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Women's Volleyball: Rudnick, Quinn lead resurgence in Ancient Eight

Women's Volleyball: Rudnick, Quinn lead resurgence in Ancient Eight

The women’s volleyball team is dominating its Ancient Eight competition this fall. After a rocky string of losses in the last four weeks of September when Princeton (10-6 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) lost six of eight matches, the Tigers have fallen back in stride. It appears Princeton must have been saving energy for the Ivy League season, since the team has not lost an in-conference match yet.

SPORTS | 10/21/2010

Football: Dixon to record 1st career start

As the NFL moves toward an 18-game season, injuries are the biggest concern for players and fans alike. Only five weeks into Ivy League football season, many teams in the conference find their depth charts shot by an unusually injury-ridden year.

SPORTS | 10/21/2010

Sprint Football: Princeton hopes for 1st points in 5 years at Navy

The sprint football team was shut out by Army last weekend, and the Tigers are no strangers to being shut out by their next opponent. Princeton (0-5 overall, 0-3 Collegiate Sprint Football League) will travel to Annapolis, Md., to take on the Navy Midshipmen (3-1, 1-1) tonight at 7 p.m. The Midshipmen have held the Tigers scoreless in their previous five meetings, with a cumulative score of 333-0. The shutout streak includes a 98-0 battering in 2005, the largest margin of defeat in Princeton’s program history.

SPORTS | 10/21/2010

Men's Soccer: A sophomore stalwart

At first, sophomore Mark Linnville never considered Princeton — or any Ivy League school for that matter — as a possible destination when he was being recruited two years ago for the men’s soccer team. Linnville, a standout high school player from Hendersonville, N.C., was focusing on a number of large Division I programs when Princeton came knocking late in the recruitment process.

SPORTS | 10/20/2010

Field Hockey: Shootin’ with Sharkey

Field hockey is a sport I know next to nothing about. So as I stood in front of the goal — wearing pads twice my size and staring out at a resolute-looking Kat Sharkey — I began to wonder what I was doing there. I also began to wonder just how hard a field hockey ball is. During my time “shootin’ With Sharkey,” I found an answer to the second question.

SPORTS | 10/20/2010

Men's Hockey: Lohry’s late goal puts Tigers over the top in season-opening exhibition

The men’s ice hockey team kicked off its season last night with an exhibition game against the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres. The Tigers defeated the Patriotes with a final-minute goal to earn the 5-4 win.

SPORTS | 10/20/2010

Feature: Iraqi crew program trains in Princeton

The blue waters of Lake Carnegie regularly wash back and forth peacefully, only slightly jostled by the ripple of oars slicing through its surface in a synchronized effort by the men’s and women’s crews. In the last week of September, though, the lake welcomed newcomers, less experienced in their techniques.

SPORTS | 10/20/2010

Column: The top 5 sports video games

Boomshakalaka!Video game simulations of sports have become a part of America’s collective sports consciousness. The annual release of the new Madden football game every August draws crowds to Best Buys across the country. But the best sports video games have always been the ones that did not try to stay completely faithful to the sport by turning the sport’s best qualities into a fun game to play. These arcade sports titles are still fun today, even though many of these series have not been updated in quite some time. Without further ado, let’s count down the top five arcade sports games of all time.

SPORTS | 10/20/2010

Cross Country: A light-footed legacy

The women’s cross country team has large shoes to fill. Peter Farrell has trained some astounding athletes in his 33 years as the team’s head coach. Since its first competition in 1978, Princeton has captured seven Heptagonal Championship titles, including the last four.

SPORTS | 10/19/2010

Tennis: Pecotic falls in ITA final

It was a remarkably successful weekend for the men’s tennis team, as it sent players to the finals in both singles and doubles at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional Tournament hosted by Yale. The Tigers had a strong start to the tournament on Friday, with victories coming from freshman Dan Richardson and senior Alex Faust in singles. Sophomores Matija Pecotic, Matt Siow and Matt Spindler received first-round byes.

