This weekend the softball team played the way it should have played all season. The Tigers swept Columbia in a doubleheader, posting two shutouts, then split a doubleheader with league leader Cornell.
Princeton is no Ohio State when it comes to having its players drafted into the National Football League.
Princeton women's golf stormed past the competition at the Ivy League Championships, taking home the title yesterday at Forsgate Country Club in Jamesburg, N.J.
It had been a long contest and an even longer match.But it still was not over for men's tennis.
"The third time's a charm."It's a familiar refrain. It's inspiring. It gives us hope in seemingly hopeless situations.
"Any Given Sunday" was not Oliver Stone's best work. Cameron Diaz was borderline ridiculous as an obnoxious young owner, and Al Pacino, despite flashes of brilliance, was overall pathetic as a football coach on the edge.But the movie had one redeeming moment.
Baseball Ivy Overall Gehrig division 1. Princeton 11-5 17-19 2. Columbia 8-8 14-24 3.
In a sport where the better team usually prevails, the No. 3 Princeton women's lacrosse team should not have lost to No.
One week after the Harvard heavyweight crew team became No. 1 on the East Coast, Princeton knocked them aside Saturday at Carnegie Lake.The Tigers finished in five minutes, 31.3 seconds ? two seconds ahead of the Crimson.
Men's golf proved Princeton mighty in the Ivy League jungle this weekend with a win at the Ivy Championships in Jackson, N.J.
It was all on the line for the men's lacrosse team. In a battle of Ivy unbeatens, No. 1 Princeton trailed No.
If the baseball season were a football game, winning three of four games last weekend against Columbia ? who was tied with the Tigersfor the league lead ? was the tiebreaking touchdown.
Princeton and Penn dominate men's basketball in the Ivy League. Princeton and Harvard dominate baseball.
Coming into this season the softball team was very optimistic about its chances for an Ivy League title.With a new coach, Maureen Davies '97 ? a former star pitcher at Princeton ? and with a lineup packed with experienced upperclassmen, the sky seemed to be the limit early in pre-season training.But things haven't turned out exactly as planned ? after winning its first two games the team has since been inconsistent, earning a sub-.500 overall record at 12-13 after being swept yesterday by Hofstra.
Kick back and relax. Cast your mind back to about a year ago. The spring air brought new life to campus, a life epitomized by the women's lacrosse team for most of its season.
Four years ago the 'Prince' ran an article on the women's golf team. The headline read "Trio of freshman stars look to help women's golf ease loss of all-time great Moan." Those freshmen are now seniors and they have a much bigger responsibility than easing the loss of Mary Moan.
The Ivy League has held a women's golf championship for four years. Yale has won three times, Princeton once.Of the four individual champions, two have come from Princeton and two from Yale.The first Ivy individual champion, Princeton's Mary Moan '97, is now the head coach at Yale.Yes, more than two teams do have women's golf teams, it just doesn't seem that way."As always, it's going to be another shootout between us and Yale," senior Julia Allison said.
EAST RUTHERFORD, Apr. 17 ? The last time Steve Goodrich '98 played a regular season game at Continental Airlines Arena, he was the leader of a team that would enter the postseason with a .963 winning percentage.Things have changed quite a bit since then for the 11th-leading scorer in the history of Princeton men's basketball.
As returning champions of the upcoming Ivy League tournament, the men's golf team feels the climate favorable for another victory.
If you haven't been following the men's lacrosse team this season, you've missed some excellent lacrosse, but it isn't too late to jump on the bandwagon.
