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Preyer, Shoji post wins in Big Apple

Preyer, Shoji post wins in Big Apple

Five members of the men?s tennis team traveled to New York City last weekend for the Columbia Invitational, a 12-team tournament that included Harvard, Penn, Columbia and Cornell.The Tigers posted a mixed performance at the three-day event, with unexpectedly strong showings from two underclassmen, sophomore Parker Preyer and freshman Yohei Shoji, and disappointingly early exits for two of the squad?s top players, senior Alex Vuckovic and junior George Carpeni.

SPORTS | 10/13/2008

U.S. wins gold with Tigers on the field

The 2009 Women?s Junior World Cup in field hockey will be hosted at Harvard, where Constance Applebee introduced the game to the United States in 1901.

SPORTS | 10/13/2008

Dixon, Soroka score first touchdowns of the season

The sprint football team took on Cornell this past Friday at home on Powers Field. In one of the team?s best overall performances this season, the Tigers scored their first two touchdowns but came out on the losing end of a 40-14 battle.

SPORTS | 10/13/2008

Tigers continue Ivy run

It has been almost two years and exactly 18 league matches since the women?s volleyball team has lost in the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 10/12/2008

Inability to stop the pass proves fatal

If head coach Roger Hughes had known before Saturday?s game that the Tigers would outrush Colgate, he would have felt good about the football team?s chances.

SPORTS | 10/12/2008

Men's soccer falls 3-2 in brutally physical game

A theme has become apparent for the men?s soccer team: close losses.The Tigers were tied or held the lead for nearly 42 minutes in Saturday's game, but a Brown goal with three minutes, 18 seconds left on the clock sealed Princeton?s eighth loss of the season, 3-2.Despite two goals by sophomore midfielder Brandon Busch, the Tigers (2-8-1 overall, 0-1-1 Ivy League) fell short, allowing two second-half goals by Bears midfielder Nick Elenz-Martin.Elenz-Martin?s first came at 60:13 when the midfielder pushed a long throw-in from the far touchline into the net.

SPORTS | 10/12/2008

Career days overshadowed by last-second Colgate FG

Two weeks ago, Princeton was ecstatic after a last-second Connor Louden field goal sealed a 10-7 victory over Lehigh.

SPORTS | 10/12/2008

Women's soccer draws 0-0 with Brown

The women?s soccer team, often blessed with lucky last-minute opportunities this season, was poised to pull off another heart-stopping win in the closing moments of Saturday afternoon?s game against Brown.

SPORTS | 10/10/2008

Men's Soccer: Panthers win on overtime penalty kick

The men?s soccer team came close enough to victory that it could almost taste it. After 90 hard-fought minutes and three more in overtime, the Tigers just couldn?t put the icing on the cake, losing to Adelphi 2-1 in yet another hotly contested loss.After rallying to score a goal in the second half, Princeton (2-7-1 overall, 0-0-1 Ivy League) was called for fouling an attacking Panther in the box.

SPORTS | 10/09/2008

Football: Scott will pose major challenge for front seven

Colgate?s Jordan Scott is unquestionably the best running back in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), so when the Princeton football team heads to Hamilton, N.Y., for its final non-league game of the season against Colgate (3-2 overall), the Tigers will have to be perfect on both sides of the ball to come away with a victory.The Tigers (2-1, 1-0 Ivy League) are coming off an exciting win in their Ivy opener at Columbia, in which senior quarterback and tri-captain Brian Anderson capped a sensational afternoon with a 52-yard bomb to up-and-coming sophomore wideout Trey Peacock for the go-ahead score late in the fourth quarter.

SPORTS | 10/09/2008

Women's Volleyball: Lions, Big Red next up for Princeton

Fresh off last Saturday?s dominating victory over Penn in its first Ivy League matchup, the women?s volleyball team is looking to stay undefeated in league play as it travels to Columbia and Cornell this weekend.

SPORTS | 10/09/2008

Men's Soccer: Powerful Bears next chance at league victory

Beating Brown ? which was recently ranked No. 19 in the College Soccer News poll ? is one of the hardest things an Ivy League soccer team can do.

SPORTS | 10/09/2008

Men's Water Polo: Tigers to face No. 1 USC in first game in SoCal

If there is one thing the No. 15 men?s water polo team has learned in the past two weeks, it?s that the Tigers can hang with just about anyone.

SPORTS | 10/09/2008

Women's Soccer: Defense is set to dominate again

Perhaps more impressive than the women?s soccer team?s seven-game unbeaten streak is that the team keeps finding ways to improve with each win.

SPORTS | 10/09/2008

On tap with senior Max Schechter

Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment?A: The first day of practice freshman year, coach sat [senior] Drew Maliniak and I down during a team lunch and started talking about the next few years.

SPORTS | 10/08/2008

Harvard, Yale upset in early league contests

The landscape of Ivy League football seems a little topsy-turvy right now. In a wild first round of league play, the two favorites to capture the Ivy League crown ? Yale and Harvard ? were toppled by Cornell and Brown, respectively.

SPORTS | 10/08/2008

Fantasy camp makes baseball bearable

Editor?s note: This is the eighth and final 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 | 10/08/2008

Frosh Ford fills void left by star

As the women?s volleyball team seeks to repeat its historic 14-0 Ivy League-winning 2007 season, the Tigers have the advantage of returning most of their starting players ? except one.

SPORTS | 10/08/2008

‘Ball up’ at Dillon Gym

With a maximum capacity of 1,500, Princeton University?s Dillon Gym isn?t what one would consider the most luxurious of sporting venues.

SPORTS | 10/08/2008

Princeton trio takes weekly awards

Anderson wins Ivy League Co-Offensive Player of the Week honorIf anyone who?s witnessed the football team in recent weeks believes they?ve just seen the spitting image of former quarterback Jeff Terrell ?07, they don?t necessarily need to have their vision checked.

SPORTS | 10/08/2008

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