When the men's lacrosse team takes on an Ivy League opponent, the game isn't supposed to be close.
This is the most important weekend thus far in the baseball team's developing season. Period.In a four-game road trip north, the Tigers take on Dartmouth tomorrow and Harvard Sunday in back-to-back doubleheaders.
Coming off an upset of defending Ivy League champion Dartmouth March 24, the Yale women's lacrosse team has shot up in the national rankings and could pose as the greatest threat to No.
The women's lightweight crew team does not lose very often. Maybe once or twice a season ? rarely when it really matters.
There has been a long-standing rivalry between the Princeton and Dartmouth men's rugby teams which has grown deeper in recent years.
Water polo. Although most people have heard of the sport, many have little concept of what it looks like, or how it is played.
Seven minutes into women's lacrosse's game against Delaware last night, Princeton found itself in an unusual position, down 3-0 to a fiesty Blue Hen squad.That was when junior attack Kim Smith stepped up her game.Smith would score two goals in a three-minute stretch to tie the score at three, and would add two more later on in the game to lead the Tigers to a 9-6 victory over Delaware in Newark, Del.After Smith tied the score, 3-3, the two teams would trade goals until halftime when both teams went to the locker rooms with five goals.Delaware was the squad to come out of the half hot, however, as the Blue Hens took a 6-5 lead on Ashley Moderacki's second goal of the game one minute, 12 seconds into the second half.Junior attack Lauren Simone would even up the score four minutes later and the Tigers would never look back en route to their seventh win of the season.
It was the perfect day for a baseball game. The sun was shining, the skies were blue, spring peaked out from winter's shroud.
The softball team was getting anxious. Eight games had already been canceled due to rain this season.
The women's rugby team was certain that Penn State, the defending national champions, had not spent the morning practicing in a parking lot.The morning before they took on the Nittany Lions, the Tigers found the practice field in terrible shape, so they ran their practice in the parking lot outside Pier 1 Imports in Roanoke, Va.Apparently, asphalt was good to Princeton, as the Tigers took home the Mid-Atlantic Rugby Football Union regional championship, defeating Penn State and Navy in two gritty, hard-fought games in the rain and mud.Though all three teams had already qualified for the round of 16 in the national championship tournament, this was a battle for seeding, and the Tigers came out on top, earning the top seed in the East Region for the national championship tournament.In the first game of the weekend, Princeton took on Penn State, the defending national champion, in a grudge match.
'Prince' staff writer Austin Starkweather recently sat down with defenseman Damien Davis and midfielder Owen Daly of the men's lacrosse team.'Prince': When did you start playing lacrosse?Damien Davis: I was in first grade.
The women's golf team came into the William & Mary Invitational this weekend looking for another good finish leading up to the end-of-season tournaments and especially the Ivy Championships.After winning the Jacksonville Invitational over Spring Break after the second round was rained out, the Tigers once again faced wet conditions, this weekend at the Ford's Colony Country Club in Williamsburg, Va.The Tigers rallied for a team score of 646 which was good for a seventh-place finish in the tough conditions.Once again leading Princeton was freshman Esty Dwek who fired a closing-round 73 to jump from 12th place into a tie for second in the tournament.
It was another rough night for the men's volleyball team. After coming off two disappointing losses this past weekend, Princeton struggled again, falling in four games to league rival Rutgers-Newark (7-18 overall, 6-6 EIVA Tait Division).Having beaten the Scarlet Raiders 3-1 earlier in the season, it seemed that the Tigers would have little difficulty pulling out the win again last night.
SquashSenior Julia Beaver was named the Ivy League Player of the Year for the fourth year in a row.
With the first weekend of Ivy League baseball and the NCAA basketball Final Four taking place, it would have been easy for the men's track team to get lost in the shuffle.
PHILADELPHIA ? After Yale held the men's lacrosse team scoreless in the first quarter of their game Saturday, No.
Tom Hanks said it: There's no crying in baseball. The baseball team is taking a lesson from this A League of Their Own-issued decree after splitting doubleheaders this weekend with both Yale and Brown.
It was a game surrounded by hopes for revenge, feelings of sorrow, and desire for victory.Princeton was facing Brown ? a team that had upset the Tigers 8-5 at home on Feb.
Determination. It is what makes a team great ? its ability to overcome difficulties and still come up with victories.
Saturday's Princeton-Yale men's lacrosse game remained scoreless after the first quarter and saw the Tigers carrying only a 4-2 lead going into the locker room at half time.
