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Princeton headed to National Sevens Championship after Ivy title

The women’s rugby team will travel to North Carolina next weekend to play in the USA Rugby National Collegiate Sevens Championship tournament. The team, which was 5-6 in the regular season and 2-3 in the regular fifteens season, won an automatic bid to the championship after beating Penn by a comfortable 21-10 margin in the final round of the Ivy Championship tournament on campus on Nov.

Letting the freshmen play

At big time college programs, there is plenty for an incoming freshman athlete to be worried about.

Men split exciting weekend, women tie No. 5 Boston College

The men’s hockey team provided a weekend of wild finishes for fans at Baker Rink, splitting Friday’s and Saturday’s games with a victory over Dartmouth (0-8 overall, 0-6 ECAC) and a loss to Harvard (3-4-1, 2-4-1). Facing a three-goal deficit against the Big Green, the Tigers (2-7, 1-5) scored four unanswered goals and topped that off with a walk-off overtime goal by senior forward Andrew Ammon to win 5-4. The next night, Princeton cut Harvard's 4-1 lead to one goal in the final period but fell 5-3 as the Crimson tallied a last-second goal on an empty net. The Tigers earned their first in-league points with the win. “We’re definitely moving forward,” senior forward Jack Berger said.

Men and women head to NCAA Championships

For the first time since 2010, both the men’s and women’s cross-country teams are traveling together to the NCAA Championships.

Offense comes alive in home opener

The women’s basketball team improved over the course of its season-opening loss to Rutgers, and it picked up right where it left off Sunday with an authoritative 81-58 throttling of defending MAAC champion Marist. The story of the preseason for the Tigers (1-1) was the loss of Niveen Rasheed ’13, far and away the team’s leading scorer during her time at Princeton.

No. 1 Maryland stops No. 8 Princeton short of 2nd-straight NCAA title

The No. 8 field hockey team staged an impressive comeback against No. 9 Penn State in the first round of the NCAA tournament Saturday but fell to top-ranked Maryland in the quarterfinals the next day, failing to defend its 2012 national title. Princeton (14-5 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) received an automatic bid to the tournament after sweeping the Ivy League but drew Penn State(13-6, 5-1 Big Ten), which had handed the Tigers a 4-3 loss earlier in the season, and Maryland (22-1, 6-0 ACC), the host and favorite to win the tournament. "We got put in a really tough bracket, and we gave it our all," senior back Amanda Bird said.

Butler squeaks past Princeton

For the second-straight week, the men’s basketball team (1-1) took the court without its emotional leader and captain, senior guard T.J.

Tigers rout Yale, clinch share of Ivy title

The football team clinched a share of the Ivy League title and brought Princeton its second consecutive bonfire with a 59-23 victory over Yale Saturday. A warm, sunny fall day brought with it the largest crowd Powers Field has seen in years, which started the day by honoring the members of the Class of 2014, who would be playing their last game at Princeton Stadium. “The support was fantastic today, definitely the biggest crowd I’ve ever played in front of, which was awesome,” senior linebacker Phillip Bhaya said.

Liveblog: Yale vs. Princeton

The football team faces the last big test of its season Saturday at Princeton Stadium, as Yale comes to town.

Princeton v. Yale: 135 years and counting

Bulldogs come to Princeton for Homecoming showdown

On Homecoming Saturday, the football team has a chance to earn its second straight bonfire. After defeating Harvard in a triple overtime thriller Oct.

Defending MAAC champions visit Jadwin Sunday

This Sunday, the women's basketball team will have its home opener against Marist in its second game of the season.

Tigers look to start season 2-0 against Butler

After opening the 2013-14 season with a convincing 67-50 win over Florida A&M last weekend, the men’s basketball team will look to start 2-0 for the first time in four years when it tips off against Butler on Saturday night in Indianapolis.

Tigers prepare for national title defense

The field hockey team will travel to College Park, Md., for the opening rounds of the NCAA tournament this weekend.

COLUMN: Epperly for Heisman?

On Monday, junior quarterback Quinn Epperly was named to the Walter Payton Award Watch List. The Sports Network, one of the world’s largest sports information wire services, presents the major awards in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, also known as FCS, at the end of each season.

Penn is not Mightier

Around the Ivies: Women's basketball

Now that every team has played its first game, we’ve gotten our first look at how Ivy League women’s basketball will shape up this year.

Changing lanes: men’s basketball hits the water

Since Jadwin Gymnasium opened in 1969, the men’s basketball team has won 17 of its 26 Ivy League Championships.

No. 16 UMass Lowell bests Tigers on home ice

The men’s hockey team proved unable to stall its early-season five-game losing skid. Hosting No.

Around the Ivies: Men's Basketball

The long-awaited Ivy League basketball season finally got underway last weekend, with most teams winning their opening-day matchups.