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The Daily Princetonian

Women's hockey sweeps Yale, advances to ECAC semifinals

After splitting the season series with Yale, women's hockey played the Eastern College Athletic Conference quarterfinals like it had something to prove.Princeton more than proved it, blowing out the Bulldogs, 6-2, Friday and 8-0 Saturday to sweep the best-of-three series and advance to the conference semifinals.Trying to make amends for an upset loss on their home ice to Harvard a year ago, the Tigers (20-8-2) got two goals from senior forward Andrea Kilbourne as they cruised to a 6-2 win in game one.Third-seeded Princeton dominated play early, not allowing sixth-seeded Yale (9-20-2) to get a shot on goal until five minutes, 33 seconds had elapsed in the first period.Kilbourne scored her first at 11:59 in the opening period.

SPORTS | 03/10/2003

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The Daily Princetonian

W. hockey demolishes Yale in two-game series

Yale women's hockey would have been better off staying on the bus this weekend. The Bulldogs stopped by Baker Rink for their Eastern College Athletic Conference quarterfinal series with the Tigers, and the Orange and Black promptly booted them from contention with degrading 6-2 and 8-0 wins.Senior forward Andrea Kilbourne led the way for Princeton with two goals and two assists in the 6-2 win Friday.

SPORTS | 03/09/2003

The Daily Princetonian

Absence of Boyle hurts men's lacrosse in loss to No. 1 Virginia

Every season, the men's lacrosse team opens by playing Johns Hopkins, Virginia, and Syracuse in the opening weeks before the Ivy season gets under way.Seeing as these teams are always among the elite in the nation, these games are an important measuring stick for how much improvement is needed.Tierney was not able to test his best lineup Saturday as the Tigers faced No.

SPORTS | 03/09/2003

The Daily Princetonian

Playing just for pride, men's hoops sweeps weekend

At the beginning of the weekend, there was hope. Though a long shot at best, the men's basketball team clung to the possibility of a share in the Ivy League regular season title.With three games left for both the Tigers and conference-leading Penn, and a three game spread in the standings, Princeton needed to win out its last three contests and pray that the Quakers would lose both games this weekend before the season finale at Jadwin Gym this Tuesday.Friday night, the Tigers (16-10 overall, 10-3 Ivy League) held up their end of the bargain with a gutsy 71-61 victory over visiting Cornell (9-18, 4-10).Penn did not cooperate with Princeton's hopes, beating winless Columbia 63-39, and mathematically eliminating the Tigers from the Ivy League race.The Quakers' triumph over Cornell the following night knocked Brown out of contention and, in the process, secured Penn's second straight NCAA Tournament appearance.On Friday, when Princeton was still fighting for its postseason life, the squad played hard and played well.

SPORTS | 03/09/2003

The Daily Princetonian

Men's head coach Tierney acts as teacher, coach

"The problem with the defense [in Saturday's loss to Johns Hopkins] was me," men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney said.It was an ironic statement, seeing as how it came from the mouth of a man who was recently inducted into the United States Lacrosse Hall of Fame as one of the greatest coaches the sport has ever known.On the surface, a lacrosse coach blaming himself for his team's ineffective defensive performance sounds self-deprecating, something only a coach without the foggiest idea about what he is doing would admit.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

The Daily Princetonian

Cornell and Columbia host w. basketball in Ivy race for fifth

At this point in the season it is no longer make-or-break.Playing this weekend to hold on to fifth place in the Ivy League, the more appropriate term for the women's basketball team's situation is salvage-or-junk.The Tigers (9-16 overall, 4-7 Ivy League) will take on Cornell (9-16, 3-9) tonight in Ithaca, and then travel to Columbia to face the Lions (10-15, 3-9) Saturday night.Both Cornell and Columbia are currently locked in a three-way tie for sixth place with Yale, just a game and a half behind the Tigers.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

The Daily Princetonian

ECAC tourney opens with w. hockey vs. Elis

A year ago, women's hockey captured home-ice advantage in the first round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference playoffs, only to lose the best-of-three series in a sweep to Harvard.This year, Princeton ? the third seed in the ECAC tournament ? is back at Baker Rink for round one, and the collapse against the Crimson is a distant memory.Sixth-seeded Yale visits campus for this year's best-of-three conference quarterfinal starting tonight, continuing Saturday and, if necessary, Sunday.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003