Princeton

NORFOLK, Va. -- Attackman Scott Conklin scored five goals and goalie Scott Bacigalupo (St. Paul's) made 16 saves as No. 3 Princeton beat No. 2 North Carolina, 16-9, yesterday at Foreman Field.The Tigers (3-0) scored the first four goals and took a 10-2 advantage with three seconds left in the third quarter. The Tar Heels (1-3) held Princeton scoreless in the final 7:26.

Four days after the emotional high of its biggest win of the season, the top-ranked Maryland women's lacrosse team took the field Wednesday against No. 13 Princeton, keenly aware of the potential for a letdown. That letdown indeed came in the second half - but not before the host Terps had the game well in hand. Maryland won the first four draws, got off 11 of the first 12 shots and built a seven-goal lead by halftime, surviving Princeton's second-half run before pulling away for a 15-9 win at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex.

Even during a rebuilding year, Princeton has more lacrosse talent than Notre Dame.Just barely.The Tigers, still trying to regroup after key personnel losses from last year's national championship team, took an early two-goal lead and hung on for a 6-4 win over Notre Dame yesterday at the Gilman School.Notre Dame midfielder Jason Pett scored his third goal with 10:15 left in the game to cut the deficit to two goals, but the Fighting Irish could not score in the remaining time despite outshooting the Tigers, 7-2.Princeton goalie Pat Cairns, from Boys' Latin, was superb in the final minutes with four saves.

McDonogh All-Metro senior lacrosse players Owen Daly and Joe Rosenbaum said they have applied for early decision to attend Princeton, where they plan to play for the three-time defending NCAA champions.The duo joins Gilman's Damien Davis, an All-Metro defenseman, who announced last week that he had applied to Princeton.Daly, a member of U.S. under-19 lacrosse team, is considered by many Division I lacrosse coaches to be the nation's No. 1 midfield recruit. Rosenbaum, who last season was the only undergraduate from the MIAA A Conference to earn All-America honors, ranks with Davis as a top defensive recruit.

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Princeton's a basketball team, a really good men's college basketball team, but that doesn't fully explain its popularity.Princeton's a basketball team, a really white basketball team, and for too many, that's part of its appeal, too."I guess it's got to be out there, right?" Princeton center Steve Goodrich said yesterday.Oh, it's there.It's there right under the surface.It's always there in this racially charged society.Goodrich is writing his senior thesis on "Changing Representations of the Black Athlete in American Society," comparing media coverage of Jesse Owens and Joe Louis in the '30s to the coverage of Muhammad Ali in the '60s.

COLLEGE PARK -- For a year, the Maryland women's lacrosse team waited for a chance to avenge a one-goal upset loss to Princeton at Byrd Stadium in last year's national semifinals.However, the Tigers also had a few demons to exorcise yesterday, and they did so, again at Maryland's expense, beating the top-ranked and previously undefeated Terps, 10-7, to win the national championship at Byrd Stadium before 3,522.As the Princeton players and coach Chris Sailer made their way into the post-game news conference, they carried with them the championship trophy, which eluded them in last year's final, an 8-6 overtime loss to Virginia.

The No. 6 Maryland women's lacrosse team could not come back from a second-half surge by host and No. 8 Princeton last night and lost, 9-8. Delia Cox (three goals, one assist) scored twice in the final seven minutes, including a goal with 49 seconds left to cut the deficit to 9-8, but the Terps couldn't get any closer. Maryland, which trailed 2-1 early, took a 4-2 lead into halftime after holding the Tigers without a goal in the final 23 minutes of the first half. The Terps (12-7) took their first lead with 7:06 left in the half on a Krista Pellizzi goal, then got a goal from Casey Magor in the final minute to make it 4-2. The Tigers' defense tightened up and the offense outscored the Terps 7-4 in the second half.

When Princeton opened the season with a 10-7 victory over Hofstra last Saturday, a few familiar names dotted the box score. Senior attackman Jeff Froccaro and junior midfielder Tom Schreiber each recorded two goals and one assist, sophomore attackman Mike MacDonald scored three goals against the Pride for the second straight year, and senior Bobby Lucas won six of eight faceoffs. There were also some fresh(man) faces. Attackman Ryan Ambler posted four points on one goal and three assists, goalkeeper Matt O'Connor made six saves, and midfielder Jake Froccaro and defenseman Mark Strabo also started.

PHILADELPHIA -- The wild celebration started the instant Andy Moe's shot whistled into the Syracuse goal. Princeton's players tumbled around the field and pummeled one another in joy.The team took a victory lap. Holding the NCAA lacrosse championship plaque aloft, senior Justin Tortolani joined in the parade around Franklin Field.In one of the biggest upsets in the tournament's 22 years, No. 3 Princeton defeated top-seeded Syracuse, 10-9, on Moe's sudden-death goal nine seconds into the second overtime yesterday before 13,650.