With senior Brie Galicinao on the mound, the Tigers don't need much help to win. But the Monmouth softball team made the cardinal sin in softball, giving a strong hitting team extra outs in an inning.
Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Austin Starkweather sat down with men's lacrosse's junior attackman Josh White.P: Josh, I'm going to give you a couple names of guys on the team, and you tell me the first thing that comes to your mind.
Coach Luis Nicolao tried to explain the unexpected loss at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Champioship semifinal matchup against Hartwick last weekend."We just didn't finish our chances," he said.
Yesterday afternoon, Princeton Director of Athletics Gary Walters '67 removed his name from consideration for the same position at UCLA, thus ending the possibility of his leaving his alma mater this year.Last week, he, along with a few others, was listed as being a finalist for the position at the prestigious California school.Yesterday, though, he announced that he would stay in Jadwin Gym."I am announcing my withdrawal from the selection process," Walters said.
The men's and women's golf teams both faced off against tough competition this weekend. The men's team played well enough to capture fourth at the Princeton Invitational at Springdale Golf Club, while the women's team finished third at the James Madison Invitational.The men's team took fourth this past weekend at the Princeton Invitational.The Tigers were led by sophomore Jon Nuger, who shot a two-day total of 141.Senior James Milam finished right behind him with a 143, and sophomore Greg Johnson rounded out Princeton's top three with a 147.
The pattern of improvement that has characterized the men's track team thus far continued Saturday as Princeton played host to a strong trio of Pennsylvania schools.
A shot at the Ivy League title was riding on Saturday's match. After a solid 5-2 win over Dartmouth (10-6 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) on Friday, the men's tennis team looked ready to take on archrival Harvard (8-3, 2-0).But given tough windy conditions and an extremely deep team, the Tigers lost 6-1 to the Crimson.
The women's outdoor track season continued to pick up steam as the Tigers came in second behind Penn this weekend at an Ivy Meet.
"He who laughs last, laughs best," proclaims a wise English proverb. And last year, Princeton's women's water polo team did not laugh last.
Control of your own destiny is something that every team wants to have when it comes to a championship.The women's softball team knows that if it wins out, it will win at least a share of the Ivy title.
This weekend three Princeton crews raced against a total of five teams in three states.The heavyweight men's team swept its races at Penn in the Childs Cup.
Although the scores may not show it, the women's tennis team had quite a competitive weekend as they went up against Dartmouth and Harvard.
Princeton versus Penn State. It had all the makings of a classic. For seniors Scott Dore, Joel Moxley, Gary Chern, and Andrew Hutchinson it was quite possibly the last game they would ever play at Dillon Gym.This year's senior class wanted to go out on top, but in its way stood the Nittany Lions.
On Apr. 11, the Los Angeles Times reported that Gary Walters '67 ? Princeton University's Director of Athletics ? is a finalist for the position of the next Director of Athletics at UCLA.
In a matter of seconds, the women's lacrosse team obliterated Harvard's hopes of even coming close to winning, as the No.
Six of the nation's elite field hockey squads, including Princeton, made their way to 1952 Stadium yesterday for the 7-Aside tournament.The visiting teams were Old Dominion, Maryland, Penn State, Boston University and Syracuse.
Call it a statement. No, call it a warning. Behind a career-high nine points from sophomore attackman Ryan Boyle, the men's lacrosse team dismantled Harvard, 18-4, last Saturday, serving notice that the defending national champions have plenty of fight left in them.The victory puts the Tigers' record at 5-4 overall and 2-1 in the Ivy League.
The good news: the baseball team's freshman southpaw Jason Vaughan threw a four-hit shutout against Brown in Providence, R.I.; the Princeton defense committed no errors in Sunday's loss at Yale; sophomore Thomas Pauly continued his excellence by pitching 6.2 innings of four-hit ball in the Tigers' 6-3, 13-inning defeat of Yale.The bad news: junior Ryan Quillian surrendered seven earned runs to the Elis in just two innings pitched; the defense committed four errors in Princeton's weekend-opening loss to the Bears.The thrilling extra-innings game capped off an up and down weekend for the Tigers.
The Princeton women's lacrosse team is currently No. 1 in the nation. However, in the words of senior attack Mimi Hammerberg, "ranking doesn't mean jack squat if you don't play your best every game."With this in mind, the Tigers (9-1 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) head to Cambridge tomorrow for a game against unranked Harvard.
This weekend, the men's and women's track and field teams start a month long build-up to the heptagonal championships with full-strength quad and tri meets, respectively.
