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Princeton Tigers: Dec. 3–11
The Tigers performed 16 video games and matches throughout 15 sports and 10 U.S. states and the Bahamas over the previous 9 days. Of the 9 video games the place just one crew got here out on high, the Tigers received half of their matches, lower than final version’s 53 %. Multiple-day meets and tournaments are counted individually for every day of the competitors. Competitions with multiple occasion or particular person outcomes — reminiscent of golf and cross nation — usually are not included in our win proportion evaluation.
This week, the Tigers received precisely 50 % of their video games. They took house 60 % of their video games at house, preserving house area benefit. The Tigers battled on the highway, successful barely lower than half of away video games.
Bring out the brooms
For the first time in 27 years, males’s hockey and girls’s hockey every swept their opponents on the highway over the weekend. Women’s hockey dominated Upstate New York, taking down ranked opponents Colgate and Cornell by a mixed rating of 9–3. On the males’s aspect, the Tigers solely gave up one aim of their wins over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College, scoring 9 of their very own.
Festive 5
After a record-breaking season, five of males’s soccer 11 starters earned All-Region Honors. Senior ahead Daniel Ittycheria, senior defender Jack Jasinski, and senior defender Giuliano Fravolini Whitchurch had been positioned on the first-team, and junior goalkeeper Andrew Samuels and sophomore Roka Tsunehara ended on the second crew of the United Coaches award checklist.
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Men’s swim and dive left their mark on Tiger history at the Big Al Invitational on Friday, etching three new names on the 500 Freestyle. Senior Mitchell Schott led the approach with a blazing 4:15.55 — outdoing his outdated report by two tenths — adopted by junior Arthur Balva and sophomore Santiago Gutierrez.
Alone at the high
With their very good 10–1 begin, girls’s basketball got here in at quantity one this week in the College Insider Mid-Major rankings this week. The ballot excludes Power Four conferences, the Big East, and former Pac-12 colleges Oregon State and Washington State. South Dakota State and James Madison spherical out the high three.
Right on observe
In the Penn Opener this weekend, girls’s observe and area bought off to a quick begin. Senior Maisha Atkinson ran the quickest time ever in Tiger history in the 300m sprint, with a 38.94, just one tenth sooner than the outdated report. Sophomore Alysa Carrigan leapt to new heights, matching the Princeton program report in the excessive soar, with a mark of 1.81m.
Slump of seven
After a 3–3 begin, males’s basketball has hit a seven-game dropping skid, final successful over 30 days in the past. The Tigers have fallen on arduous occasions, with the final winless streak of seven or longer coming in the spring of 2018. With one other loss, the Orange and Black could have the worst droop since 2008. Next up are Vermont and Temple, who’ve each already crushed Old Nassau this yr.
The Tigers noticed success on the area, ice, courtroom ,and in the pool this previous week as winter sports fell into swing. Fall sports ended their seasons; notably, area hockey fell in double additional time in the nationwide championship to Northwestern. Check again in subsequent semester to find out about all issues Princeton Athletics — By The Numbers.
Harrison Blank is a head Sports editor at the ‘Prince.’ This is Blank’s closing By the Numbers.
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