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PRESSURE POINT: Where2Ball's Jay Curtis, right, puts the pressure on SMB's John Celestand last week in the championship series in the Princeton Men's Summer Basketball League. Curtis, a former football and basketball star at Princeton High, helped spark Where2Ball to the title as it overcame SMB/Dr. Palmer 58-56 last Friday in the third and decisive game of the best-of-thre championship series. Celestand, a former player for Villanova and the Los Angeles Lakers, scored 23 points in a losing cause in Game 3 of the series.
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By Bill Alden
It was fitting that Jay Curtis had the ball in his hands as Where2Ball.com clinched the title last Friday night in the Princeton Men's Summer Basketball League.
Curtis' tenacity in going after the ball on the boards and on defense helped set the tone as Where2Ball overcame SMB/Dr. Palmer 58-56 in the third and decisive game of the best-of-three championship series.
As the horn sounded at the Community Park courts, Curtis flung the ball high into the air and let out cries of joy.
By Bill Alden
Devan Darby and her teammates on the U.S. women's eight didn't get off to the greatest start upon arriving in Hazewinkel, Belgium to compete in the World Rowing Under-23 Championships.
"We hit some blocks," said Darby, a 2006 Princeton University graduate who helped the Tiger women's open crew win the NCAA championship race this past May. "People were dragging from jet lag. In Europe you have to use sectional boats which come apart between the six and seven seat. We weren't used to them."
The U.S. boat, however, overcame those obstacles as it went on to win the title, cruising over the 2,000-meter course in 6:08.98 in the championship final, some 2.3 seconds better than runner-up Belarus.
By Bill Alden
For Christian Staehely, this summer was going to be marked by the adventure of a lifetime.
The rising Princeton University junior planned to travel to Tanzania with classmate Gavin Fabian.
But then Staehely got a call from PU baseball coach Scott Bradley that triggered an adventure that could change his life in the sport.
Bradley told his young right-handed pitcher that he had lined up a spot for him with the Cotuit Kettleers squad in the storied Cape Cod League, the top college summer circuit in the nation.
By Bill Alden
Danica Roskos assumed that gymnastics was going to be her thing for many years.
Taking up the sport as an elementary school student, Roskos loved the acrobatics involved in gymnastics.
But after dealing with some nagging injuries, Roskos decided to give diving a try at age 12.
Although she made a brief return to gymnastics, Roskos ultimately decided that diving into water was the best way to get her acrobatics fix.