Every softball player dreams of hitting a game-winning home run in the last inning of a close contest.
For the men's and women's fencing teams, the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championship may be unlike any other event of the season.
There's something about March.While college basketball teams across the country await their fates at the hands of the NCAA Selection Committee, the men's volleyball team still controls its own destiny going into its last five matches before the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association tournament in mid-April.
PHILADELPHIA ? Entering last night's season finale at the Palestra, fans and observers wondered which women's basketball team would show up.
Tournaments always provide the opportunity for underdog sports teams to shock the world. For the wrestling team, its opportunity to play Cinderella was this weekend at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships in Annapolis, Md.Unfortunately for Princeton, however, the glass slipper did not quite fit.The Tigers ? despite a strong individual performance from junior Jeff Bernd in the 149 lb.
PHILADELPHIA ? For a brief time during the second half last night, it seemed the men's basketball team was on its way to pulling off another 'Palestra Miracle.'But on Senior Night at the Palestra, Penn had a different ending in mind.
With the Ivy League title already decided, men's basketball's matchup with first-place Penn tonight at the Palestra is all about pride.Penn humbled the Tigers (19-9 overall, 11-2 Ivy League) Feb.
PISCATAWAY ? When the final horn blew, it was hard to tell who had won the women's lacrosse game Sunday at Rutgers.In the battle for New Jersey prominence, all of the players had their heads hanging a little low.
Like a rising ocean, the women's basketball team has slowly been climbing up and submerging the Ivy league opposition, teams that had previously defeated it.
At the team level, Princeton squash faced a lot of changes this year. The women's team did not win the national championship for the first time in three years, and the men's team won the Ivy League outright for the first time since 1982.
The playoffs are still a week away for the men's hockey team, but a look at this weekend's games would seem to indicate that playoff intensity has already arrived.With the extreme parity of the Eastern College Athletic Conference this season ? a league in which third-place Rensselaer finished only two games ahead of eighth-place Dartmouth ? the final weekend weighed heavily in the standings.Princeton's first opponent, second-place Colgate, was fighting for the league title and its second foe, Cornell (13-12-2 overall, 10-9-1 ECAC), had home-ice playoff aspirations similar to those of the Tigers.
With 11 minutes, 55 seconds remaining in Saturday night's men's basketball contest at Jadwin Gym, the game just didn't seem to matter anymore.It wasn't because the Tigers were 26 points ahead and cruising to an easy 85-57 victory.Instead, it was due to a seemingly inevitable announcement: Penn 69, Yale 52.Despite the win over Brown, which followed a 56-46 win over Yale on Friday, Princeton will finish behind the Quakers in the Ivy League for the second year in a row.
An entire season hinged on a single weekend. The women's hockey team was on the bubble, and the Tigers needed only two points to gain a berth to the playoffs.Those two points, however, had to be gleaned off Eastern College Athletic Conference leaders Brown and Harvard.
BALTIMORE ? The partisan crowd at the men's lacrosse game at Homewood Field on Saturday had issues.
With the first place in the Eastern Championship out of reach by the time of the 400-meter free relay ? the final event of this weekend ? the Princeton men's swimming and diving team and its legion of fans were anything but defeated as the meet came to its end.The Tigers and their fans, cheering at the top of their lungs, had DeNunzio louder than at any point this weekend as they watched the final swimmer ? senior captain Jamie Holder ? power into the wall ahead of the favored Harvard relay, giving Princeton its first victory in that event at Easterns since 1980."It was just amazing.
With 78 teams and 1,732 athletes, the 79th Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America Championships is the largest and oldest collegiate indoor track meet in the nation.
When the men's hockey team last met Cornell and Colgate Dec. 3-4, sophomore goalie Dave Stathos had possibly the best weekend of his career to lead the Tigers to two victories.This weekend, Stathos might have to do it again to give the Tigers home ice in the first round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference playoffs next weekend.Princeton (10-13-3 overall, 8-8-3 ECAC) sit in a four-way tie for third in the ECAC with Clarkson, Dartmouth and Renssalaer going into this weekend's series.
On most teams, the seniors provide leadership and guidance for the rest of the team, leading by example.The softball team has only one senior, but the example that No.
During the 1990s, the men's lacrosse team enjoyed a decade of dominance. Five national championships, seven Ivy League titles, 10 NCAA tournament appearances.
With the disappearance of last year's defensive unit, the men's lacrosse team must now turn to its inexperienced youth.
