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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.

Inside the Mets and Yanks beat

NEW YORK, N.Y. - By the third or fourth time I had walked into the Yankee Stadium clubhouse this summer, I figured I had a comfort zone pretty much carved out.It's not like I was talking nightlife with Derek Jeter, helping Mike Mussina with his crossword puzzle or quizzing Hideki Matsui's translator about his preferences in Japanese rap music, but I knew what my job was and I was starting to get a sense of how best to get it done.As the first-ever sports intern at "Metro" newspaper ? a free New York City commuter daily ? I was essentially employee No.

Looking to end the slump, seeking answers for lack of success

Maybe you've heard of varsity sprint football. You might have cracked a joke about how Princeton lost to Navy 98-0 last year.

World Cup showed ugly side of soccer

As almost anyone not living under a rock for the past few months knows, this summer saw the return of the world's most popular sporting event, the World Cup, in Germany.

I-A vs I-AA: Divisions explained

The setting: your couch, a few days past Christmas Day. Bowls of queso, salsa and chips rest on your coffee table.

Swimming with the [jelly]fishes

The Neuse River near Camp Sea Gull in North Carolina is about three miles wide, brackish, downriver from hog farms and full of jellyfish.

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M. water polo goes 2-2 at NorCal

The members of the men's water polo team did themselves proud during their sole trip of the season to a state that two-thirds of the team call home: California.The No.

Dear Daily Princetonian:

Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of postcards that Daily Princetonian sports staff writers wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.