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Tigers take shots, come up empty

Tigers take shots, come up empty

Against No. 16 Loyola on Wednesday night, the men?s soccer team ran into the same problem it has struggled with through the first half of the season: great opportunities, no goals.The Greyhounds (7-0-1 overall) defeated the Tigers, 1-0, in a rainy, evenly contested battle.

SPORTS | 10/02/2008

Shorthanded squad defends win streak

Sporting a new No. 12 ranking, the field hockey team hopes to build on its four-game winning streak this weekend with action Friday at Columbia and Sunday at home against Providence.

SPORTS | 10/02/2008

On tap with ... senior attack Katie Kinzer

Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment? A: Field hockey pre-season ? 7 a.m.

SPORTS | 10/01/2008

Sniper sisters shoot round the world

New York City has at times been plagued by gun violence. The city?s criminals use guns to rob banks, take hostages and the like.

SPORTS | 10/01/2008

A passion for soccer born at Princeton

Many graduating Princetonians have been reading the headlines recently, dreading the latest financial news and job market statistics.

SPORTS | 10/01/2008

Charged up by training camp in San Diego

Editor?s note: This is the seventh in a series of postcards that Daily Princetonian sports staff writers and others wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.

SPORTS | 10/01/2008

New head coach an old friend

The men?s cross country team has been one of the most successful Princeton sports teams over the past two years, winning two straight Ivy League Heptagonal championships and finishing third at last fall?s Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships.

SPORTS | 10/01/2008

Tigers score late to win

Sarah Peteraf seems to have brought the Midas touch to Myslik Field, as the senior midfielder?s late-game heroics led the women?s soccer team to another victory last night.Princeton (5-1-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) got off to a slow start against Fairfield (7-2-2) and had difficulty maintaining possession and creating quality attacking chances.

SPORTS | 09/30/2008

Fresh Ks making the plays

The field hockey team boasts an impressive statistic that often goes unnoticed. The team has a 30.7 girls-whose-first-name-begins-with-K percentage.

SPORTS | 09/30/2008

Sorry, Cubs fans. You’re not winning it all

Here?s a bold prediction: Come Nov. 1, thousands of people will be wearing ?Chicago Cubs ? World Champions? T-shirts.Unfortunately for North Siders, those winsome garments will not be worn in the Windy City.

SPORTS | 09/30/2008

Mullets aplenty at South African rugby match

Editor?s note: This is the sixth in a series of postcards that Daily Princetonian sports staff writers and others wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.

SPORTS | 09/30/2008

Defense forces turnovers, succumbs to fatigue

The sprint football team took on Penn last Friday at Powers Field in the Tigers? season opener.

SPORTS | 09/29/2008

Princeton finishes ninth in weather-shortened Cornell Invitational

Fresh off an 11th-place finish at the McLaughlin Invitational last weekend, the men?s golf team travelled to Ithaca, N.Y., to compete in a rain-shortened Cornell Invitational this weekend.

SPORTS | 09/29/2008

Five-year Navy streak ends

The men?s water polo team rocketed to a five-game winning streak and a perfect start to its divisional season this weekend, defeating No.

SPORTS | 09/29/2008

Top-six sweep earns perfect 15 in HYP meet

Spectators at the Yale Golf Course witnessed quite a show last Saturday as the women?s cross country team swept the top six spots in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet for a perfect team score of 15.

SPORTS | 09/29/2008

Faust victorious in ‘B’ singles tourney

The men?s and women?s tennis teams were back in action this weekend, with the men playing at home for the first time this season in the Farnsworth Invitational and the women playing in the Cissie Leary Invitational at Penn.The Farnsworth Invitational is a three-day tournament in which the eight participating teams ? Princeton, St.

SPORTS | 09/29/2008

Non-Ivy wins send message to league

In the final tune-up before a showdown with Penn at the Palestra next Saturday, the women?s volleyball team sent a message to the rest of the Ivy League.It?s back.

SPORTS | 09/29/2008

Anderson demonstrates capability as field general

On first and goal with four minutes, 57 seconds remaining in the first half of the football team?s home opener against Lehigh (1-2 overall), junior running back Jordan Culbreath swept out to the right side of senior quarterback and tri-captain Brian Anderson and rushed into the endzone for a touchdown, knotting the score at seven.Culbreath?s touchdown proved to be Princeton?s (1-1) only visit to the endzone in the game, but three factors enabled the Tigers to eke out a 10-7 win as time expired.

SPORTS | 09/28/2008

Louden boots Lehigh

With two seconds left on the clock and the score tied at seven in the football team?s matchup with Lehigh, all eyes were on senior kicker Connor Louden.

SPORTS | 09/28/2008

Burton and Busch break losing streak

A tough early schedule may now be paying off for the men?s soccer team. After losing three consecutive games ? two to highly ranked teams Northwestern and Illinois-Chicago ? the Tigers finally broke through on Sunday, overcoming Farleigh Dickinson, 2-1.Princeton (2-5-0 overall) and the Knights (4-3-0) were set to head to overtime with the score knotted at one with only five minutes remaining in the second half.

SPORTS | 09/28/2008

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