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Football: Britton, Cates, Culbreath, Paski named captains at spring game

Football: Britton, Cates, Culbreath, Paski named captains at spring game

Coming off its second consecutive 4-6 season, the football team will look to improve in the fall. Fans got their first taste of what the 2009 incarnation of the Tigers will look like last Saturday during the team’s annual Spring Game.

SPORTS | 04/20/2009

Softball: Tigers fall out of the running for league title

Warren Spahn, the winningest left-handed pitcher in MLB history, once said, “Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.” Unfortunately for the softball team, Penn pitcher Jessie Lupardus proved Spahn’s comment to be true Saturday, as she held the Tigers at bay with an array of slow, deceptive pitches that handcuffed their swings and earned her a shutout victory.

SPORTS | 04/20/2009

Women's Water Polo: Southerns end in loss for Tigers

Last weekend, the women’s water polo team learned that every cloud has a silver lining. Though Princeton (14-12 overall, 3-4 Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division) fell in the Southern Championships to Maryland (14-12, 5-1) by a 14-10 margin, the team secured a berth in next weekend’s Eastern Championships by placing second in the tournament. And the Tigers advanced to the title round in dramatic fashion, defeating Bucknell (18-14, 5-2) with a 10-9 victory in the second overtime.

SPORTS | 04/20/2009

Tennis: Ivy title returns to Princeton for the first time since 2000

The women’s tennis team ensured that it will at least have a share of the Ivy League title this weekend after sweeping Cornell on Friday and Columbia on Sunday. The title is Princeton’s first since 2000 and its eighth since the inception of the Ivy League Tennis Championship in 1980.

SPORTS | 04/20/2009

Track & Field: Maag sets school record in grueling 5,000m race

Competing on a picture-perfect day in Princeton, the men and women’s track teams emerged successful from the Larry Ellis Invitational, with five Tigers qualifying for the NCAA Regionals.

SPORTS | 04/20/2009

Baseball: Hurlers shine in series win

In the first game of the doubleheader on April 12 against Columbia, junior starting pitcher David Hale was shellacked for eight runs. But the Tigers (16-16 overall, 8-8 Ivy League) fought back, winning the other game against the Lions on April 12 and sweeping the doubleheader against them the next day.

SPORTS | 04/20/2009

Men's Lacrosse: Tigers fall to No. 4 Cornell

Princeton barely had time to breathe after being anointed the No. 1 team in the nation last Monday following its victory over Harvard.

SPORTS | 04/19/2009

Dodgeball: For ‘H2Omega,’ dodgeball is a life choice

Leading up to the Dodgeball Tournament, The Daily Princetonian was granted an inside look at the men’s water polo team’s preparation and performance throughout the tournament. With the exception of junior utility Mark Zalewski, no team members were made aware of this profile so that their preparations were not altered in any way.

SPORTS | 04/19/2009

Dodgeball: If you can dodge a basketball ...

After six-and-a-half hours of play and the elimination of 102 teams, the women and men’s basketball team came away as the Dodgeball Tournament champion and the $1,000 prize, outlasting Tiger Inn in the finals.

SPORTS | 04/19/2009

Dodgeball: Basketball, Tiger Inn clash in finals

New blood dominated Saturday night in the fourth annual Dodgeball Tournament, as former champions and perennial favorites found themselves searching for answers after exiting early.

SPORTS | 04/19/2009

Women's Lacrosse: Seniors carry squad to win over Big Green

It wasn?t Senior Day for the No. 7 women?s lacrosse team when it played No. 14 Dartmouth (7-5 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) on Saturday.

SPORTS | 04/19/2009

Men's Volleyball: Princeton defeats George Mason 3-1 to end regular season with bang

With its spot in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association playoffs assured, the men?s volleyball team had only one objective in final regular-season game: to finish strong.

SPORTS | 04/19/2009

Crew: Lightweight men undefeated vs. Penn

This past weekend, the Princeton heavyweights hosted MIT and Harvard on Lake Carnegie. In the varsity race, Harvard was dominant from the start, but Princeton contended with MIT for second place.

SPORTS | 04/19/2009

Men's Lacrosse: Unbeatens to battle for Ivy’s top spot

No. 1 Princeton (10-1 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) and No. 5 Cornell (8-2, 4-0) will face off in Ithaca, N.Y., this weekend in a matchup between the last two unbeaten teams in Ancient Eight competition.

SPORTS | 04/16/2009

Softball: Tigers back in the swing of things

With two weekends remaining in the Ivy League regular season, the softball team finally looks like a defending champion

SPORTS | 04/16/2009

Baseball: Must-win games on the road vs. Penn

Princeton (13-14 overall, 5-7 Ivy League) heads to Philadelphia this weekend for a four-game series against Ivy League cellar-dweller Penn (11-19, 1-11).

SPORTS | 04/16/2009

Men's Volleyball: Princeton has high hopes for chances in postseason

The men’s volleyball team’s regular season draws to a close today at George Mason, but next Wednesday the team will begin play in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) playoffs. A cursory look at the EIVA standings reveals that, despite Princeton’s position near the bottom, its chances in the playoffs remain ripe.

SPORTS | 04/16/2009

Women's Lacrosse: Chance to rebound against Dartmouth

After suffering a 10-5 loss against No. 3 Penn on Wednesday evening in Philadelphia, the No. 4 women’s lacrosse team looks to bounce back in their match against Dartmouth on Saturday afternoon in Hanover, N.H.

SPORTS | 04/16/2009

Women's Water Polo: Southern Championships open with Bison

On Saturday, the women’s water polo team will have the opportunity to exact revenge on a familiar foe and to assert itself as a force in its division. Princeton (13-10 overall, 2-3 Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division) will travel to College Park, Md., to take on Bucknell (18-12, 5-1) in the opening round of the Southern Championships.

SPORTS | 04/16/2009

Dodgeball: Tourney thrives in fourth year

Every April for the past three years, the student body has been rocked by a campus-wide event, Princeton?s counterpart to the NCAA?s March Madness, if you will.Founded in its current form by Freddy Flaxman ?07 and John Boscia ?07 in 2006, the Dodgeball Tournament has exploded in popularity over the last three years.

SPORTS | 04/15/2009

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