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Sports Shorts: Spikers open play in California; fencers visit Northwestern

Sports Shorts: Spikers open play in California; fencers visit Northwestern

The men’s volleyball team opened its 2012 campaign with three matches in California last week. After losing to California Baptist and California State University, Long Beach, the Tigers picked up their first win over University of California, San Diego, in a 3-2 thriller.

SPORTS | 02/05/2012

Squash: Hosts upend No. 1 Yale at Jadwin, 8-1

After several weeks off from matches for exam period, the men’s and women’s squash teams returned to the courts with full intensity this week. The most exciting result of the weekend came at Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday, when the men defeated top-ranked Yale.

SPORTS | 02/05/2012

Wrestling: Kolodzik, Cash lead grapplers to upset at No. 23 Crimson

The wrestling team boarded the bus Saturday night heading for home with mixed emotions. The boys dropped close matches to lowly Brown and Boston University on Friday night before getting a bit of redemption in a win over No. 23 Harvard on Saturday. It was the first time in over 10 years that Princeton beat a ranked opponent.

SPORTS | 02/05/2012

Men's Basketball: Princeton’s title hopes fading with road losses

The men’s basketball team will come back home from a five-game road trip with the Ivy League title drifting far out of its reach. Princeton (11-10 overall, 2-3 Ivy League) has to bounce back strongly after tumbling to a 58-54 loss at the hands of Yale (15-5, 5-1) in New Haven on Saturday, despite cruising to a 77-63 win against Brown (7-16, 1-5) the previous day.

SPORTS | 02/05/2012

Women's Basketball: Tigers stay perfect in Ivy play

February brings a new term, new classes and the same winning methods for the women’s basketball team, which continued to outpace its Ivy League opponents. The Tigers powered through a sloppy 57-45 victory over Brown on Friday and redeemed themselves Saturday with a second-half surge to take out Yale 72-47.

SPORTS | 02/05/2012

Guest Column: Quakers surging into rivalry meeting

We get it, Princeton. You beat us last year, you beat Harvard in the playoff for the Ivy Championship, you played well against Kentucky before collapsing in the final minutes (Penn did it too, alright?). Congrats, want a cookie?

SPORTS | 01/29/2012

Live Blog: Men's Basketball at Penn

PHILADELPHIA — Join us for the 225th installment of one of college basketball's biggest rivalries as Princeton takes on Penn at The Palestra. Follow the action live at 7 p.m.

SPORTS | 01/29/2012

Men's Basketball: Rosen, Quakers snap Tigers' Palestra streak

PHILADELPHIA – In three years with the Penn men’s basketball team, Zack Rosen had never defeated Princeton in front of his home fans. On Monday night, he made sure that he and the other seniors would not be Penn’s first players to graduate without that experience. The star point guard led a stellar offensive performance by the Quakers, who dropped the Tigers 82-67 to remain undefeated in the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 01/29/2012

Dibilio '15 released from hospital after stroke

After suffering a stroke late last Thursday, Chuck Dibilio ’15 was released from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia on Wednesday morning and is currently recovering at home, according to a post on his Facebook wall and confirmed by a hospital official.

SPORTS | 01/19/2012

Squash: No. 3 men remain perfect with sweep

The men's squash team maintained its perfect record with victories at Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend. The women swept Dartmouth 9-0 but narrowly lost 5-4 at No. 1 Harvard on Sunday afternoon.

SPORTS | 01/15/2012

Track & Field: Runners dominate meets at home, in N.Y.

Competing against local rivals Rutgers, St. John’s and St. Joseph’s, the women's track and field team shook off whatever cobwebs had accumulated over break and crushed the competition. Producing individual winners in nine out of the 16 events, Princeton scored 195 points, beating runner-up St. John’s by 76. And against a number of diverse Northeast teams in the Saturday Night at The Armory event, the men's team defeated 14 other squads, winning with 134 points.

SPORTS | 01/15/2012

Men's Hockey: Tigers shine against ranked opponents

Ali Goedecke

Facing No. 9 Cornell at Baker Rink on Saturday night, the men’s hockey team rallied from a three-goal deficit to salvage a 3-3 tie. Sophomore defenseman Kevin Ross netted the equalizer at 12 minutes, 14 seconds in the third period, just one night after Princeton overwhelmed No. 12 Colgate 6-2 at Baker Rink. The Tigers finished their best weekend yet with a 1-0-1 record against two nationally ranked teams.

SPORTS | 01/15/2012

Wrestling: Krop continues tear in loss to Ivy power

Jake Brown

Sophomore sensation and 141-pounder Adam Krop continued to lead the Tiger wrestling team this weekend as it took a commanding 41-9 victory in its match against Millersville on Friday before falling to national power No. 5 Cornell 30-9 Saturday night. Past losses to the Big Red, which has finished second in the nation each of the past two seasons, have lacked any trace of positivity. This year, however, Princeton took three victories against the national power, including yet another stunning performance from Krop.

SPORTS | 01/15/2012

Sports Shorts: Three Tigers selected in MLL Draft

Three men’s lacrosse players were drafted Friday night in the 2012 Major League Lacrosse draft, all of them on the defensive side of the ball. Senior defender Chad Wiedmaier was taken No. 7 overall by the Hamilton Nationals, while senior goalkeeper Tyler Fiorito was selected at No. 10 by the Chesapeake Bayhawks. Senior long stick midfielder John Cunningham rounded out the Princeton selections as he was chosen by Denver with the 46th pick.

SPORTS | 01/15/2012

Women's Hockey: Unbeaten streak stopped at 5 games

Nick Brement

The women’s hockey team took a road trip to central New York this weekend hoping to avenge a couple of home losses from earlier this season. The Tigers dropped Colgate 5-3 on the road but lost 1-0 at No. 3 Colgate.

SPORTS | 01/15/2012

Women's Basketball: 34 straight points complete domination

Randolph Brown

The women’s basketball team had little difficulty fine-tuning their skills in the Ivy League this weekend. The Tigers (13-4 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) dismantled Cornell 64-35 on Friday and followed with a crushing 94-35 rout of Columbia on Sunday afternoon. The decisive wins extended Princeton’s win streak to six games and continued to solidify the Tiger hold on the top spot in the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 01/15/2012

Men's Basketball: Defense, strong second half propel Tigers over Lions

Kevin Whitaker

NEW YORK – With nine minutes to play in its second Ivy League game, the men’s basketball team had its backs to the wall. But nine players contributed significantly down the stretch as Princeton took command with an 11-0 run and held on for a 62-58 victory, keeping their hopes of a second straight Ivy League title alive.

SPORTS | 01/13/2012

Live Blog: Men's Basketball at Columbia

NEW YORK — The men's basketball team tries to rebound from Friday's loss at Cornell, likely playing to keep its hopes for a repeat title alive at Columbia. Follow the action from Levien Gymnasium at 7 p.m.!

SPORTS | 01/13/2012

Davis’ clutch move nets last slice of pizza

Every kid grows up pretending to do what senior guard Doug Davis of the men’s basketball team did last March. With almost no time left on the clock and facing defeat at the hands of a bitter rival, Davis fought to find an open space on the floor and reached out to grab his prize: The last piece of Frist pizza.

SPORTS | 01/12/2012

Johnson ’97 lured by University of Phoenix

In an announcement that shocked the college basketball world, Fairfield head coach Sydney Johnson ’97 said Thursday that he would leave his current position at the end of the season to coach the men’s basketball team at the University of Phoenix eCampus.“I love, love, love University of Phoenix basketball,” Johnson said at a press conference yesterday morning.

SPORTS | 01/12/2012

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