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Women's Water Polo: With third-place finish at Easterns, Princeton ends season on high note

Women's Water Polo: With third-place finish at Easterns, Princeton ends season on high note

“Someday love will find you. Break those chains that bind you. One night will remind you, how we touched and went our separate ways.”When you combine Bob the bus driver, Journey music videos, assistant coach Derek Ellingson on the seat drums, assistant coach Serela Kay on the air piano and head coach Luis Nicolao on lead vocals, there is no way the women’s water polo team cannot get fired up for its away matches. “Nothing gets us pumped more than some 1980s air piano,” senior driver and tri-captain Helen Meigs said.

SPORTS | 05/09/2010

Women's Lacrosse: Tough year ends for young squad

Before the season started, head coach Chris Sailer called the women’s lacrosse team a “youth movement.” As nine seniors from the team graduated last spring — including talented midfield trio Holly McGarvie, Kristin Schwab and Katie Cox — it was anybody’s guess how the Tigers would look on the field this time around.

SPORTS | 05/09/2010

Men's Volleyball: Team finishes best season in years

When Jeff McCown and Carl Hamming joined the men’s volleyball team as freshmen in 2006, their rookie season ended at an even 6-6 in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tait Division. Their 2008 EIVA finish was identical and was followed by a disappointing 4-9 finish last year. This year, however, the co-captains and three-year starters were determined to end on a high note.

SPORTS | 05/09/2010

Men's Lacrosse: Tigers top Cornell in OT thriller

It was the moment the men’s lacrosse team had been waiting for.With just one second left in the first overtime period of the championship game of the inaugural Ivy League tournament and the score tied 9-9, junior attackman Jack McBride found himself in front of the Cornell net with the balance of the game hanging on his stick. And he did not disappoint.

SPORTS | 05/09/2010

On the Prowl: Reading Period Edition

Vikram Rao and Gabriel Debenedetti discuss this week in sports.

SPORTS | 05/06/2010

On Tap with ... Barrett LaChance

Since arriving at Princeton in the fall of 2007, junior Barrett LaChance has been an integral member of the men's lightweight crew that won the Head of the Charles the past two seasons. In this interview, LaChance talks about the strides he's made since freshman year and his love for ’90s grunge music.

SPORTS | 05/06/2010

Men's Lacrosse: Tigers battle for league title

Last Saturday, the men’s lacrosse team was narrowly defeated by No. 6 Cornell in the final game of the regular season. No. 9 Princeton (9-4 overall, 4-2 Ivy League), however, may get the chance to exact revenge on the Big Red.

SPORTS | 05/06/2010

Track & Field: Men, women face Ancient Eight’s best in Heps

The men’s track and field team will attempt to capture the outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championship for the first time since 2000 this weekend. The Tigers will face stiff competition, especially from Cornell, which has won the last seven titles. For the last four years, Princeton has finished second to Cornell.

SPORTS | 05/06/2010

Column: Seriously, Philly fans are not that bad

It’s common knowledge that Philadelphia sports fans are animals and probably the rowdiest in all of American sports. They boo their own team, kick their players out of town, and are despised by the very athletes they support. Hell, they even booed Santa Claus.

SPORTS | 05/06/2010

Feature: Lady Clockwork puts together impressive season

"What’s the longest river in the world? Da Nile! How do you keep a dog in the yard? Da fence! How do you make babies outdoors? Fucking in tents! Denial, Defense, Fucking intense!”

SPORTS | 05/04/2010

Women's Tennis: Tigers draw UVa. in NCAA first round

The draws are finally out: The women’s tennis team’s first opponent in the NCAA tournament will be the University of Virginia.

SPORTS | 05/04/2010

Crew: Opens finish with undefeated regular season

Last weekend was full of challenges for three of Princeton’s varsity crews. The men’s first lightweight boat lost its 20-race winning streak in a narrow loss to Harvard on Saturday, and the men’s heavyweights, looking to regain the Content Cup from Brown, were unable to close the 3-second gap.

SPORTS | 05/04/2010

Column: MJ: Even better than we think?

One of the best things about writing about sports — or anything — is making an outrageous-sounding, grandiose argument that at first glance appears wrong in the extreme, and then arguing it to death. If you argue poorly, you look like an idiot. If you argue well, you still look like an idiot, but at least you have some strange satisfaction that you’ve stirred the pot. So, on that note, I make the following statement: Michael Jordan is very underrated.

SPORTS | 05/04/2010

Track & Field: Princeton excels in tuneup

With the Heptagonal Championships coming up this weekend, the men’s and women’s track and field teams could not have asked for a better weekend. Members of both teams set personal and season records at Saturday’s Elite Meet in Princeton.

SPORTS | 05/04/2010

Men's Lacrosse: Cornell strikes again

The men’s lacrosse team’s attempt to exact revenge on one of its biggest rivals fell just short on Saturday, as No. 7 Princeton (9-4 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) lost to No. 10 Cornell (9-4, 4-2) 10-9. The defeat leaves the Tigers in a historic four-way tie for the Ivy League championship, along with Cornell, Brown and Yale.

SPORTS | 05/02/2010

Men's Volleyball: Nittany Lions prove their might

Every time the men’s volleyball team played No. 12 Penn State this year, it pushed the Nittany Lions a little further. Despite this, the Tigers (15–10 overall, 5-5 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) were unable to overcome the strong Penn State squad (23-7, 10-0) in the EIVA finals on Saturday, dropping the match 3-28, 30-27, 30-13. The win marks the 12th straight EIVA championship title for the Nittany Lions, who will advance with a No. 3 seeding to the NCAA tournament.

SPORTS | 05/02/2010

Softball: Princeton takes 1 of 4 from Cornell in final series

With its fate long since sealed, the softball team secured one last win against Cornell to send out the graduating seniors in style.

SPORTS | 05/02/2010

Baseball: Campaign finishes with 3 losses to Big Red

A season of disappointment came to an end this weekend for the baseball team as it dropped three of four games against Cornell in a series split between Ithaca, N.Y., and Princeton. Just one year removed from last year’s team playing in a playoff to determine the champion of the Gehrig Division, this year’s squad finished eight games off the pace of the Gehrig Division title and at the bottom of the Ivy League overall.

SPORTS | 05/02/2010

Women's Water Polo: Tigers take 3rd at Easterns

The women’s water polo team kicked off the Eastern Championships with a spectacular first round upset before falling to a talented foe. Princeton (20-10 overall, 5-1 Southern Collegiate Water Polo Association) beat Bucknell (17-10, 5-1) 10-8 to knock the Bison out in the quarterfinals in College Park, Md. In the semifinals, the Tigers fell to Michigan (31-6) 12-8. Princeton ended the tournament on a high note, topping Hartwick (25-5) in the third-place game.

SPORTS | 05/02/2010

Women's Lacrosse: Laxers fall to Penn in 1st round of Ivy tournament

A defensive first half turned into an undesirably high-scoring second period for the women’s lacrosse team, as fourth-seeded Princeton fell to top seed Penn 13-9 in the opening round of the Ivy League playoffs. The Tigers (6-10 overall, 4-3 Ivy League) held the Quakers to three first-half points as they entered halftime down 3-1, but they were unable to muster a sufficient comeback. Penn (13-3, 7-0) went on to beat Dartmouth in the Ivy League championship game 9-8 to win the inaugural league tournament.

SPORTS | 05/02/2010

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