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(12/05/12 7:52pm)
As the fall semester comes to a conclusion, there are still no updates in an assault and a mugging that involved College students at locations off campus, according to Ewing Police.
"There is nothing further to report at this time regarding the two investigations" Lt. Rocco Marruca said.
On the morning of Saturday, Sept. 1, a 23-year-old man was found near the Spiritual Center on campus. The man was attacked and struck by a vehicle, suffering a broken femur while attempting to leave an off-campus party the night before, according to Ewing Police.
Detective Jeffrey Jacobs said in an email that the man attended a house party held on Vannest Avenue in Ewing, a residence rented by members of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity at the College. When he attempted to leave, he was attacked by three or more individuals and “at some point during the assault the victim was struck by a vehicle, which fled the scene,” Jacobs said.
Later in the semester, a male student reported being robbed by four black males in hoodies on the corner of Browning Avenue and Somerset Street on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 16, according to an emergency alert sent out to the College community.
At 8:44 p.m., the victim reported that he was walking along Browning Avenue when he was approached by four men who looked to be 16 to 18 years old. The four men then demanded the victim’s wallet and cell phone, according to The Trentonian.
“No injuries were sustained by the victim and no weapons were used or displayed, but the victim believed the perpetrators may have been armed,” according to the text message and email sent around on the night of Oct. 16.
The suspects threatened to pull a gun on the victim, but never exposed one, Marruca told The Trentonian.
(11/29/12 9:11pm)
Some of the best food you’ll ever get in your life will come from a local diner, so for this week’s review I made a trip out to Route 1 to check out the Princetonian Diner.
Only a 10-minute drive from the College, the Princetonian Diner’s menu has a little bit of something for everyone. If you’re into anything from panhandle breakfast dishes to vegetarian entrees, this place probably has something for you.
I personally was in the mood for a classic gyro, which can come with either lamb or chicken. This sandwich comes on pita bread and includes sliced meat — in my case it was chicken — lettuce, tomatoes, onions and the kicker, tzatziki sauce.
Producing a really bad gyro is pretty hard to do, but yet again, so is making a really good one. In this case, the Princetonian Diner fell in between the extremes.
Let’s take a step-by-step look at this dish.
To start, pita bread is pita bread. So, no matter what, the outside is already going to be fantastic. The key to the sandwich though is the insides.
The staple of this sandwich is how the meat is prepared and sliced. In terms of a chicken gyro, you need to make sure that the meat is not too dry and that the cut is not too thick. Basically, you want to eat the sandwich and not have to think about the chicken you’re eating because it’s been prepared so well.
While the Princetonian did a good job of cutting up the chicken on this sandwich, the meat was a little dry for my liking.
The good thing about a gyro though is that the accessories can make up for a dry piece of meat.
The first step in accomplishing this is to get a solid blend of lettuce and tomato. You want the lettuce to be shredded — not like the solid type you’d want to see on a hamburger — and you need a thin tomato to complement it.
Just like the chicken, you shouldn’t really realize that you’re eating a tomato. If you do, then the cut is probably too thick and you’re better off just taking it off.
In this case, the tag team of lettuce and tomato saved the sandwich from a knockout blow.
While onions also help save this sandwich, the real x-factor is the tzatziki sauce. Tzatziki sauce is made of mostly strained yogurt, but after it’s mixed with other ingredients it’s better described as a cucumber sauce.
This stuff is downright delicious.
You don’t want to drown the sandwich in this stuff, but you definitely want it oozing from the sandwich and dripping down the side of your mouth as you eat the gyro.
The bonus characteristic of the sauce is that it’s perfect for dipping the complimentary fries — that’s assuming you passed on the Greek salad — in between bites of the gyro.
With the sandwich on the brink of being good or bad, the tzatziki sauce defiantly salvaged the meal and supplied me with an average gyro that wasn’t the worst I’ve ever had, but wasn’t the best by any means.
(11/13/12 11:00pm)
Fandom brings the weirdness out of us all.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
People have their quirky ways of cheering on and bringing good fortune to their favorite team, whether it be a lucky seat, a favorite hat or the old-fashioned rabbit’s foot. Supersitions bring solace to fans who want to feel like they have an impact on how their team plays, even though they know deep down that they don’t.
So, this is why we see fans, rational and intelligent individuals outside of the sports realm, do the dumbest of routines for slight mental comfort.
And as they say in the Bud Light commercials, “It’s only weird if it doesn’t work.”
I’m one of these fans, and I have no problem admitting that.
I know in my inner most thoughts that no matter what I do when I watch University of Alabama football, it won’t change the outcome of the game — I mean I must know this right? However, that doesn’t stop me on Saturdays as I break out all the little stops to ensure they get a W.
Sometimes though, the real world gets in the way and demolishes a full-proof strategy.
This past Saturday, I got scheduled to cover the Princeton High football game for the Trenton Times. Sweet work if you deem a solid paycheck and exposure to be important. Whatever.
The issue though is that your typical high school football game runs two-and--a-half hours, and with a 1 p.m. start in Pemberton, a 45-minute drive from the College meant that I’d return home almost an hour after the 3:30 p.m. kickoff between Alabama and Texas A&M.
Fiction: My personal decisions affect Alabama’s performance.
Fact: When I don’t watch the entirety of an Alabama game over the last four years, the Crimson Tide are 0-3.
