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Wrestling hosts Penn in finale, looks for first Ivy League win

Wrestling hosts Penn in finale, looks for first Ivy League win

Hoping to rebound after a loss at Penn in last year's Ivy League finale, the wrestling team will welcome the Quakers (7-8 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) this Saturday, this time on their home mats.The Tigers (2-10, 0-4) have found themselves engaged in a season featuring substantial highs and lows, yet limited in its overall success.

SPORTS | 02/18/2004

M., w. squash ripe with championship fever

Men's and women's squash both came out of the regular season with strong records, but now it's championship time.

SPORTS | 02/18/2004

Postseason nears as fencing squads host Harvard, Yale, Duke

The Princeton men's and women's fencing teams have a lot to look forward to for the rest of February.

SPORTS | 02/18/2004

W. hockey's Gretchen Anderson still attracting press, national attention

It is said that familiarity breeds contempt, but hearing senior forward Gretchen Anderson talk about women's hockey shows that nothing could be further from the truth.Anderson, who grew up outside of Boston, has been playing hockey all her life, but has a love for the sport which is obviously undiminished and continues to manifest itself in her spectacular play, year after year.Growing up with five older siblings, all of whom played hockey, provided both inspiration and challenge to her.

SPORTS | 02/17/2004

Experience and versatility lead women's water polo to success

My budding adolescent social life was in peril, simply because I could not tread water.Two months after my 16th birthday I still wasn't allowed to drive.

SPORTS | 02/17/2004

Men's hoops sits atop league at midway point

At the halfway mark of its league season, the men's basketball team stands alone as the team to beat in the Ivy League.Princeton (13-7 overall, 6-1 Ivy League), with only one loss on its Ivy record, has earned sole possession of the No.

SPORTS | 02/17/2004

Profile: Men's hockey's Westgarth brothers

Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Sofia Mata-Leclerc sat down with sophomore defender Brett and freshman forward Kevin Westgarth of the men's hockey team to discuss fighting, trivia and a little hockey.'Prince': How did you start playing hockey?Brett Westgarth: When I was seven years old, I went to the rink with dad, sort of just the regular Canadian thing.

SPORTS | 02/17/2004

Men's rugby wins twice in Intersession excursion to Trinidad and Tobago

Playing rugby during January in New Jersey is an obstacle that derails the men's club rugby team's momentum every year, putting the club at a disadvantage every spring when it enters tournament play in March.

SPORTS | 02/17/2004

How the Sox should answer the A-Rod deal

"I hate the f??? Yankees.""Baseball sucks.""I want to die."These are just a few of the cheery instant messages I received from friends back home over the course of the day Sunday as everyone in Red Sox nation tracked the progress of the Alex Rodriguez trade to the hated New York Yankees.On Monday it became official.

SPORTS | 02/17/2004

No. 1 Trinity thumps men's squash, 8-1

This weekend the men's squash team (14-3 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) finished off the 2003-04 regular season with a whirlwind of competitive matches against Trinity (11-0), Amherst (9-6) and Williams (16-7). Although the Tigers lost to Trinity, 8-1, they easily shut out both Amherst and Williams, 9-0.These results cemented Princeton as the No.

SPORTS | 02/16/2004

Hamming is MVP for m. volleyball at St. Francis

The month of February is often characterized as the worst four weeks of sports all year. Football is over, and baseball hasn't started yet.

SPORTS | 02/16/2004

Athlete of the week

After its demoralizing and embarassing 67-52 loss at home against Penn last Tuesday, men's basketball went into this past weekend's games against Cornell and Columbia knowing it had to win two games.If it was not for junior guard Will Venable, the Tigers would not have earned a 69-64 win over the Big Red on Friday and a 78-70 overtime triumph over the Lions on Saturday.Venable scored a career-high 28 points at Cornell, 17 of which came in the second half, and often stopped the Big Red from getting the momentum in front of the rowdy home crowd.The junior had the touch from all over the floor, shooting nine for 12 from the field and draining nine of his 13 attempts from the charity stripe.He followed this impressive showing with another double-digit performance against Columbia, conributing 11 points in Princeton's 78-71 overtime win.

SPORTS | 02/16/2004

W. squash wins two, loses to Trinity

Women's squash was not left out of the Valentine's Day festivities in its travels to Trinity in Hartford, Conn., this weekend.

SPORTS | 02/16/2004

W. track speeds by Harvard and Yale

The women's track team beat Harvard and Yale in a tri-meet this weekend at Harvard's Gordon Track.

SPORTS | 02/16/2004

W. tennis breaks even on weekend

The tennis teams seemed to be a little less than their best this weekend, as both the men and women suffered big losses.

SPORTS | 02/16/2004

M. swimming overwhelms Golden Knights in last meet

The regular season came to an end for the men's swimming team this weekend. Fortunately, the ending was a good one.The team, which was recently ranked No.

SPORTS | 02/15/2004

W. hockey keeps rolling with weekend wins

The women's hockey team completed its second straight weekend sweep on Saturday at home against Colgate (15-12-2 overall, 6-8-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) after defeating Cornell (4-17-0, 1-13-0) the night before.

SPORTS | 02/15/2004

Women's hockey: Plenty of good seats available

I was recently asked to be the godfather to my new niece Aliza. I didn't know how to respond, except with the requisite Marlon Brando impersonation.You've made me an offer I can't refuse!Any sorts of nasty words like "responsibility" floated through my head, but of course I said yes and held the little red wrinkle in my arms for a photo shoot.Even at times like these, I think about sports.

SPORTS | 02/15/2004

Weekend split has women's hoops tied for No. 5 in Ivy League

Women's basketball hosted two Ivy League opponents in Jadwin Gym this past weekend posting a win over Cornell (8-13 overall, 3-5 Ivy League) but losing to Columbia (10-10, 4-4).With their return to Jadwin Gymnasium, the Tigers (6-14 , 3-4) were hoping to put the wind back into their sails after suffering losses to Dartmouth and Harvard on the road the weekend before.

SPORTS | 02/15/2004

Struggles continue for men's hockey in tough road losses

The uniform script that has governed men's hockey recently has become a little tedious: each weekend they face difficult competition and have the opportunity to reassert themselves in league play.

SPORTS | 02/15/2004

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