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Football: With bonfire at stake, Tigers look to snap losing streak at Yale

Football: With bonfire at stake, Tigers look to snap losing streak at Yale

The football team has exceeded expectations so far this season, posting a winning record in Ivy League play and seriously improving from last year’s one-win season. Though the Tigers (4-4 overall, 3-2 Ivy League) lost their last two games to Cornell and Penn, they look to bounce back as they head to New Haven to face Yale (2-6, 1-4) this weekend in a highly anticipated and nationally televised matchup.

SPORTS | 11/08/2012

Women's Soccer: Seniors lead team into 1st round of tournament play

It would be tough to deny this year’s women’s soccer team is one of Princeton’s best in recent history. The team is 13-3-1 (7-0 Ivy League) heading into its first NCAA tournament game at West Virginia, which will start at 7 p.m. Saturday. The last time the Tigers had double-digit wins was in 2008, and the last team to win at least 13 games was the 2004 Tigers, who made it to the Final Four.

SPORTS | 11/08/2012

Field Hockey: No. 2 Princeton to face Drexel in NCAAs

After a decisive 6-0 win over No. 13 Lafayette on Tuesday afternoon in an NCAA Play-In Game, the field hockey team earned the No. 2 seed in the main tournament. This weekend, the Tigers will travel down to Charlottesville, Va., to face No. 15 Drexel in the first round at 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

SPORTS | 11/08/2012

On Tap with ... Jonathan Vitez

Junior Jonathan Vitez has always been a solid contributor to the No. 13 men’s cross country team. At the Ivy League Championships on Oct. 27, however, Vitez broke through with a huge race to place seventh overall in a new personal best for 8 kilometers. His performance helped propel Princeton to its third straight title and one of the lowest team scores in Heps history. The men’s and women’s cross country teams will compete at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional today with the goal of making it through to the NCAA Championships. Vitez spent some time with the ‘Prince’ to talk about his nickname, terrible running experiences and his sprouting beard.

SPORTS | 11/08/2012

Women's Basketball: Crimson to be Tigers' toughest foe

The women’s basketball team starts its 2012-13 season on Sunday, kicking off a quest for a fourth straight Ivy League championship. Who is most likely to deny the Tigers their fourth ring and another NCAA tournament appearance? We break it down here.

SPORTS | 11/07/2012

Swimming & Diving: Teams set to open season at DeNunzio Pool

When the men’s swimming and diving team won last season’s Ivy League Championship meet, it solidified a four-year reign atop Ancient Eight swimming. Last year’s seniors went their entire Princeton careers without losing an Ivy Champs meet, a feat that had not been achieved since 1992, when Ivy League swimming and diving teams competed in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swim League.

SPORTS | 11/07/2012

Tennis: Pecotic, Muliawan begin championships

Senior Matija Pecotic and freshman Amanda Muliawan will begin play at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships in New York today. Both players will be aiming to end their fall seasons on a high note in their competitive 32-player tournaments.

SPORTS | 11/07/2012

Football: Devout junior Wilson emerges as top target

What was going through Roman Wilson’s mind as he made one of the biggest plays in Princeton football history?“I was just running as fast as I could,” he said. “Just trying to keep my eye on the ball.”That simple attitude, exemplified by the 36-yard catch that sealed a stunning comeback victory against Harvard three weeks ago, is typical of the junior wide receiver from Broken Arrow, Okla. The possibility of losing focus, or of doing anything halfheartedly, seems never to have crossed Wilson’s mind.

SPORTS | 11/07/2012

On Tap with ... Brendan Byrne

Sophomore Brendan Byrne is a goalkeeper on the men’s water polo team. He is a New Jersey native who attended and played water polo at The Lawrenceville School before coming to Princeton. He recently sat down with the ‘Prince’ to discuss the election, tidal waves and that muddy hill behind Cloister Inn.

SPORTS | 11/06/2012

Men's Basketball: Tigers 1st in Ivy sportswriters' poll

Who will win the men’s basketball conference title this winter? Princeton is favored to take the crown, according to the Ivy League sportswriters’ preseason poll. Representatives of all eight student newspapers, including The Daily Princetonian, tabbed the Tigers to win their second title in three years but expect strong challenges from defending champion Harvard and both New York schools.