So, naturally when I get home and turn on the game, the score was 20-0 in favor of the Aggies. God dammit.
Mind you that this came a week after I concocted an ingenius gameplan — Bill Walsh would have been proud — to wear a different Alabama hat than usual while I watched the game because last year when the Crimson Tide played LSU in the regular season and I wore the old hat, they lost 9-6 in overtime.
I think it’s pretty obvious that my hat choice gave T.J. Yeldon the strength and determination to score a 28-yard touchdown off a screen pass with 50 seconds left in what ended up as a narrow 21-17 Alabama victory.
Praise Gould.
However, a loyal fan’s hat selection can only do so much for a college football team, and it was unfortunately deemed meaningless by the fact that I didn’t watch the whole first quarter of this past weekend’s game — Johnny Football may have had something to do with it too, maybe.
When all is said and done though, this is what I know: I missed a whole quarter of the game and they lost.
Conclusion: Alabama’s loss and, most likely, their crushed hopes of repeating as National Championships, are due to 15 minutes that went unwatched.
You’re probably reading this and thinking, “This guy’s out of his fucking mind.” But remember, “it’s only weird if it doesn’t work.”
Fandom brings out a lot of things you’d never see out of people — this guy included — otherwise. It’s crazy, it’s batty, it’s bonkers, it’s wacky, it’s kooky. Hell, it’s even daft.
Yet as berserk as it is, I’ll continue to break out whatever strategy
I need to feel at ease mentally for the rest of Alabama’s games this season.
Fandom does bring out the weirdness in us all, but I say so what? I say, through the words of Adam Demamp, “Let’s get weird.”
(11/07/12 5:00pm)
With their national tournament hopes on the ropes, the College’s field hockey team threw every blow they had against Rowan University in the opening round of the New Jersey Athletic Conference championships on Saturday, Nov. 3.
However, when the clock hit zero, it was the Profs who threw the final knockout punch.
After tying things the score twice in the game, the Lions surrendered the deciding goal in a 4-3 loss with 22:34 left. The College kept the pressure on, but Rowan blocked two shots and saved four others, including a defensive save by Kelsey O’Neil on a Jordan Calderone shot with 59 seconds left.
Senior forward Caitlyn Jenkins said that the Lions never gave up hope until the clock ran out.
“I never lack faith in myself and more importantly I never lack faith in my teammates and I know they don’t lack faith in themselves,” Jenkins said. “Until the final whistle blew we knew we could come back and win, but the time did not allow us.”
Senior midfielder Camille Passucci concurred, saying that time just ran out on the Lions.
“You only have a certain amount of time to do what you have to do, and we didn’t in that time period,” Passucci said about the game.
The Lions fell behind early to the Profs, allowing two goals in the first six minutes. However, they surged forward as a team goal and one off the stick of Passucci tied things at 2-2.
The Profs went ahead again after Kellie Campbell scored her second goal of the game. That score was countered by Calderone, a freshman forward, who scored on her second attempt during a breakaway opportunity.
“Although we try not to make it a habit,” Jenkins said. “No matter how many goals we are down, we never give up. We always fight for each other every second of each game and that allowed us to battle back twice.”
The comeback would not be completed though as Campbell put an end to the Lions, season as she notched a hat trick.
The loss came nearly a week after the Lions came back from down 2-0 to beat SUNY Cortland 4-3 on Sunday, Oct. 28.
The Lions ended the season at 15-5, but it was not enough to qualify for a chance to defend last year’s national title — something that Jenkins still has a hard time fathoming.
“It’s still hard to believe that, as a senior, that was my last game,” Jenkins said. “It’s a shame that we don’t have the chance to defend our national title this year.”
(10/24/12 5:31pm)
Despite a second-half rally, the College’s field hockey team suffered their third loss of the season against Messiah College in a tightly knit 3-2 finish.
Coming out of the locker room for the second half, the Lions (13-3) were staring at a 2-0 deficit, but chipped away to tie the score at two-all with 16 minutes left.
“We went down right before halftime and I think really used it to get it together and make adjustments,” senior forward Jillian Nealon said. “Whenever we go down, we know that we always have the ability to fight back and we knew that’s what we had to do.”
The Lions first goal of the game came a little over five minutes into the second half when sophomore midfielder Erin Waller drove a ball into the middle of the circle and watched as it deflected off a Falcon and came to a stop in the back of the cage.
As time continued to tick away, the Lions pressed to put more pressure offensively and after 20 minutes, they succeeded. In the 55th minute of the contest, Waller sent another shot into the middle of the circle, where sophomore midfielder Victoria Martin slammed it home.
“It’s unlike us to go into the second half of a game down by two,” senior forward Caitlyn Jenkins said. “It was extremely hard-fought and we had that fight and killer instinct in us all along — it just came out a little late.”
After keeping the game scoreless for the first 24 minutes of play, the Lions fell behind 1-0 when Emily Bower scored her sixth goal of the season for Messiah. Ten minutes later, Natalie Ziegler would take a cross to the left side of the field and direct it right into the cage.
The Lions would hold the Falcons for a span of nearly 32 minutes before allowing another goal. That score would prove to be the game-winner.
With a couple of ticks under four minutes left to play, another cross to the left side of the circle was pushed past the Lions’ defense and into the cage by Celina Nissley. Jenkins said that although it can be viewed that the Lions lost, she believes they just ran out of time.
