This And That

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For today ...

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The women's lacrosse team plays its home opener tonight at 7 on Sherrerd Field. Admission is free.

In its most recent game, Princeton defeated Penn State 18-13 and did so in amazing fashion. Penn State's Kristin O'Neill scored with 5:14 to go in the third quarter to make it a 13-9 game — in favor of the Nittany Lions.

You can do the math to figure out what happened the rest of the way. Or TigerBlog can do it for you: Princeton outscored Penn State 9-0 the rest of the way, which was basically a perfect 20-minute span.

It's hard to imagine scripting it any better. From down 13-9, Princeton scored once in the third quarter and then eight more times in the fourth. Sophie Whiteway scored the third quarter goal, with 4:27 to go in the period. 

From there, it was Sam DeVito, Ella Sloan, Whiteway, Jami MacDonald, Sloan, McKenzie Blake, MacDonald and Kari Buonanno. Those eight goals came in just over 12 minutes. 

Princeton goalie Amelia Hughes, in the first three quarters, allowed 13 goals and made six saves. In the fourth quarter, she allowed no goals and made four saves.

Princeton comes into tonight at 1-1 after dropping its opener at Virginia and is ranked 23rd. Rutgers, ranked 22nd, is 4-0, with wins over Manhattan, Georgetown, Monmouth and Army.

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The Ivy League men's swimming and diving championships begin today at Harvard and run through Saturday. 

Princeton's men are hoping to reverse their finish of the last six years, when they finished second to the host Crimson. As TB said yesterday, since the Ivy League adopted the championship meet format in 1997, only Princeton and Harvard has won the title. 

Back when it was a dual meet format, you have to go back to Penn in 1971 to find a year when neither Princeton nor Harvard won at least a share of the championship. 

That's domination.

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The men's lacrosse team flies out tomorrow night to Raleigh-Durham for a pair of games this weekend. Penn, presumably, is doing the same thing. Maybe they'll be on the same flight? 

Penn begins the weekend at Duke — now ranked No. 1 — Friday night at 6, followed by Princeton at North Carolina Friday night at 8. Both games are on the ACC Network.

Princeton then is at Duke Sunday at noon, while Penn is at UNC, also at noon. Maybe they're also on the same flight back?

Princeton freshman Nate Kabiri, by the way, has been as advertised. The No. 3 incoming recruit according to Inside Lacrosse, Kabiri has become the first Princeton freshman ever with at least three goals in each of his first three games and is the fastest Princeton freshman ever to 10 goals, which he has done in three games. 

Kabiri scored four times in the loss at Maryland and had a possible fifth goal disallowed. 

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Another team that's heading to North Carolina is the Princeton baseball team, who has three against the Tar Heels this weekend. The weather forecast shows a chance of rain for 10 of the next 12 days in Chapel Hill, though pretty much every day it says "light rain," so hopefully the baseball games will get in as scheduled.

If you're heading that way, you have baseball Friday at 3, Saturday at 1 and Sunday at noon, which means you can see both baseball and lacrosse Friday and baseball Saturday and then have to choose between the two Sunday.

The baseball team, the Ivy League runner-up last year, won one of three games last week at UNC-Wilmington. 

UNC is 5-2 and ranked 17th this week.

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The women's hockey team is at Clarkson this weekend in a best-of-three ECAC playoff quarterfinal series. Game 1 is Friday at 6, and Game 2 Saturday and if necessary Game 3 Sunday will be 3 pm starts.

Sarah Fillier had her third hat trick of the season as the Tigers rolled past Dartmouth 5-1 in the opening round single game last weekend. Fillier, a 2022 Olympic gold medalist with Canada, has nine goals and two assists in her last four games. 

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