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Men's hockey faces crucial ECAC games despite injuries

Men's hockey faces crucial ECAC games despite injuries

When the final weeks of a season roll around, every team hopes to be firing on all cylinders going into the postseason.With just six games left before the Eastern College Athletic Conference playoffs begin, the men's hockey team is missing a few cylinders.Princeton (12-7-4 overall, 6-7-3 ECAC) will limp ? both literally and figuratively ? to upstate New York this weekend.

SPORTS | 02/19/1998

Men's hoops looks to keep focus on capturing Ivy title

Almost every week an abundance of questions are directed towards head coach Bill Carmody and the members of the men's basketball team about Princeton's national ranking, Ratings Percentage Index and possible tournament seed.

SPORTS | 02/19/1998

Surging men's squash looks to take home national title

If momentum counts for anything in sports, men's squash may have a good chance to come away with a national title this weekend.The Tigers, who host the 37-team Intercollegiate Squash Association team tournament today through Sunday at Jadwin and Dillon Gyms, will seek to translate the momentum they have gained over the last three weeks into a storybook ending to what once seemed like a lost season.Princeton (11-1 overall, 5-1 Ivy) comes off its biggest win of the season to date, a close 5-4 contest over previously unbeaten Trinity Tuesday that propelled the Tigers to a three-way tie in the regular season standings.Ultimately, a tiebreaker based on the number of individual match wins each school had against the other two awarded the regular season crown to Trinity, placing Princeton third behind Harvard.

SPORTS | 02/19/1998

Women's hoops to face Crimson, Big Green in important Ivy pair

The last time the women's basketball team played Harvard and Dartmouth, first place in the Ivy League was on the line.This weekend, as Princeton (12-9 overall, 6-3 Ivy League) travels north to face the Crimson and the Big Green for the final time this season, the Tigers are still in the hunt for the Ivy crown.

SPORTS | 02/19/1998

Fencing readies for critical weekend against Ivy foes

The men are confident, the women are optimistic.The men's and women's fencing teams enter the last weekend of the regular season with clearcut goals in mind.

SPORTS | 02/18/1998

Ivies' lack of postseason tournament gives regular season more importance

Way to go, fans. I'm proud of you.Filling Jadwin more than an hour in advance of men's basketball's slaughter of Penn Tuesday night.

SPORTS | 02/18/1998

Decisions come at early age in Canadian hockey system

There's a lot of confusion among Americans about our northerly neighbors. Yes, Can-adians may sound a bit funny to American ears and say "eh" too much for our tastes, but one thing most Americans are sure of is that Canadians love hockey.With a dizzying array of leagues and massive participation at all levels, Canada's most popular sport has a following that astonishes most American observers.

SPORTS | 02/18/1998

Men's volleyball overwhelms Vassar

When a team that entered a season with high expectations struggles, a match with a weaker team is a godsend.

SPORTS | 02/18/1998

Figure skaters' win M.I.T. competition, avenge defeat

Two weekends ago, amidst the hype surrounding the men's basketball team's success, the women's club figure skating team made their presence known as well.The team won a competition which featured six other teams, hosted by M.I.T.

SPORTS | 02/18/1998

Goodrich's inside play key to offense

To double down or not to double down?That was the question Penn faced last night in its attempt to shut down senior center Steve Goodrich.

SPORTS | 02/17/1998

Men's swimming routs Navy

It was a bittersweet moment.A resounding cheer of "Princeton seniors!" echoed throughout DeNunzio Pool, and a certain five swimmers couldn't help but revel in the glory.

SPORTS | 02/17/1998

Men's hoops cruises past Penn, 71-59

In the aftermath of the men's basketball team's 71-52 blowout victory over Penn last night, the word kept coming up.Unbelievable.Not the score.

