Category: sports/the_princeton_packet

  • Column: Justin Time

    Giving credit where it is due By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Kevin Jacoutot wants credit.    Not for the job he’s done as the Montgomery High School wrestling head coach, but for the people who made it possible to make the Cougars into a state tournament team in two years.    Jacoutot wants those to remember,…

  • Hun girls top PDS to reach Prep A final

    Hun girls top PDS to reach Prep A final

    Rigous filling role at point By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor   When Megan Rigous arrived at the Hun School a year ago, she needed to adjust her game to fit what the Raiders needed.    When Hun found itself in need of a point guard this year, it was time for Rigous to adjust again.    ”This year…

  • Hun girls top PDS to reach Prep A final

    Hun girls top PDS to reach Prep A final

    Hun School senior Emily Gratch drives to the basket while being defended by Princeton Day School’s Tiffany Patterson during the Raiders’ 77-31 win in the Prep A semifinals on Wednesday. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Good Knight

    Good Knight

    West Windsor-Plainsboro High North’s Kathy Ruiz is congratulated by her mother, Anayansi, and her father, Luis, after becoming the first Knight girl to score 1,000 points in her basketball career. Photo by Dennis Symons Jr.

  • MHS vaulters get jump on sectional titles

    Xu, Smith join Paladino as Cougars’ champs By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor   Two of the three individual North Jersey 2, Group III titles for Montgomery High School came in pole vault won last Friday, three days before the rest of the field competed.    That meant few were there to witness the Cougars’ Kan Xu…

  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    WW-P South’s Becky Peters is the Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week.HR>Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • PDS falls in Prep B hockey final

    Deeper Mo-Beard tops shorthanded Panthers By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Princeton Day School’s game plan to defeat defending Prep B boys’ ice hockey champion Morristown-Beard was in trouble before the start of Wednesday’s state final.    Some of the Panthers were under the weather, and things didn’t get any better during the contest when they…

  • Stuart advances in Prep B hoops

    PDS to face rival Hun in semis By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor   Amber Bowman and her young basketball teammates may have learned the most from their toughest stretch of the season, consecutive losses to Lawrence, Rutgers Prep, Pennington and West Windsor-Plainsboro South.    ”It helped us in that it showed us what needed to work…

  • PDS holds late lead in state tourney win

    Panther boys in MCT hoops today By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor   Paris McLean has gotten used to seeing his Princeton Day School boys’ basketball team build leads.    He’s also seen the opposition battle back to overcome those leads from time to time.    On Saturday, the Panthers built a pair of what seemed like comfortable leads…