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Wildcats claw past Tigers in double dip

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

Men, women defeat Cornell

Dominating doubles has been the hallmark of the men's tennis team (14-8 overall, 3-4 Ivy League) this season.

SPORTS | 04/25/2005

Tigers clinch Ivy title

The softball team is NCAA tournament-bound, as a 4-0 league weekend earned it the Ivy League crown and the subsequent automatic bid to NCAAs.

SPORTS | 04/25/2005

Tigers visit Blue Hens tonight

The last time the women's lacrosse team faced Delaware, the Tigers dominated en route to a 15-8 win.

SPORTS | 04/25/2005

Four battle in spring practice for QB position

Spring is the season of rebirth, and the football team is hopeful that after a strong spring season ? despite several notable absences due to injury and graduation ? it is prepared to rebound from its painfully disappointing 5-5 2004 campaign.The biggest focus of the practices was filling in the suddenly gaping holes on offense ? quarterback Matt Verbit, tailbacks Jon Veach and Brandon Benson and fullback Joel Mancl headline the graduating seniors who were responsible for most of the Tigers' production last year.At quarterback, a pair of freshmen, Bill Foran and Greg Mroz, and a pair of sophomores, Jeff Terrell and Chris Lee, are all in the running for the starting spot, with fierce, but friendly, competition driving them throughout the three weeks of spring practice.The two freshmen may bring the most talent, but are less experienced and more prone to error than the sophomores.

SPORTS | 04/24/2005

Searching for quintessentially Princeton? Try croquet

Under a bright, cloudless sky, I spent last Thursday afternoon enjoying one of our nation's great sporting traditions.

SPORTS | 04/24/2005

Tigers' Reign Over

It was only damp and drizzly on the turf Saturday in Ithaca, N.Y., but the rain still fell in sheets on the Tigers.Princeton's men's lacrosse team (3-7 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) fell to Cornell (8-2, 5-0) in an ugly 17-4 loss that simultaneously eliminated the Tigers from the Ivy League championship race and extinguished their hopes of an NCAA tournament bid.The Big Red crushed Princeton's spirit early on in the game with a relentless barrage of goals that began with the very first face-off."We had a bad break on the opening face-off ? we had the ball and then lost it," head coach Bill Tierney said.

SPORTS | 04/24/2005

Princeton dethroned

By the time the sun set in Hanover, N.H. on Saturday and the women's lacrosse team began its long bus ride back to New Jersey, the Tigers found themselves residing in unknown territory ? second place in the Ivy League.None of Princeton's current players have ever ended the regular season without at least a share of the Ivy League title.

SPORTS | 04/24/2005

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