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Ivy season equals new slate for Tigers

A 2-6-1 overall start does not typically inspire confidence and optimism in a team. Yet, the 2007 men's soccer team, led by head coach Jim Barlow '91, appears to be a rare breed ? the type of team that can put losses and disappointments behind it, focusing instead upon the games to come and what it hopes will be a brighter future.Despite coming off a 1-5-1 league season, the Tigers have high hopes for the 2007 campaign.

National dig leader McReynolds returns

­­The women's volleyball team will be welcoming back a familiar face this year. Senior libero Jenny McReynolds, who led the nation in digs per game her junior year, returns to the team after a year away from Princeton.

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Princeton win streak climbs to seven over weekend

Another weekend, another two wins for the women's volleyball team.The Tigers (9-3 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) opened up a six-game home stand last weekend with two wins.

Frey is best in U.S. at Under-23 trials

While his classmates were gearing up for another school year over the summer, junior Nick Frey was celebrating his first place finish at the Under-23 National Time Trial by training for the Under-23 World Time Trials in Germany.Frey qualified for Worlds by taking the top spot on the podium at Nationals on July 13.

Another tourney, another win

It's lonely at the top, and the women's golf team knows it. For the second weekend in a row, the Tigers claimed a team victory, this time at Penn State University's Blue Course during the three-round Nittany Lion Invitational.

When it comes to tennis, the kids aren't alright

Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of postcards that Daily Princetonian sports staff writers wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.I hear the distinct sound of candy wrappers coming from the pockets of my 11-year-old doubles partner as he reaches to pull out a ball.Yup, it's just another day at the office.Last summer, for the second year in a row, I taught tennis at Camp Sea Gull on the coast of North Carolina.

Injuries to force Tigers to forfeit

Yesterday afternoon the sprint football team and the Department of Athletics announced that Princeton will forfeit its upcoming game against Army on Friday.

QB breaks arm in loss to Quakers

In a sprint football game with 67 total points and 738 yards in total offense, the most important play of the game for the Tigers was undoubtedly a seemingly insignificant running play late in the first half that picked up 14 yards and a first down for the Penn Quakers.On that play, senior quarterback/defensive back/punter Alex Kandabarow was pulling down Penn running back Max Greenky from behind when he got tangled with a teammate and landed on his right arm, fracturing it."I made a tackle, and I don't really remember what happened, but I hit the ground, and I felt my arm snap, and I knew it was broken," Kandabarow said.The play on which Princeton scored its only points of the game might have been bigger, of course.

Nittany Lions overwhelm men in ECAC title match

Barely two weeks after Roger Federer was crowned with his 12th grand slam title, the courts of Flushing Meadows came alive once again on Monday as the third-seeded Tigers took on the top-seeded Penn State Nittany Lions in the final of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) tournament.Princeton breezed into the finals having forfeited just five of 27 total matches in the first three rounds of the tournament, but Penn State, ranked first in the region, proved too much for the Tigers and ground its way to a 5-2 victory.Competition started on Friday as the Tigers took on the No.

Tigers place fourth at ECAC Championships

The Princeton men's water polo team fought hard this weekend and came home with a well-earned fourth place finish at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship (ECAC) at Bucknell.The No.

Shutout leads to first win

"It's been a long time coming."After the men's soccer team (1-6-1 overall, 0-0-0 Ivy League) captured its first victory of the season on Sunday night against Fairleigh Dickinson (2-5-1), both senior captain forward Kyle McHugh and head coach Jim Barlow noted how long they'd been waiting for that win.

Ivy amateur rule a relic of a bygone era

Last Thursday's article, "Ivy League Denies Olympian Eligibility," sparked controversy throughout the Princeton campus and the larger sports community as the Ivy League, citing its eligibility standards, denied freshman Olympic speed skater Joey Cheek the right to play sprint football for Princeton this fall.Many people failed to realize, however, that the Ivy League's verdict was merely the application of clear regulations which have served as the bastion of Ivy League athletics since the formation of the league in 1954.As a sports fan and a member of the Princeton community, I too wish Cheek had been allowed to play.

Women beat out national powerhouses in big win

What a difference a year can make.A year ago at Lehigh, the cross country teams posted impressive results, with the women edging Wisconsin by one point for the win, while the men came in eighth.

Princeton victorious in league opener

If history is any indication of how the present will unfold, the women's soccer team is sitting pretty right now.

Despite turnovers, Foran's bold plays and Mroz's poise get it done

There are worse people to imitate than Randy Moss ? at least on a football field. The problem with trying to do what Moss does, however, is that his results are either incredible or disastrous.During the football team's wild 42-32 home win against Columbia on Saturday, senior quarterback Bill Foran briefly channeled the spirit of the controversial but spectacular New England wide receiver and transformed a busted play into a brilliant one.Facing third and seven against the Lions, Foran rushed four yards before the defense swarmed around him.

Late goal dooms Ivy win streak

Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006: The field hockey team steamrolls Cornell, 6-0, as then-sophomore defender Holly McGarvie ties a Princeton record for points in a game with four goals and an assist for a total of nine points.

Big plays take the day

If the football team learned one thing Saturday, it was that it should never let down its guard, even against a perennial Ivy League doormat like Columbia.As the second quarter began to wind down, Princeton (2-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) was up 21-3 and feeling relaxed.

Lions are up first on Repeat Rd.

Columbia is no Harvard. Columbia is no Yale. And we're not just talking about U.S. News and World Report college rankings.Princeton's rivalry with Columbia isn't as heated as that with the Crimson or the Bulldogs, and an outcome against the Lions has no bearing on the possibility of a bonfire, but the football team isn't underestimating the importance of its first Ivy League test this Saturday against Columbia."A league game is a league game," head coach Roger Hughes said.