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W. golf sets team scoring record in win as Kiser takes first fall tourney

W. golf sets team scoring record in win as Kiser takes first fall tourney

While Princeton may have looked like a country club this weekend thanks to lawnparties, it was the women's golf team that actually found itself on the links.Spending the weekend at the Hanover Country Club for the Dartmouth Invitational, the women returned to Princeton with a first place win and team-record low of 299 and 300 for two rounds.

SPORTS | 09/15/2003

W. cross country kicks off season with bang; men's team struggles

Before Saturday's meet at the Princeton Battlefield, head coach Pete Farrell told the women's cross country team to run as a pack.Coach Farrell got just what he wanted and then some.

SPORTS | 09/15/2003

Men's water polo dominates DeNunzio, as sophomore Stover nets 14 goals

"Just Sink 'em" reads the large orange sign that hangs in DeNunzio Pool. This past weekend, the Princeton men's water polo team did just that.

SPORTS | 09/15/2003

Weekend Wrap-up

Women's golfLed by junior Avery Kiser's two-under 71, Princeton won the team title at the Dartmouth Invitational at Hanover Country Club this weekend.Kiser's 71 was good enough to claim tournament medalist honors and helped the Tigers set a team record for a two-round tournament.Seventeen other teams competed in the event, but none challenged Princeton for the lead.

SPORTS | 09/14/2003

M. soccer splits weekend games, but scoring remains an issue

The men's soccer team really needs to score.Coming off a season in which the Tigers netted only 19 goals in 17 games, offense is at the top of the list of needed improvements for head coach Jim Barlow '91."[Offense] is obviously our biggest concern," Barlow said.

SPORTS | 09/14/2003

Kiser makes a name for herself playing in W. Amateur

Junior Avery Kiser, a member of the women's golf team, has hardly felt the pangs of defeat in her time at Princeton.

SPORTS | 09/14/2003

Martirosian leads field hockey past Yale

Twice this weekend, field hockey played an outstanding first half, only to follow it with an inadequate second half effort.

SPORTS | 09/14/2003

W. soccer sweeps competition in preparation for Calif.

Lawnparties.The word makes any Princeton student's eyes light up ? and rightfully so.

SPORTS | 09/14/2003

Offense must carry team despite inexperienced O-line

The arrival of wide-eyed freshmen to campus also signifies the arrival of another American tradition ? football.While the rest of campus is finishing up adjustments to dorm rooms and settling in for classes, most of the football team has already been at Princeton for two weeks, practicing for their season opener against Lehigh a week from tomorrow at Princeton Stadium.Defense was supposed to be the strength of this year's team, but suspensions and injuries to key players have shifted the pressure onto the offense to carry the team early in the season."During spring practices I thought that our defense was going to have to play very well to give our offense time to adjust, but now the reverse must happen," head coach Roger Hughes said. QuarterbackThe Tiger offense will be directed at the start of the season by junior quarterback Matt Verbit.

SPORTS | 09/11/2003

Penn to most likely dominate Ivy League schedule

With less than a month to go before Princeton's Ivy League opener versus Columbia, here is a capsule look at the other seven teams in the Ancient Eight, including a brief thought on each from Tiger head coach Roger Hughes. Brown Bears2002 Recap: Typically a contender, Brown is coming off a 2-8 (2-5 Ivy League) season in which four of its five league losses came by a total of 11 points.

SPORTS | 09/11/2003

Defense suffers attrition due to graduation and academic troubles

Since the end of last season, Princeton has lost three defensive starters ? then-junior linebacker Zak Keasey, then-sophomore cornerback Jay McCareins and then-junior free safety Brandon Mueller ? to academic ineligibility, and the team will get knocked around because of it.When an opponent runs a play against the football team this fall, it looks like it will be either a stop in the backfield or a touchdown.

SPORTS | 09/11/2003

Football season is in the air — the armchair quarterbacks return

A little more than a month ago, I noticed a change in, well, the atmosphere around me. Sure, the weather was either unbearably hot or unbearably wet here on the East Coast, but it was not a meteorological change.

SPORTS | 09/11/2003

Cramm leads w. volleyball in season of expectations

Never a team to settle for second, women's volleyball has its eye on first prize again this year.For the last two years, Penn has kept the Ivy League championship safely out of Princeton's reach.

SPORTS | 09/10/2003

Summer Wrap-up

Avery Kiser advances to match play of U.S. Women's AmateurPlaying in her second U.S.

SPORTS | 09/10/2003

Men's water polo will look for younger players to step up

The men's water polo team has started practice again, but one might suppose the girls on campus could have been able to tell you that.

SPORTS | 09/10/2003

After summer tour in Italy, m. soccer ready for season

Athletes who play a fall sport are accustomed to returning to campus early for pre-season practice.

SPORTS | 09/10/2003

Match point — the last

In the 40-year history of the 10 clay and 27 hard tennis courts just below Dillon Gym ? known as the Pagoda Courts for the elevated pagoda structure at their center ? there have been, among the thousands who have played there, University presidents (Robert F.

SPORTS | 09/09/2003

After two wins, field hockey shows little sign of loss

A new head coach. Seven players lost to graduation. Changes of this magnitude are enough to give any team growing pains.But out of the gate with a 2-0 receord after a pair of early-season wins, the field hockey team, which recently welcomed a new head coach while bidding adieu to several star players, has shown growth with relatively little pain.The Tigers opened their season this weekend with a 3-1 win over Virginia, and followed that with a convincing 5-1 win over Drexel.Despite playing both games at home, in the familiar confines of Class of 1952 Stadium, the team had a noticeably different feel to it than last year's Ivy League winning squad.Beth Bozman, head coach for 15 seasons, no longer controlled the sidelines.

SPORTS | 09/09/2003

W. soccer beats American in promising season start

The women's soccer team had one of its most successful seasons in its program's history last year, going 13-2-1 in the regular season.

SPORTS | 09/09/2003

M. hoops left to ponder year that could have been

It was a season that began with amazing possibilities for the men's basketball team. While other teams were adding inexperienced freshmen, the Tigers were welcoming back two proven scorers to a team that won a share of the Ivy title.Junior forward Andre Logan was back from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee that caused him to miss the entire conference schedule.

SPORTS | 07/13/2003

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