SPORTS | 11/06/2012

Field Hockey: Tigers draw No. 2 seed, will face Drexel in NCAA tournament

The field hockey team swept through its opponent in the NCAA play-in game on Tuesday, as No. 2 Princeton shut out No. 13 Lafayette, 6-0, at Columbia’s Baker Athletics Complex in New York. Fresh off a one-loss regular season and an undefeated Ivy League season, the Tigers (17-1 overall, 7-0 Ivy League), led by three goals from senior striker Kat Sharkey, had no problem dealing with the Leopards (16-1). Princeton will now move on to the first round of the NCAA tournament to face Drexel in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday.

SPORTS | 11/06/2012

Sprint Football: Departing seniors to leave big holes

As the clock ran out against Penn this past weekend, 16 seniors ended their final game as members of the sprint football team. Though the season ended with a 0-7 record, continuing a losing streak lasting more than a decade, the team put up its best fight in years, losing four games by a touchdown or less.

SPORTS | 11/06/2012

Men's Basketball: Tigers have tall roster, taller expectations

The men’s basketball team is back, and the Tigers are hungry. After failing to follow up the 2010 season’s amazing run in which the team came within two points of knocking out eventual Final Four team Kentucky, Princeton failed to return to the NCAA tournament after finishing third in the Ivy League last year. However, the Tigers are confident going into this season, having been picked first in the Ivy League preseason poll in which they received all but one of the first place votes.

SPORTS | 11/06/2012

Women's Basketball: Princeton chases 4th Ivy League title, 1st tournament win

Since head coach Courtney Banghart took the helm of the women’s basketball team in 2007, expectations have only continued to rise. During the 2011-12 season, Princeton continued to live up to some of those expectations, as it earned a ranking as high as No. 24 in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll. This was the first time an Ivy League team had achieved a national ranking, and the Tigers went on to claim a No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Undefeated in the Ivy League last season, Princeton looks to continue its dominance and claim a fourth straight league title.

SPORTS | 11/06/2012

Basketball: Senior stars do it all for men's, women's teams

Senior forwards Ian Hummer and Niveen Rasheed took very different paths to Princeton. But as they enter their final years in orange and black, the two seniors’ basketball careers have converged. As the top returning scorers and rebounders in their respective leagues, Hummer and Rasheed enter the season as Ivy League Player of the Year favorites — and both could end their careers by leading their teams to conference titles.

SPORTS | 11/06/2012

Men's Water Polo: Princeton edges Navy for 3rd at Southerns

The No. 18 men’s water polo team sunk top-seeded Navy at this weekend’s CWPA Southern Division Championships to take third place over the No. 14 Midshipmen. It was the first time in Navy’s history that it failed to place in the top three at the Southern Championships.

SPORTS | 11/05/2012

Men's Soccer: Seniors lead hosts to 3-0 rout of Penn

From players perpetually in the starting lineup to those who lead the reserve team, nearly every member of the men’s soccer team’s Class of 2013 played a key role in the Tigers’ home shutout of Penn on Saturday night. Among those seniors standing out in Princeton’s home finale was Max Gallin, who reassumed the role of starting goalkeeper — which he held for nearly all of the 2011-12 season — and confirmed his ability to lead the team to an overwhelming victory.

SPORTS | 11/05/2012

Women's Volleyball: Yale tops Tigers to claim conference title

With a 3-0 victory over Brown on Friday, the women’s volleyball team set up a showdown with first-place Yale to keep its conference title hopes alive. But at Dillon Gymnasium on Saturday evening, the Bulldogs won a three-set battle over the Tigers (12-10 overall, 9-3 Ivy League) to clinch the outright Ivy League crown.

SPORTS | 11/05/2012

Women's Soccer: Ivy winners draw West Virginia in NCAAs

Two days after winning sole possession of the Ivy League title, the women’s soccer team learned its first NCAA tournament foe when the full bracket was released late Monday afternoon. Princeton will visit No. 17 West Virginia in the first round of the tournament at 7 p.m. Saturday.

SPORTS | 11/05/2012

Weekend Recap: Fencing, women's hockey teams compete

The women’s hockey team earned one point from two games in upstate New York last weekend, losing to No. 2 Cornell 4-0 and tying Colgate 3-3 on the road. Meanwhile, the men's and women's fencing teams opened the 2012-13 season at the Penn State Garret Open.

SPORTS | 11/05/2012

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