“Their offense was just able to finish putting the ball in the cage before the final whistle was blown,” Jenkins explained. “If we had a couple more minutes, I know our team would have put more points up on the board.”
After starting the season 10-0, the Lions have dropped one game in each of the last three weeks. However, Jenkins said that these losses will hopefully only be mere blips in the radar on the way back to another National Championship.
“It’s always good to get a reality check during your season,” Jenkins said. “I feel like these last couple games made us realize what we need to improve upon and what we need from each other in order to achieve our ultimate goals of being happy and winning another championship.”
(10/23/12 10:46pm)
A male student reported being robbed by four black males in hoodies on the corner of Browning Avenue and Somerset Street on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 16, according to an emergency alert sent out to the College community.
The alleged perpetrators then fled in the direction of campus, the alert said.
At 8:44 p.m., the victim reported that he was walking along Browning Avenue when he was approached by four men who looked to be 16 to 18 years old. The four men then demanded the victim’s wallet and cell phone, according to The Trentonian.
After being approached, the victim turned over his wallet and cell phone to the hooded suspects. The suspects then fled on foot down Browning Avenue toward Green Lane, The Trentonian reported.
“No injuries were sustained by the victim and no weapons were used or displayed, but the victim believed the perpetrators may have been armed,” according to the text message and email sent around 9:40 p.m. on the night of Oct. 16.
The suspects threatened to pull a gun on the victim, but never exposed one, Lt. Rocco Marruca told The Trentonian.
Anyone with information or who has witnessed suspicious behavior is encouraged to contact Campus Police.
The campus-wide text message concluded by saying, “If there are further disruptions, we will notify campus.”
(10/18/12 8:30pm)
Tim Burton has had his fair share of masterful movies, but “Frankenweenie” is not one of them.
The movie introduces us to Victor Frankenstein and his beloved dog, Sparky. Victor and Sparky are inseparable, doing everything from playing catch to filming home-made movies. However, Victor’s parents, mostly his dad, believe that he should get out more often and make friends.
When Victor comes home, begging his father to let him enter the science fair, his dad agrees but only with a promise from Victor that he will play baseball. Appeasing his father’s wishes, Victor gives baseball his best shot and succeeds by blasting a sure double into the leftfield gap. The ball rolls into the street and Sparky chases it down, but on his attempt to return to the field he is struck by a car and killed.
Victor is devastated, but quickly finds a solution through an experiment in his science class with electricity. This is where the movie starts to lose my interest.
The movie is an obvious copy of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” but the amount of material copied from other movies just basically made this a cut-and-paste job.
Victor is able to bring his dog back to life, bolts and all, but this is not the only animal who is brought back to life.
The other children in Victor’s class come to know of Sparky’s revival through the big mouth of Edgar, Victor’s hunched-backed classmate. Jealous of Victor’s genuis and the clear advantage it gives him in the science fair leads the children to revive their own lost pets in their own fashion.
One student travels to the town pet cemetery, or as Mary Lambert would say “Pet Sematary,” and brings back his pet turtle, while another student brings to life a batch of sea-monkeys. The turtle, whose revival includes Miracle-Gro, comes to life resembling and wreaking havoc like Godzilla. The sea-monkeys spawn out of a pool and run around like the monkeys in “Jumanji” or the monsters in “Gremlins.”
While all these creations are attacking the town, the Mayor runs into a Porta-John and feels the ground shake, bringing back memories of “Jurassic Park.”
The movie ends with the burning of a wind mill, classic Frankenstein, and Sparky, a.k.a. Frankenweenie, saving the day by rescuing Victor from the fire; the dog is later found by firemen, dead once again. Yet again though, Victor is able to bring the dog back to life.
There is no moral of letting go and no message of moving on, which made me wonder why I even watched this movie at all.
There’s plenty of reasons why Burton fans, especially the more mature ones, would expect much more from “Frankenweenie” than the obvious PG construction. The animation does harken back to “Nightmare Before Christmas,” but at its core “Frankenweenie” seems more like the Halloween version of “Bolt.”
That isn’t to say there’s nothing entertaining to find from the movie, you might just be disappointed in what that entertainment actually is.
There’s no doubt that Burton fans are patiently waiting for another “Nightmare,” but whether they’ll actually get it is a great question. After all, Burton may like his paychecks from Disney a lot more than taking the risk to try top the cult status he achieved with “Nightmare’s” timeless originality.
If you’re in the mood for a movie that requires no thought or reward from Burton, please go ahead and see “Frankenweenie.” If not, please get in line for “Looper” instead.
(10/16/12 9:48pm)
After a national search and campus visits from the candidates, the College selected John Donohue to become its vice president for college advancement, according to an email from President R. Barbara Gitenstein.
Gitenstein said that Donohue, who has accepted the College’s offer, will officially begin his career at the college on Monday, Oct. 22, and will have oversight of the College’s alumni relations, fundraising, communications, marketing, major events and government and community relations functions.
Donohue, a graduate of the State University of New York at Oswego who also participated in the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University most recently served as executive vice president for development at the United Negro College Fund. He also served tenures at Dillard University, the University of Texas at San Antonio, the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the United Way of Long Island, according to the email.
“I was drawn to (the College) by its track record of success and its commitment to providing the highest quality education to its students and service to its alumni,” Donohue told Gitenstein. “It is an honor to join you and your leadership team.”
