Women's soccerPrinceton finally got its chance to open its Ivy League season against rival Dartmouth on Sunday.
For men's soccer, the scene Saturday in Hanover, N.H., was strikingly familiar. For the second consecutive year, Princeton was facing Dartmouth in the Ivy League season opener.
Football Ivy Overall T1. Harvard 1-0 1-0 T1. Yale 1-0 1-0 T3. Penn 0-0 1-0 T3.
It wasn't all that an impressive stat line. Sophomore quarterback Dave Splithoff managed to complete 31 of 39 passes, but for just 228 yards while being intercepted twice.
Remembering the pain of last year's 3-1 loss to Dartmouth on September 23, the men's soccer team is prepared for a tough battle against one of its biggest Ivy League rivals.Playing in Hanover tomorrow at 1 p.m., the Dartmouth game is the Tigers' (2-0-1) Ivy League opener, and a very important game for momentum going into the season.So far this season, Princeton has looked good ? undefeated at 2-0-1 ? but the Tigers know how important this game can be.
Two goals against Northeast-ern. Three against Syracuse. Three more against Drexel. And four more against Columbia.
Historically, Princeton has owned Lehigh on the gridiron. Since the teams began playing each other back in the 19th century, the Tigers have amassed a 36-8-2 record against the Mountain Hawks.As most football buffs know, however, the recent history of the series has been anything but the rivalry that the Old Nassau faithful would like it to be ? Lehigh has won six of the last nine games.The question of whether or not the Mountain Hawks have the ability to continue their recent dominance will be answered this Saturday at 1 p.m.
What happens when two teams that have not given up a goal in three combined games meet in the Ivy League opener?Fans of both the Princeton (2-0) and Dartmouth (1-0) women's soccer teams will find out Sunday when the Big Green and the Tigers meet in Hanover, N.H.
Going into last night's game at Rutgers, the Scarlet Knights had dominated the men's soccer team in recent years.Since 1995, Princeton had gone 0-5-1 against Rutgers and had been beaten soundly the past four years, including a 2-0 defeat at home last season.And while the Tigers (2-0-1) still were unable to break their winless streak, Princeton showed it could hang with the No.
Last year the women's soccer team posted 13 shutouts on its way to an appearance in the NCAA tournament.This year's Tiger squad has picked up where its predecessors left off, opening the season with 180 minutes of shutout play, including last night's 6-0 win over Lehigh on Lourie-Love Field.Princeton (2-0) dominated its last game before the beginning of league play from start to finish ? the Mountain Hawks (2-4) rarely touched the ball in the Tigers' end and when they did were quickly swarmed."Defense is our pride," junior midfielder Alex Fiore said after the game.
You had to feel sorry for the players on the Columbia field hockey team.They did everything Princeton asked of them, driving down like good little Lions to 1952 Stadium on a Wednesday night, arriving on time, ready to play.There were no insults, no outrageous claims, nothing that should have raised the ire of the mighty Tigers.And yet after seventy minutes, the Tigers sent the Lions home to New York with nothing to show for their efforts but the bitter taste of a 7-1 drubbing.And, as one Columbia player moaned to her coach on the way to the bus, the Tigers did so with "no seniors!"It did not take long for the Tigers to establish their superiority over the Lions.
At times like these, words are inadequate. But they are all I have to give. I played in four different soccer leagues from kindergarten through ninth grade.
Who would you ask for if you needed a leader with plenty of experience and a killer set? If you were a volleyball coach, you would ask for senior setter Ana Yoerg.As the only senior on the 2001 women's volleyball team, Ana has been thrust into the role of leader ? one for which she is most definitely prepared."As a freshman Ana didn't play much, but we put her in during the [Ivy League Tournament] because of her size and her maturity," head coach Glenn Nelson said.
Investment banking and graduate schools, not football, are typical pursuits of Princeton graduates after they walk through Fitz-Randolph gate on graduation day.
Change ? it's a fact of life.In the world of college sports, it's a given that the beginning of a new season always involves change.
"I wake up every morning and go to work in mesh shorts and flipflops," Ross Tucker '01 said, slowly waking up from an after-work nap that lasted from 6 to 9 p.m.
Hickory, a town of roughly 37,000 people in the Piedmont region of North Carolina is probably best known for its furniture, hosiery and textiles.
Year after year, William Wallace, that rainbow-faced warrior from Scottish lore rallied his troops against the more powerful armies to the south.
The success of the women's cross-country team rests on quite a few shoulders ? many of which belong to sophomores.
Last season the men's cross country team was expected to finish among the top teams in the nation.
