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Men's hoops hangs on vs. Holy Cross

Men's hoops hangs on vs. Holy Cross

Showing the intensity that head coach Joe Scott has hoped to imbue this year, men's basketball used a team effort to hold onto a tenuous lead at Holy Cross (3-1) last night as Princeton (3-2) lifted its record above .500 and finished a five-game road trip with a win, despite missing one of its leading scorers because of injury.With less than three minutes to play, it looked like Princeton had everything taken care of, when junior guard Scott Greenman hit a three-pointer to put the Tigers up by nine, 52-43, following a brief Holy Cross run.

SPORTS | 12/01/2004

What's the difference between indoor and outdoor track?

If you know anything about outdoor track, it should not be hard to understand the intricacies of indoor track.

SPORTS | 12/01/2004

Low student interest nixes facilities meeting

A series of meetings planned by USG to address student concern over the inadequacies of recreational athletic facilities were canceled Wednesday because the student body had not expressed significant interest.Mike Murray, a Class of 2006 Senator, was in charge of organizing the talks but received only seven emails expressing a desire to attend.

SPORTS | 12/01/2004

Menace to society: A frisbee golf tour of Princeton

If you've ever seen a person around campus throwing a frisbee for no apparent reason at no discernable target, you've probably run across a frisbee golfer.

SPORTS | 11/30/2004

Selfless Hsiao dominates in DeNunzio

Some people say that swimming isn't a team sport. Spend a moment talking to senior Stephanie Hsiao, and you might reconsider.Ask her about winning three individual events at last years Ivy League Championships, and she will tell you that she didn't really think about it, since she was so focused on helping the team to its fifth straight title.Ask her about her team, and she will tell you they are a close-knit family bound together by mornings and afternoons of churning out workouts in DeNunzio Pool.They are a family with a proud winning tradition, a tradition influenced over the last three years by Hsiao's winning ways.After her senior year in high school in Irvine, Calif., Hsiao sought a school far from home since she liked the intensity of the East Coast, and the vibe it gave her.

SPORTS | 11/30/2004

Women's hoops tries to learn from ACC losses

There is a different feeling this year. If you were to ask those affiliated with the women's basketball program about this young season, that's what they would all say.

SPORTS | 11/30/2004

M. hoops to battle Holy Cross

An extended road trip outside the friendly ? or at least familiar ? confines of the Ivy League has defined the early season of men's basketball.

SPORTS | 11/30/2004

Free Kicks, from the Clips to that 'Jeopardy' guy

And the 'Prince' saw color, that it was good: and the 'Prince' separated the color from the darkness.Ya, you betcha!

SPORTS | 11/30/2004

Athlete of the Week: Emily Behncke

For refusing to bow under the pressure as she has led women's soccer to within striking distance of the national championship, junior midfielder Emily Behncke (r.) is the Athlete of the Week.Behncke is the team's second leading scorer on the season, with 13 goals and five assists.

SPORTS | 11/30/2004

Women's basketball loses twice to tough ACC competition

Call them outclassed.It's not disparaging in any way; it's simply the term in racing for a horse that takes his shot against a bigger and stronger class of horses and meets with a predictable defeat.

SPORTS | 11/29/2004

Urban 'airscrews' to kayaking glory

While most Princeton students will be in dreary New Jersey facing exams in January, sophomore Dustin Urban will be in sunny Sydney, Australia battling the world's best freestyle kayakers.

SPORTS | 11/29/2004

Executing, defending power play often determines outcome

Defense wins Super Bowls and pitching wins World Series, but just what wins a Lord Stanley's Cup and the collegiate hockey equivalent?Hockey players and coaches agree that there is a link between winning games and a team's success on the power play and penalty kill.

SPORTS | 11/29/2004

Zakem fights to overcome bias, walks on to w. lax

Walking on to any varsity sport at Princeton is tough. Walking on to a team that has won three national titles is simply remarkable.Enter junior Diana Zakem.

SPORTS | 11/29/2004

Flyers' Hitchcock unlikely assistant for men's hockey

In recent months, sports fans looking to get their fill of violence have been treated to a relief pitcher chucking a chair into the stands and basketball players brawling with fans.

SPORTS | 11/29/2004

Final Four clearly higher priority than Winter Formals

Cancel winter formals. Something better just came up.For those of you who went home for the holiday weekend to sleep on tryptophan and get fat on stuffing, you missed the latest chapter in one of the most impressive college sports stories of the year.

SPORTS | 11/29/2004

Final Eu-Four-ia

While countless Americans spent the Friday after Thanksgiving doling out exorbitant sums of paper, metal and plastic money in preparation for the holiday season, the women's soccer team used a less tangible sort of currency ? namely, cohesiveness on both sides of the ball ? to buy themselves a trip to the Final Four.In defeating the University of Washington Huskies, 3-1, in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament, the Tigers secured a place for themselves in history, becoming the first Ivy League women's soccer squad to advance this far in the postseason."We're really excited that we can represent the Ivy League," senior defender Brea Griffiths said, "and that the country now has to recognize us as a successful program."Princeton will play UCLA, a 1-0 winner over Ohio State on Saturday, in the semifinals next Friday in Cary, N.C.Coming into the game, neither Princeton nor Washington had allowed a goal in the first three games of tournament play.

SPORTS | 11/28/2004

Following loss to Yale, women's hockey takes two from UConn

The women's hockey team (6-4-1 overall, 2-3-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) rebounded from a loss on Wednesday night to sweep two games over the weekend and finish the break with a 2-1 record.

SPORTS | 11/28/2004

M. hockey crushed by struggling Yale

Stringing together two wins over the same weekend has been impossible for the men's hockey team this year.

SPORTS | 11/28/2004

Men's hoops wins low-scoring affair

The shot clock was working. Neither team resorted to Dean Smith's famed four corners offense. There was no cover on either hoop.And yet, on Saturday in Easton, Pa., the men's basketball team and Lafayette somehow managed to combine for just 78 points, despite presumably trying their best to score.In this low-scoring struggle, the Tigers' offense was a little less bad, and Princeton (2-2 overall) escaped with a 40-38 victory over the host Leopards (1-2).With both teams unable to connect from the field, it was the Tigers' defense that ultimately won the game.

SPORTS | 11/28/2004

Wrestling displays promise, maturity in first official tourney

Senior Charlie Wiggins placed eighth in the 157-pound weight class as the wrestling team got its season off to a promising start at the 38th annual East Stroudsburg Open tournament on Saturday.Wiggins dropped his first match of the day, but rebounded to win five consecutive matches before succumbing to Phil Bomberger of Penn State, who finished in fourth place.

SPORTS | 11/23/2004

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