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Women's Basketball: Tigers hit the road, face No. 4 Stanford

Women's Basketball: Tigers hit the road, face No. 4 Stanford

Tobias Citron

The women’s basketball team will look to get back on track as it faces the fourth-best team in the country: the Stanford Cardinal. Stanford’s only loss came to No. 2 Connecticut early in the season. The Cardinal (6-1) will present a difficult test for the Tigers (7-3), as a top-ranked team that features some of the best players in college basketball and has not lost at home since the 2006-07 season.

SPORTS | 12/15/2011

Women's Hockey: From rivals to teammates to the top

Tory Roberts

One is a little bit quiet. One is small in stature, and the third has a sharp wit. But put the three leading scorers on the women’s hockey team on skates, and they can all be described similarly.Fast. Aggressive. Good.Sophomores Sally Butler, Denna Laing and Olivia Mucha lead the team first-second-third in points and assists this season. They combine for 17 of the team’s 33 goals and 20 of the 55 assists. As freshmen, the trio tallied 26 goals last season, and Mucha tied for the team lead in points.

SPORTS | 12/14/2011

Column: Ivy athletes succeed on more than brains

Alex Moss

Professional athletes from Ivy League schools — like the Jaguars' Colin Cloherty, who scored a touchdown last week — have their academic background brought up whenever they make headlines. But do their brains really help them on the field?

SPORTS | 12/14/2011

Women's Rugby: Team goes south for College 7s Nationals

Stephanie Gati

For the first time in college rugby history, there will be a collegiate national sevens championship sponsored by USA Rugby this weekend. The Princeton women’s team was one of 11 teams chosen by a selection committee to travel to Texas A&M University to compete for the championship.

SPORTS | 12/14/2011

Men's Basketball: Darrow's clutch 3-pointer gives Tigers OT win

Shayan Rakhit

With eight seconds left in overtime and the the men's basketball team trailing Rider 71-69 on Wednesday night, the Tigers were forced to foul forward Daniel Stewart, who missed consecutive free throws. Junior forward Ian Hummer brought down the defensive rebound and passed to senior guard Doug Davis, who drove into the lane and kicked out to junior forward Mack Darrow. With time expiring, Darrow calmly buried a three-pointer, giving Princeton a thrilling 72-71 victory.

SPORTS | 12/14/2011

Column: Sports teams wish for holiday gifts

Andrew Finkelstein

It’s cold outside, evergreens are missing from down campus and Rockefeller College has more colored lights than sub-Saharan Africa. As time passes and late December steadily approaches, it’s getting hard to overlook that the holiday season is finally here. I believe several Princeton sports teams would benefit from writing letters to Santa Claus.

SPORTS | 12/13/2011

Men's Hockey: Breakout sophomore a ‘gorilla’ on the ice

Beth Garcia

Fresh from an organic chemistry exam, sophomore forward Jack Berger of the men’s hockey team was relieved to hear that the interview questions would be much easier than the ones he had just tackled on his test. Enthusiastic about everything from his experiences growing up in a hockey-loving family with four younger brothers to his academic goals, it became clear that Jack embodies the “total package,” as head coach Bob Prier used to describe him.

SPORTS | 12/13/2011

On Tap with ... Dylan Ward and Ash Egan

Teddy Schleifer

Sophomore men’s squash players Ash Egan and Dylan Ward met each other as 10-year-olds at the Princeton squash camp and are still up to their old habits. Off the court, Ward is the straight main to Egan’s comic foil as the pair trade jokes, barbs and the occasional insult. On the court, the two Philadelphia natives are part of the reason why the team enters winter break undefeated.

SPORTS | 12/13/2011

Live Blog: Women's Basketball vs. No. 23 DePaul

The women's basketball team hosts its second ranked opponent this month, facing No. 23 DePaul at Jadwin Gymnasium at 7 p.m. tonight. Follow the action with our live blog!

SPORTS | 12/13/2011

Women's Basketball: No. 23 DePaul shoots past Princeton, 78-67

Randolph Brown

On Tuesday night, the women’s basketball team allowed small mistakes to be compounded against No. 23 DePaul, falling 78-67 for its second home loss of the season. “It’s a tough loss, but you want to play teams like this,” said junior forward Niveen Rasheed, who finished with 23 points and a career-high 18 rebounds. “We asked for this schedule, and it makes you a better team.”

