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Column: Early season rust explained

Column: Early season rust explained

The good news is that it’s early. The bad news is that in a year when the men’s hockey team was finally supposed to put it all together, everything has begun to fall apart. To put things in perspective: With its next defeat, Princeton will have lost six games. Last season, the team’s sixth loss didn’t come until Feb. 14.

SPORTS | 11/30/2009

Women's Basketball: Close loss to UCLA avenged against UC-Irvine

Though it dropped a tough decision in its first of two contests over Thanksgiving break, the women’s basketball team showed no signs of a tryptophan hangover in its second game, earning a convincing win to improve its record to 4-1.

SPORTS | 11/29/2009

Men's Hockey: Quinnipiac dominates Princeton

Last year, the men’s hockey team allowed five goals in a game only four times in the entire season. Less than halfway through its 2009-10 campaign, Princeton (3-5-1 overall, 2-4-1 ECAC Hockey) has already done that six times.

SPORTS | 11/29/2009

Men's Basketball: Tigers fall to one of nation's top teams

The men’s basketball team headed out west this past Sunday with the hopes of repeating history by pulling off another shocking upset over a California-based team. But unlike in 1996, when Princeton surprised heavily favored UCLA, the Tigers (2-3) never came close, losing to No. 23 California (4-2), 81-60, at the Haas Pavilion in Berkeley, Calif.

SPORTS | 11/29/2009

Fencing: Men and women successful in Harvard tourney

Three days after carving turkeys at Thanksgiving, the men’s and women’s fencing teams took to the road to try to carve up some of their strongest competition at the Harvard Invitational.

SPORTS | 11/29/2009

Women's Ice Hockey: DiCesare nets winning goal

The women’s ice hockey team split a two-game series against No. 8 Boston University at Baker Rink this past weekend, earning a 3-1 win over the Terriers on Friday before falling, 3-2, the following day.

SPORTS | 11/29/2009

Women's Basketball: Unbeaten start on the line out West

The undefeated women’s basketball team will look to continue its winning streak over the Thanksgiving recess, as it travels to California to face UCLA and UC Irvine.

SPORTS | 11/24/2009

Women's Hockey: No. 9 Terriers will provide tough test

For many Princeton students, Thanksgiving morning will be an opportunity to catch up on much-needed sleep.

SPORTS | 11/24/2009

Men's Hockey: Princeton searches for spark

Coming off three straight games without a win, the men?s hockey team will look to get back on track against a high-powered No.

SPORTS | 11/24/2009

Men's Basketball: Tigers fade late in D.C.

Princeton simply could not make shots, and it ultimately fell to George Washington by a score of 65-50. But the game was actually closer than it appeared on paper.

SPORTS | 11/24/2009

Wrestling: Freshman Frey finishes in second at Keystone Classic on Sunday

Freshman wrestler Garrett Frey followed his first-place finish at the Binghamton Open last weekend with another impressive performance at the Keystone Classic on Sunday. Frey took second in the 125-pound bracket, losing to Jasen Borshoff of American, 5-3, in the final. The tournament was hosted by Ivy rival Penn and held at the Palestra.

SPORTS | 11/23/2009

Women's Basketball: Delle Donne unable to lift Delaware

From a look at the box score, it would appear that Elena Delle Donne dominated. Delaware’s star forward lit up the women’s basketball team for 35 points and grabbed a game-high nine rebounds.

SPORTS | 11/23/2009

Swimming & Diving: Princeton victorious in opening Ivy meet

The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams had an eerily similar weekend.

SPORTS | 11/23/2009

On the Prowl ... November 23rd 2009

Associate Editors for Sports Eben Novy-Williams and Rachel Orland sit down with senior writers Mary Reid Munford and Vikram Rao to discuss this weekend's actions. The men's soccer team lost to Bucknell in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the field hockey team lost to Maryland in the Final Four and the football team finished its season with a win over Dartmouth. The quartet of writers also discuss the sudden firing of head coach Roger Hughes.

SPORTS | 11/23/2009

Cross Country: Women finish fifth at NCAA Championship

The Princeton women followed a second-place finish at NCAA Regionals with a fifth-place finish in the year-end race.

SPORTS | 11/23/2009

Squash: Tigers overcome set of injuries at Cornell

The Princeton men’s and women’s squash teams traveled to Ithaca, N.Y., for a weekend double header to open the season. The men defeated the Western Ontario Mustangs on Saturday, but the women lost to the Stanford Cardinal. Both squads defeated Cornell on Sunday in an important match for the Ivy League title race.

SPORTS | 11/23/2009

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