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Playoff push picking up for Princeton

With the penultimate weekend of the men's hockey season looming just around the corner, fans from all around the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Hockey League (ECACHL) sit on tenterhooks, anxiously poring over the standings and schedules, trying to predict where their favorite teams will stand when the dust has settled.All playoff seeds from one to 12 are yet to be determined, and all 12 teams still have a shot at a top-four finish and the first-round bye that comes with it."Our league is so close it's unbelievable," senior goaltender BJ Sklapsky said.

Home-ice advantage up for grabs at Baker Rink

It's hard to say whether the women's hockey team is hosting its final pair of regular season games or is holding a convention aimed at dental hygiene and fresh breath this weekend as the Tigers face off against Colgate at 7 p.m.

Women seek first national title of decade

There's only one question to ask this weekend: Can the Tigers stay perfect?It's rare for a Division I school to have two teams remain undefeated during the same season and even rarer for both of those teams to compete in the same sport.

Tigers crush Violets

A good sports team tries to force its opponent to make errors. Better teams can even adjust to an opponent's strengths ? and that's exactly what the men's volleyball team did against New York University.There was certainly no lack of excitement for the crowd at Dillon Gym on Tuesday night, when the men's volleyball team took on New York University (5-9 overall) in its home opener.

Wolff owns top-ranked ABA squad

"I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell." Sound familiar?To most, these words conjure an image of Christopher Walken encouraging a belly-baring Will Ferrell to explore the studio space in a Saturday Night Live skit.

Crimson and Tigers to duel for Ivies

The Tigers just wrapped up an undefeated Ivy League season, something that hasn't been done since 2003.

On Tap with ... Powe and Goeckner-Zoeller

Senior forwards Darroll Powe and Grant Goeckner-Zoeller are members of the men's ice hockey team.Welcome-to-college-sports moment?GGZ: I guess it was the first weekend of our freshman year, on the road against St.

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'Ice of the Tiger' brings home gold medal

Stepping onto the ice to perform a three-minute-long program is daunting enough when the skater is competing solo.

Tigers tested in South tourney

It's been said that the least comforting part about winning a championship is its transience ? come next season, a title signifies nothing about the strength of the team defending it.

Penn stuffs Tigers

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. ? When rivals meet, the setting is always intense. And when the game is intense, a team that plays good defense will almost always be the winner.Unfortunately for the men's basketball team (10-11 overall, 1-6 Ivy League), its stellar defense was outdone by an even better Penn defense, guiding the Quakers (15-8, 6-1) to a 48-35 win in a slugfest last night at The Palestra.After the Tigers rallied to tie the game at 29 with 11 minutes and 24 seconds remaining, Penn sealed Princeton's fate with a long second-half run maintained by stifling pressure defense.The Orange and Black shot a dreadful 31 percent from the floor, including 21 percent from beyond the arc, but was kept in the game by Penn's 35 percent field-goal and 13 percent three-point shooting.

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Water polo and Tiger Inn link Colgan siblings

Most sibling rivalries extend to all sorts of quarrels. For the water-polo-playing duo of senior utility Elyse Colgan and sophomore driver Brendan Colgan, however, their fights center on just one issue."We only fight over the car," Brendan said.The two siblings, who share a passion for water polo, actually get along so well that they cooperate in a musical venture at home."I actually have a band back home," Brendan, who hails from Annapolis, Maryland, said.

Stay out of the box

Professors always tell students to think outside the box because creativity and individuality keep them from being confined to any one space.

Tigers' only points of weekend come by forfeit

Princeton's wrestling team (0-16 overall, 0-4 Ivy League) hit the road to face New York Ivy League rivals Columbia (6-3, 2-1) and Cornell (6-5, 3-0) this past weekend.

New look for an old rivalry

On Friday, the men's basketball team overcame Harvard, proving it can compete with an average Ivy League team.

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With upset of No. 12 Santa Clara, Princeton splits at Triton

In tournament competition, one starts to see whether a team will sink or swim.The No. 18 women's water polo team kept afloat this past weekend against some of the top water polo teams in the nation at the Triton Invitational in San Diego.

Quakers will feel the Tigers' pain

Whoa there, Princeton.Just take a deep breath.You see, the same thing seems to happen every year with us.When confronted with the sad realities about your basketball program, you throw a hissy fit.You try to say you're better than us, that Penn stinks and that we took your lunch money when you were little kids.Well, Princeton, what I should do with this column is tell you to get over yourselves right now.But no.

Women enter win column, men avoid first loss

As far as starting off on the right foot goes, the Tiger tennis players seem to be doing pretty well.