You've already heard more numbers than you'd ever hoped to.Bush leads by X votes, but there are X that haven't been counted yet, according to Gore.
Coming off three road games to open its season, women's basketball looked to the friendly confines of Jadwin Gymnasium to help jump-start its struggling offense.Yet once again, the shots didn't fall and the offense sputtered, and the Tigers fell to Delaware, 66-47, last night in their home opener.Princeton (0-4), which came into the game averaging just over 40 points per game in its previous three contests, knocked down just 12 of 42 field goal attempts, including just four of 21 from three-point range.The Blue Hens (3-2) controlled the tempo from the opening tip, knocking down the game's first basket and never trailing throughout the entire 40 minutes.Both teams struggled to score in the early going.
With the clock winding down on the season and Dartmouth about to kneel down on the game, Mike Higgins refused to give up.
Junior Dave Stathos is the goalie for the men's hockey team. He recently sat down with 'Prince' Senior Writer Clark Thiemann.'Prince': When you were starting to play hockey, why did you become a goalie?Dave Stathos: I actually played forward between the ages of four and six and actually was pretty good.
Sending only four wrestlers to the VerticalNet Open this past weekend in Chapel Hill, N.C., Princeton wanted some big match experience but was not expecting to put forth a impressive showing.
Abbey Fox's road to assistant captain for the women's ice hockey team has been anything but a smooth ride.
The leaders of the men's squash team are in a unique position this year."In individual sports, you pick the top players to be the captains," senior Harrison Gabel said.But that just happens to not be the case this season for the Tigers.Senior captains Gabel and Marshall Sebring were elected last spring to be this season's team leaders.
If a gardener gouges too deeply into the shrub he cares for, he runs the risk of killing it. But if he is careful, he can remove the longest limbs and leave a healthier, more attractive plant.Consider men's basketball head coach John Thompson '88, the new gardener who has to care for the pruning done by his predecessor.
Surpassing all expectations, four members of the Princeton wrestling team placed in the top three in their respective weight classes at the VerticalNet Open on Nov.
It's the classic story of a modern day David and Goliath. Or maybe "Hoosiers." Either way you want to look at it, the women's volleyball team is getting ready for its most intense competition of the season."We're setting up for the biggest upset in national volleyball history," senior captain Emily Brown said.After winning the Ivy League Championship two weeks ago in Cambridge, Mass., Princeton earned a bid to the NCAA Division I Championships.
For the last five years, the men's swimming and diving team has finished its season in the same undesirable place ? second, always looking up at the Eastern's champion.The champion of that meet for the last five years has been Harvard.But this year, with a deep core of experienced and talented seniors, along with a large group of skilled freshmen, Princeton hopes to reverse the outcome of years past."We are striving to slowly pick away at Harvard, who has been the main powerhouse in the East for the past several years," head coach Rob Orr said.This year, the team will rely on its balance in order to achieve its goal of finally toppling the Crimson.Princeton has already taken a big step on its road to a win at Easterns.In their first meet of the season, the Tigers dominated both Penn and Cornell Nov.
For four years, Brown women's swimming had dominated the pool at Ivies, with Princeton finishing second to the Bears for three of Brown's four consecutive championships.Last year's Tigers, however, changed all that.Fetching 794 points at the Ivy League championship, the Tigers capped an undefeated season by snatching the Ivy League title from Brown, ending its four-year reign.This season, the Tigers' goal is simple: win another Ivy League championship and leave the Bears gasping for air ? again."We're really fired up for the season," senior captain Kristen Szumera said.Repeating at Ivies is well within their reach.
Following a pair of lopsided losses to start the season, the women's basketball team finally found itself in a tight contest Saturday in the consolation game of the Beaver Classic in Corvallis, Ore.
When healthy, this is a young and inexperienced team. Saturday, it was something else entirely.The men's basketball team was without the services of two of its more experienced players, senior captain and forward Nate Walton ? out with a sprained ankle ? and junior guard Ahmed El-Nokali, still recovering from groin surgery.Also absent from the lineup was sophomore Chris Krug, who is taking a leave of absence until January for personal reasons.The result was only the second win for Monmouth (1-1) in seven meetings with Princeton (0-2). The Hawks rolled to a 70-59 victory."It hurts us," senior guard C.J.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. ? After Yale's Jeff Hamilton rocketed a shot past junior goalie Dave Stathos 45 seconds into the third period to cut the men's hockey team's lead to 2-1, it seemed like the momentum had shifted the Elis' way.One minute later the crowd at Ingalls Rink was silenced as junior forward Brad Parsons drove to the net bouncing a shot off the pads of Yale goalie Dan Lombard.
Women's hockey seems to be stuck in a rut.Like it has in previous games this season, Princeton struggled to light up the scoreboard while on the road this weekend, losing two eerily similar games.
A tight start can sometimes be converted into enough sweat and determination to pull out a win. Close games can lead to dramatic and memorable finishes.
It's not supposed to work this way. In man-down situations, the team is supposed to dig into the trenches behind the blueline and just try to survive the barrage of pucks flying at the goal until the POW steps out of the penalty box and back onto the ice.
When you get knocked down, you need to just get back up, dust yourself off and hit back.After a tough 3-1 loss at Yale last Saturday, the women's hockey team rebounded to defeat the Elis the very next day, 2-0, at Baker Rink.
Princeton men's basketball fans were more than a bit concerned about their team's future entering this year after such a destructive offseason.
