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Field Hockey: Princeton beats Penn, wins 7th Ivy League title

Field Hockey: Princeton beats Penn, wins 7th Ivy League title

Stephen Wood

For a seventh consecutive season, the field hockey team is atop the Ivy League. The offense, which has been streaky this year, came alive at the right time, giving Princeton an impressive 3-0 win and a berth in the NCAA Play-In Game.

SPORTS | 11/06/2011

Cross Country: Men beat weather, repeat at Heps

Adam Fisch

Competing in one of the most intense Heptagonal Championships in history, the men’s cross-country team ran away with the Ivy League title on Oct. 29 at the West Windsor fields. Powering through some of the worst weather conditions imaginable, the Tigers displayed their toughness, persevering over the 8K distance to repeat as team champions.

SPORTS | 11/06/2011

Men's Hockey: Prier nets 1st win amid opening-week struggles

Jeff Epstein

After a tough weekend at the Ivy Shootout, the men’s hockey team opened up ECAC Hockey conference play last week with middling results. The Tigers lost their conference opener to No. 19 Quinnipiac before bouncing back and securing their first win of the season at Harvard. On Saturday, the Tigers finished a busy week with a 5-3 loss to conference-leading Dartmouth. Despite a sub-.500 record, Princeton has seen its underclassmen contributing in droves and its special teams play heating up.

SPORTS | 11/06/2011

Women's Hockey: Sophomores lead team to undefeated ECAC start

Tory Roberts

The sophomore trio is at it again. Led by sophomore forwards Olivia Mucha, Sally Butler and Denna Laing, the women’s hockey team swept two Ivy League opponents last weekend at Baker Rink to remain undefeated in ECAC Hockey play.

SPORTS | 11/06/2011

Football: 3rd-quarter flurry dooms Tigers in Philly

Shayan Rakhit

PHILADELPHIA - The football team’s first series on Saturday could not have been scripted any better. At the onset of the game against Penn, the two-time defending league champions, Princeton had an energy that could have foretold a memorable road upset.

SPORTS | 11/06/2011

Live Blog: Football at Penn

The football team travels to Franklin Field to take on two-time defending Ivy League champion Penn. Join us for live coverage of the game at 1 p.m.

SPORTS | 11/04/2011

Crew: Men's heavyweights take 1st at Princeton Chase

In the aftermath of a substantial winter storm that left a blanket of ice over the Shea Rowing Center and most of campus, the annual Princeton Chase was held on Lake Carnegie on Oct. 30. The Tiger crews were mostly unfazed by the unseasonable cold, as the heavyweight men took first in the varsity eight division, and the lightweight men and open women each took second.

SPORTS | 10/30/2011

Live Blog: Football vs. Cornell

Off campus for fall break? Follow the football team's game against Cornell with our live blog from Princeton Stadium, starting at 1 p.m.

SPORTS | 10/28/2011

Football: Snow steals the show as Tigers lose 24-7

In the sport of football, perhaps nothing is more romanticized than a game played in snow. Since the Ivy League season ends in mid-November, the nation’s oldest football program rarely gets to have that experience, save for possibly a few flurries during a year-ending game in Hanover, N.H. But when the Tigers lined up to kick off on Saturday afternoon, two inches of snow covered Powers Field and much more swirled around Princeton Stadium, instantly providing a scene that was as memorable as it was bizarre.

SPORTS | 10/28/2011

Men's Soccer: Red-hot Cornell to challenge hosts

The Cornell men’s soccer team is good this year — really good. In fact, the Big Red has had its most successful season in recent memory. Cornell has not lost in its last 12 games, and the team cracked the top 25 last week for the first time in 10 years. The Big Red in position to wrest the Ivy League title from the team it visits this week, Princeton.

SPORTS | 10/27/2011

Women's Volleyball: Team tests Ivy’s top record on the road

The women’s volleyball team still has a great chance of winning the Ivy League title, but it must perform at its best in the upcoming matches to stay atop the group. The Tigers (14-6 overall, 7-1 Ivy League) are currently tied for first place in the league standings with Yale. With their only Ivy loss being a 3-0 sweep at Columbia, currently ranked third in the league, the Tigers have an advantage in the second half of their league season, having already defeated five of the six teams left.

SPORTS | 10/27/2011

Football: Tigers hope to rebound vs. Big Red

The football team will return home this week after a winless three-game road trip. The Tigers (1-5 overall, 1-2 Ivy League) will host Cornell (2-4, 0-3), which has yet to record an Ivy League victory.

SPORTS | 10/27/2011

Cross Country: Princeton runners hope to defend Heps titles

As the leaves change color and the weather turns colder, the college cross country season arrives at what it’s all about: championship races. On Saturday, the men’s and women’s cross country teams will make a push for their first titles of the year at the Ivy League Championships. Entering as the reigning double-triple crown winners in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track, both teams have dominating legacies to uphold.

SPORTS | 10/27/2011

Field Hockey: U.S. squad plays for bid in 2012 Olympics

Over the coming weeks and months, many Princeton athletes will compete for Ivy League titles and even in national tournaments. But at 6:30 p.m. tonight, three field hockey players will have even more at stake — a bid to the 2012 Olympics with the U.S. National Team.

SPORTS | 10/27/2011

Women's Soccer: Women host Senior Night at Roberts

With two games left in the season, the women’s soccer team hopes to spend fall break finishing the campaign on a good note against Ivy League rivals Cornell and Penn. The Tigers host the Big Red at 1 p.m. on Saturday, their final home game of the year, before traveling to Penn the following week.

SPORTS | 10/27/2011

Column: Owner-Labor battle looming for NCAA

The rumblings surrounding corruption in high-profile college sports have reached an all-time high in the last year. Every couple of months, it seemed, a new “scandal” emerged — Jim Tressel and Terrelle Pryor at Ohio State, the Willie Lyles allegations at Oregon and Lousiana State University, and the all-you-can-eat buffet style violations uncovered at Miami over the summer, to name a few — followed by the requisite indignation on the part of the NCAA and the obligatory contrition from those involved.

SPORTS | 10/25/2011

Women's Tennis: ITA Tournament results disappoint

The women’s tennis team’s biggest fall tournament ended mostly in disappointment for the Tigers. Despite coming in with a couple of highly-seeded entrants, no Princeton players advanced beyond the third day of play at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regional Tournament as the long weekend came to an abrupt end on Sunday.

SPORTS | 10/25/2011

Crew: Crews ‘Pull for the Cure’ on Charles

This weekend, the crews traveled to Boston for the annual Head of the Charles regatta on the Charles River. For the past two years, this event has been more than a typical regatta for the Princeton rowers — they also participate in a fundraising event for breast cancer research.

SPORTS | 10/25/2011

Women's Hockey: Big upset highlights opening weekend

If the first game of the season is any indication of the 27 to come, the women’s hockey team is in pretty good shape. The Tigers (1-1 overall) dealt No. 8 Northeastern (5-1) its first loss of the season Friday night in the home opener at Baker Rink.

SPORTS | 10/25/2011

On Tap with ... Peter Maag

Peter Maag, a senior on the men’s track and cross country teams, finished third for the Tigers two Saturdays ago at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational, a big reason for Princeton’s impressive fourth-place finish. Now ranked ninth in the nation, Maag and the Cross Country Tigers look to defend their Ivy League title Saturday when Princeton hosts the 2011 Heptagonal Championships. The ‘Prince’ interviewed this not-so-hipster track star from Portland, Ore., to find out about his basketball prowess, his teammates and the unicycle pole vault.

SPORTS | 10/25/2011

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