Donohue was selected for the spot over Kenneth Boyden.
(10/16/12 6:52pm)
In most journeys, it isn’t the end that brings the most joy — it’s the road traveled that brings the excitement. In the case of Major League Baseball though, the tail end is what justifies the long, long journey.
The regular season is boring to most. I get it, 162 games is way too long of a season. I mean the season started in March this year and we are now in October, seven months have passed. But, just look back at this week in baseball and tell me that the way the first round of the playoffs ended was not worth the wait.
To get the blood flowing, the Yankees, I mean Raul Ibanez, provided one of those games that will live in postseason lore. Ibanez became the first player ever to hit two home runs in a postseason game that he did not start. The first came in the ninth inning after the decision by manager Joe Giradi to pinch-hit Ibanez for the struggling Alex Rodriguez. The second, which put Game 3 to rest, sailed into the second level in the 12th inning — magical.That same night, out in Oakland, the Athletics were clinging to a season that had already written a better script than the one Brad Pitt signed up for.
Trailing by three runs with their season on the line, they managed to beat Jose Valverde for three runs and come out on top of the Tigers 4-3. The deciding RBI came off the bat of Coco Crisp with two outs in the ninth, forcing a Game 5. Although Justin Verlander would shut the A’s down the next night, throwing 122 pitches in a four-hit shutout, this type of excitement is what makes the grueling days in June and July worth our attention.
Moving on, three other games Thursday had their audiences of the edges of their seats. The Orioles, another fairy-tale story of this season, pushed their series to Game 5 after a J.J. Hardy double in the 13th. The Giants finished their comeback from down 2-0 in Cincinnati, as Sergio Romo struck out Scott Rolen for the final out in the ninth with runners on first and second in a 6-4 game.
Then, there were the Nationals, who won the first postseason game in the franchise’s history in Washington when Jayson Werth topped off an at-bat on lucky pitch number 13 as he sent a ball screaming over the outfield fence. You think baseball’s still boring? Want more proof that it’s not?
Friday, Oct. 12.
Girardi decides to pull Rodriguez for the entirety of Game 5 and the decision does not come back to haunt him as the Yankees ride C.C. Sabathia for nine innings into the ALCS, defeating the Orioles 3-1, another low-scoring pitching duel that this series was been all about.
Even better that night were the Cardiac Cardinals. They pulled out every stop last year, staring their final out in the face several times before eventually winning the World Series. This year is no different despite losing Albert Pujols and Tony La Russa from last year’s championship squad.
St. Louis’ finest went down 6-0 at one point in this game, but in the ninth the deficit was only two runs. Yeah, only two runs no big deal, with two outs and the bases loaded.
Step to the plate David Descalso. Result: two-run single to tie the game. Aftermath: Descalso manages to steal second base.
Step to the plate Pete Kozma. Result: two-run single to take the lead and ultimately win the game 9-7. Aftermath: dancing all the way to the NLCS.
Baseball gets boring during the course of the season, I know, I hear you. The regular season’s too long, it spans too many months, and it needs more excitement. Those are all valid points that are shared views by many sports fans.
But, the solution is not to forcibly install Hollywood theatrics. It’s much simpler than that. Just wait for the playoffs, and the magic will create itself. In this case, the ending is worth the journey, no matter how long it took.
(10/16/12 6:45pm)
For the second week in a row, the College’s field hockey team was handed a loss by a New Jersey Athletic Conference rival.
After suffering their first loss of the season to the hands of Montclair State University last week, the No. 6-ranked Lions (12-2) fell short again 2-1 on Saturday, Oct. 13, to No. 16-ranked Rowan University.
The first half of the contest ended with both teams standing at a stalemate in a scoreless tie, but there was plenty of field hockey ahead for both squads.
The Lions would light up the scoreboard first after Rowan scored on their own goal almost five minutes into the final half. The Profs would surge forward on the offensive attack minutes later, but the Lions held them off for the time being.
Freshman goalkeeper Roison Dougherty made her first of two stops during the offensive attack when Rowan junior midfielder/forward Amy McKeever fired a shot at the cage. She made the other stop after a penalty corner by sophomore midfielder Lauren Pigott.
Rowan would not let up and charged toward the cage in the 53rd minute. Sophomore forward Kellie Campbell dribbled the ball up and then found fellow sophomore Karlee Henderson in front of the cage. Henderson then deflected the ball past Dougherty and into the lower left corner of the cage.
The 1-1 tie would hold for nearly 10 minutes until sophomore forward/midfielder Jenna O’Sullivan tipped in a shot by senior captain Erin Bernat — a goal that would end up deciding the game.
The Lions, who only took eight shots on the day, were only able to manage two more offensive shots in the remaining 8:07 of play, but neither found the back of the cage.
“(Healy’s) eye was really on the ball that day so Jill Nealon and I kept feeding her the ball,” said Jenkins, who assisted on one of Healy’s goals. “The forward’s job is to finish the ball in the cage and to put points up on the board. (Healy) was hot (against Neumann) and was able to generate a lot of offense by putting the ball in the cage.”
Earlier in the week, the Lions were a polar opposite on offense, getting off 34 shots in a 5-1 victory over Neumann University.
The most effective of the Lions forwards was sophomore Erin Healy, who attempted five shots and was successful on four of them to increase her goal total for the season to 10.
