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Men's soccer's up-and-down season good for second place in Ivy

Men's soccer's up-and-down season good for second place in Ivy

The men's soccer team went through its season like a sputtering rollercoaster, earning a breathtaking win one day only to stagnate offensively the next, resulting in a steep nosedive.When it was all over, the Tigers (8-5-4 overall, 3-2-2 Ivy League) were far from the worst team in the league, yet the Ivy crown would elude their grasp.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

El-Halaby wins third individual national title as men's squash finishes third in nation

By the end of his junior season, calling Yasser El-Halaby the Michael Jordan of college squash might be excessively complimentary ? to Michael Jordan.For a third consecutive year, the soft-spoken Cairo, Egypt native dominated his competition with remarkable ease, destroying Yale's Julian Illingworth, 9-6, 9-2, 9-1 in early March to become the first male to ever win three individual national titles in his first three seasons.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Quakers end field hockey's decade of Ivy dominance

For ten straight years, from 1994 to 2003, the outcome had been as certain as death and taxes ? at the end of every Ivy League field hockey season, Princeton sat atop the standings.But on Nov.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Women's lacrosse felled in NCAA quarters

When the women's lacrosse team took the turf in Evanston, Ill., on May 15 to face Northwestern in the NCAA tournament quarterfinals, the Tigers (13-5 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) found themselves playing an unfamiliar role: underdog.After reaching the Final Four for five consecutive years and winning national championships in 2002 and 2003, this year's Princeton squad was younger, more inexperienced and, ultimately, not quite as good."Expectations are always very high," head coach Chris Sailer said.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Gadowsky brings progress to men's hockey in first year at helm

The men's hockey program entered the 2004-05 season with a drastically altered image. Princeton sported a newly refurbished home ice and a brand new head coach, Guy Gadowsky.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Butler reaches NCAAs as young wrestling team struggles

Coming off a 2003-04 campaign in which the team won only a single meet, the wrestling program made positive strides in 04-05, earning victories in five meets.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Sprint football's losing streak reaches record 35 games

Bolstered by the strongest corps of returning players and veteran leadership in recent memory, the sprint football team reasonably hoped to accomplish something the Tigers haven't done in a while ? win a game.In spite of much improved play, however, Princeton (0-6 overall) continued to be outmatched by the four other schools that compete in the Collegiate Sprint Football League.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Men's, women's golf both repeat as Ivy League champs

For the second year in a row, Princeton proved to be the preeminent golf program in the Ivy League as both the men's and women's squads repeated as Ancient Eight champions.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Baseball fails to claim 10th straight Gehrig crown

After winning nine straight Lou Gehrig Division titles from 1996-2004, the baseball team has established itself as the Yankees of the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Women's soccer falls to UCLA in season opener

MIAMI ? Playing under threatening skies, the No. 21 nationally ranked women's soccer team (0-1) fell in its season opener against No.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Women's water polo nabs fourth at CWPA Easterns

After dominating regular season play in the College Water Polo Association's Southern Division and acquitting themselves well against national-caliber competition, the women's water polo entered the CWPA Eastern tournament with high expectations.But after the Tigers notched a 10-6 first-round victory over Brown, Michigan ran over Princeton (27-9 overall) with five straight first quarter goals en route to an 8-3 semifinal victory.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Snyder, Schauss hurl softball to title

Thanks to savvy scheduling prior to the season and stellar play throughout it, the Ivy League champion softball team (36-20 overall, 12-2 Ivy League) was able to close out the year in a situation identical to how it opened play ? as an underdog battling some of the nation's toughest competition.Princeton's season ended on May 21 in Tucson, Ariz., with a 6-3 loss to Oklahoma State in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament regionals, but only after the Tigers had downed Lehigh, 3-1, earlier in the day for their first regional-round win since 1996.The tournament appearance thus proved to be the final success in a season that was full of them for the Tigers.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Scott learns it's hard to come home again

The expectations placed on the 2004-05 men's basketball team were remarkably high, but they weren't unfounded ? not on paper, at least.Thanks to a unique combination of change and continuity, the Tigers appeared poised to breeze to an Ivy League title.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Women's volleyball in four-way tie for Ivy crown

The first time the women's volleyball team played Penn in 2004, the Tigers topped the Quakers 3-1 in their Ivy opener.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

After promising start, football sputters to .500

On a crisp afternoon in late October, the sea of orange and black-clad homecoming fans watching the football team battle Harvard at Princeton Stadium had reason to cheer.The 4-1 Tigers had jumped to 14-3 first quarter lead against the defending-Ivy champion Crimson.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Women's soccer struggles again in Miami

MIAMI ? Whether it was caused by fatigue, inexperience, missing teammates, poor weather, or simply the stars being improperly aligned, the women's soccer team (0-2 overall) was again held scoreless Sunday, this time in a 3-0 loss to the Miami Hurricanes (3-1).After falling to No.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Tigers Trounce Terps

Senior midfielder Elizabeth Pillion had missed the last three weeks of the regular season with a hamstring injury, but in her first game back yesterday afternoon at home, no one could tell.

SPORTS | 05/12/2005

Venable discusses future plans, draft

Recently, Daily Princetonian senior writer Clarke Smith sat down with senior basketball and baseball standout Will Venable.

SPORTS | 05/12/2005

Women's lacrosse knocked out

With a berth in the Final Four on the line, the women's lacrosse team needed to play a perfect game against No.

SPORTS | 05/12/2005

Mooney hired by Spiders

The Princeton style of offense is known for its backdoor cuts, but lately it's been producing more of a revolving door effect.Chris Mooney '94, who spent last season as the head coach at Air Force after serving four years as an assistant to current Tiger men's basketball coach Joe Scott '87, has accepted the head coaching position at the University of Richmond.

SPORTS | 05/12/2005

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