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No Ivy, no challenge at tourney

Three weekends, three tournaments, three titles. As the women's volleyball team returned to campus Saturday night, they brought with them a 9-0 record and the Red Flash Invitational MVP sophomore middle blocker Lindsay Ensign.Looking forward to the beginning of Ivy League play next Saturday at Penn, the Tigers could not have asked for a more successful run through the pre-season tournaments.Coming into the season, Princeton was unsure about what this season would hold.

Tigers sunk by Navy in semis, grab third

Navy did it again. In the semifinals of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship, the men's water polo team was sunk by a determined Midshipmen squad (9-4 overall, 1-0 ECAC). Despite being up two goals at half, the No.

Offense sharp despite poor red-zone attack

If the bane of every football team's existence is to finish drives for points in the red zone, the Tigers found a unique way around it: avoid the red zone almost entirely.Thanks to the poise and quality of an offense that spread the ball around, Princeton earned the team's second win of the season in as many games.In the end, it was solid, fluid, connected play by virtually every part of the team's maturing offense that gave the Tigers a devastating possession advantage and with it, a well-played victory."Obviously it's nice when we control the ball because it keeps our defense off the field," head coach Roger Hughes said.

Tigers fire blanks in season opener

Sprint football's wideouts were shut out by Cornell (2-0 overall) Friday night, as the Tigers lost, 29-0.With Princeton's pass-oriented offense, one stat is the most telling: The team completed just 16 of 54 passes for 128 yards and three interceptions."The [passing] percentage was so low because the quarterback and receivers were not on the same page," head coach Thomas Cocuzza said.

Men, women turn in strong performances

The women's cross country team raced to the top this past weekend, leaving both Harvard and Yale in the dust at the annual H-Y-P meet.

Second-half effort stalls in final minutes

After an impressive start to the season, the men's soccer team opened the Ivy League portion of its schedule with a disappointing loss to Yale (4-3-1 overall, 1-0-0 Ivy League). Despite brilliant play by senior goaltender Justin Oppenheimer, Princeton (3-3-2, 0-1-0) fell to the Bulldogs by a score of 3-2 in Saturday afternoon's match in New Haven, Ct.

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Terrell airs it out for 3 TDs

Imagine fighting a boxer who ? no matter how hard you hit him ? always hits back, harder.

Deja vu for Princeton, reliving last year's loss

Don't remind anyone on the women's soccer team that history has a way of repeating itself. Saturday night in New Haven, Ivy rival Yale (4-3-1 overall, 1-0-0 Ivy League) cut the Orange and Black down by a score of 2-1 in the teams' Ivy opener.

Cloutier hopes to repeat at Princeton Invite

The women's golf team is looking to defend its home turf this weekend as it hosts the Princeton Invitational Golf Tournament at the Springdale Golf Club.

Restart goals crucial to team's success

Everything went according to plan ? or so it seemed to those watching on the sideline. After the corner kick entered play during the men's soccer team's game against St.

No. 3 ODU enters Tigers' lair

For the field hockey team, this weekend could be the most important one of the season. On Saturday, the team will go head-to-head with nationally-ranked powerhouse Old Dominion University, and on Sunday its undefeated Ivy League record will be put to the test against Columbia.On Saturday, Princeton (3-2 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) faces the Lady Monarchs (7-1), ranked No.

Princeton takes on Lafayette

Against Lehigh (1-2 overall) last weekend, the football team fought off an opponent that came out strong to earn a season-opening win.But if this weekend's opponent, Lafayette (2-1), comes out with barrels blazing, it remains to be seen whether Princeton (1-0) can hold up to what might be withering fire when the teams clash at Princeton Stadium tomorrow at 6 p.m."If they're coming in with a sixshooter they've got eight bullets in the chamber," head coach Roger Hughes said of Lafayette's capable football team.Though the Tigers managed to recover from a 10-0 first-half deficit last weekend, the Leopards might not give Princeton that chance.

Shooting for title at ECAC tournament

Armed with a solid start to its season, the men's water polo team (7-3 overall, 1-0 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference) dives into this weekend's ECAC Tournament hoping to emerge victorious.Though it is still early in the Tigers' season, the ECAC tournament is important for Princeton, because it is their first opportunity to play multiple conference opponents, whom they will likely confront later in the season.

The Princetonians of summer

This ragtag lot may seem like they stepped straight out of a failed script for a conventionally inspiring sports movie, but rest assured that no one made this team up.The semiprofessional league in which sophomore pitcher Brad Gemberling played this summer featured graduated high-schoolers with fresh memories of senior prom, two grizzled veterans in their 40s ? one of whom has played for six different major league teams in his career ? and college kids from places as varied as Princeton, Villanova and Clemson.

The future of American soccer

The U.S. soccer team played its first World Cup game this summer against the Czech Republic. I was in New York City at the time, and I took in as much of the game as possible during my lunch break.

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Overtime Heartbreak

For 98 minutes, both the men's soccer team and their opponents from Rutgers produced little offense.

Sophomore is 'Ironwoman' in 140 mi. triathlon

The welcome banquet two days before the 2006 Lake Placid Ironman Triathlon was an environment unlike anything sophomore Laura Adams had ever experienced.

Matheson's return sparks rout

At the 13-minute, five-second mark in the first half of the women's soccer game against Lehigh, junior captain Diana Matheson sat on the field with her legs extended in front of her, collecting herself for what was to come.