“During the Rowan game we came out hard but the team chemistry was not there,” senior forward Caitlyn Jenkins said. “There is no doubt in my mind that everyone out on the field is giving 110 percent for the full 70 minutes of the game. However, we did not gel as a team and Rowan took advantage of it again. In a way it is a good thing because now we know what we need to focus on in practice and we can have a sense of revenge when we meet up with them again.”
The Lions other score came off the stick of senior forward Jillian Nealon, who leads the Lions with an astounding 18 goals in 2012.
On defense, the Lions only allowed the Knights to record a total of two shots, while Dougherty picked up one save.
The Lions next matchup comes Thursday, Oct. 18, when they travel to face No. 12-ranked Messiah College.
(10/09/12 7:22pm)
A few days after a scoring outpour against Cabrini College, the College struggled to find an offensive groove as they watched their 24-game winning streak come to an end in a 5-1 loss to No. 10 Montclair State University on Saturday, Oct. 6.
While the Red Hawks were able to pressure the College’s defense with 11 shots on goal, the No. 3-ranked Lions only managed to direct three shots at the cage.
“We were in a position where we had to take more shots.” head coach Sharon Pfluger said. “We got the ball downfield and got in the circle, but we didn’t get anything off of that and we need to.”
The loss was the Lions’ (10-1) first in almost a year — the last one coming at the hands of Salisbury University on Oct. 9, 2011.
Although the Lions played poorly in the first half, according to Pfluger, the score at the break only read 1-0 after a Red Hawk goal with 33 seconds left in the half. However, Montclair was able to extend their lead to 2-0 shortly after the second period began when senior midfielder/forward Frances Schaefer tallied her second goal of the contest.
As the College attempted to get their offense in gear, the Red Hawks – who fell to the Lions twice in 2011 – kept the pressure on and kept the Lions away from the cage.
That hustle allowed the Red Hawks to create more opportunities for themselves and senior forward Kate Norgard paid the dividends, notching a pair of goals in a four-minute span.
“(In this game), the breakdowns were higher on the field and I think Montclair got momentum,” Pfluger said. “We’ve been on the other side where you get momentum and everybody starts playing well and even if you make a mistake, you make up for it. So, I think (for Montclair) it was just that emotional momentum thing.”
Senior midfielder Camille Passucci noted the Lions’ defense just wasn’t “in groove or connecting and Montclair took advantage of that.”
Freshman goalkeeper Roisin Dougherty made four saves in her first collegiate loss, but a barrage of Red Hawk shots just proved to be overwhelming. Senior Christy Wham made two defensive saves on top of Dougherty’s stops, but Pfluger believes that overall her defense just did not play up to its full ability.
“I don’t think that we played as smart as we could have,” Pfluger said. “I felt like we kept making the same mistakes. It was hard to stop what we were doing wrong even though we were telling them. It was kind of like we weren’t feeling it.”
The Lions were finally able to break through and get on the board in the second half off a penalty corner when sophomore midfielder Erin Waller made it a 4-1 game, finding the back of the cage after receiving a swift pass from Passucci.
“There was a point where I thought to myself, ‘Wow, they just have to play,’” Pfluger said. “They couldn’t really absorb anymore and they just had to play and work it through and that’s what happened when we scored.”
The Lions’ offense was night and day during their two games this week as they saw five different players score in a 5-1 victory over Cabrini College on Thursday, Oct. 4.
Passucci netted the first goal of the game and was followed by senior forwards Caitlyn Jenkins and Jillian Nealon as well as sophomore midfielders Lauren Pigott and Victoria Martin.
“(Against Cabrini), we had a lot of off-ball movement,” Passucci said. “A lot of the forwards and midfielders were interchanging, so it allowed a lot of different people to get in the circle to score.”
Despite being 10-1, the same record they had last year at this point, there will be a bad taste in the Lions’ mouths until they erase the memory of what losing feels like when they next take the field, according to Passucci. It’s a motivation that will have the Lions more focused than ever.
“Losing never feels good and we really hate to lose,” Passucci said. “We were reminded of that feeling (against Montclair) and we are motivated more than ever to not feel like that again.”
(10/02/12 9:59pm)
Swiveling her head to the left, freshman goalkeeper Roisin Dougherty found herself one-on-one with a forward. Despite her opponent’s best effort, Dougherty laid her body out and made the save, sustaining a shutout in the No. 3-ranked Lions 2-0 win over Ursinus College.
Dougherty has been an anchor in the cage ever since she stepped in for the injured Amanda Krause in the second week of the season, allowing only two goals and recording six shutouts.
“She doesn’t play like a first-year goalie,” head coach Sharon Pfluger said. “She’s experienced in a sense that she absorbs information quickly and she can apply it and execute.”
Dougherty and the Lions defense were a staple again in the past week as the Lions bested Ursinus, William Paterson University and Kean University, allowing opponents to only get off 11 shots on goal.
“I think the defense is playing very well,” Pfluger said. “They have to play well as a unit and there are going to be opportunities where our opponents are going to be close to scoring, but we have to come through and we are.”
The defense held tight on Thursday, Sept. 27, as the offense was able to take advantage of their opportunities. Senior forward Jillian Nealon brought momentum in the Lions’ favor in the first half with her 12th goal of the season.
Sophomore forward Erin Healy added insurance, putting the Lions ahead 2-0 seven minutes into the second half off an assist from junior forward Sarah Cummings.