SPORTS | 12/13/2011

Track & Field: Princeton vaults into new indoor season with style

Adam Fisch

Typically, in track and field, the first meet of the season is an opportunity to acclimate to competition and work the kinks out. Such rust-busters come before the bulk of event-specific training and preparation. In general, season openers are viewed more as a way to gauge basic fitness than as an occasion to break records.

SPORTS | 12/12/2011

Women's Basketball: Tough schedule tests Tigers’ new defense

Luc Cohen

As the two-time defending Ivy League champions, the women’s basketball team entered the 2011-12 basketball season with a different set of expectations. Simply making the NCAA Tournament would not be quite as satisfying an end goal for a talented team that dominates within its league and increasingly threatens outside teams.

SPORTS | 12/12/2011

Wrestling: No. 17 Rutgers too strong for hosts

Ben Koons

After upsetting Old Dominion last weekend, the wrestling team fell to No. 17 Rutgers this weekend. Only junior Garrett Frey, wrestling at 125 pounds, and senior Daniel Kolodzik, wrestling at 157, won their matches in a 29-7 loss. Still, it was a big improvement from last year’s match, in which Rutgers shut out Princeton 42-0.

SPORTS | 12/12/2011

Squash: Squads close 2011 with perfect weekend

So far this season has been distinguished by considerable success for the men’s and women’s squash teams, and this weekend was no exception. The Tigers concluded their last matches of 2011 at home at Jadwin Gymnasium, coming through with sweeps against Williams on Friday and George Washington on Saturday.

SPORTS | 12/12/2011

Men's Basketball: Crouching Tigers, winning Dragons

Vijit Kapoor

The men’s basketball team took its first loss in four games as Drexel won 64-60 at the Daskalakis Athletic Center on Saturday. The Tigers (4-6) had traveled to Philadelphia optimistic that their recent wins were indicative of improved performance, but a strong Drexel team held on for the win despite not scoring a field goal in the final four minutes and 45 seconds.

SPORTS | 12/11/2011

Sports Shorts: Columbia finds coach; Harvard takes 1st loss

Pete Mangurian was named as the new head coach of Columbia’s football program in a press conference on Friday afternoon. A coach with former Ivy League experience, Mangurian headed Cornell’s program from 1998-2000, taking a team that finished last in his first season to second place in 2000. He will try to perform a similar turnaround with the Lions, who finished 1-9 in 2011, tied with Princeton for last in the Ivy League with a 1-6 conference record.

SPORTS | 12/11/2011

Women's Basketball: No help for Rasheed in 65-52 defeat

Luc Cohen

Despite a strong effort from junior forward Niveen Rasheed against Navy on Friday night, the women’s basketball team could not recreate the full team effort that has carried Princeton so far this season. Rasheed scored 16 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, but no other player came close to either of these figures and the Tigers allowed the Midshipmen to break out of a close battle with a 12-2 run in the final three minutes to claim a 65-52 victory.

SPORTS | 12/11/2011

Women's Hockey: Offense comes up empty in shutout losses

Tory Roberts

The women’s hockey team came out on the losing side of two shutouts against the league leaders this weekend, falling to Quinnipiac at Baker Rink on Friday night and again on the road on Saturday afternoon. With the pair of losses, the Tigers dropped back below .500 in conference play but remain tied for sixth in the standings.

SPORTS | 12/11/2011

Men's Hockey: Princeton can’t pull final trigger in crunch time

Ali Goedecke

The men’s hockey team stayed close to its opponent for most of Saturday’s matchup at Baker Rink, but Harvard held onto its lead and overcame the Tigers 4-3. The Tigers had won the first game of the season series in Cambridge, Mass., by the same score on Nov. 4. On Sunday, a frustrating weekend continued with a 3-2 loss at Quinnipiac.

SPORTS | 12/11/2011

Cricket: Bowled over by a foreign sport

Kevin Henneck

I was only in Dillon Gymnasium, but at the time, it sort of felt like I had gone to a faraway place. In my mind, it was a parallel universe, where baseball had different rules and artifacts had conspicuously British-sounding names. Of course, the sport I was learning was cricket, and instead of being played in a parallel universe, it’s just not played on this side of the globe.

SPORTS | 12/08/2011

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