Cold temperatures in the East made golf conditions unfavorable in Annapolis, Md. at the Navy Spring Invitational this past weekend.
Despite the dreary unseasonable weather, tennis season is well underway. After a weekend of back-to-back matches, the men's and women's teams finished with 2-1 records in the Ivies.
Princeton hosted the Sam Howell Invitational last weekend and sent a contingent of athletes to Duke for the Duke Invitational.
Sometimes all it takes is a little inexperience. Two freshmen pitched masterful games to lead the baseball team to 11-2 and 1-0 wins over Dartmouth Sunday to rebound from 4-2 and 5-2 losses to Harvard the day before in two weekend doubleheaders at Clarke Field.Scouts came out in droves to see the Saturday pitching matchups, with Harvard's game-two starter Ben Crockett taking center stage.The first game pitted Justin Nywiede for the Crimson (5-11 overall, 2-0 Ivy check?) and junior Ryan Quillian for Princeton (10-15, 6-2). Quillian pitched a complete game but received no help from theoffense.Nywiede matched Quillian's complete game effort and held his 4-2 lead after four innings, thanks in part to retiring 10 out of the last 11 Princeton batters.Crockett took the mound in Harvard's 5-2 game two win against Princeton junior David Boehle.
A commonly accepted adage in baseball is that good pitching beats good hitting. Princeton's softball team could not agree more.The Tigers won four big games this weekend to move to 6-0 in the Ivy League and in sole possession of first place.
This weekend was a sweep on the water at Lake Carnegie. All three Princeton crew teams racing won all of their races.No opposing team came within six seconds of a Tiger boat on Saturday, both in Princeton and at the San Diego Crew Classic, in which the lightweight women raced."It was a good start to the season," senior heavyweight Sean McCormick said.
On a cold, blustery night not befitting of April, senior attackman B.J. Prager tipped in a centering feed from sophomore linemate Ryan Boyle 38 seconds into the third overtime as No.
Not even the unanticipated gust of snow flurries on the mid-April day could blow the women's lacrosse team off its course.Soaring to their ninth-straight victory, the Tigers trounced Yale, 11-5, at the Class of 1952 Stadium on Saturday afternoon, extending their winning streak over the Elis to 11.Four minutes into the second half, one minute after sophomore midfielder Theresa Sherry slung Princeton's eight-goal off an assist from senior attack Lauren Simone, the Elis won the ensuing draw and thought they had a chance to retaliate.But junior defender Rachael Becker intersected the oncoming attacker who, helplessly, dropped the ball and then, even more helplessly, watched as Becker scooped it up and connected with senior attack captain Charlotte Kenworthy for the team's ninth goal.This was just one play among many that seared any hope that No.
Only the immortal exclamation of Homer Simpson can describe how men's volleyball felt after its loss to Concordia Wednesday night ?"Doh!"After taking the first two games from the Clippers, the Tigers proceeded to lose the final three, falling 15-11 in the the deciding tiebreaker and dropping to 12-11 on the year.Princeton found itself on the brink of victory during the third game, but was unable to seal the deal against a determined Concordia team.
This Saturday, the women's lacrosse team will host Yale in its third Ivy League game of the season.Yale has a long history of losses against Princeton to overcome going into this match.
The objective in softball is simple: score more runs than the other team.Princeton softball understands this point well.
The sights are set.After a sweep of Gehrig Division rival Penn, the Tigers' baseball team is 4-0 in the Ivy League and is poised to take a commanding lead in the race for the Ivy crown.Princeton (8-12 overall) ? which has won six of its last seven games ? looks to build on the success of last weekend and take out Ivy foes Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend.
The drive from Durham, NC to Old Nassau is about 430 miles. That gives the Duke men's lacrosse team a seven-hour bus-ride to think about how it is going to beat Princeton this evening at 1952 Stadium.So what will the team dream about first when the light goes off and the seats go back?It might first ponder the category in which, compared to Princeton, it is the strongest.
Parties on both U.S. coasts could take place this weekend if crew steps up to its challengers and has them eating their bubbles.This weekend all four crew teams will get their feet wet for the first time in the same weekend this spring.
Many people know about the Princeton's men's lacrosse team. They know about the swim team, the women's lacrosse team and the men's basketball team.
Senior pitcher Bill Broome was facing a chance to send the game into extra innings for his team. He had managed to fight his way out of an opening hit double as his infield took care of the first two runners in a position to score.
Five minutes into yesterday's women's lacrosse game, University of Delaware head coach Denise Wescott called a timeout.Her team was already losing 4-0.Two minutes later, her team was losing 5-0.In fact, for the first seven minutes of the game, Princeton averaged about a goal a minute.
No one expected this. No one could have even imagined this. After winning its sixth national championship in 10 years last May, the men's lacrosse team now sits at 2-4 overall and on the brink of missing the postseason for the first time in over 10 years.
After the tough weekend loss against Yale, the Princeton men's lacrosse team (3-4 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) rebounded with an easy 18-4 victory over visiting Penn yesterday afternoon at 1952 Stadium.It was a bittersweet victory, however, playing so well only three days after playing so poorly and losing to Yale."[Winning today] is certainly not a euphoric feeling," head coach Bill Tierney said.
"M-A-R-Y-L-A-N-D. Maryland will win."I have been singing those last two lines of the University of Maryland fight song since I was about 10 years old.
