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Tigers will try to keep Dartmouth, Harvard at bay

Tigers will try to keep Dartmouth, Harvard at bay

Although the softball team is in the midst of a three-game losing streak Princeton (25-12 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) might have had trouble asking for a better way to begin its second Ivy League weekend.The last time the Tigers dropped three-straight games was in early March, and they followed up that skid with a string of six consecutive wins.

SPORTS | 04/14/2005

No. 4 Tigers crush Penn to move to 4-0 in Ivy League

Five proved to be a lucky number for the women's lacrosse team on Wednesday night in Philadelphia.

SPORTS | 04/14/2005

Wallace chasing his dream

With his Princeton basketball career now over, Judson Wallace joined 63 other senior standouts from across the nation at the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament last weekend and helped his team, Portsmouth Sports Club, win the tournament championship.The annual four-day tournament ? which draws hundreds of NBA representatives to Portsmouth, Va.

SPORTS | 04/13/2005

Skirt, No; Welt, Yes: Practicing with club field hockey

I was in luck. Even though I was late for the club field hockey team's practice, it had not yet started.

SPORTS | 04/13/2005

News & Notes

'The Bus' wins gold at World ChampsFormer women's hockey goalie Megan Van Beusekom '04 earned a gold medal at the 2005 International Ice Hockey Foundation Women's World Championship last week as a member of the U.S.

SPORTS | 04/13/2005

Trombino, Sowanick lead Tigers

With the graduation of attackman Ryan Boyle '04, the men's lacrosse team was left looking for someone to step in and fill the void in the offense.

SPORTS | 04/13/2005

Honoring four Tigers for their key roles

After starting the season slowly against tough Southern competition, the baseball team (11-15 overall, 5-3 Ivy League) has rounded into shape and currently sits in first place in the Lou Gehrig Division.

SPORTS | 04/13/2005

Tigers toppled twice by tough Towson team

It was not an easy week for the baseball team as the Tigers took on Rutgers in Piscataway on Tuesday and then hosted Towson at Class of 1895 Field on Wednesday.The Tigers (25-12) managed only a split against Rutgers, despite outscoring the Scarlet Knights, 13-6, over the games.

SPORTS | 04/13/2005

Ivy-leading Tigers visit Penn tonight

Three games into the Ivy League season, the No. 4 Princeton women's lacrosse team stands in a familiar position ? undefeated atop the league standings.

SPORTS | 04/12/2005

Learning on the job: Hewit gets nod as goalie

As men's lacrosse has slowly piled up losses this season, head coach Bill Tierney has desperately searched for that one change that would turn around the freefall of the team that last year made it to the Final Four.

SPORTS | 04/12/2005

Women win JMU tourney

Not only did several women's golf players experience individual victory this past weekend at the James Madison University Lady Dukes Invitational Golf Tournament, but they also enjoyed team success.Princeton, which now has four tournament victories on the season, cut the two-stroke deficit it accumulated on the first day of play, Friday, to just one stroke after Saturday's 36 holes were completed.

SPORTS | 04/12/2005

Princeton pummels Pirates

The quintessential spring day consists of a warm temperature, a clear sunny sky and a low-pressure baseball game in the afternoon.

SPORTS | 04/12/2005

It's Gotta Be The Strings

Men's lacrosse is a complicated sport in general, and the game at Princeton is no exception. Without Class of 1952 Stadium, we wouldn't have a place to watch our team play; without senior attack Jason Doneger, we wouldn't have beaten Penn; without head coach Bill Tierney, we wouldn't be able to revel in the memory of six NCAA National Championships, and we definitely wouldn't be "sweet" at "lax."But every pass, every shot and every goal ? the building blocks of a win ? starts in a player's stick.

SPORTS | 04/11/2005

Women's open tops Radcliffe

Princeton's crew teams competed on four courses in three states this weekend, but in each case, the result was the same ? a victory for the Tigers.The No.

SPORTS | 04/11/2005

Princeton runs well at Sam Howell

Sophomore Richard Stewart makes running the hurdles look natural, but his victory in the 400-meter hurdle race on Saturday was in fact the result of using a carefully calculated formula.

SPORTS | 04/11/2005

Tigers drop three of four on road trip

In Ivy League baseball, there's Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton, and then there's everyone else.Those three teams have combined for every Ivy League championship in the past nine years.

SPORTS | 04/11/2005

Penn St. snaps Tigers' streak

The Nittany Lions' Aaron Smith set the tone for the Penn State-Princeton volleyball game this past Saturday by hitting five service aces in a row within the first few minutes of the match.

SPORTS | 04/11/2005

Tigers, Lions play 24 innings, score two runs

It was an extended weekend for the Tigers (24-9 overall; 5-1 Ivy League) as they took on both Columbia (14-18 overall, 1-1) and Cornell (16-13, 2-2) in tough doubleheaders.

SPORTS | 04/11/2005

Young solidifies spot in Rangers' rotation

Last summer, Geoff Petrie '70, the Sacramento Kings' president of basketball operations, offered fellow Princeton alumnus Chris Young '02 a guaranteed two-year contract and the chance to become an NBA center.Petrie had every reason to pursue Young ? in just two seasons at Princeton, Young proved he could score points from in the paint or beyond the arc, while becoming the Tigers' second leading all-time shot-blocker.

SPORTS | 04/10/2005

Men, women both split first Ivy weekend

All eyes were on the women's tennis team's No. 3 doubles match Saturday against Yale (10-4 overall, 1-1 Ivy League). Down 8-7, senior Stephanie Berg and sophomore Laura Trimble rallied to push the match to a tiebreak, but soon found themselves in a 6-2 hole against Reshmi Srinath and Rashmee Patil.

SPORTS | 04/10/2005

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