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Cornell squeaks by improved m. hockey team

Cornell squeaks by improved m. hockey team

On paper, No. 2 Cornell should have dominated Princeton in Friday's men's hockey contest. As ESPN anchorman Kenny Mayne likes to say, however, "games aren't played on paper, they're played in television sets," or in this case, Baker Rink.Friday the Tigers (3-24-2 overall, 2-18-2 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference) fell 2-1 to the second best team and arguably looked like the better side for most of the game.

SPORTS | 03/03/2003

Disappointing performances plague men's track at Heps

While some Tigers performed up to expectations, a host of normal highpoint scorers did not compete well and, as a result, the men's track team found that rankings are meaningless.

SPORTS | 03/03/2003

W. hockey upsets Dartmouth, climbing to third place in ECAC

With third place in the conference at stake and just over three minutes left on the clock, freshman forward Sarah Butsch knocked the puck into the goal on Saturday to put women's hockey ahead of Dartmouth and secure a 3-2 upset over the Big Green.The next day, the Tigers finished their regular season with a bang, handily defeating Eastern College Athletic Conference cellar-dweller Vermont, 5-0.With these two wins, Princeton improved to 18-8-2 overall and 11-5-0 in the conference, earning the third seed in next week's ECAC tournament.No.

SPORTS | 03/03/2003

Ivy hopes shattered as m. hoops falls to Brown

PROVIDENCE, RI ? It's rainin' three's! Hallelujah, hallelujah! Three-pointers were flying into the basket Friday and Saturday nights as the men's basketball team went 1-1 over the weekend, which potentially ruined the Tigers' chances for an Ivy League title.After defeating Yale (12-13 overall, 6-6 Ivy League) on Friday night, Princeton (14-10, 8-3) needed to steal a victory from Brown (15-11, 10-2) in order to stay realistically in the Ivy League race.The Tigers jumped out to an early lead against the Bears, leading, 11-4, with 15 minutes, 48 seconds left in the first half.

SPORTS | 03/02/2003

Two Tiger fencers earn IFA individual championships

This weekend 254 fencers descended on Boston College for the 106th meeting of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championships.

SPORTS | 03/02/2003

M. lacrosse falls to Johns Hopkins in season-opener

Saturday ? season opener ? national title expectations ? No. 2 vs. No. 3 in the nation.

SPORTS | 03/02/2003

W. swimming: A dynasty in the making

Championship teams everywhere follow the time-honored ritual of soaking their coach with a celebratory shower.

SPORTS | 03/02/2003

Women's basketball splits weekend with win vs. Yale

The seniors on the women's basketball team (9-16 overall, 4-7 Ivy League) wanted to hold on for just a second.

SPORTS | 03/02/2003

Yasser El-Halaby: national champ

After leading his team to No. 2 in the nation in men's squash, Yasser El Halaby claimed the one thing that had been missing from an incredible freshman season: the Intercollegiate Squash Association Individual Championship.In the end, it came down to a battle between two teammates.

SPORTS | 03/02/2003

Ivy title looks dim, but m. basketball still in race

This weekend of men's basketball could decide everything in the Ivy League or nothing. Princeton (13-9 overall, 7-2 Ivy League) sits squarely in third place in the Ivy standings ? on the outside looking in.The two big dogs on top are Penn (17-5, 9-0) and Brown (14-10, 9-1), both of which defeated the Tigers earlier in the season.

SPORTS | 02/27/2003

W. basketball needs wins at Yale, Brown for fourth in Ivies

One of the beautiful things about Ivy League women's basketball is that each team plays every other team twice.

SPORTS | 02/27/2003

Dartmouth, Vermont to face women's hockey

The postseason tournament is still two weeks away, but what happens this weekend, the final weekend of regular season play, will largely decide how the 2002-03 women's hockey team will go down in the history books.Saturday, Princeton hosts one of its most formidable foes in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference ? Dartmouth, currently second in the conference and No.

SPORTS | 02/27/2003

M. lacrosse to battle Johns Hopkins in season opener

Tomorrow will be March. Somehow, it doesn't feel that way. Snow blankets the ground, with the only reprieve coming from the ugly paved walkways that endlessly adorn our campus.

SPORTS | 02/27/2003

M. squash eyes redemption at ISA Individual Champs

Jesus of Nazareth, Yasser El Halaby and King Charlemagne the Great. What do they have in common? They all have six syllables in their name.And they're all ranked first in the respective fields of their time.This weekend, 64 men chosen by the coaches from the eight participating colleges and universities will compete with one another for the Intercollegiate Squash Association Individual Championship at Trinity College.

SPORTS | 02/27/2003

Question & Answer with Chris Owen

Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Sarah Kiernan sat down with junior forward Chris Owen of the men's hockey team.'Prince': So, are you mad that I'm late?Chris Owen: No, not at all.

SPORTS | 02/26/2003

M. and w. fencing poised to take IFA championships

When one thinks of the nation's oldest, annually contested collegiate championships, visions of Army/Navy or perhaps Harvard/Yale football come to mind.

SPORTS | 02/26/2003

Track revs up for Heps, armed to defeat the Ancient Eight and Navy

The Heptagonal Championships will take place this weekend at Dartmouth's Leverone Fieldhouse. All eight Ivy League schools plus Navy will square off for an intense two-day, team-scored battle.

SPORTS | 02/26/2003

Spectacular squash, from a less than spectacular location

Last weekend, Princeton University, unbeknownst to many of its students, hosted the Intercollegiate Squash Association championships.Big deal?It actually was a big deal.Hosting college squash's version of the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament, albeit with far less teams, gave Princeton the unique privilege to witness firsthand the nation's top college squash players.College squash is one of those few sports here at Princeton, according to the humble opinion of this lowly sports writer, where its players are nearly as good as professional ones; where action is seldom dull; and where a day spent literally holed underground in Jadwin Gym's C-Floor, even on a dreary late Sunday morning, is not wasted.Sunday's top three finals matches were seemingly the three most entertaining matches one might find in all of men's college squash.The first found senior David Yik, who won the national championship in 2001 as a sophomore, playing Trinity's Nickolas Kyme.The catlike Yik came alive in the second game after a slow start, bearing a smile less the result of quirky fan cheers than the fact that Kyme seemed to be gradually losing his shorts on the court as the match unraveled.

SPORTS | 02/26/2003

W. track longs to hold Heps trophy after five-year hiatus

Every season, the women's track team ventures forth in hopes of striking fear into the hearts of its foes and reigning victorious at the Heptagonal Championships.Occasionally they are rebuffed and sent home bereft of any sort of compensation for their efforts or pride.

SPORTS | 02/26/2003

Gage stands as silent leader for m. swimming

"Relax." ? the word that triggered male model Derrick Zoolander to become a killing machine might as well be senior Jesse Gage's personal motto.

SPORTS | 02/25/2003

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