SPORTS | 02/17/1998

Men's squash rolls over Amherst, Trinity; title to be decided today

National champions ? or not? Unfortunately, that's one question that's now out of the men's squash team's control.Last night the Tigers (11-1 overall, 5-1 Ivy) defeated top-ranked Trinity, 5-4, at Jadwin Gym.

SPORTS | 02/17/1998

Trio of fencers stand out at Junior Olympics, reach finals of tourney

Experience plus youthful energy was the key last weekend at the Olympics ? at least at fencing's Junior Olympics.Underclassman talent continued to shine for both the men's and women's fencing team as six freshman and sophomore members fenced at the Junior Olympics this past weekend.

SPORTS | 02/17/1998

Penn's Jordan keys attack, poses threat to men's hoops' Ivy season

The men's basketball team is in the midst of a dream season. Princeton is currently in the top 10 and has yet to be threatened in the Ivy League.But tonight, the Tigers host arch-rival Penn, which can, by beating Princeton, destroy the dream, strip the Tigers of their national ranking and grab a piece of the Ivy League lead.And if there's one Quaker player the Tigers fear, it's sophomore point guard Michael Jordan, the league's leading scorer."He's fast, he's strong, he can make his shot, he can go either way," Princeton assistant coach John Thompson '88 said. Better with ageLast year, Jordan was named Ivy Rookie of the Year after averaging 12.1 points per game.

SPORTS | 02/16/1998

Princeton: Expect to be challenged for league lead by healthy Quakers

An open letter to the students of Princeton University:A year ago we published an article in your paper filled with insults and personal attacks against your student body because we knew our team was a year away from being ready to compete with your team.One year later, the Quakers are ready to resume the premier rivalry in all of Ivy League sports.Meanwhile, your pathetic writer is too busy thinking of cliched and tired insults ? his garbage is on this page somewhere.In fact, he highlights exactly why Princeton will not run over Penn tonight as it has every other Ivy opponent.Princeton, and its basketball team, is too interested in its image.Meanwhile, the 1997-98 Quakers are gritty survivors.That Penn even has the chance to tie for the Ivy League lead tonight is a testament to its perseverance through injury and setback.Sophomore Geoff Owens, who was forced to sit out the season after being diagnosed with hypertension, was just the first and most prominent Quaker player to be confined to the pine.

SPORTS | 02/16/1998

M. volleyball handles Concordia

Princeton strung together back-to-back wins with decisive victories over Concordia Friday and NYU last Thursday.

SPORTS | 02/16/1998

Men's track jumps out from start, captures 11 of 16 firsts in H-Y-Ps

The men's indoor track team did its best impersonation of the men's basketball team last weekend, roaring to an early lead and never looking back in trouncing both Harvard and Yale in Cambridge, Mass.The Tigers won 11 of the day's 16 events, tallying a final score of 105 points.

SPORTS | 02/16/1998

Tigers better than Penn in basketball, rankings, reputation – everything

There were several possible themes for this column about the Princeton-Penn basketball game tonight: 1.

SPORTS | 02/16/1998

Women's hockey drops one to Dartmouth, tops BC, 6-4

In Baker Rink this weekend it was business as usual for the women's hockey team ? one win, one loss.Princeton's weekend was quite familiar as the Tigers were plagued with slow starts and failed scoring opportunities early in each of the games.After being shut out once more against Dartmouth, 3-0 Saturday, Princeton (11-12-1 overall, 8-10 Eastern College Athletic Conference,) turned it around Sunday and handed Boston College (8-19-1, 3-14-1) another loss, 6-4. Trouble at the startIn the first period Saturday both teams were held scoreless ? Dartmouth (17-7-1, 14-3-1) with only six shots on goal and Princeton with a mere two shots.In addition, the Tigers had trouble clearing the puck from their defensive end, allowing the Big Green ample scoring opportunities."The first period we just didn't show up to play," junior center Ali Coughlin said."We came out really flat in the first period," sophomore center Danya Marshman said.

SPORTS | 02/16/1998

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