Recently, junior track runner Michael Baird sat down with 'Prince' senior writer Penn Stabler.Prince: Hey, so what's up?Baird: Greetings, I'm great.
Practically undefeated.That is the best description for the women's water polo team's preseason.The Tigers, who finished their preparation toward the start of the College Water Polo Association League with an 8-1 record, mastered all top quality matches, including those at the Princeton and Brown Invitationals.The only team Princeton didn't defeat was 13th-ranked Michigan, who defeated the Tigers in a painful game at the Brown Invitational.
Until this weekend, the last time a Princeton athlete had won an indvidual title at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Assocation championships, junior Greg Parker was watching Thundercats and eating Frosted Flakes.Sunday, Parker became the first Tiger in 16 years to win an individual championship at the EIWA, taking the crown in the 174-pound weight class.The junior earned a trip to the NCAA tournament, which will be held March 22-23 at the Pepsi Arena in Albany, N.Y.Parker is a native of nearby Clifton Park, N.Y.Princeton placed ninth overall at the EIWA championships, which were held at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.The Tigers best finisher besides Parker was senior Juan Venturi, who finished fourth at 141 lbs.
The men's basketball team couldn't miss a three-pointer late in the second half against Louisville ? except for its last shot.Senior guard Ahmed El Nokali missed a leaning three-pointer from 30 feet as time expired, dooming the Tigers to a heartbreaking 64-63 defeat at the hands of the Cardinals at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Ky.The Tigers had clawed their way back point-by-point from a double-digit deficit in the second half by hitting three-pointers.Senior forward Mike Bechtold, playing his final game in a Princeton uniform, led the charge with 24 points after he scored 19 in the Tigers' playoff loss to Yale Thursday night.
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.
