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Tigers, Big Red to play for ILCS bid

Tigers, Big Red to play for ILCS bid

With four games left in the Ivy League season, the men's baseball team faces a simple choice: win three of them ? or go home.Princeton (14-22 overall, 8-8 Ivy League) currently sits one game behind Cornell (15-18, 9-7) in the Lou Gehrig Division standings.

SPORTS | 04/28/2005

Princeton hosts Brown in Ivy finale

Although the Ivy League crown is out of its reach, the women's lacrosse team will look to finish league play with a bang this weekend as Brown (3-9 overall, 1-4 Ivy League) comes to the Class of 1952 Stadium on Saturday.

SPORTS | 04/28/2005

Already thriving at third, Iacono learns to catch

After the end of last year, the baseball team found itself with only one catcher returning for the next season, junior Zach Wendkos.This situation was especially unfortunate since the player deficiency concerned catching, the most strenuous and demanding position in baseball day-in and day-out, where having a backup is absolutely critical to success.So head coach Shawn Bradley turned to an unlikely candidate, sophomore Sal Iacono, who had played nothing but third base throughout his high school and college career, starting every game at third for the Tigers last season as a freshman."We needed another catcher, and coach [Bradley] asked me to do it," Iacono said.

SPORTS | 04/28/2005

Playing for nothing but pride, Princeton hosts Big Green

Not since 1989, head coach Bill Tierney's second year at Princeton, has the men's lacrosse team played a game without any post-season implications.

SPORTS | 04/28/2005

Wildcats claw past Tigers in double dip

The swagger that accompanied the softball team's securing the Ivy League crown just last weekend seemed to have vanished completely by the time Princeton (33-18 overall, 12-2 Ivy League) finished dropping its third and fourth games in a row at the hands of Villanova (34-23) on Thursday afternoon at Class of 1895 Field.

SPORTS | 04/28/2005

St. John's crushes Tigers

After the baseball team's performance in their first night game of the season against St. John's on Tuesday night, it was clear that Princeton should stick to playing during the day.

SPORTS | 04/27/2005

Princeton feasts on Blue Hens

The women's lacrosse team bounced back from its disappointing loss to Dartmouth in a decisive manner, destroying Delaware, 16-3, on Tuesday evening in Newark, Del.Everything was clicking for the Tigers on a night when even senior defender Lauren Vance was able to secure her first career goal.

SPORTS | 04/27/2005

Tigers' Class of '09 looks strong

This May, for the first time in six years, the men's basketball team will graduate a senior class that includes two players who scored more than 1,000 points over the course of their Princeton careers ? guard Will Venable and center Judson Wallace.

SPORTS | 04/27/2005

Men's club lacrosse among nation's best

Despite the ill-fated varsity men's lacrosse season this spring, Tiger fans still had one dominant men's lacrosse team to cheer for: the club squad, which completed an undefeated regular season before being upset by Westchester in the national tournament quarterfinals last week.Ironically, it's the varsity team's tradition of success that is at least partly responsible for the club team's prowess.

SPORTS | 04/27/2005

Not too late to jump on the Orioles' bandwagon

Your empire is in shambles, Yankees fans. Your nation has fallen, Red Sox faithful. Out of the ashes of the old powers of Major League Baseball's American League East division, a new bird is rising.

SPORTS | 04/27/2005

Tigers sign three talented international players

Men's squash head coach Bob Callahan confirmed this week that three highly touted players, all originally hailing from outside the United States, will be members of Princeton's class of 2009.The talented triumvirate of Mauricio Sanchez, Hesham El Halaby and Kim Lee Wong are expected to make an immediate impact for the Tigers."They will be a strong trio next year that harkens back to the fall of '99, in which four young fellows came through and won three out of four Ivy League championships," Callahan said.

SPORTS | 04/26/2005

Miller Time

Not all that long ago, Kathleen Miller didn't always know what to do.Even as she blazed her way to Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors, she sometimes found herself so caught up in game situations that she froze in the middle of the lacrosse field.

SPORTS | 04/26/2005

Princeton wins Southerns

There seems to be no limit to the women's water polo team's potential as they continually improve throughout the season.In a powerful showing this past weekend, Princeton (26-7 overall, 11-0 College Water Polo Association Southern Division) again asserted its dominance in the CWPA Southern Division, earning the Southern Championships tournament title with successive blowouts of Maryland, Salem International and Bucknell.Undefeated in the Southern Division during the regular season, the Tigers were considered the clear favorite entering the tournament.

SPORTS | 04/26/2005

Princeton enjoys best gear — for free

Two helmets. Six pairs of shoes. Ten sticks. Two pairs of gloves. Three different kinds of uniforms.

SPORTS | 04/26/2005

Tigers drop doubleheader day after taking Ivy title

The poor performance the softball team displayed against St. Joseph's University on a windy afternoon Tuesday at Class of 1895 Stadium hardly seemed to fit with the Ivy League championship it claimed Monday.

SPORTS | 04/26/2005

Princeton out in EIVA first round

Rutgers-Newark knocked the men's volleyball team out of the EIVA playoffs in the quarterfinal match Saturday, ending the Tigers' season with an overall record of 7-13.

SPORTS | 04/25/2005

Baby Bulls bringing back fond memories

On Sunday evening, I gleefully watched something I hadn't seen in seven years, something that I once doubted I would ever see again: the Chicago Bulls won a playoff game.Yes, on the United Center floor where His Airness once reigned, the Bulls topped the Washington Wizards in Game 1 of their first round playoff series.

SPORTS | 04/25/2005

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