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Tigers fail to finish Yale

It's not over until it's over. On Saturday, the women's lacrosse team faced this bitter lesson as the Tigers (4-4 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) found themselves on the wrong end of a 6-5 scoreline after conceding the winning goal to Yale (10-3, 3-1) with 10 seconds left.Lauren Taylor scored the vital goal for the Bulldogs, giving her 49 goals on the season to lead all of Division I.

Two more doubleheaders halved versus league foes

On a weekend that saw unusually brutal April weather knock out major league and college baseball games alike, the Tigers managed to evade the worst of the inclement weather and come away with a pair of wins for the second consecutive weekend."It's worked out well for us so far," junior pitcher Steven Miller said.

Princeton swept, then sweeps in homestand

The softball team bounced back from two Saturday losses to Harvard by sweeping Dartmouth yesterday in its second doubleheader of the weekend.

Men beat Ivy rivals on road

The men's tennis team (9-5 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) broke its three-match losing streak this weekend with two big road wins over Ivy League foes Brown and Yale.

Princeton jumps out to 4-0 lead and holds off late Syracuse surge

With a little less than nine minutes remaining in the men's lacrosse team's game against Syracuse on Saturday, Princeton fans and players were starting to get edgy.

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Tigers look to overcome losses from last season

Early spring weather in this and other Ivy League locales may be welcomed by jacket retailers, hot chocolate profiteers and snowman building enthusiasts, but it sure isn't winning any friends among Ivy League baseball players.Because of the long winter, Princeton and other Ivy schools are forced to squeeze an entire season's worth of games into just two months, usually playing back-to-back doubleheaders on weekends.The Tigers (6-13 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) will play their second of five consecutive four-game weekends beginning Saturday at Harvard (6-10, 2-2) and continuing Sunday home versus Dartmouth (4-13, 1-3). The weather in Hanover will prevent the Big Green from hosting the Tigers.For those keeping score at home, that is 36 innings in scarcely more than 24 hours.

Schaus may sit out as Tigers take on Ivy rivals

When it rains, it pours. This adage doesn't just describe Princeton's schizophrenic weather ? it can also be applied to the softball team, whose streakiness this season has been well-documented.Princeton (13-18 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) comes into this weekend on a four-game win streak ? an impressive run that began with two wins against Brown (7-15, 1-3) last Saturday.

Walters '67 will miss 'love letters' from Syracuse fans

Little work is accomplished the Monday after Selection Sunday, when American workers pick upsets instead of stocks and substitute brackets for spreadsheets.

Yale a new league force

The women's lacrosse matchup this weekend could be like a scene from Star Wars, with upcoming Yale playing the part of Luke Skywalker and veteran Princeton taking the role of Darth Vader.The No.

Traditional powers to duke it out

It isn't the oldest, most famous or most important rivalry in college sports, it is the most thrilling one in modern collegiate lacrosse.When No.

Brett Westgarth goes to AHL

Though not a single Tiger scored three goals in a game this season, the men's hockey team completed a collective hat trick when the American Hockey League's Syracuse Crunch signed senior defenseman Brett Westgarth.Westgarth was the third Princeton player to sign with an AHL club in the three weeks since Princeton was eliminated from the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Hockey League playoffs.The Crunch, the top minor-league affiliate of the National Hockey League's Columbus Blue Jackets, announced Tuesday that Westgarth signed an amateur tryout deal with the club.

Five-game win reverses losing streak

Coming off their first back-to-back losses in division play of the season, the Tigers hit the court looking for a rebound.Five games later, they got it.The men's volleyball team showed its strengths, outhitting the competition .218 to .156 and coming through at the end of games three and five to secure the victory on the road against New York University.After putting up an impressive home stand record of 5-2, Princeton (9-8 overall, 6-5 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tait Division) was still looking to find its groove on the road.

For Ohlendorf, a field is the dream

Baseball head coach Scott Bradley has told the story hundreds of times, but even five years later, he cannot help but crack a smile.The year is 2002 and although he is only a freshman, Ross Ohlendorf '05 is already a star.

Alums pursue peace via hoops

Playing for rival Lehigh in the mid-90s, Sean Tuohey suffered much at the hands of the men's basketball team.

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A Royal revival not as far away as you think

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."? Rogers HornsbyThe battering ram of winter has finally been repelled, and it can only mean one thing: the start of baseball season.

Aboff bests field at Hoya Women's Invitational

The women's golf team dominated the competition this weekend at the Hoya Women's Invitational, while the men turned in a respectable performance at the Lacrosse Homes Collegiate Invitational, finishing 10th out of 21 teams.The women headed south to play in a tournament hosted by Georgetown at the Rasberry Falls Golf Club in Leesburg, Va.

Tigers lead U.S. in Kenya

As every Princeton cross country runner knows, New Jersey's humidity is stifling in the summer. At the World Cross Country Championships two weekends ago, Mike Spence '00 and Cack Ferrell '06 discovered that it's nothing compared to Kenya's in March."We get some humid weather in New Jersey in the summer," Spence said, "but I'd never felt anything like this.

Long-stick middies bolster defense

Teddy Roosevelt once said, "Speak softly, and carry a big stick." True, the former president did not have men's lacrosse in mind when making this statement about American foreign policy, but his famous adage accurately describes an important but often-overlooked player on the lacrosse field ? the long-stick midfielder.According to NCAA men's lacrosse regulations, only four players are allowed to use long sticks, which range from 52 to 72 inches in length, at any given time.