SPORTS | 10/19/2010

On Tap with ... Tim Wenzlau

With his signature blond hair and NorCal lingo sophomore attack Tim Wenzlau, one of two sophomores from California on the men’s water polo team, certainly has his quirks. The Forbes resident enjoys spending time in his residential college when not in the pool. He is often a little wild, but in the pool he is all focus.

SPORTS | 10/19/2010

Column: NFL overlooks small schools

What do I have in common with the NFL’s leading rusher, besides 225 pounds of muscle and a tie for the Houston Texans’ team single-game rushing record? If you guessed “neither of you were drafted by an NFL team,” you’d be right.

SPORTS | 10/19/2010

Football: Mixed results meet Perry's new offense

A black jersey slips past several defenders before it is finally brought to the turf, safely clutching the ball as a whistle blows. He finds the referee and flips the ball, getting his bearings and quickly running to his spot at the line of scrimmage. Five linemen quickly march downfield and set up as junior quarterback Tommy Wornham barks out a play call. He looks over to the sideline, where backups senior Andrew Dixon and sophomore Tim Dondanville are side by side issuing identical signals, like a third-base coach standing by a mirror. Wornham reaches his position, flanked by a single running back. He gives one quick call and the ball is back in motion, mere seconds after the last play ended.

SPORTS | 10/19/2010

Golf: Men finish 8th, women place 4th

In the final tournament of its fall season, the men’s golf team finished eighth at the Northeast Invitational at Shelter Harbor, R.I. The par-71 course hosted all eight Ivy League teams and other stiff competition from schools such as Army, Navy and Boston College.

SPORTS | 10/18/2010

Women's Hockey: Team opens campaign with exhibition loss

The women’s ice hockey team opened its season with an exhibition loss to McGill on Friday at Baker Rink. Despite three goals, the team was unable to overcome a strong McGill head start and ultimately fell 4-3.

SPORTS | 10/18/2010

Men's Rugby: Ruggers fall in road games against bitter rivals Bulldogs, Crimson

The men’s rugby team lost 17-10 to Yale and 17-10 to Harvard on its road trip this weekend, but while the scores in the two matches were identical, the quality of Princeton’s play differed drastically.

SPORTS | 10/18/2010

Cross Country: Tigers run to weekend success

Amid the buzz of Freshman Parents Weekend and other Princeton athletic events on campus, both the men’s and women’s cross country teams had a solid weekend of racing. The two teams sent their top groups to Terre Haute, Ind., for the Pre-Nationals meet, while the rest of the squads hosted the Princeton Invitational at West Windsor Fields.

SPORTS | 10/18/2010

Sprint Football: Princeton overpowered by tough Army squad

There were obvious feelings of frustration and disappointment among players and coaches following the sprint football team’s 55-0 loss in their first away game of the season at Army on Friday night. Despite a long week dedicated to preparing for the game, the Tigers (0-5 overall, 0-3 Collegiate Sprint Football League) were unable to compete with the very athletic and talented Black Knights (3-1, 2-1).

SPORTS | 10/18/2010

Field Hockey: No. 5 Huskies too much for Princeton

The field hockey team faced its first back-to-back games this season, with matches against Brown and Connecticut on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. And while the Tigers (10-3 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) easily disposed of the Bears (2-10, 1-3) 7-1 at Class of 1952 Stadium, they fell 4-2 in Storrs, Conn., to the Huskies (12-3) after a valiant comeback attempt.

SPORTS | 10/17/2010

Men's Water Polo: Sudden death loss at DeNunzio drops Tigers from division lead

The men’s water polo team’s undefeated league streak was extended and then crushed over the spread of three games this weekend. The No. 17 Tigers (11-7 overall, 5-2 Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division) topped Johns Hopkins (10-10, 2-3) 9-6 in a Saturday afternoon game and then fell to No. 18 Navy (17-5, 5-1) in a 7-6 heartbreaker later that night. The Tigers also lost at Bucknell (8-9, 1-5) on Sunday afternoon, 9-4.

SPORTS | 10/17/2010

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