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Wrestling beats Eastern Michigan, loses to Findlay, Edinboro

Wrestling beats Eastern Michigan, loses to Findlay, Edinboro

Preparing for arguably its hardest schedule in recent memory, the wrestling team opened against one of the best teams in the nation.Competing Saturday in the Edinboro Duals in Edinboro, Penn., the Tigers (1-2 overall) had three dual meets in the span of a day.Princeton began the day with Findlay, then took on Eastern Michigan, and finally ended its day against No.

SPORTS | 11/20/2001

Men's soccer gets NCAA bye

Things just keep rolling in the right direction for men's soccer. Saturday, Brown defeated Harvard, 3-0, to lift Princeton (10-2-5 overall, 5-1-1 Ivy League) to share the Ivy title with Brown.A 3-0 win over the Bears early in the season broke the tie to give the Tigers the automatic NCAA tournament berth.

SPORTS | 11/19/2001

Men's swimming picks up three convincing Ivy League victories

Like the blockbuster "Harry Potter" adaptation, men's swimming and diving had a solid opening weekend.On Friday, the Tigers traveled to Philadelphia for a double-dual meet, in which they easily defeated Penn 177-66 and Cornell 172-71.Sunday, Princeton was back on the road, headed for Providence, R.I., where they outswam Brown 198-89.With these wins, the Tigers extended their undefeated dual-meet streak, which goes back to 1999, to 14-0.

SPORTS | 11/19/2001

Goalies shine as women's hockey ties Providence, shuts out Elis on the road

After suffering through many third-period breakdowns and eight one-goal losses last season, the women's ice hockey team made it a goal for this year to hold strong down the stretch and to not let games slip away in the last 20 minutes.The team showed the resolve and poise it has been looking for this weekend as Princeton (2-3-1, 1-2-0 ECAC) tied Providence, 1-1, Friday and beat Yale 4-0 on Sunday.In Friday's matchup, junior netminder Sarah Ahlquist stole the show, stopping 23 of 24 shots she faced."Sarah played great," senior co-captain Aviva Grumet-Morris said.

SPORTS | 11/19/2001

Men's hockey controls Vermont to pick up first win of season

After going winless in the last two weekends of play, the performance of the men's ice hockey team this weekend was an improvement, if only a small one.Despite losing Sunday's match up against Dartmouth, 5-2, the Tigers showed poise in their 5-4 victory against Vermont Saturday night.

SPORTS | 11/19/2001

W. volleyball splits year's last weekend

On the last weekend of the season the women's volleyball team sought a miracle to keep in the running for the Ivy League title.The Tigers went 1-1 over the weekend, finishing at 15-9, 9-5 in the Ivy League, and enjoyed no miracles.

SPORTS | 11/19/2001

W. swimming rides early leads to wins over Penn and Cornell

A double dual meet against Pennsylvania and Cornell proved not to be a problem for the women's swimming team.

SPORTS | 11/19/2001

Women's basketball dismantles Lehigh in stunning opener

The women's basketball team headed down a bumpy road last season to a 2-25 dead end. In this year's opener against Lehigh on Friday night, however, they defeated the Mountain Hawks, 76-61, and showed that they've got a whole new ride.New head coach Richard Barron's run-and-gun offense put the Tigers in high gear, as they accelerated back and forth down the court on one fast break after another."Our offensive style this year is much more up-tempo than last year's style.

SPORTS | 11/19/2001

Michigan knocks field hockey out of NCAA Tournament

The Princeton field hockey team was finally knocked out of the NCAA tournament in the semifinals, succumbing to Michigan, 4-2.

SPORTS | 11/18/2001

Splithoff, Opara lead way as football ends season by mauling Big Green

HANOVER, N.H. ? In 1815, the United States beat Britain in the Battle of New Orleans. The only problem was that the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812, had been signed several weeks beforehand.In a similarly anticlimatic matchup, Princeton (3-6 overall, 3-4 Ivy League) whipped Dartmouth (1-8, 1-6) 35-14 Saturday in Hanover, N.H.The Tigers finished the season tied for fourth in the Ivy League and won back-to-back games for the first time since 1998.

SPORTS | 11/18/2001

Cal, St. Joe's overwhelm men's hoops at Black Coaches' Association tourney

Tradition haunted the men's basketball team when it traveled to California to compete in the Black Coaches Association Classic this weekend.

SPORTS | 11/18/2001

Men's water polo comes up well short of goal at Easterns

It was 10:50 a.m. on Saturday morning. Most students were just waking up and getting ready for brunch.

SPORTS | 11/18/2001

WEEKEND WRAP-UP

Women's basketballThe women's basketball team made a bold statement on Friday, opening its season with a 76-61 triumph over Lehigh.

SPORTS | 11/18/2001

Rutgers gets early goal, withstands late Princeton flurry as Scarlet Knights eliminate women's soccer, 1-0

The women's soccer team's dream season has finally come to an end. After winning its first round NCAA tournament game Friday against Loyola-Maryland, Princeton dropped its second round match to New Jersey rival Rutgers, 1-0, Sunday at Lourie-Love Field.

SPORTS | 11/18/2001

Field hockey makes fourth appearance in Final Four

If there is an underdog in the 2001 NCAA field hockey Final Four, Princeton is it. At least by the numbers.Of the four participants - Michigan, Maryland, Princeton and Wake Forest - the Tigers have the lowest ranking.

SPORTS | 11/15/2001

Tigers lose to Golden Bears 58-70

Despite 17 points by sophomore center Konrad Wysocki, the men's basketball team fell to Cal 70-58 in the first round of the BCA Classic Thursday night in Berkeley, Calif.Wysocki went 6-for-8 from the field on the evening including a pair of three-pointers, but Princeton fell behind by 16 at halftime and was unable to make up the difference in the second half.The Tigers shot a respectable 58 percent from the field as a team, but were hampered by 24 turnovers which eventually made the difference as the Golden Bears only handed the ball over 15 times.Junior guard Mike Bechtold was the only other Tiger in double figures, scoring 11 points one 4-for-8 shooting.

SPORTS | 11/15/2001

Men's water polo top seed in wide-open field at Easterns

This Saturday, the Princeton men's water polo team will attempt to start off the Eastern Championships with a bang when it plays Massachusetts at 10 a.m.

SPORTS | 11/15/2001

Football faces Dartmouth in final game

Two and six. Next to the bottom of a weak league going into the last game of the season. But for anyone who wants to be optimistic, the Tigers are playing the one team below them in the Ancient Eight - Dartmouth.It has been a rough, heart-wrenching year.

SPORTS | 11/15/2001

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