On Saturday, Sept. 29, the Lions defense held tight again, but it was the offense that stole the show in a 6-0 victory over William Paterson.
Nealon tied fellow senior Caitlyn Jenkins with a game-high two goals, while sophomore midfielders Erin Waller and Cassandra Martin each added a score. Waller also was one of five Lions who added assists in the contest — senior Christy Wham had the team lead with two against the Pioneers.
Nealon said that the offensive prowess on Saturday was thanks to a combination of steady crosses as well as strong execution off penalty corners, an area that the Lions struggled with against Ursinus.
“In the game Saturday our forwards who were on the off-ball side of the field did a good job of covering the posts and we scored a lot of our goals that way,” Nealon said. “Both of Caitlyn’s came from beautiful cross plays, where she was able to get into good position on the post to score. Our (penalty) corners were flowing well too, so we were able to execute off them.”
Nealon added her fifth goal of the week in a 1-0 victory over Kean on Monday, Oct. 1.
Although the Lions have remained undefeated this season, they have slipped in the rankings from the top slot to third overall in Division III, but Nealon says it is something the Lions don’t take much notice of.
“Honestly, we don’t care what the rankings say, because the only one that matters is the final rankings at the end of the season,” Nealon said. “That’s a factor we have no control over, so we only focus on the things we can control. Overall our play has been good and we have a lot of potential and we are all happy about that, but potential means nothing if we don’t keep working to get better.”
(10/02/12 9:47pm)
College football has been up and running for about a month now and there’s been plenty of excitement thus far, but none greater than watching the West Virginia offense, which put up 70 points this past weekend in a win over Baylor.
Senior quarterback Geno Smith has been lighting up scoreboards all season long, completing 83 percent of his passes on his way to 1,728 yards and 20 touchdowns. Smith has a long way to go, but for now he leads the pack in terms of Heisman favorites through the first five weeks.
1. Geno Smith, QB, West Virginia: Smith is head and shoulders over every other candidate right now. He’s playing in an offense that is designed to put up video-game numbers and it’s working. Smith can thread the needle and fit the ball into any window he wants.
With a cast that includes wide receivers who fit in every shape and size, Smith’s success should not come to a stop any time soon. As long as West Virginia’s defense can make a stop or two, Smith’s on the fast track to the Heisman.
2. Braxton Miller, QB, Ohio State: Miller has really taken to Urban Meyer in the coach’s first year in Columbus, taking huge steps forward in his second year as a Buckeye. He struggled with ball control in a 17-16 win over Michigan State, but his overall season statistics have been eye popping.
Miller has thrown for a little under 1,000 yards and eight touchdowns through five games, but his real mark has been on the ground where he has churned up 577 yards and seven scores.
3. Marcus Lattimore, RB, South Carolina: Lattimore has been Steve Spurrier’s workhorse ever since he set foot on South Carolina’s campus. He hasn’t recovered yet from an ACL tear that occurred last season, but he recently shed his knee brace and has looked as good as new.
This past week, Lattimore rushed for 120 yards and two scores on 23 carries. For the season, the junior tailback has collected 440 yards and eight touchdowns — all that for a guy who hasn’t even touched 100 percent.
4. De’Anthony Thomas, ATH, Oregon: Thomas has the potential to score at any point, from anywhere on the field and against any defense that the Ducks line up against. He can line up at running back, wide receiver, punt returner or kick returner.
This season, Thomas has touched the ball 64 total times, amassing 698 yards and scoring eight times (five on the ground and three through the air). Do the math and you’ll see that Thomas takes it to the house one out of every eight times he touches the ball.
5. A.J. McCarron, QB, Alabama: Alabama relies on defense and its ground game, but McCarron is still making a decent case for the Heisman to this point in the season. With several running backs chomping at the bit, the redshirt junior has been able to take a step forward as the leader of the Tide.
Through the Crimson Tide’s first five games, McCarron has connected on 73 of his 111 pass attempts, spreading the ball to a plethora of wide receivers. On a team that has been known for ground and pound, McCarron has tallied 12 touchdowns — two more than the running attack has gotten — while not throwing an interception to this point. The Heisman mostly comes down to the most notable player on the best team in the country and, right now, that’s A.J. McCarron.
(09/25/12 10:30pm)
So, I made it a whole two weeks before going out to eat again, but this past weekend I really had to get something that I didn’t make myself. For a change of pace, I went out to a place that I’ve driven past a thousand times, a place I’ve always said I needed to eat at: Pete’s Steak House.
(09/25/12 8:58pm)
Moving forward in an undefeated season, the College’s field hockey team has one thing on their minds: paying attention to detail.
That has been the focus for the No. 1-ranked Lions, who extended their winning streak to 20 games in a 3-0 victory over Juniata College. After going ahead early in the contest, the Lions fell back on their defense, which recorded its third shutout of the season.
“Our defensive unit has been strong because of our attention to detail,” senior midfielder Camille Passucci said. “Defense is about strong, disciplined fundamentals and we have definitely been focusing on making sure the simple things are done correctly every time.”
Freshman goalkeeper Roisin Dougherty continued to play well in the cage, making one save, while sophomore defender Lauren Pigott notched her second defensive save of the season.
“(Pigott) is such an integral part of our team,” Passucci explained. “At the center back position, she has a lot of responsibility and has been handling it so well. She has improved tremendously already this season and is always looking to get better.”
