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Women's basketball's losing streak ends with a hard-fought victory

Women's basketball's losing streak ends with a hard-fought victory

The losing streak is over.For the first time since it beat Harvard on Jan. 11, the women's basketball team won, posting a 60-53 win against Brown Saturday night.Twelve minutes into the second half, with the Bears leading 35-34, junior guard Allison Cahill hit a three-pointer to put the Tigers up by two.

SPORTS | 02/25/2002

Strong weekend bolsters m. hockey's postseason hopes

As the Olympics draw to a close, a comparison can be drawn between the men's hockey team and a certain Olympic sport.

SPORTS | 02/25/2002

Three wins will guarantee m. hoops Ivy championship

"Here is the score from the Palestra," the Jadwin gym announcer began, when the band suddenly started blaring music from the stands.

SPORTS | 02/25/2002

Trinity crushes m. squash in second consecutive match for championship

For the second weekend in a row, it was Princeton versus Trinity for the men's squash national championship.Once again, Trinity defeated the Tigers, 8-1, to claim the title.Last weekend at Jadwin, Trinity was able to claim the regular season championship, and on Sunday won the National Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association (NISRA) title at Harvard - adding another title to a growing list of national championships.While Princeton solidified its claim of being the second best team in the nation, Trinity once again made an emphatic declaration that it is the best team in college squash, and the rest will have to keep trying.On Sunday, it was junior No.

SPORTS | 02/25/2002

Men's track wins indoor Heps title

There's nothing like tradition to inspire motivation.Princeton has a long tradition of excellence in both academia and athletics, and the men's indoor track and field team did its part to uphold those traditions, winning the 2002 Heptagonal Indoor Championships yesterday.The Tigers came into Heps as four-time defending champions, and exited with a fifth year added on to that streak.The field, consisting of all eight Ivy League universities and the Naval Academy, competed over the weekend in Ithaca, NY.Many athletes earned points, contributing to Princeton's final tally of 127.The closest competitors, Harvard and Dartmouth, both had 81 after the 19 events of the competition.Cornell, with home field advantage, led after the first day of the meet, but finished fifth overall.Sophomore Jon Kieliszak won the mile with a time of 4:09:14, and was also part of the winning 4x800 team, joining senior Seamus Whelton, senior Ryan Smith, and junior David Dean.

SPORTS | 02/24/2002

Women's hockey falls to Dartmouth, has no trouble with hapless Vermont

The best and worst of women's college hockey stopped by Hobey Baker Rink this weekend, both leaving with their respective titles safe and secure.

SPORTS | 02/24/2002

W. swimming wins another Ivy crown

Women's swimming and diving splashed its way into an elite group this weekend, joining the ranks of the 1991-93 and '96-98 Chicago Bulls, the '98-2000 New York Yankees, and Tour de France star Lance Armstrong.In a feat that few athletes in any sport have ever achieved ? indeed, that no NFL team has ever accomplished ? the Tigers took their third straight league championship by coming out on top at the Feb.

SPORTS | 02/24/2002

Third-place finish at Heps better than expected for women's track

The Princeton women's indoor track team finished third this weekend at the Heptagonal Championships in Ithaca, NY, scoring 69 points in the meet's 17 events.

SPORTS | 02/24/2002

Men's basketball retakes first place in Ivy League with home wins over Yale, Brown

Offense wins games. Defense wins championships.Cliches can be annoying, but every now and then they illustrate a very important point.This last weekend, the Tigers held two of the strongest offenses in the Ivy League to 93 points in two games.On Saturday, Princeton dominated Brown (15-10 overall, 6-6 Ivy League) en route to a 73-47 victory.On Friday night against then-league leading Yale (17-8, 9-2), Princeton (13-9, 8-2) put forth possibly the best defensive performance of the season on the way to a 59-46 victory.

SPORTS | 02/24/2002

Ithaca bound: Men's, women's track teams seek glory at Heps

With the largest meet of the year starting tomorrow, someone might think that the men's and women's indoor track and field teams are getting nervous about their chances against the rest of the Ivy League and Navy at the Heptagonal Championships.

SPORTS | 02/21/2002

Men's hoops faced racial slurs from crowd in loss at Yale earlier this season

Ahmed El Nokali walked off the court at Lee Ampitheater in New Haven Feb. 9 while one pained thought raced through his mind, repeating itself again and again.

SPORTS | 02/21/2002

Men's hockey heads to Dartmouth and Vermont in ECAC stretch run

As the end of the men's hockey season approaches, Princeton's fate will very likely be controlled by two teams heading in opposite directions.Second-ranked Dartmouth and last place Vermont will take on Princeton, Yale and St.

SPORTS | 02/21/2002

Dartmouth and women's hockey meet at Baker Rink

In the world of sports, dynasties are not uncommon. The New York Islanders of the early 1980s, the Chicago Bulls of the 1990s and the New York Yankees from the beginning of time are all examples of teams that seemed to have one-way tickets to success and prosperity.

SPORTS | 02/21/2002

Men's hoops takes on Yale, Brown in games that may decide the Ivy title

This season, Princeton and Penn have not been the end-all of men's Ivy League basketball. An old program with a familiar name has shown up and taken the reins from the dominant "P's." That program, surprisingly, is Yale ? 9-1 in the Ivy League.Despite their two losses to Division III teams, the Elis are on top of the league and looking for the kill this evening against the Tigers.

SPORTS | 02/21/2002

Women's hoops looks to stop six-game slide in Ivies

The last time the women's basketball team faced Brown and Yale in one weekend was a test of resilience.After succumbing to Brown on Feb.

SPORTS | 02/21/2002

Anderson and women's hockey look for post-season victories

Contentment.About 350 years ago a few men settled a town in Massachusetts along the Charles River and gave it that comforting moniker.

SPORTS | 02/20/2002

'Do you believe in miracles?'

February 22, 1980.In the annals of U.S. Olympic performances, there is probably no more important date.

SPORTS | 02/20/2002

Women's swimming sweeps Ivy League regular season, looks to duplicate success

Even the best athletes understand that you can't win all the time. Sports wisdom is full of affirmations of the inherent value of the game, the joy of competition, and the irrelevance of the final score: "It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game."But for women's swimming and diving, Vince Lombardi's maxim that "winning isn't everything ? it's the only thing," probably rings more true.

SPORTS | 02/20/2002

With wit, talent, Schaeffer keeps women's basketball team upbeat during tough stretch

"Kelly Schaeffer has given us more leadership than anybody on the team as a sophomore," head coach Richard Barron said after Schaeffer's 15-point performance in 31 minutes in women's basketball's game against Dartmouth this weekend.Schaeffer, a 5 foot 11 inch center from Walt Whitman High School in Long Island, New York, has indeed developed into a vital leader of the Tiger squad after less than two years of experience.

SPORTS | 02/20/2002

Men's tennis starts off season 1-1, doubles teams look solid

Back-to-back matches are always a difficult war to wage, and when the levels of the teams involved differ greatly, it can be even tougher to predict the outcome.The men's tennis team recently encountered both ups and downs early in their spring season as they took an easy victory over Old Dominion only to have it followed by some tough obstacles in a match against Virginia Common-wealth.The Tigers won against Old Dominion 5-2 early in this month when they traveled to Virginia during Intersession.

SPORTS | 02/19/2002

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