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Column: Playoff benefits Ivy League lacrosse

Column: Playoff benefits Ivy League lacrosse

When the No. 13 men’s lacrosse team left the field at the end of its 21-6 shellacking of a wildly overmatched Dartmouth side last Saturday, the celebration was more than just an acknowledgement of a convincing win. The Tigers had clinched a return to the Ivy League Tournament, the three-game extravaganza held on the first weekend of May that has quickly turned into one of the most exciting events in Princeton’s corner of the college sports world.

SPORTS | 04/19/2012

Basketball: Columbia coach discusses pros of tourney proposal

Earlier this week, The Daily Princetonian heard from several Ivy League basketball players with mixed feelings on the idea of a potential conference tournament. The ‘Prince’ recently spoke with Columbia men’s basketball coach Kyle Smith, who has been in charge of drafting the tournament proposal that will be discussed by league administrators.

SPORTS | 04/19/2012

Softball: Junior’s deception fools Ivy League hitters

Nine years ago, 12-year-old Liza Kuhn decided to pick up softball after years of playing Wiffle ball with her family in the backyard of her home in Middletown, N.J. In order to pursue softball, she gave up gymnastics, which she had been doing for several years.“It only took a few weeks to realize that I loved the game for its competitiveness and sense of team,” Kuhn said. Kuhn threw two-and-a-third innings in the second game of Princeton's doubleheader on Wednesday, allowing one run, but Princeton dropped both contests at Lehigh, 3-1 and 2-0.

SPORTS | 04/18/2012

Profile: Helping casual athletes ‘join the club’

There are 36 active club sports on Princeton’s campus, which include everything from ballroom dancing to rugby to baseball to powerlifting. But the club sports program has not always been so successful. It wasn’t until Mitch Reum was hired as the assistant director of campus recreation for sport clubs that the University decided to separate the administration of club and intramural sports.

SPORTS | 04/18/2012

Men's Volleyball: 5-set comeback saves Tigers’ playoff hopes

After a thrilling comeback win over the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the men’s volleyball team remains on the hunt for an EIVA playoff spot. The Tigers (12-9 overall, 6-7 EIVA) dropped the first two sets against the Highlanders (12-16, 5-8), but the hosts won the final three to stay in post-season contention.

SPORTS | 04/18/2012

Around the Ivies: Softball on track for all-red series

With two weeks remaining in the regular season, Harvard and Cornell are on track to repeat as division champions. Can anyone spoil the all-red Ivy League Championship Series? We break it down here:

SPORTS | 04/18/2012

Sports Shorts: Princeton Nine falls, 8-4

The baseball team lost 8-4 to St. John’s in a non-conference game on Wednesday evening. Junior shortstop Matt Bowman collected two hits, but the rest of the Tigers combined for only three as the Red Storm led from start to finish.

SPORTS | 04/18/2012

Tigers’ tunes vary greatly by sport

While the baseball team is warming up before a game, Clarke Field could easily be mistaken for any diamond in the South. The midday sun is shining, the mosquitoes are gnawing and Tim McGraw is blaring over the loudspeakers. But a trip across Washington Road to Sherrerd Field at 1952 Stadium, where the men’s lacrosse team warms up to a pregame mix of Quintino and Swedish House Mafia, presents an entirely different atmosphere.

SPORTS | 04/17/2012

On Tap with ... Luke Armour

Junior attackman Luke Armour hails from Upper Montclair, N.J., about an hour north of the Orange Bubble, and holds a diploma from the local Lawrenceville School. Last year, he finished fourth on the men’s lacrosse team with 14 points while boasting an impressive shooting percentage of 29 percent, the highest of any multi-goal scorer on the roster.

SPORTS | 04/17/2012

Crew: Tough races bring mixed success

The men’s and women’s crews came back to Princeton on great highs and lows, as some teams succeeded and others did not. On the whole, the men’s crew came up relatively empty-handed compared to the women’s teams on a weekend that featured some incredibly tight matchups between highly ranked teams.

