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Reeling Tigers look for relief against Lions

Reeling Tigers look for relief against Lions

After what feels like weeks of rain, the men's soccer team (0-2-0 Ivy League, 3-5-1 overall) hopes that Saturday will bring Princeton some relief ? both literally and figuratively.This weekend, the Tigers will take on Columbia (0-2-0, 3-8-0) under the lights at Lourie Love Field.

SPORTS | 10/13/2005

Reeling Tigers look for relief against Lions

After what feels like weeks of rain, the men's soccer team (0-2-0 Ivy League, 3-5-1 overall) hopes that Saturday will bring Princeton some relief ? both literally and figuratively.This weekend, the Tigers will take on Columbia (0-2-0, 3-8-0) under the lights at Lourie Love Field.

SPORTS | 10/13/2005

Tigers fall in final minute

After 89 minutes, the women's soccer team seemed headed for overtime against Rutgers on Tuesday night.

SPORTS | 10/12/2005

Harriers employ variety of workout strategies to fine-tune skills

Over the summer, most sports teams condition their players, focusing on the physical fitness aspect of athletics.

SPORTS | 10/12/2005

Need for speed

Ask senior defensive back Jay McCareins who is among the top five or six fastest guys on the football team are, and he'll give you a definite response."Me," he says.But a few others might beg to differ.Senior wide receiver Greg Fields has recorded the fastest 40-yard dash time, while junior wide receiver Brian Shields and sophomore quarterback Bill Foran also can each claim a set of wheels.

SPORTS | 10/12/2005

Maryland scores five goals in second half to topple Tigers

Sophomore midfielder Paige Schmidt's first-half goal off a penalty corner was the only highlight for Princeton (5-7 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) in its 5-1 loss to No.

SPORTS | 10/12/2005

Barlow moves from field to coaching box

After graduating from Princeton, Jim Barlow '91 wasn't quite sure what to do. So he accepted a job as a high school history teacher ? at least, that's what he thought he would be teaching.

SPORTS | 10/11/2005

Trimble wins singles and doubles titles

For junior Laura Trimble and the women's tennis team, this weekend's National Tennis Center Invitational in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.

SPORTS | 10/11/2005

Losing hurts, but our hopes and dreams sustain us

Moments after the Yankees' season expired late Monday night, senior Christine O'Neill could barely speak."I don't know," she kept muttering, slowly gathering her belongings and turning away from the big-screen TV in Frist Campus Center where a few dozen diehard Yankees fans had watched their team's season come to a most inglorious end.

SPORTS | 10/11/2005

Tigers trump Bison

The men's water polo team dropped the hammer on their unsuspecting opponents from Bucknell last night.

SPORTS | 10/11/2005

Libero keeps it defensive

The true American sports buff can easily identify the role of the designated hitter in baseball, explain the value of the option pass in football or describe the great basketball staples, the pick-and-roll and the pick-and-pop.

SPORTS | 10/11/2005

After winning Illinois Open, Welander returns for sophomore season

As sophomore Annika Welander stepped up to the tee on the 18th hole one stroke ahead of LPGA veteran Allison Finney on July 23, she could taste victory.

SPORTS | 10/11/2005

Women's soccer visits Rutgers tonight

After a heartbreaking loss to Brown that dimmed its fading hopes of reclaiming the Ivy League title, the women's soccer team will try to bounce back in a midweek tuneup on the road against Rutgers.The Tigers (3-5-2 overall, 1-2-0 Ivy League) will be playing for pride against the instate rival Scarlet Knights (4-9-1, 1-6 Big East) to determine the hegemony of central New Jersey soccer.In the middle of their respective league seasons, the game has little longterm significance for either squad.

SPORTS | 10/10/2005

Clayton brings the noise

Over the course of his four years at Penn State and six seasons in the NFL, Stan Clayton grew accustomed to playing football at the biggest venues, in front of crowds loud enough to rupture eardrums.These days, as the offensive line coach for the Princeton football team, Clayton finds himself in considerably quainter surroundings.But pay attention to him on the sideline when the Tigers are in a crucial situation.

SPORTS | 10/10/2005

Tigers upset No. 9 LMU

Late Sunday night, the men's varsity water polo team found itself on a red-eye, cross-country flight back to Princeton, only to arrive Monday morning in time for another week of classes.

SPORTS | 10/10/2005

Princeton pounds Pride goal but still falls, 3-0

Every corner is a goal, or so the saying goes. The women's field hockey team only wished that was true Friday night, when Princeton (5-6 overall) took on Hofstra (8-3) at Class of 1952 Stadium.Statistically, the Tigers should have had this game in the bag.

SPORTS | 10/10/2005

Despite rain and mud, harriers take first at Rider Invitational

When the pistol fired to begin the Rider Invitational, over three inches of rain had already fallen and there was no end in sight.

SPORTS | 10/09/2005

Bears drop men's soccer to 0-2 in Ivy

Just a week and a half ago, the men's soccer team looked poised to charge into the Ivy League season.

SPORTS | 10/09/2005

Raiders rain on Tigers' parade

Defense wins championships. Offense puts fans in the seats. But what does special teams do?The least-appreciated of football's three dimensions proved its importance Saturday afternoon at Princeton Stadium, as a pair of special teams miscues in the game's first three minutes doomed the football team to a 16-10 defeat at the hands of Colgate.The Tigers (3-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) let Geoff Bean return the opening kickoff 60 yards for the Raiders (3-2), then fell victim to a 1-yard Jordan Scott touchdown run three plays later.Colgate missed the extra point, but senior kick-returner Jay McCareins gave the ball right back when he was stripped on the ensuing kickoff.

SPORTS | 10/09/2005

Brown stuns women's soccer in Providence

Sometimes, the odds just don't go your way. That's what women's soccer (3-5-2 overall, 1-2-0 Ivy League) must be telling itself after Saturday's 2-1 loss to Brown (5-7-0, 1-2-0) that landed it in the cellar of the Ivy League.Despite the fact that the Tigers outshot the Bears, 22-7, the loss marked the first time Princeton has lost to Brown since the 1997 season.Despite peppering Bears goalkeeper Hilary Wilson with shots all day long, the only ball that slipped through was from freshman forward Aarti Jain.

SPORTS | 10/09/2005

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