this season.With a victory over East Stroudsburg, Princeton upped its record to 8-9 overall (3-4 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association, Tait Division) and moved a step closer toward finishing the season with a winning record.The Tigers cruised past the Warriors, decisively claiming the win in four games (30-24, 25-30, 30-23, 30-22).Freshman outside hitter Blake Robinson had another solid performance for Princeton."We set Blake up a lot against East Stroudsburg.
The softball team traveled to the nation's heartland last weekend and emerged with a four game split at the Kansas Invitational tournament.Princeton (4-2) split a pair of games with Portland State and defeated Indiana State in the three-game tournament.
In its opening weekend of the 2002 season, the baseball team saw ups and downs in its games at Old Dominion in Norfolk, Va.
It is the final stretch for every winter sport, and for fencing it is no different. The Tigers just completed the first tournament of the NCAAs.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. ? With just over three minutes remaining in the third quarter last Saturday, senior attackman B.J.
It might not be the Big Dance, but the National Invitational Tournament still involves some strutting on the national stage.
Maryland is undisputably the heart of lacrosse in the United States, but recently, central New Jersey has laid claim to be considered the liver.The men's national championship was held in Piscataway last year and was won by Princeton, and the women's lacrosse team was the second best team in the country.The women's team, with nine of its 26 players hailing from the Old Line State, headed down I-95 over the weekend for a showdown with Loyola in the city of Lord Baltimore.The Tigers returned to the land of jughandles and diners with a 10-6 victory, improving their record to 2-1 on the season.Sophomore midfielder Theresa Sherry, a Baltimore native, scored three goals in the win.
Picture Shaquille O'Neal (or Chris Young on his tiptoes). Now add four inches. That's how high Princeton senior Tora Harris soared Friday night to win his first NCAA indoor championship.Competing in Fayetteville, Ark., seven-time Heptagonal champion Harris entered the meet with a No.
The last time the men's ice hockey team made it past the first round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament was the 1998-99 season, when the team was led by the NHL's Jeff Halpern '99 and the AHL's Syl Apps '99.
Like a group of Old West bandits, the Harvard Crimson found success in their best-of-three playoff series with the Princeton women's hockey team (15-11-3 overall) with a simple formula: shoot the lights out.The Crimson (18-10-2) relished a combined 84-33 advantage in shots this weekend, beating the Tigers 3-2 and 3-1 at Hobey Ba-ker Rink to advance to the second round of the Eastern College Athletic Confer-ence-North playoffs.In the series opener, Princeton jumped out early when sophomore forward Gretchen Anderson scored at four minutes, 37 seconds of the first period after a pass from sophomore forward Susan Hobson from behind the net.Just 2:47 into the second, Anderson struck again as she stuffed home a rebound on a Princeton power play to put her team up, 2-0.The rest of the weekend was not so enjoyable.A pair of Crimson freshmen took the game over from there.
With the disasterous mess that was the end of the Eastern College Athletic Conference men's hockey season now a memory, the playoffs can finally begin.
Princeton and Harvard. The two titans of higher learning are used to confrontation. Whether it be academics, athletics, or a glee club sing-off, the Tigers and the Crimson are no strangers to competition.
On Sunday, the woman's lacrosse team, ranked No. 3 in Lacrosse Magazine's preseason poll, suffered a two-point loss to No.
This season, the men's basketball team was perfect against league opponents ? except for Yale and Penn.Princeton's depth gave it an advantage against thinner, less-talented teams, but its lack of star power hurt it against the Elis and Quakers.The Ivy League announced the all-Ivy basketball teams yesterday, and the selections bore out the theory that Princeton's lack of a dominant player cost it the conference's automatic berth to the NCAA tournament.No Tigers were selected as First Team All-Ivy for the first time since 1987.
PHILADELPHIA ? The men's basketball team went into the first leg of the Ivy playoffs against Yale knowing that it needed to break out of its shooting slump to advance to the finals.
The list of possible outcomes for the wrestling team in its last tournament of the year is a short one.
It was the final game of the 2001 Eastern Championship. Princeton was playing Brown at Providence, R.I., and the winner would head on to the NCAA final four.
After a rough season of surprising losses and finishing somewhat behind their expectations, both the men's and women's fencing teams came back to defend themselves.Shaking off the bruises of the Ivy season, the Tigers placed fifth in the men's bracket and third in the women's among the fourteen colleges and universities who competed this past weekend at Vassar College at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championship.The overall format of the meet consisted of a two-day, back-to-back tournament.
Having already squandered one chance to win the outright Ivy League title, the men's hoops team knows it only gets one more.For the first time in the 46 year history of the league, there will be a two-game playoff to determine the champion and who gets the automatic bid to the NCAA Championships.Princeton (16-10 overall), Yale (19-9), and Penn (24-6) finished the season tied atop the standings with identical 11-3 records in league play.Princeton had a chance to avoid the playoff, but lost to Penn at the Palestra, 64-48, on Tuesday night.Princeton and Yale get the playoff started tonight at the Palestra.
