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Of Princeton?s many nationally competitive teams, fans ought not forget the Table Tennis Club, which again neared the national title this year.Junior Adam Hugh led Princeton to the finals of the team competition, in which the Tigers fell to Texas Wesleyan for the third consecutive year.

SPORTS | 04/15/2008

Future on display in annual Spring Game

Future on display in annual Spring Game

After three months of early-morning conditioning and three weeks of practice, the football team finally took to Powers Field at Princeton Stadium on Saturday afternoon for its annual Spring Game.

SPORTS | 04/15/2008

Tigers host Quakers in battle of league unbeatens

Since 1991, the women?s lacrosse team has not lost an Ivy League match at home to any team besides Dartmouth.

SPORTS | 04/15/2008

No. 2-seed sewn up with win over G.W.

The women?s water polo team had a tough weekend on the road, splitting its last two games of the regular season by clinching an important 10-6 win against George Washington but falling 12-9 to a strong Maryland squad.

SPORTS | 04/14/2008

Trio of Tigers shares 11th at Princeton Invitational

All good things must come to an end, or at least they did for the women?s golf team. After sweeping the 14-team Hoya Invitational, the Tigers seemed poised to be major players during the Ivy League Championship.

SPORTS | 04/14/2008

Unfamiliar waters are undaunting

No Princeton team is more deserving of complementary frequent-flyer miles than the women?s crew.

SPORTS | 04/14/2008

Blowouts balanced by losses

The baseball team continued to live and die by the bat in its four-game series against Columbia this weekend, exploding for 23 runs in a doubleheader sweep on Saturday before cooling off at the plate in a pair of Sunday losses.

SPORTS | 04/14/2008

Childs Cup still in Tiger hands

There was no child?s play at the misleadingly named Childs Cup. In a riveting race, the men?s heavyweight crew ? which won last year by a margin of more than 10 seconds ? beat Columbia and Penn on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia to defend its prize.

SPORTS | 04/14/2008

Small ball enough to win four

Mike Scioscia, manager of the 2002 World Series champion Anaheim Angels, espoused a baseball rationale known as ?small ball.? The tactic emphasizes getting runners on base, moving them over and driving them in, one step at a time ? more commonly ?get?em on, get?em over, get?em in.? The softball team has benefited from many home runs this season, but the small-ball approach and an emphasis on each play are the reasons for its 12-0 Ivy League start.Princeton (13-19 overall, 12-0 Ivy League) completed a home-and-home doubleheader series against the Columbia Lions (12-23, 3-9), sweeping all four games.

SPORTS | 04/14/2008

Stankievech wins Lowe's recognition

The silverware for the men?s hockey team just keeps piling up.Senior forward Landis Stankievech was recently named winner of the 2008 Lowe?s Senior CLASS Award, adding to his impressive stable of individual awards.

SPORTS | 04/13/2008

Women earn tough wins, injury-racked men swept

The men?s and women?s tennis teams had colorful weekends as they both faced off against the Dartmouth Big Green and the Harvard Crimson.

SPORTS | 04/13/2008

Field athletes take starring role in women's win

Personal record. Career best. Phrases such as these lead many to think of track as an individual sport.

SPORTS | 04/13/2008

Princeton hits stride after half

After a slow and steady first half, the women?s lacrosse team used a second-half streak to turn a 9-8 contest into an 18-9 landslide.

SPORTS | 04/13/2008

Rain-soaked Tigers extinguish Crimson

While the men's lacrosse team typically relies on big saves and big shots to win close contests, it also got help from a mid-afternoon downpour en route to a key Ivy League victory.

SPORTS | 04/13/2008

Unfriendly environment proves to be too much

The highlight of this season was probably the men?s volleyball team?s March 1 home win over No.

SPORTS | 04/13/2008

9-0 start at risk vs. Crimson

After preserving its winning streak in a close match against Yale last weekend, the women?s lacrosse team will be on the road tomorrow to face Harvard in Cambridge, Mass.

SPORTS | 04/10/2008

Princeton to face division's top team

Fresh off a 7-4 loss to Monmouth on Tuesday, the baseball team will travel to Columbia this weekend for what are undoubtedly the most important four games of its season to date.The Lions (10-18 overall, 6-2 Ivy League) currently sit in first place in the Ivy League?s Gehrig Division, the spot that the Tigers must reach to accomplish their goal of an Ivy League title.

SPORTS | 04/10/2008

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