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Women's Water Polo: Tigers win Southerns in exciting finale

Women's Water Polo: Tigers win Southerns in exciting finale

“All I kept thinking was that we needed to score and at the last minute possible,” junior attack Brittany Zwirner said.She saved just 2.4 seconds to score her final goal, a game-winning shot to give the women’s water polo team a 9-8 win over Brown and the Southern Division Title. It was the seventh Southerns victory in school history, as the Tigers took down George Washington, Bucknell and Brown in the process.

SPORTS | 04/16/2012

Tennis: Women sweep at home; men lose perfect record

The men’s tennis team suffered its first Ivy League loss on Saturday, falling to No. 62 Dartmouth 4-3 before losing to No. 24 Harvard 5-2 the following day. The women’s team swept its Dartmouth and Harvard counterparts, defeating Dartmouth 6-1 and No. 72 Harvard 4-3. The victories over the Big Green and the Crimson propelled the women to second place in the Ivy League, while the two losses the men suffered dropped them to a two-way tie for second place.

SPORTS | 04/16/2012

Track & Field: Hopkins sprints to record-setting 400

In his first 400m race of the outdoor season at the George Mason Invitational, sophomore Tom Hopkins was simply hoping not to trip up too badly. Delayed by the check-in to the long jump, Hopkins barely got to the start line in time to set up his blocks. Out of focus and hectic, he would have been happy with anything remotely close to 47 seconds. However, things did not turn out at all like Hopkins expected.

SPORTS | 04/16/2012

Basketball: Many support current system over Ivy tournament proposal

A movement is in place for the Ivy League to join the rest of college basketball with a conference tournament. Ivy League coaches are creating a proposal for an annual men's and women's playoff that would likely match the league’s current lacrosse tournament, involving four teams and two rounds. However, women's basketball head coach Courtney Banghart and many players said they preferred the league's current system of awarding the automatic NCAA Tournament bid to the regular-season champion.

SPORTS | 04/16/2012

Sports Shorts: Spikers win 4th straight

The men’s volleyball team won its fourth consecutive match on Saturday evening, dropping Baruch College 3-1 at Dillon Gymnasium. All four victories have come in non-conference play, however, and the season concludes with two much more important EIVA matches this week.

SPORTS | 04/15/2012

Softball: Quakers take 3 of 4 from hosts

The softball team lost three of four games against Penn this weekend in a series highlighted by some stellar pitching and big rallies.

SPORTS | 04/15/2012

Men's Lacrosse: Tigers throttle Dartmouth, 21-6

The No. 13 men’s lacrosse team now knows it will be playing in the postseason. The Tigers (8-3 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) dominated a Dartmouth squad that is winless in conference play, topping the Big Green 21-6 on a sunny Saturday afternoon at the 1952 Stadium.

SPORTS | 04/15/2012

Baseball: Offense leads Princeton to series victory

With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning on Saturday, the baseball team was down by two runs. Freshman catcher Tyler Servais knocked in a run with a single into right-center field and junior outfielder Steve Harrington singled up the middle to tie it up. Sophomore Alec Keller came in to pinch-hit and knocked a single into shallow right field that brought home the winning run, completing the comeback.Princeton (16-13 overall, 9-3 Ivy League) took three of the four games from Penn, remaining one game behind Cornell in the division.

SPORTS | 04/15/2012

Women's Lacrosse: Ivy League Tournament hopes on the ropes after defeat at Harvard

Coming into Saturday’s game against Harvard, the women’s lacrosse team knew that it needed a win to give it some breathing space before two tough matches to close the season. However, Princeton lost 10-7 in Cambridge, leaving itself needing plenty of hard work and a smattering of fortune to qualify for the end-of-season tournament and defend its Ivy League Tournament championship.

SPORTS | 04/15/2012

Baseball: Division play begins at Clarke Field

The baseball team is looking to build on a solid start to the Ivy League season as it begins intra-divisional play. The Tigers’ expectations are high after winning the Ivy League championship last season, and a successful series against Penn would go a long way toward meeting those expectations.

