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The Daily Princetonian

Women's golf: Aboff, Tigers destroy ECAC competition

Senior co-captain Susannah Aboff added another individual title to her name, and the women?s golf team came back in a big way after an undistinguished showing at the Johnie Imes Invitational, winning the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championship by an impressive 16-shot margin at the Kiskiack Golf Club in Williamsburg, Va.Aboff has been a consistent performer this season, having notched the top finish among the Tigers in each of their four tournaments this season.

SPORTS | 10/06/2008

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Cross country: Princeton women second at Notre Dame meet

Spectators will almost never see a solitary Princeton cross-country runner. The women?s cross country team prides itself on pack-running, a strategy that helped it battle through a tough field of 186 runners at the Notre Dame Invitational to claim second place overall.The men?s cross country team, meanwhile, finished 11th overall, with senior Michael Maag posting the eighth-best individual time.On the women?s side, the race featured a deep field that included a dozen nationally ranked teams.

SPORTS | 10/06/2008

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Football: Sometimes winning means wanting it more

?This game is there for the taking. How bad do you want it??That was the question posed to the football team?s offense by head coach Roger Hughes as it took the field down three points with 10 minutes left in Saturday?s 27-24 victory over Columbia.After a touchdown proved that the offense ?wanted it,? the defense made its stand, forcing a late fumble to preserve the three-point victory.

SPORTS | 10/05/2008

The Daily Princetonian

Women's soccer: Peteraf puts one past Peak

Just call them the cardiac cats. For the third-0straight game, the women?s soccer team (6-1-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) used a combination of stingy defense, lights-out goalkeeping and offensive opportunism to pull out a hard-fought 1-0 victory against a talented opponent.?It?s a heart attack for me, but they?re finding ways [to win],? head coach Julie Shackford said.

SPORTS | 10/05/2008

The Daily Princetonian

Pont, Peteraf take lead vs. Big Green

Perhaps an extra week of rest did the women?s soccer team some good. Quickly shaking off the rust after their road trip to Texas was cancelled due to Hurricane Ike, the Tigers (5-1-1 overall, 1-0-0 Ivy League) have recorded four wins and one tie in their last five games.Considering that Princeton has won its last two games 1-0, the Tigers can be forgiven for thinking a magical season is in the making.

SPORTS | 10/02/2008

The Daily Princetonian

Tigers take shots, come up empty

Against No. 16 Loyola on Wednesday night, the men?s soccer team ran into the same problem it has struggled with through the first half of the season: great opportunities, no goals.The Greyhounds (7-0-1 overall) defeated the Tigers, 1-0, in a rainy, evenly contested battle.

SPORTS | 10/02/2008