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Pirates arrgh coming

The football team has already experienced a series of firsts this season ? from playing its first game at newly named Powers Field at Princeton Stadium to defending an Ivy League title for the first time under head coach Roger Hughes.Tomorrow, the Tigers (2-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) will have to be prepared for yet another new experience, as they host No.

NCAA doubles champ Anundsen joins coaching ranks

Less than a year ago, Sara Anundsen defeated the best of the best in the college tennis world, winning the NCAA doubles championship as a senior at the University of North Carolina.

McHugh seals victory in OT

Senior forward Kyle McHugh's second goal of the game came in the seventh minute of overtime, as the men's soccer team defeated Adelphi (0-8-2 overall) by a score of 4-3 last night at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium.

Tigers top Rutgers

The game-winning goal in Princeton's 5-1 win over Rutgers (8-4-1 overall) on Tuesday night will go into the books as an own goal, but to say that Rutgers scored on itself would be a gross injustice to the Tigers.

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.