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Thursday TigerBlog - Both Sides Of The Atlantic
October 16, 2025 | Tiger Blog
Okay, Riccardo Fantinelli's recent travels are way more impressive than the ones that TigerBlog and the Princeton field hockey team recently completed.
This is from the X feed of a college golf website:
Respect to Riccardo Fantinelli of @princetongolf. The Senior from Rome, Italy finished up at the Eisenhower in Singapore on Sunday (shot level par, T28), flew 14 hours to London, caught a connecting flight to Edinburgh and was on the tee on the Jubilee Course at just past 10am on… pic.twitter.com/ps8gCv4K8v
— Clippd_Scoreboard (@Clippdscore) October 14, 2025
Yeah, that's impressive stuff. On the other hand, he did have 14 hours on the flight to London to study for that midterm, right?
In all seriousness, that's some big-time dedication to school and sport. If you want to succeed at the highest levels of both, there is no better choice than Princeton.
Fantinelli and his Princeton golf teammates, male and female, have spent the week in Scotland, competing at the St. Andrew's Links Collegiate. Where would you more like to play if you're a golfer?
And where would you more like to hit a shot like the one that Fantinelli did here:
Absolute beauty from @princetongolf's Ricardo Fantinelli on No. 15 at the Old Course. ?? pic.twitter.com/dSZfbVj1UN
— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) October 15, 2025
That was just about perfect, no?
The Tiger men defeated Cal to win the team championship early yesterday, a day after Reed Greyserman shot a six-under final round to win the individual title.
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Meanwhile, back on this side of the Atlantic, it's another busy fall weekend ahead for Princeton.
The Cornell women's volleyball team will be in Dillon Gym tomorrow night at 7 in a matchup of the top two teams in the Ivy standings as the league schedule reaches its midpoint. Cornell is the lone Ivy unbeaten at 5-0, followed by Princeton at 4-1 and Brown and Yale at 3-2.
The Big Red, who last won an Ivy title in 2006, swept the Bears and Bulldogs a week ago in Ithaca. In fact, after opening its league season with a win at Columbia (who is at Dillon Gym Saturday at 5), Cornell has played its last four at home.
Princeton won at Dartmouth and Harvard last weekend. TigerBlog hadn't checked the score yet when he walked past two tall women who were wearing "Dartmouth Volleyball" gear last Saturday morning; he thought better of asking them who won.
The match tomorrow will decide if Princeton and Cornell are tied for first or if Cornell has a two-match cushion through six league dates.
The top four teams in the league meet up in the Ivy tournament for the league's automatic NCAA bid.
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The men's soccer team is still No. 1 in the RPI after its 1-1 tie at James Madison Tuesday night. The Tigers return home to face Columbia Saturday at 4.
The Ivy League standings show Princeton at 3-0-0, followed by 2-1-0 Cornell. It's fairly balanced after that with four weeks of league games to be played, as Penn, Brown, Yale and Dartmouth are all within two points of each other in the race for the four Ivy tournament spots.
Harvard and Columbia are both 0-2-1 in the league.
On the women's side, Princeton is in Hanover to take on Dartmouth in what goes without saying is a big game. With the women one week ahead of the men, there are only three games to go in the league, and all will impact the Ivy tournament field.
Princeton got a huge win last week at home against Cornell, evening its league record at 2-2-0. There are five teams within three points of each other, with Harvard with nine points, Dartmouth with eight and Brown and Columbia with seven.
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The field hockey team is back home to continue its stretch of four games in nine days with games against Cornell tomorrow at 4 and Monmouth Sunday at noon.
The Tigers are now ranked sixth in the coaches' poll and fourth in the RPI after the big 3-2 win at defending NCAA champ Northwestern Monday, ending the Wildcats' 15-game winning streak. Northwestern, by the way, stayed No. 1 in the coaches' poll.
One of the hardest things to do in sports is to win the game after a big win. The challenges this weekend are big: Cornell is 9-2 on the season and Monmouth has an RPI of 12.
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This isn't completely a fall weekend. The women's hockey season begins with two games at UConn, tomorrow at 2:30 and Saturday at 1.
This season marks the debut of Courtney Kessel as the Tiger head coach.
The ITA men's tennis regional comes to Princeton this weekend, as well as the Princeton Invitational for men's and women's cross country. The men's water polo team continues its trip to California for fall break.
The complete schedule can be found HERE.