Town Topics — Princeton's Weekly Community Newspaper Since 1946.
Vol. LXIV, No. 32
 
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Sports

(Photo by Stephen Goldsmith)

HALCYON DAYS: Brian Halligan of George’s Roasters and Ribs/The Ivy Inn heads to the hoop last Wednesday at the Community Park courts in Game Two of the best-of-three championship series of the Princeton Recreation Department Summer Men’s Basketball League. Halligan scored a game-high 14 points to help George’s to a 49-42 win over Princeton Sports Bar and Grill as it swept the series 2-0. Halligan, a former College of New Jersey star, was named the Foreal Wooten Playoff MVP.

Halligan Helps George’s to Championship Sweep As Club Achieves Summer Men’s Hoops Three-peat

Bill Alden

Things were coming easy for George’s Roasters and Ribs/The Ivy Inn last Wednesday as it played the Princeton Sports Bar and Grill in the championship series of the Princeton Recreation Department Summer Men’s Basketball League.

Sharpshooting Burke Heated Up at Right Time As George’s Roasters Took 3rd Straight Crown

Bill Alden

Kyle Burke wasn’t satisfied with his performance during regular season action in the Princeton Recreation Department Summer Men’s Basketball League. “I am on the court to make shots and to spread the court,” said Burke, a guard for George’s Roasters and Ribs/The Ivy Inn. “I hadn’t been doing that until the playoffs.”

Getting Invite to USA Hockey Women’s Festival, PU Captain Romanchuk Hopes to Turn Heads

Bill Alden

Paula’s Romanchuk’s father was a hockey star at the University of Wisconsin and she was born in Minnesota.

Despite those ties to major hockey hotbeds, it wasn’t until her family headed west that she hit the ice in earnest.

PU Hockey Star Sherry Pursuing Olympic Dream; Aims to Stand Out at U-22 Women’s Select Camp

Bill Alden

Sasha Sherry came within an eyelash of making the U.S. women’s hockey team that earned silver at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

The Princeton University defenseman was among the last players cut from the squad last summer.

Demonstrating New Style and Substance, Princeton Little League Enjoys Big Summer

Bill Alden

It is orange and black and features a menacing tiger with claws thrust forward in a background shaped like a baseball diamond.

It is the Princeton Little League’s (PLL) new logo and it is being seen all over town on bumper-stickers and car magnets.