Category: sports/the_princeton_packet

PDS girls soccer claims Prep B crown By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Kirsten Kuzmicz is retiring from soccer at the age of 17, and she’s going out a winner.    The Princeton Day School senior’s year did not begin ideally, but it ended as well as she could have imagined as she assisted on Madison…

By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Paula Tessein knew that she had a motivated team to begin the field hockey state tournament.    Her fourth-seeded West Windsor-Plainsboro High North squad has a lot of experience and they have a lot of seniors, a combination that bodes well.    ”We have 10 seniors,” said the Knights head coach.…

PDS girls tennis takes three flights By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Facing what would have been an emotional loss to end her high school tennis career, Emily Dyckman turned to Gatorade and a Nature Valley bar to reenergize her.    The nutrition helped to bolster the Princeton Day School senior after she lost the second…

Goalie carries PHS into county boys soccer finals By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    EWING — It doesn’t get any better than this for a goalie.    Or, for that matter just about any soccer player.    Princeton High School senior goalkeeper Laurenz Reimitz came up with two huge saves in overtime and then added two more during…

Half-marathon set for Sunday By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    When Mark Censits fires the starting gun at 7 a.m. Sunday, it will send 1,250 runners down Paul Robeson Way in the Princeton Half-Marathon that is expected to be a little bigger and a little better than its inaugural running.    Censits is grand marshal this…

MHS girls soccer ends year with three straight wins By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Helen Sluder won’t forget the championship seasons with the Montgomery High School girls soccer team.    She also won’t be able to forget the rebuilding season that the Cougars just finished.    ”A lot of the girls weren’t used to the level…

Pulimood paces Pirates to XC crown By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Nikhil Pulimood took the lead from the beginning of the Mercer County Championship cross country race at Thompson Park last Friday.    Alone out front is a position that the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South senior likes more at the end of a race, not…

By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    JAMESBURG — When Nikhil Pulimood finished second to teammate Tom Vinci at last year’s Mercer County cross country championship meet, he knew his time would come a year later.    ”It’s a tradition here that the top senior wins and Tom did it last year,” said Pulimood, a senior at West…

By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    There was no quit in the Princeton High School field hockey team.    The Little Tigers could have wilted after three-time defending champion Lawrenceville scored twice within a minute for a 2-0 lead in Saturday’s Mercer County Tournament final. But instead, Princeton responded with a goal its own and made the…