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Men's hockey to take on Union, RPI in try for home ice in playoffs

Men's hockey to take on Union, RPI in try for home ice in playoffs

Well, the men's hockey team is finally in the playoffs. But as for whom and where it is playing, only this weekend will decide.Despite a sub-.500 league performance, Princeton (7-8-5 Eastern College Athletic Conference, 13-8-5 overall) has clinched a playoff berth in the first round of next week's ECAC playoffs.

SPORTS | 03/05/1998

Carmody's coaching leads men's basketball through undefeated Ivy campaign

Just two seasons ago Princeton University hired a coach with a grand total of one year of head coaching experience ? at Fulton-Montgomery Community College ? to take the reins of its men's basketball program.There were questions.

SPORTS | 03/04/1998

M. swimming hopes to take EISL title

Could it happen again?Last year, the men's swimming team eked out an 83-80 upset over Harvard in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton Invitational to earn the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League dual-meet title and an undefeated season.

SPORTS | 03/04/1998

Tigers look to avenge last season's loss to Harvard

If at some point this spring you walk by 1895 Field and see an Elvis impersonator prancing around in front of the Princeton dugout, do not be alarmed.

SPORTS | 03/04/1998

Men's basketball feels it deserves three or four seed in tournament

"Overrated! Overrated!"The chants rained down on the men's basketball team during Tuesday's defeat of Penn at the Palestra.And in last Saturday's win at Cornell.

SPORTS | 03/04/1998

Tigers must overcome loss of Davies, Pfeiffer to regain Ivy championship

For three years the softball team owned the Ivy League Championship. And now the Tigers want it back.In 1994, 1995 and 1996, Princeton won the Ivy League Championship.

SPORTS | 03/04/1998

Men's Vollyball crushes Crimson 3-0; Birdwell leads team to win

"To sum up Harvard ? it was just another successful drive-by. The Crimson bled profusely," said men's volleyball's sharpshooter, senior opposite Scott Birdwell.The scene at Dillon Gym Saturday was brutal, as Princeton (8-5) spared no one, not even Harvard opposite David Olson, a high school teammate of Birdwell and senior outside Jeff Cooper.Princeton cruised to a 3-0 victory, downing the Crimson by three identical scores of 15-6."We rocked them ? Ivy League style," sophomore outside Pablo Clarke said.

SPORTS | 03/03/1998

Men's tennis takes eight of nine matches in 6-1 defeat of Rutgers

It would have been a disaster in most other circumstances.As the men's tennis team's game against Rutgers drew to a close yesterday afternoon, the Scarlet Knights' Scott McGrath was down 5-4, 30-0 in the third set of his match against Princeton's No.

SPORTS | 03/03/1998

Top seed Beaver, Give'on reach semifinals in ISA squash tourney

While some looked to add to an already successful season, others looked for a measure of vindication as the men's and women's squash teams competed this weekend at the United States Intercollegiate Squash and Racquets Association individual championships held at Amherst, Mass.Two weeks removed from a national title, the women's contingent, headed by freshman Julia Beaver, the top seed in the 64-player draw, came away with mixed results in the season-ending tournament.Beaver, who was undefeated on the season and the favorite to win the individual title, dropped a close semifinal match to eventual tournament champion Ivy Pachoda of Harvard, 3-2.

SPORTS | 03/03/1998

Men's hoops Marches into Madness

PHILADELPHIA ? Over the years, the Ivy League men's basketball race has almost always come down to two teams: Princeton and Penn.

SPORTS | 03/03/1998

Women's hoops beats Penn for 10th Ivy win

The Palestra was certainly rocking last night ? way before fans had even begun to arrive for the men's basketball game.In the first of two nailbiting Princeton wins, the women's basketball team topped Penn, 73-67, in its season finale.The win gave Princeton (16-10 overall, 10-4 Ivy League) its best record since 1991 and a dramatic turnaround from last year's finish of 7-19, 6-8 in the Ivy League."It was a game of desire," Thirolf said, "and we wanted it most.

SPORTS | 03/03/1998

Men's tennis looks to use maturity, experience to challenge Ivy League

Last season, the men's tennis team was at a distinct disadvantage in the league. Princeton had lost four out of its top six players in 1996 to graduation.

SPORTS | 03/02/1998

Women's water polo secures two wins in first tourney as varsity sport

The first game of the season always inspires raw nerves and maybe even fear. Friday night at the Princeton Invitational, the women's water polo team (2-2) played its first game in the 1998 season and its first-ever game as a varsity team.Matched up against the University of Indiana, the No.

SPORTS | 03/02/1998

Women's hockey garners playoff berth with 3-3 tie

Usually when a team earns a playoff berth from its last regular season game, the match is a victory.

SPORTS | 03/02/1998

W. hoops takes two in last Ivy weekend

Although a victory by first-place Harvard Friday evening led to women's basketball's inevitable elimination from Ivy League title contention, Princeton continued to make a spirited push towards second place.Led by senior guard Zakiya Pres-sley, the Tigers cruised past Columbia (4-22 overall, 0-14 Ivy League) and Cornell (5-21, 2-12) over the weekend at Jad-win Gym, keeping alive their hopes of winning 10 games in conference play for the first time since 1991.While the Tigers were certainly not at their best this weekend, they were never in any serious danger of losing to either Ivy League doormat.

SPORTS | 03/02/1998

Season-ending game with rival Quakers still key for men's hoops

Although the men's basketball team has already clinched the Ivy League title and another trip to the NCAA tournament, tonight's regular-season finale against Penn at the Palestra is not without meaning.Tonight's game not only offers the Tigers the opportunity to beat Penn, it also gives the team another chance to add to its legitimate claim as one the best teams in school and Ivy League history.For one thing, the No.

SPORTS | 03/02/1998

W. tennis has no standout, exhibits depth in lineup

When a team loses only one senior to graduation, it usually means that next year's group will be a veteran squad.

SPORTS | 03/02/1998

Men's fencing comes through in IFA Championships; women fifth

Epee had done it. Foil had done it. In the 73-year history of fencing at Princeton, only the men's sabre squad lacked a team title at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championship.

SPORTS | 03/02/1998

Men's hockey gains three points, advances to sixth place in ECAC

For the last few weeks men's hockey has played like a team that cannot decide whether or not it wants to make the playoffs.

SPORTS | 03/01/1998

Men's basketball wraps up its third consecutive Ivy title

NEW YORK ? Some nights, Bill Carmody walks off the court looking like a man on his way to a job interview ? head up, hair in place, necktie neatly knotted.But there are other nights when it seems Carmody, the head coach of the men's basketball team, has just suffered through a horrible day at the office ? voice hoarse, hair disheveled, necktie loosened.Following Friday night's game against Columbia in New York, it was the haggard Carmody that talked his way through the post-game press conference, his voice barely audible as he fielded questions about Princeton's hard-fought 51-37 win over the Lions.

SPORTS | 03/01/1998

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