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Snyder, Schauss hurl softball to title

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

Scott learns it's hard to come home again

The expectations placed on the 2004-05 men's basketball team were remarkably high, but they weren't unfounded ? not on paper, at least.Thanks to a unique combination of change and continuity, the Tigers appeared poised to breeze to an Ivy League title.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Women's volleyball in four-way tie for Ivy crown

The first time the women's volleyball team played Penn in 2004, the Tigers topped the Quakers 3-1 in their Ivy opener.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

After promising start, football sputters to .500

On a crisp afternoon in late October, the sea of orange and black-clad homecoming fans watching the football team battle Harvard at Princeton Stadium had reason to cheer.The 4-1 Tigers had jumped to 14-3 first quarter lead against the defending-Ivy champion Crimson.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Women's soccer struggles again in Miami

MIAMI ? Whether it was caused by fatigue, inexperience, missing teammates, poor weather, or simply the stars being improperly aligned, the women's soccer team (0-2 overall) was again held scoreless Sunday, this time in a 3-0 loss to the Miami Hurricanes (3-1).After falling to No.

SPORTS | 05/25/2005

Tigers Trounce Terps

Senior midfielder Elizabeth Pillion had missed the last three weeks of the regular season with a hamstring injury, but in her first game back yesterday afternoon at home, no one could tell.

SPORTS | 05/12/2005

Venable discusses future plans, draft

Recently, Daily Princetonian senior writer Clarke Smith sat down with senior basketball and baseball standout Will Venable.

SPORTS | 05/12/2005

Women's lacrosse knocked out

With a berth in the Final Four on the line, the women's lacrosse team needed to play a perfect game against No.

SPORTS | 05/12/2005

Mooney hired by Spiders

The Princeton style of offense is known for its backdoor cuts, but lately it's been producing more of a revolving door effect.Chris Mooney '94, who spent last season as the head coach at Air Force after serving four years as an assistant to current Tiger men's basketball coach Joe Scott '87, has accepted the head coaching position at the University of Richmond.

SPORTS | 05/12/2005

Page, Gerken to lead Tigers at Regionals

The men's golf team, seeded No. 26 out of 27 teams in the upcoming NCAA Regionals, is looking to use its underdog status to slip ahead of its opponents and prove skeptics wrong about its ability to compete at a national level.

SPORTS | 05/12/2005

Women's soccer fills holes with class of '09

With seven teams that made last year's NCAA Tournament scheduled to face the women's soccer team next season ? including the UCLA squad that defeated Princeton in the national semifinals ? head coach Julie Shackford will discover early on how her new Tigers compare to last year's unit.At the moment, she can only guess the impact of losing a stellar senior class that includes two-time Ivy League Player of the Year Esmeralda Negron.

SPORTS | 05/12/2005

NCAA seeding revealed May 15

An anxious Princeton softball team waits to hear its fate in the next few days as the NCAA Tournament bracket is revealed.

SPORTS | 05/12/2005

Women's open favored at Eastern Sprints

Princeton's men's and women's crews travel to different locations this Sunday for their respective Eastern Sprints regattas, but when all is said and done, they hope to end up in the same place ? atop all of their competitors.

SPORTS | 05/12/2005

Men's heavyweight, women's open, women's lightweight all take second at Eastern Sprints

Just 500 meters into the Eastern Sprints men's heavyweight grand final on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., on Sunday, it was clear the race would come down to two boats: Princeton and Harvard.Both crews had gone out extremely fast, and by the 1000-meter mark, the Tigers trailed the Crimson by half a boat length with the rest of the field languishing well behind.

SPORTS | 05/12/2005

Cocoziello named Rookie of the Year

Freshman defenseman Dan Cocoziello was honored as the Ivy League Rookie of the Year on Wednesday, the first time in history the award has gone to a defenseman.

SPORTS | 05/10/2005

Tigers end season in 12th place at NCAA Regionals

Though the women's golf team failed to advance out of the NCAA East Regionals to the NCAA Championships this weekend, the Tigers did improve on their finish from last season.

SPORTS | 05/10/2005

After disappointing season, Tierney looks ahead

For generations, Princetonians have risen to the highest levels of success imaginable in their chosen field ? and men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney is no exception.

SPORTS | 05/10/2005

Men finish fourth at Heps, women sixth

"As a team, Heps are what we look forward to," junior Cack Ferrell said. "It's the culminating meet for our team's season because it's the last time we will all be together."In the final team contest of the season, both the men's and women's track teams failed to send the seniors out in a manner befitting their high expectations.Held at Columbia's Wien Stadium this weekend, Heptagonals brought all of the Ivy League schools together.

SPORTS | 05/10/2005

Tigers sign three lefty middies

The men's lacrosse team may not have had the season it had hoped for this year, but with the combination of young players already on the roster and a strong incoming recruiting class, Princeton shouldn't take long to return to its usual winning ways.The Tigers bring in nine talented players in the recruiting class of 2009.

SPORTS | 05/10/2005

Tournament Time

It has often been said that familiarity breeds contempt, but for the women's lacrosse team, familiarity has bred respect.

SPORTS | 05/10/2005

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