SPORTS | 04/12/2012

Softball: Pitchers blank La Salle, provide momentum for weekend

The softball team allowed only one run in 12 innings over two games against La Salle on Thursday afternoon, taking momentum into the first weekend of South Division play in the Ivy League. Princeton defeated the Explorers 8-0 and 7-1 at Class of 1895 Field, as junior Liza Kuhn and freshman Meredith Brown allowed a total of six hits and picked up two wins.

SPORTS | 04/12/2012

Crew: Path to redemption starts in ‘pain cave’

On Saturday, the four Princeton rowing teams will wake up with the sun for a morning race. As the fog is lifting, the athletes’ hearts will pound with adrenaline, and they will push their bodies to complete exhaustion. In the brisk morning air, their muscles will reach failure just as the Princeton campus begins to stir. As actor Hugh Laurie, Dr. House from the television series, said on a talk show, “[Crew] is a miserable sport.”

SPORTS | 04/12/2012

2012 Dodgeball Recap: Men's Lacrosse wins championship

After nine hours, eight rounds and 102 games on Thursday, one team was left standing as champions of the 2012 dodgeball tournament: Men’s Lacrosse. The lacrosse team defeated Tiger Inn in the championship match after reaching the final four for the first time in recent memory.

SPORTS | 04/12/2012

Women's Lacrosse: Tigers make key trip to Harvard

The women’s lacrosse team will travel to Cambridge, Mass., on Saturday to take on Harvard in the Tigers’ fifth league game of the season. As the postseason looms closer and the brackets for the Ivy League and NCAA tournaments are slowly filled, the next couple of weeks will be crucial for the Tigers.

SPORTS | 04/12/2012

Men's Lacrosse: Princeton resumes Ivy slate at home

The No. 15 men’s lacrosse team enters its last three games with a stellar record in the Ivy League. In the late 2011-12 season, only Princeton and Cornell have maintained perfect conference records and remain in the race for first place. No. 5 Cornell has topped four Ancient Eight foes thus far and awaits its matchups against Brown and Princeton on April 21 and April 28, respectively. After its first three successes on the road, the Tigers await competition against Dartmouth on Saturday.

SPORTS | 04/12/2012

Sports Shorts: Spikers top Kean in 5 sets

The men’s volleyball team defeated Kean University in a five-set match at Dillon Gymnasium on Wednesday night. After losing the first set, the Tigers came back for a 22-25, 25-19, 25-20, 25-27, 15-10 victory.

SPORTS | 04/11/2012

Live Blog: 2012 Dodgeball Tournament

Our writers bring you full coverage of the 2012 dodgeball tournament through Thursday evening and into the championship in the late hours of the night!

SPORTS | 04/11/2012

Dodgeball: Powerhouses prep for campus-wide showdown

In the immortal words of Patches O’Houlihan in “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story,” dodgeball is a simple game where success is guaranteed for those who “dodge, dip, duck, dive and dodge.” In the annual campus-wide dodgeball tournament, however, success is not guaranteed. With prizes of $500 to $1,000 for the winners, the competition looks to be fierce.Make your predictions in the first-ever 'Prince' dodgeball bracket pool! Main bracket; Small Bracket.

SPORTS | 04/11/2012

Women's Lacrosse: No. 4 Maryland’s offense too much for Princeton

After a tight start to Wednesday’s game, the women’s lacrosse team was unable to overcome No. 4 Maryland’s explosive offense. The teams traded goals to start, at which point the game looked like it was going to be tight all the way through. After going into halftime with an 8-3 deficit, the No. 18 Tigers came out strong in the second period but ultimately fell 15-9.

SPORTS | 04/11/2012

Around the Ivies: Men's Lacrosse nears home stretch

With three weeks left in the Ivy League men’s lacrosse season, three teams are bunched at the top, and the fourth playoff spot is still in doubt. Here’s how the conference race shapes up down the home stretch:

SPORTS | 04/11/2012

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