Category: sports/the_princeton_packet

  • PDS, PHS girls learn from invitational

    PDS, PHS girls learn from invitational

    Greenwich hands teams losses By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Greenwich, Conn., proved too tough an opponent for the Princeton High School and Princeton Day School girls’ ice hockey teams at the PDS Invitational, but both area teams found something to build on after Sunday’s conclusion.    The Panthers reached the final with a 1-0 win…

  • Hun falls to Blair in year’s first meeting

    Hun falls to Blair in year’s first meeting

    Hun School guard Doug Davis goes up for a shot against Blair’s Alex Vouyoukas during the Raiders’ 51-50 loss on Wednesday night. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Perkins takes on big role

    PHS swimmer sweeps sprints By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    It only took one meet for Tim Perkins to see a big change in his role with the Princeton High School boys’ swim team this year.    ”It was the first day ever where I got first place in all the events,” said the senior co-captain.…

  • Kolman has vision for Hun swimmers

    New coach sees a lifetime sport By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    If Mark Kolman’s vision develops, most of the current crop of Hun School swimmers will be around the pool long after they graduate from high school.    Kolman, who is in his first year as head coach after four years of assisting Madeline Jones…

  • Return to mat huge for Ritter

    Former gridder helps PU rebuild By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Sam Ritter is helping to turn around the Princeton University wrestling program.    The former PU football player is in his first season wrestling for the Tigers, and he couldn’t have come at a better time. The Tigers were winless last year, and Princeton head…

  • Hun falls to Blair in year’s first meeting

    Hun falls to Blair in year’s first meeting

    Raiders in Peddie tourney today By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    Round One went to Blair, but it was just the first of what figures to be a number of meetings between the Hun School and Blair boys’ basketball teams this season.    ”I think we’ve played them 14 times in the last four years, maybe 16,”…

  • Column: Nuse Sense

    A fantasy dream come true: last to first By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    Kevin Watson and David Twamley helped lead their teams to two of the best seasons in their school’s football history, but it wasn’t quite enough to give the Mighty Tucks a championship.    J.T. Tartacoff and Matthew Miller made plenty of big plays…

  • Rivals skate to 2-2 tie

    Rivals skate to 2-2 tie

    North-South see positives By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    There is nothing quite like a high-intensity rivalry game in the first week to get your season up and running.    In just the second game of the season for both West Windsor-Plainsboro North and WW-P South, the two ice hockey teams met at Mercer County Park on…

  • Offensive Lally helps Crown to soccer title

    Former Knight goes from defender to scorer By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Stephanie Lally was in the back of the West Windsor-Plainsboro North defense when the girls’ soccer team won its first Central Jersey Group III state championship in 2004.    She was in the front as the Crown College women’s team won its second…