Category: sports/the_princeton_packet
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PLAINSBORO: O’Brien at center of Knights’ success
By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor Just before the soccer season began, Bennet O’Brien got some sound advice from a source close to home. He’s taken that advice to heart and made a big impact for the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North boys soccer team. “At the beginning of the season, my Dad told me that I…
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PRINCETON: National honor fits for PRC
By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor For Colleen Cosgrove and Judy Vogt, the approach has been simple since they began running the Princeton Racquet Club. “We’re just trying to make sure we have the top facility we can have in terms of facility and staff and following the new trends of the industry,” Cosgrove said. “Whether…
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MONTGOMERY: MHS girls tennis sectional champs
By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Raheel Saleem is always confident that his Montgomery High School first doubles team will play well together. “They’ve been in sync forever,” said the Cougars head coach. Amy and Ally Yan are twins in their first year on the MHS varsity. They were straight set winners and Shannon Lu…
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PRINCETON: Watsky key part of deep PHS XC lineup
By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Cy Watsky has never been a part of a deeper or more driven Princeton High School boys cross country team. The Little Tigers junior is part of the pack that is following Alex Roth and also trying to close the gap on their frontrunner in order to improve their…
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PRINCETON: New names, same results as Tigers remain unbeaten
By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor The Princeton University football was missing several key performers from previous weeks, but the Tigers remained unbeaten behind some emerging names. Isaiah Barnes caught a career-high eight passes, John Lovett rushed for a career-high four touchdowns, Charles Volker scored his first career touchdown and three fellow freshmen enjoyed their…
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PRINCETON: Pacers apply finishing touch
By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Keri Mandell and Joseph Campolattano felt a responsibility to the runners in the group that they were pacing to a 2-hour, 10-minute finish in the Princeton Half Marathon on Sunday. When April Farrell started to feel the effects of the hills on the back half of the course and…
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PRINCETON: Brown delivers in PU win
By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Khamal Brown admits that he’s not too fond of the combination of rain and cold, but the Princeton University senior still found a way to have fun in those conditions last Friday. Brown intercepted one pass and almost had another to help the Tigers defense dominate in a 10-5…
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WEST WINDSOR: Pirates enjoy trip to Shore Coaches
By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Dexter Benkard and the West Windsor-Plainsboro South boys cross country team were encouraged by their Shore Coaches Invitational showing Saturday at Holmdel Park. Senior Tim Bason posted the fastest time of the entire day to win the Varsity A2 Division and a crew of mostly new varsity runners like…
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MONTGOMERY: Fresh faces give Cougars a lift
By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor The Montgomery High gymnastics team has every reason to be excited about this year’s 6-2 start. At the same time, the Cougars can’t help but look toward the future, which promises to be a very exciting one. Montgomery’s top three gymnasts this year are freshmen. They have combined with some…
