Category: sports/the_princeton_packet

  • Column: Nuse Sense

    Sports Pod gets visit from Mr. Clean By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    At least once a decade, we make sure to clean up the area around the sports desk, which has come to be known as the Sports Pod.    When you clean as infrequently as we do, it’s amazing the things you find.    For instance,…

  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Brian Leung…WW-P South cross country Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    WW-P South’s Leung runs by elite company By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    John Trautmann, Alan Webb, Alberto Salazar, Marty Liquori, Matt Centrowitz, Bob Keino and Bobby Papazian.    They are familiar names in the local and beyond running community.    Brian Leung has run faster over Van Cortlandt Park’s 2.5-mile course than any of them. The…

  • Another Cougars shutout

    Mancino, MHS top Bridgewater soccer By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    You can’t miss Ally Mancino on the soccer field.    She’s the one in goal for the Montgomery High girls’ soccer team. She’s usually wearing a bright colored jersey. And, oh, she’s the loud one you’d hear directing everyone else on the field, even if you’re…

  • Stuart’s Huber on course to finish strong

    Senior makes return to running By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Six weeks off due to a stress fracture ran closer to six months for Nicole Huber.    It was the only running that happened for Huber through last fall, but the Stuart Country Day senior has returned to the course for the cross country team…

  • MHS tennis edged in state semis

    MHS tennis edged in state semis

    Montgomery High’s Michelle Lu returns a shot in her third-singles victory during the Cougars’ 3-2 loss to Bridgewater-Raritan in the Group IV semifinals Wednesday. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • Happy Homecoming for Raiders football

    Williams, Hun remain unbeaten By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Homecoming opponents are supposed to be pushovers, but nobody on The Hun School football team expected to roll over Blair.    ”The hardest team on our schedule,” said Hun’s Nick Williams, “we scheduled for Homecoming.”    The Raiders turned three turnovers into 21 points before halftime and…

  • PU football turns over Ivy loss

    Tigers slip at Brown By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    In eight seconds, the Princeton University football team saw its way out of a turnover-plagued first 53 minutes at Brown.    Defensive end Peter Buchignani fell on a Bears fumble, and eight seconds later PU quarterback Bill Foran hooked up with Brendan Circle on a 39-yard…

  • WW-P South, PHS earn gridiron wins

    WW-P South, PHS earn gridiron wins

    Montgomery running back Devon Saunders looks for running room during the Cougars’ 42-14 loss to Immaculata on Friday night. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski