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With upset of No. 12 Santa Clara, Princeton splits at Triton

In tournament competition, one starts to see whether a team will sink or swim.The No. 18 women's water polo team kept afloat this past weekend against some of the top water polo teams in the nation at the Triton Invitational in San Diego.

Quakers will feel the Tigers' pain

Whoa there, Princeton.Just take a deep breath.You see, the same thing seems to happen every year with us.When confronted with the sad realities about your basketball program, you throw a hissy fit.You try to say you're better than us, that Penn stinks and that we took your lunch money when you were little kids.Well, Princeton, what I should do with this column is tell you to get over yourselves right now.But no.

Women enter win column, men avoid first loss

As far as starting off on the right foot goes, the Tiger tennis players seem to be doing pretty well.

Sacrificing hoops for the greater good

So, you guys are probably gonna beat us tonight.We're 1-5 in the Ivies. We lost to Dartmouth Saturday night.

Princeton upsets Red Flash

West to East, ups and downs ? that's one way to describe how the men's volleyball team has been playing recently.After returning from the West Coast, the Tigers (2-4 overall, 1-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) took a weekend road trip to face two Pennsylvania teams, one ranked No.

Double-OT win marred by tight loss

After losing its first four Ivy League games, the men's basketball team hit the court with something to prove Friday night.

At HYPs, women win close meet while men rout Ivy rivals

One week ago, the swimming and diving teams set a high bar for Princeton athletics by sweeping both the men's and women's annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meets.

W. hoops crushed in road games

Basketball coaches constantly preach the importance of beginning games with second-half intensity, and this weekend the women's basketball team (10-11 overall, 4-3 Ivy League) found out the rough consequences of a flatfooted start.With the three best teams in the Ivy League playing one another, the weekend unfolded as a chance for any of the three to firmly establish itself atop the league standings, but cold shooting and early turnovers doomed the Tigers.

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Sklapsky secures shutout, Tigers split games

For the men's hockey team (10-12-3 overall, 7-9-2 Ivy League ), this season has been full of new players, new strategies and new problems.

Teams sweep Harvard for Ivy titles

On Sunday afternoon, droves of Princeton faithful filled the galleries of the Jadwin Gymnasium squash courts in anticipation of the men's and women's showdown with Harvard.While both the men's and women's teams, boasting identical undefeated records, were playing to claim the Ivy League championship, the women's team was also competing for the dual-match national championship.And both teams took full advantage of the opportunity.Beginning the afternoon, the first round of matches appeared ominous for the No.

Tigers remain in hunt for playoff home ice

During their hotly contested weekend games against Clarkson (16-13-3 overall, 8-10-2 ECAC Hockey) and St.

Title road runs through Dartmouth

Nearly one month ago, the women's basketball team (10-9 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) suffered a tough 70-66 loss at home to Cornell (8-11, 4-2). The game was only the team's third Ivy League matchup and the last before its three-week Intersession break.

Live blogging of the men's basketball weekend

Prince reporters begin live blogging of the men's basketball team's game against Harvard on Friday night at 7:20 p.m.

Ivy League tests loom for Princeton

Amateur skaters are out in droves, happily partaking of the ice on Carnegie Lake for the first time in years.

An Ivy showdown on Jadwin's C Floor

Both the men's and women's squash teams have enjoyed tremendous success this season, sporting a flawless combined record of 12-0.

Reeling Tigers return home

At 0-4 in the Ivy League, the men's basketball team is down ? but with 10 conference games yet to be played, it is anything but out.

Johnson GS '72 buys into NBA

Many of the prominent Princetonians in the sports world were once Tiger athletes themselves: Sacramento Kings executive Geoff Petrie '70 was a basketball standout, while U.S.

Top recruit Peterson decommits from Early Decision

Despite reports that Jeff Peterson ? one of the top recruits for the men's basketball team in the last decade ? has backed out of his early-decision commitment to Princeton, the University insists he will be joining the Tigers in the fall.Head coach Joe Scott '87 said that the high school star would join the team and the University as a member of the Class of 2011."He has not decommitted to Princeton," Scott said in an interview.

Tigers head to upstate New York

For every team, playing at home has its perks. The women's hockey team (13-10-2 overall, 11-6-1 ECAC Hockey) won't be playing at Baker Rink this weekend, but it does have the opportunity to gain enough momentum to move up to fourth in the league ? a position that would earn Princeton home-ice advantage in the first round of the league playoffs.The Tigers are currently ranked fifth in the ECAC ? just two standings-points out of fourth ? and will face Clarkson (15-12-3, 7-9-2) in Postdam, N.Y., and St.