Offensively, the Lions received goals from three different players, starting with a goal by sophomore forward Erin Healy, who scored 26 seconds into the contest. Healy has now scored five goals on the season — all of which have come in the last four games.
“Healy is such a strong girl that when she directs her shots on cage, they almost always find the back of the net,” Passucci said. “She has been so successful lately because she has focused on staying low and directing all her strength and momentum towards cage, which has really increased her scoring opportunities.”
Later in the first half, senior forward Jillian Nealon scored her team-leading 11th goal of the season off an assist from sophomore midfielder Victoria Martin, who also assisted on Healy’s goal.
The final goal of the game came about 15 minutes into the second half when sophomore midfielder Erin Waller directed a pass from Passucci into the back of the cage on a penalty corner. It’s a shot that Passucci says is becoming second-nature to Waller.
“Waller constantly practices her direct corner hit,” Passucci said. “She was so successful in this game because she has practiced that hit countless times to the point where it undoubtedly feels natural.”
The Lions will face their most difficult test of the season when No. 16-ranked Ursinus College comes to the College for a 7 p.m. start on Thursday, Sept. 27. That contest will be followed by another tough contest against William Paterson University on Saturday, Sept. 29.
(09/18/12 9:29pm)
After wins over Gwynedd-Mercy College and Johns Hopkins University, the College’s field hockey team has now extended their winning streak — which dates back to last season — to 19 games.
The No. 1-ranked Lions (5-0) made it through the week unscathed, starting with a 4-1 victory over the Griffins (4-2) on Thursday, Sept. 13. Falling behind to the Griffins initially, the College’s offense took on its stride in the first half with senior forward Jillian Nealon deflecting in two shots to give the Lions a 2-1 lead at halftime.
“Nealon has been great in the circle and a lot of that has to do with the timing of her cuts,” senior midfielder Camille Passucci said. “She knows exactly when to sprint towards the cage as the ball is being sent in and is able to finish the play by connecting with the back of the (cage). Her stick-ball coordination is also great, she has a great nose for the goal.”
Nealon, who leads the Lions with 10 goals scored on the season, credited her defense and midfield for arranging the chain of events that have put her in the right position to cash in and score for the team so often.
“It’s definitely exciting (to score), but what’s more exciting is the plays and passing sequences that create the goals and that comes from (goalkeeper Roisin Dougherty) in the cage and all the way up through the defense and midfield.”
In the second half, the Lions relied on the sticks of two sophomore forwards — Erin Healy and Erin Waller — who both found the cage during penalty corners.
Healy scored about 10 minutes into the second half to extend the Lions lead to two and then Waller took an assist from Passucci with time expiring and put it into the cage. Passucci said the corners are plays that the Lions try to capitalize with high-quality shots.
“With corners, we have numerical superiority, so we try to maximize shots as much as possible,” Passucci said. “With that mentality, every corner we want to shoot to score. When a corner is successful, we generally take an extremely hard and accurate shot.”
Against Johns Hopkins (3-3) on Sunday, Sept. 16, the Lions posted a nearly identical score, walking away from their trip to Baltimore with a 5-1 victory.
Passucci led the Lions offense in the win, tying Waller with a game-high five points. Passucci scored twice with both goals coming off assists from Waller — who had three helpers on the day — while also assisting Waller’s lone goal of the game.
Healy began the Lions’ offensive output in the first half, scoring the team’s first two goals within the first eight minutes of the game. The play of Healy, along with Waller, has been an integral part of the Lions strong start to 2012.
“Both Healy and Waller have stepped their game up from last year,” Nealon said. “They came off great freshman seasons, but kept growing. So far, they have both been playing really well and have been a huge contributing factor to our success.”
The Lions have also seen a great effort in the cage from Dougherty, who stepped in to replace sophomore Amanda Krause after she sustained a concussion earlier this season. Doughtery has only allowed two goals on her way to a 4-0 record to start her college career.
“Roisin has been excellent,” Passucci said. “She has stepped up into her role in such a great way and has been making such a positive impact on the team. As a goalie, she is an excellent communicator, which is essential in the backfield. As the anchor of our defense, she really has been playing at such a high level and I am excited to see where she will go from here.”
The Lions will look to continue their winning streak against Juniata College on Saturday, Sept. 22.
(09/18/12 8:37pm)
The College remains the top-ranked public institution in U.S. News and World Report’s list of Best Regional Universities for the northern region of the country, according to a press release from College Relations. The 2013 edition ranks the College as the top public and No. 6 overall school in the standings for the Best Regional Universities category for the north.
For the third time since 2009, the College was listed as an “Up-and-Comer” for 2013. The College was one of 49 institutions cited by its peers for making the most promising and innovative changes in the areas of academics, faculty, student life, campus and facilities.
The College ties with No. 1-ranked Villanova University for highest average freshman retention rate, 95 percent, and also has the highest percentage of freshmen in the top quarter of their high school class.
“Rankings such as this provide validation for what we who are part of (the College) family have long known that (the school) is one of the best public colleges in the nation and is both a innovator and a standard setter when it comes to undergraduate education,” said President R. Barbara Gitenstein in the press release.
(09/18/12 8:36pm)
Services for Sodexo employee Orlando Sanchez were held on Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Chiacchio Funeral Home, 990 South Broad St., Trenton.
The funeral service was held the next day at the funeral home and was followed by his burial at Colonial Memorial Park.
