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If you watch the Princeton football team during practice any given afternoon, your attention immediately turns to the quarterback airing out the ball, the receivers running their routes and the coaches chewing on their whistles.Easy to overlook is the player wearing number 15, the one working out alone, separate from the rest of the players clothed in Orange and Black.Transition to any Saturday afternoon, and you'll see a wildly different picture.

SPORTS | 10/04/2005

Finally a starter, senior Guelich shines in goal

Finally a starter, senior Guelich shines in goal

Similar to political success, sometimes athleticism just runs in the family. From 1999 to the 2004 season, a familial lineage dominated the goalie position for men's soccer.

SPORTS | 10/04/2005

Tigers beat Big Green but fall to Crimson at ECAC

For senior Andrew Lieu, the Eastern College Athletic Conference Invitational at Flushing Meadows, N.Y., this past weekend was but another stepping stone on the road that he hopes will end with the men's tennis team claiming the Ivy League championship.

SPORTS | 10/04/2005

Women's volleyball falters versus Juniata, Penn

Down two games to one with the end in sight, the women's volleyball team knew it needed a win to stay in the match Friday night in Dillon Gym.

SPORTS | 10/03/2005

Dear Daily Princetonian

Editor's Note: This is the sixth in a series of postcards that The Daily Princetonian sports staff writers wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.

SPORTS | 10/03/2005

I was wrong: Football team could be great

I was wrong.Three weeks ago, I predicted a 4-6 season for the football team, writing that "another 5-5 season is the best the Tigers can possibly hope for."Oops.A brief digression before I begin eating my words: Sports writers are often criticized ? and fairly so ? for being quick to second-guess coaches and players.

SPORTS | 10/03/2005

Ferrell sets course record, leads Tigers to H-Y-P win

Led by the record-setting performance of senior Cack Ferrell, the women's varsity cross country team outran Harvard and Yale this past weekend to place first at the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet held at the Yale Golf Club.The Tigers beat the Bulldogs, 23-36, and cruised over the Crimson, 19-44.

SPORTS | 10/03/2005

Princeton nabs first Ivy win

It would have been easy for women's soccer to give up and take a loss Sunday afternoon. Traveling to Hanover, N.H., to play Dartmouth, Princeton faced a team that was riding a four-game winning streak, had home field advantage and, by the end of the first half, had taken nearly twice as many shots as the Tigers.This was the kind of game Princeton (3-4-2 overall, 1-1-0 Ivy League) has been losing all season.

SPORTS | 10/03/2005

Despite Guelich's 12 saves, Tigers fall in OT

Senior goalie Bobby Guelich had the game of his collegiate career on Sunday against Dartmouth (4-1-3 overall, 1-0-0 Ivy League). Unfortunately for his team, his performance was part of a losing effort in which the Tigers (3-4-1, 0-1-0) could not muster much of an offense and fared little better on defense.

SPORTS | 10/03/2005

Quakers blank Tigers, 42-0

PHILADELPHIA ? For the second straight weekend, sprint football failed to score a point. The Tigers (0-2 overall) did, however, cut the number of points their opponent scored nearly in half, losing 42-0 to Penn (2-0) on Friday night.The Quakers scored three touchdowns in the first quarter and registered three more scores in the final three quarters.

SPORTS | 10/02/2005

Offensive line opened holes early, paving way for Princeton's ground and aerial attacks to thrive

In the football team's first two games of the season, the Tigers found ways to win. But on Saturday, the team didn't have to do much searching at all.Princeton easily discovered the formula for a blowout win: keep your offense on the field for 40 minutes and 12 seconds, more than ample time to establish some dominating and devastating rhythm."I had confidence, and I felt like I could carry on the rhythm early on [after the first drive]," junior quarterback Jeff Terrell said.And while Terrell played a solid game, a confluence of factors allowed the Tigers to utterly frustrate Columbia en route to a 43-3 win.As both Terrell and head coach Roger Hughes agreed, the ultimate key to Saturday's win was the strong play of Princeton's all-senior offensive line, led by offensive captain and senior outside lineman Ben Brielmaier. "When our offensive line plays well, we have a chance to move the football," Hughes said.

SPORTS | 10/02/2005

Men's water polo tops Hopkins, Navy, but falls to Bucknell in OT

Despite a 2-1 weekend record, the men's water polo team returned disappointed after its 14-game league win streak was snapped by a feisty Bucknell squad.

SPORTS | 10/02/2005

Tigers roar, Lions whimper

As head coach Roger Hughes addressed the media following the football team's 43-3 dismantling of Columbia on Saturday, the three Tigers seated to his right shared a laugh while pointing at their printouts of the game's statistics.Junior tailback Cleo Kirkland later explained the cause of their amusement.

SPORTS | 10/02/2005

Schmidt's two goals keep field hockey undefeated in Ivy

After the final whistle blew in Sunday's game against Villanova, the field hockey team felt quite different than it had a mere 48 hours before.

SPORTS | 10/02/2005

Soccer Girls

Wearing her orange jersey and cleats, eight-year-old Jessica Bush spent Saturday night bouncing around like a jumping bean.From her vantage point in the bleachers behind the south goal at Lourie-Love Field, Jessica screamed "Princeton!" at the top of her lungs and cheered wildly for her favorite players.She was one of a bevy of young girls at the game, all watching and learning from their heroes on the women's soccer team.

SPORTS | 09/29/2005

Already on a roll, Tigers get boost from Ehrlichman's return

When senior attack Lauren Ehrlichman departed from New Jersey in mid-September for a trip to Chile with the U.S.

SPORTS | 09/29/2005

News & Notes

Sprint football visits PennThe sprint football teams fielded by Princeton and Penn could not have enjoyed more disparate results in their respective season-opening games.

SPORTS | 09/29/2005

Tigers, Lions hope to roar

Fresh off an inspiring victory last week against San Diego, the football team will take on an equally energized Columbia team this Saturday at Palmer Stadium.For the first time since 1996, the Lions (2-0 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) have an undefeated record after the first two games of their season.

SPORTS | 09/29/2005

Net play key for women's soccer against Big Green

In a Sept. 21 contest against UMass, Dartmouth forward Sarah Johnson lined up to take a free kick just outside the penalty box during the second overtime.

SPORTS | 09/29/2005

Men's soccer visits reigning champs

After weeks of practice, several close games against nationally-ranked opponents and an exhausting overtime tie versus instate rival Rutgers on Wednesday, the men's soccer team (3-3-1 overall) will start from scratch this weekend.On Sunday, the Tigers travel to Hanover, N.H., to take on Dartmouth (3-1-3) in what will be both teams' first Ivy League matchup of the season.Though the Tigers have proven that they can be competitive against the country's most elite collegiate programs, those accomplishments will count for little in the team's quest for a league championship.Ivy League soccer does not have a playoff or ranking system to determine the league champion.

SPORTS | 09/29/2005

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