Category: sports/the_princeton_packet
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PRINCETON: PU women’s XC finishes fifth at NCAA meet
Brandeland is surprise contributor for Tigers By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Megan Brandeland was among the top 20 runners in her native Minnesota, but she came to Princeton University as a triple jumper. Four years later, the senior helped the Tiger women’s cross country team finish fifth at the NCAA Championships on Monday, the…
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Curious Georges win fantasy football title
Twamley, Gordon pace easy road to title George O’Gorman’s Curious Georges team emerged as the third different champion in the three-year history of the Princeton Packet Fantasy Football League, easily outdistancing defending champion Bob Nuse’s Good Nuse Bears for the title. Behind the strong scoring of running backs David Twamley and Josh Gordon, O’Gorman’s team…
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Webber, Young advance to Princeton’s Greatest semis
Two more quarterfinals underway Former girls’ soccer standout Saskia Webber, as well as former basketball and football star Darius Young have advanced to the semifinals of the Princeton High’s Greatest Athlete contest. Webber narrowly defeated former boys’ soccer star and coach Ron Celestin with 52 percent of the vote. Young topped former football and lacrosse star Jim…
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WW-P South football season ends in CJ IV semis
Pirate seniors won 20 games in two years By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor This was not the way the West Windsor-Plainsboro South football team wanted its season to end. ”It hits you like a Mack truck that it’s gone and you have nothing left,” Pirates senior quarterback Connor Farrell said after a 40-7 loss to…
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WW-P South’s Kellner third at Meet of Champions
MHS’ Prentice, Caroline Kellner in top 25 By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor HOLMDEL — At the beginning of the fall, Katie Kellner told her West Windsor-Plainsboro girls’ cross country teammates her big goal. The Pirates senior wanted to be one of the top 10 girls who stand on the podium at Holmdel Park for…
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WW-P North boys win XC Meet of Champions
Knights’ pack outruns Don Bosco By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor HOLMDEL — The West Windsor-Plainsboro North boys’ cross country team completed its four-year climb to the top Saturday. The Knights became the first Mercer County team to win the Meet of Champions when they scored just 41 points and topped it off with a…
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PU football at best in season finale victory
Culbreath reaches milestones vs. Dartmouth By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Roger Hughes never doubted that the 2008 Princeton University football team was a special team. Winning, 28-10, over Dartmouth in the season finale confirmed it again for the Tigers head coach. ”A lot of teams with the adversity we’ve gone through with being 3-6…
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PU, Culbreath finish season on high note
Tigers dominate Dartmouth, 28-10 By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Roger Hughes called the Princeton University football team’s season finale bittersweet because its 28-10 win on Powers Field at Princeton Stadium on Saturday came at the expense of his former team, Dartmouth, which struggled to a winless finish. It was bittersweet too for the Tigers…
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Girls’ Soccer Player of the Year
Nothing much got past MHS’ Mancino By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Ally Mancino doesn’t remember exactly how young she was when she became a goalkeeper, but she remembers why. ”I was the only one who wasn’t afraid to get hit by the ball,” Mancino said. “It kind of stuck with me.” Now it only…