“Those who knew Mr. Sanchez well were touched by the positive approach he brought to his work at (the College),” said Matthew Golden, associate vice president for Communications and College Relations. “We are deeply saddened by his death, and our thought and prayers are with his family and loved ones.”
(09/18/12 4:35pm)
This weekend, I went home to watch the New York Jets take on the Pittsburgh Steelers with my family and a couple of friends. We hopped in the car and headed over to the same bar we watch all the games at — it was a good time.
I found myself in an interesting internal debate though while the game was going on. I’m watching the Jets do their thing in the first half, but at the same time I’m crossing my fingers hoping that running back Shonn Greene doesn’t even look at, let alone touch, the football. Let me explain.
I’m in a fantasy football league with my cousins and some of our friends. This week my team (Jizzlord of OZ) was matched up with my cousin’s team (Brave Nude World). After the 1 p.m. games ended, I had a comfortable, but not insurmountable lead of 25 points. With five players left to play for my cousin’s team and only two for mine, this was not a good spot to be in.
Naturally, my cousin had Greene starting for his team, so of course I’m hoping that he ends the day with zero yards and about, I don’t know, 10 fumbles. However, at the same time, I’m watching the Jets suck on offense and getting extremely pissed off over the fact that the ground game is not running rampant on the Steelers defense. Then again, I’m also rocking a smile on the inside because Shonn Greene is sucking majorly.
The game continues and the Jets are falling into a deeper hole. I’m sitting there watching and thinking, OK, Greene really needs to come back in and get some yards before this thing is totally out of reach — although I hope that anybody, even Tim Tebow, gets the score.
If I had any type of idea what number to call to get in touch with Rex Ryan, I’d be on the cell belligerently yelling this to him. Don’t laugh, I’m completely serious. For some reason, I care that much about wiping the floor with Brave Nude World. Call it pride or call it competitiveness.
The game comes to an end and Greene finishes with 2.30 fantasy points. I turn to my cousin and tell him he’s stupid for starting Greene because he sucks — I am happy. I then turn to my friend and say that the Jets would have had a shot if only Greene could have had a successful game on the ground — I am pissed.
For the rest of this upcoming week, I will brag about the wonderful and brilliantly managed victory of Jizzlord of OZ. But, I’ll also be complaining about the Jets and how they couldn’t run the ball, mainly blaming Shonn Greene.
I used to watch the games and simply look and root for wins and losses. Now, I watch games and think to myself, sure the Jacksonville Jaguars have no shot at beating the Houston Texans after going down 27-7, but would it kill Mike Mularkey to call a play to spring Justin Blackmon for an 80-yard touchdown so that I can get an extra 14 points? Help a guy out here. Is that crazy? I don’t know, but that’s fantasy football for ya.
(09/12/12 2:41am)
Living off campus for the last year, I’ve come to realize how much I enjoy other people making me food. I don’t really miss Eickhoff or meal equiv at the Rathskeller, but I also don’t like to cook every night.
Last week, I was feeling extra lazy after working all day. So, I decided to go out and eat at Palermo’s III, a place I found on Lower Ferry Road while walking around town this summer.
I don’t know how many people have heard of or been to this place, but it’s a great place to get a bite. In the movie “Crazy, Stupid, Love,” Steve Carrell talks about the “perfect combination of sexy and cute.” That’s exactly what I think of when I saw the menu at Palermo’s, which is an Italian restaurant and a pizzeria.
Since I went with my girlfriend, I was able to experience everything Palermo’s has to offer in one sitting. Combined, we ordered a buffalo chicken cheesesteak, a slice of olive pizza, pasta with fresh broccoli sautéed with fresh garlic, olive oil and butter and a piece of Reese’s peanut butter torte.
I’m a huge fan of cheesesteaks. I used to go to the Rat all the time when I lived on campus to get them. This buffalo chicken cheese steak made the Rat look childish in comparison though.
The chicken was sliced nicely and tasted amazing with the buffalo sauce and blue cheese on top of it. I will warn you though, if you don’t really like blue cheese, I would ask for it on the side because it could be overwhelming depending on your taste. It all came on a roll, which is what I would describe as light and didn’t get in the way of the taste of the chicken.
The pizza also impressed me due to the size of the serving, which looked more like two slices than one, as well as how well the olives were incorporated. Toppings run you a little bit more money, but they’re definitely worth it.
The pasta, which I only had a small sample of, was also a good meal, although I thought it wasn’t worth what they were charging for it. The pasta was soft, which is what my girlfriend prefers, and there was a nice amount of garlic mixed in. The broccoli, which determines how good this dish will be, added a nice touch to the pasta and certainly enhanced the overall taste.
The torte also was a little pricey for my liking and didn’t live up to expectations. I thought there was just too much peanut butter and not enough chocolate to offset it. A good chocolate to peanut butter ratio makes or breaks anything Reese’s produces and this one was broke.
Overall, I found Palermo’s to be a good place to eat. Their menu has pretty much anything you could ask for, ranging from hamburgers and cheesesteaks to fried seafood and baked pasta. The prices for some of the entrées can be a turn off, but you get what you pay for with every dish.
It’s an easy drive (two minutes from campus) and not that far of a walk (10-15 minutes), so this is a good destination for everyone. It’s a great place to take a date and even is a place you could go with your bros for pizza and wings.