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Women's hockey topped in first round of ECACHL playoffs

Women's hockey topped in first round of ECACHL playoffs

Good teams win all the games they should, but great teams win ones they should not. This saying held true all season for the women's hockey team which ended its season sooner than it hoped to when the Tigers were swept out of the East Coast Athletic Conference Hockey League (ECACHL) quarterfinals by Yale.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Men's soccer loses season opener on late goal

For 89 seconds, it appeared the men's soccer team would need more than 90 minutes to decide its season opener Friday night at Lourie-Love field.After giving up a goal just before halftime, Princeton had spent the entire second relentlessly attacking the Loyola goal.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Three boats second at Easterns

Just 500 meters into the Eastern Sprints men's heavyweight grand final on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., on May 15, it was clear the race would come down to two boats: Princeton and Harvard.Both crews had gone out extremely fast, and by the 1,000-meter mark, the Tigers trailed the Crimson by half a boat length with the rest of the field well behind.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Behind steady Sabbatini, men's water polo earns trip to Final Four

On Nov. 14, in Lewisburg, Pa., senior goaltender Peter Sabbatini refused to let the men's water polo team lose.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Young Tigers struggle to adapt to life after Boyle

Johns Hopkins, Virginia, Syracuse ? three of the best teams in all of college men's lacrosse.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Men's, women's tennis both middle of the pack in Ivy League

In a league stacked with talent, Princeton's tennis teams found themselves earning narrow victories and facing tough competition from their Ivy opponents.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Fencing eighth at NCAAs

The fencing team finished eighth at the 2005 NCAA fencing championships. The men's and women's squads combined to total 77 points, 60 points behind Ivy League rival Columbia, which finished in fifth, and 96 points behind national champion Notre Dame.The Tigers earned the bulk of their points in the epee.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Negron leads women's soccer on magical run to Final Four

On the cold and windy evening of Nov. 26, the women's soccer team did the unthinkable on Lourie-Love Field.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Men's soccer's up-and-down season good for second place in Ivy

The men's soccer team went through its season like a sputtering rollercoaster, earning a breathtaking win one day only to stagnate offensively the next, resulting in a steep nosedive.When it was all over, the Tigers (8-5-4 overall, 3-2-2 Ivy League) were far from the worst team in the league, yet the Ivy crown would elude their grasp.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

El-Halaby wins third individual national title as men's squash finishes third in nation

By the end of his junior season, calling Yasser El-Halaby the Michael Jordan of college squash might be excessively complimentary ? to Michael Jordan.For a third consecutive year, the soft-spoken Cairo, Egypt native dominated his competition with remarkable ease, destroying Yale's Julian Illingworth, 9-6, 9-2, 9-1 in early March to become the first male to ever win three individual national titles in his first three seasons.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Quakers end field hockey's decade of Ivy dominance

For ten straight years, from 1994 to 2003, the outcome had been as certain as death and taxes ? at the end of every Ivy League field hockey season, Princeton sat atop the standings.But on Nov.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Women's lacrosse felled in NCAA quarters

When the women's lacrosse team took the turf in Evanston, Ill., on May 15 to face Northwestern in the NCAA tournament quarterfinals, the Tigers (13-5 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) found themselves playing an unfamiliar role: underdog.After reaching the Final Four for five consecutive years and winning national championships in 2002 and 2003, this year's Princeton squad was younger, more inexperienced and, ultimately, not quite as good."Expectations are always very high," head coach Chris Sailer said.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Gadowsky brings progress to men's hockey in first year at helm

The men's hockey program entered the 2004-05 season with a drastically altered image. Princeton sported a newly refurbished home ice and a brand new head coach, Guy Gadowsky.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Butler reaches NCAAs as young wrestling team struggles

Coming off a 2003-04 campaign in which the team won only a single meet, the wrestling program made positive strides in 04-05, earning victories in five meets.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Sprint football's losing streak reaches record 35 games

Bolstered by the strongest corps of returning players and veteran leadership in recent memory, the sprint football team reasonably hoped to accomplish something the Tigers haven't done in a while ? win a game.In spite of much improved play, however, Princeton (0-6 overall) continued to be outmatched by the four other schools that compete in the Collegiate Sprint Football League.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Men's, women's golf both repeat as Ivy League champs

For the second year in a row, Princeton proved to be the preeminent golf program in the Ivy League as both the men's and women's squads repeated as Ancient Eight champions.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Baseball fails to claim 10th straight Gehrig crown

After winning nine straight Lou Gehrig Division titles from 1996-2004, the baseball team has established itself as the Yankees of the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Women's soccer falls to UCLA in season opener

MIAMI ? Playing under threatening skies, the No. 21 nationally ranked women's soccer team (0-1) fell in its season opener against No.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Women's water polo nabs fourth at CWPA Easterns

After dominating regular season play in the College Water Polo Association's Southern Division and acquitting themselves well against national-caliber competition, the women's water polo entered the CWPA Eastern tournament with high expectations.But after the Tigers notched a 10-6 first-round victory over Brown, Michigan ran over Princeton (27-9 overall) with five straight first quarter goals en route to an 8-3 semifinal victory.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Snyder, Schauss hurl softball to title

Thanks to savvy scheduling prior to the season and stellar play throughout it, the Ivy League champion softball team (36-20 overall, 12-2 Ivy League) was able to close out the year in a situation identical to how it opened play ? as an underdog battling some of the nation's toughest competition.Princeton's season ended on May 21 in Tucson, Ariz., with a 6-3 loss to Oklahoma State in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament regionals, but only after the Tigers had downed Lehigh, 3-1, earlier in the day for their first regional-round win since 1996.The tournament appearance thus proved to be the final success in a season that was full of them for the Tigers.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

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