SPORTS | 04/17/2012

Column: Alumni show contrasting styles of NHL players

Playoff hockey is in full swing, and that can mean only one thing: The intensity of the competition has been ratcheted up, players are getting chippy and it’s time to discuss once again whether fighting enhances or detracts from the game.

SPORTS | 04/17/2012

Women's Water Polo: Tigers win Southerns in exciting finale

“All I kept thinking was that we needed to score and at the last minute possible,” junior attack Brittany Zwirner said.She saved just 2.4 seconds to score her final goal, a game-winning shot to give the women’s water polo team a 9-8 win over Brown and the Southern Division Title. It was the seventh Southerns victory in school history, as the Tigers took down George Washington, Bucknell and Brown in the process.

SPORTS | 04/16/2012

Tennis: Women sweep at home; men lose perfect record

The men’s tennis team suffered its first Ivy League loss on Saturday, falling to No. 62 Dartmouth 4-3 before losing to No. 24 Harvard 5-2 the following day. The women’s team swept its Dartmouth and Harvard counterparts, defeating Dartmouth 6-1 and No. 72 Harvard 4-3. The victories over the Big Green and the Crimson propelled the women to second place in the Ivy League, while the two losses the men suffered dropped them to a two-way tie for second place.

SPORTS | 04/16/2012

Track & Field: Hopkins sprints to record-setting 400

In his first 400m race of the outdoor season at the George Mason Invitational, sophomore Tom Hopkins was simply hoping not to trip up too badly. Delayed by the check-in to the long jump, Hopkins barely got to the start line in time to set up his blocks. Out of focus and hectic, he would have been happy with anything remotely close to 47 seconds. However, things did not turn out at all like Hopkins expected.

SPORTS | 04/16/2012

Basketball: Many support current system over Ivy tournament proposal

A movement is in place for the Ivy League to join the rest of college basketball with a conference tournament. Ivy League coaches are creating a proposal for an annual men's and women's playoff that would likely match the league’s current lacrosse tournament, involving four teams and two rounds. However, women's basketball head coach Courtney Banghart and many players said they preferred the league's current system of awarding the automatic NCAA Tournament bid to the regular-season champion.

SPORTS | 04/16/2012

Sports Shorts: Spikers win 4th straight

The men’s volleyball team won its fourth consecutive match on Saturday evening, dropping Baruch College 3-1 at Dillon Gymnasium. All four victories have come in non-conference play, however, and the season concludes with two much more important EIVA matches this week.

SPORTS | 04/15/2012

Softball: Quakers take 3 of 4 from hosts

The softball team lost three of four games against Penn this weekend in a series highlighted by some stellar pitching and big rallies.

SPORTS | 04/15/2012

Men's Lacrosse: Tigers throttle Dartmouth, 21-6

The No. 13 men’s lacrosse team now knows it will be playing in the postseason. The Tigers (8-3 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) dominated a Dartmouth squad that is winless in conference play, topping the Big Green 21-6 on a sunny Saturday afternoon at the 1952 Stadium.

SPORTS | 04/15/2012

Baseball: Offense leads Princeton to series victory

With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning on Saturday, the baseball team was down by two runs. Freshman catcher Tyler Servais knocked in a run with a single into right-center field and junior outfielder Steve Harrington singled up the middle to tie it up. Sophomore Alec Keller came in to pinch-hit and knocked a single into shallow right field that brought home the winning run, completing the comeback.Princeton (16-13 overall, 9-3 Ivy League) took three of the four games from Penn, remaining one game behind Cornell in the division.

SPORTS | 04/15/2012

Women's Lacrosse: Ivy League Tournament hopes on the ropes after defeat at Harvard

Coming into Saturday’s game against Harvard, the women’s lacrosse team knew that it needed a win to give it some breathing space before two tough matches to close the season. However, Princeton lost 10-7 in Cambridge, leaving itself needing plenty of hard work and a smattering of fortune to qualify for the end-of-season tournament and defend its Ivy League Tournament championship.

SPORTS | 04/15/2012

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