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.
Friday, March 30 Men's tennis vs. Temple (2 p.m. at Lenz Tennis Center) Women's track at Sam Howell Invitational (7 p.m.
The open and lightweight women's crew teams begin their season tomorrow morning. The open crew team faces Brown on Lake Carnegie while the lightweight women will participate in the Camden Invitational.Coming off big victories from last spring and this fall, the teams begin the season optimistic and prepared.Both teams began practicing on the first day of classes in September.
With six Ivy League games in four weeks, the women's lacrosse team has its hands full. After an easy 18-3 win over Columbia Tuesday night, the No.
Domination.It is the first word which comes to mind when describing Princeton's Ivy League record over the last nine years.Domination.Over this time frame, the Tigers have lost a total of two games.
After a long and exhaustive training season extending back to the first day of classes in September, Saturday finally marks the beginning of the 2001 rowing season for the men's heavyweight and lightweight crew teams.
Junior Brie Galicinao (2-4) may just have been getting tired when she stepped to the plate for the softball team yesterday afternoon in the top of the 11th inning of a 0-0 game at Rutgers.
John McGillicuddy '52 was recognized at the Ivy Football Association dinner at the Pierre Hotel March 22.
Princeton football traveled to Japan over Spring Break to take on the Kwansei Gakuin University Fighters ? a team that has been in 42 of the last 50 Japanese national collegiate championship games.Almost a year-and-a-half ago, representatives of KGU invited the Princeton football team on an all-expense paid trip to Japan to play the Fighters as a part of the school's 111th anniversary celebration."I couldn't imagine a better educational opportunity for these student athletes," said Director of Athletics Gary Walters, who accompanied the Tigers on their trip.
After completing the final year of an outstanding college career for the men's hockey team, senior forward Chris Corrinet will be moving on to the professional level.George McPhee, Vice President and General Manager of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League, announced yesterday that his team had signed the right wing to a two-year contract.The Capitals assigned Corrinet to the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League, a feeder league for the NHL.
Often, the only way to bounce back from a few tough losses is to face another good opponent quickly.
The baseball team heads into Ivy League play this weekend as an unproven team. It has lost 13 of its first 17 games, but the lofty level of competition of those games makes ascertaining the Tigers' position among Ivy teams very difficult.Princeton had its latest installment of troubles with a high-caliber program last night against Rutgers.
I'm not sure if the Rutgers tuition bill is itemized, but if it is, students might see an additional charge next year.Next to tuition and room and board would be a charge on each of the 25,000 undergraduates bills: $22 ? Kevin Bannon Retirement FundYes, a "retirement" fund for Kevin Bannon, the head basketball coach for the Scarlet Knights who was fired last week for only posting a 59-60 record over his tenure in New Brunswick.So, rather than keeping the unsuccessful coach with the program, Rutgers bought out Bannon's contract for something in the neighborhood of $600,000.But what makes the story even more outrageous is the fact that it was only last summer when Athletic Director Bob Mulcahy gave Bannon ? the embattled coach ? a three-year contract extension.This is not the first time students are paying for the mistakes of a misguided AD who failed to look at the bottom line when dealing with big-time athletics.Two years ago, Minnesota basketball coach Clem Haskins was embroiled in a scandal that would eventually place the program under harsh NCAA sanctions.
The men's and women's track teams finished their Spring Break trip to Florida by competing in the Florida Invitational in Miami, Fla.Junior Catherine Casey won the 1500 meter run with a time of 4 minutes, 40.03 seconds, beating out Kim Grabarz of Connecticut by .2 seconds.
It was a gruesome day for golf and a beautiful day for a golf team.Members of the women's golf team looked out their windows in Gadsden, Ala., March 20 and saw water everywhere.
Coming off an ugly win against Penn State on Sunday, the women's lacrosse team burst into Ivy League action, making a big statement against Columbia yesterday by crushing them 18-3.
PISCATAWAY ? After losing to defending national champion Syracuse and falling from No. 1 to No.
