Category: sports/the_princeton_packet
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Packet Athlete of the Week
West Windsor-Plainsboro South’s Tia Williams is the Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski
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Spring lifts PU hopes
Tigers football likes potential By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Princeton University took the spring to get its first look at the 2008 football team, and the Tigers liked what they saw as they head into the summer. ”No. 1, I like the chemistry of the team,” said PU head coach Roger Hughes. “The whole…
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Cougar defense is strong as Oake
MHS girls’ lax has second straight win By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor Brittany Oake is one of those players who really enjoys playing defense. On Saturday, Oake and the rest of the Montgomery High School girls’ lacrosse defense played it about as well as they have all season. The effort was strong enough to lead…
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Tartans control Hun lax
Passano keys Stuart victory By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Caroline Passano had plenty of goals and assists, but it was her draw controls that were equally important in the Stuart Country Day School girls’ lacrosse team’s 14-13 win over The Hun School on Friday in one of the best games of the early season.…
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Pirates rebound for win behind Kelman
Pitcher also hits for South softball By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor It didn’t take West Windsor-Plainsboro South’s softball team long to put its first loss of the year behind it. Alyssa Kelman was as brilliant as Thursday’s sun on the mound and at the plate to get the Pirates back on track in an…
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Robison born to run marathon. . . and more
PU grad student takes father’s distance route By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Susan Robison was born into distance running. Her father, Wendell, has completed approximately 50 100-mile races. He was one of the organizers of the Big Horn Mountain Wild and Scenic Trail Run. As a young girl living in Sheridan, Wyo., Robinson was…
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Sciotto part of MHS girls’ track records
Cougars surprise in county relays By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Danny Sciotto didn’t expect much at the Somerset County Relays on Saturday. The Montgomery High School sophomore was just happy to get back out on the track with the girls’ team, given how little time she has spent there over the last two weeks…
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Reisman, PHS enjoy first win in softball
Senior sees new energy in squad By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Kasey Reisman has seen it all at Princeton High School. Since the spring of 2006, she has been at two completely different ends of the spectrum. The senior has played the last two fall seasons on a PHS girls’ tennis team that hardly…
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Knights are perfect in season of promise
WW-P North tennis faces PHS next By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Four players return to the lineup from last year for the West Windsor-Plainsboro North boys’ tennis team, and those Knights are back with loftier goals. They remember the difficult start to last season. It was trial by fire as they lost to three…
