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Princeton looks to cushion Gehrig lead

Princeton looks to cushion Gehrig lead

This weekend will be an important one for the baseball team, as the Tigers (13-18 overall, 7-5 Ivy League) look to take advantage of a four-game homestand against Ivy opponent Columbia (4-29, 2-14) and cushion their lead in the Lou Gehrig division.Penn (11-22, 7-9) will be the main competition for Princeton, as the Quakers currently sit in second place.

SPORTS | 04/21/2005

Classes of '07, '08 carry on tradition

Everyone was exhausted. Even Tuesday evening's emcee could do little to fuel the crowd for cane wrestling ? the marquee event at Cane Spree, a century and a half-old-annual tradition.After the freshmen and sophomores went head-to-head in tennis, field hockey, soccer, ultimate Frisbee, volleyball and several other sports, the competitors were completely worn out.But a few had saved themselves for the main event.

SPORTS | 04/20/2005

Snap Decision: Shoot or Pass?

Every time a man in front of the crease catches a quick feed and redirects it into the back of the net, the sport of lacrosse reaffirms its claim to be the fastest sport on two feet.

SPORTS | 04/20/2005

Coxswains critical for crew success

Sophomore Jason Tipold's high school dream was to be a basketball star. But at five foot, one inch ? an entire foot shorter than most of the players at his high school ? he never realized his aspirations.

SPORTS | 04/20/2005

Freshman focuses on details

She would never admit it, but freshman midfielder Katie Lewis-Lamonica is a star in the making.Her quiet confidence has enabled her to dominate opponents thus far this season ? to the tune of 15 goals and four assists.

SPORTS | 04/20/2005

Monmouth tops Tigers

In the middle of an intense conference schedule, it can be hard to find sufficient motivation for non-league games.

SPORTS | 04/19/2005

Doing the Dirty Work

Matt Behncke '02 describes his job as "dirty work," but he has no complaints. He doesn't view it as hard work because he enjoys it and always has.

SPORTS | 04/19/2005

Gotta Be the Spin

Pitching is, by definition, throwing the ball toward the plate in hopes that the batter will miss.

SPORTS | 04/19/2005

Cherackal '05 wins $700,000 in tourney

Like mushrooms, poker games have been multiplying on campus over the past couple of years. And like any predominantly masculine endeavor, poker games tend to breed poker stories.

SPORTS | 04/19/2005

Harvard hands men's heavyweight first loss

In one of the most storied and competitive matchups the crew world features, the men's heavyweight crew lost its first race of the season against Ivy League rivals Harvard.Though the Tigers were the higher seed, ranked No.

SPORTS | 04/18/2005

Men, women win Ivy crown

For Princeton's golf teams, good things came in pairs this past weekend. Both the men's and women's teams dominated the Ivy League Championships, placing first in their respective divisions.

SPORTS | 04/18/2005

Author finds Lombardi, Clemente intriguing beyond playing field

Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Sofia Mata-Leclerc sat down to chat with Pulitzer Prizewinning writer David Maraniss, a visiting Council for the Humanities Robbins Professor who is teaching HUM 440: 'The Literature of Fact' this spring.In 2002, Sports Illustrated named his biography of famed Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, "When Pride Still Mattered," to its list of the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time.

SPORTS | 04/18/2005

Men, women top Big Green, see red versus Crimson

The tennis teams saw a painful shade of red this weekend, as the Crimson men's and women's squads descended on the Lenz Tennis Center on Saturday.

SPORTS | 04/18/2005

Tigers split four games at Penn

In the first game of a doubleheader on Sunday, the baseball team found itself down three runs with only two innings left to play.

SPORTS | 04/18/2005

Lambert qualifies for NCAA champs

Junior Meredith Lambert has been running well in practice all season, but she has still been unhappy with her race day execution.

SPORTS | 04/18/2005

In romp over Butler, only Tierney's limit can stop Princeton offense

"I really believe that when we get the first one we're going to be a tough team," men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney said after the team's 10-8 loss to Syracuse on March 26.

SPORTS | 04/17/2005

Tigers close regular season with four-set victory

On match point, all it took was a glance.Friday night at Dillon Gym, the men's volleyball team led Mercyhurst College, 29-28, in the fourth set, and Princeton (7-12 overall, 4-9 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) was serve-receiving.

SPORTS | 04/17/2005

Princeton crushes Crimson

Now that senior attack Lindsey Biles is done writing her senior thesis, she can move on to her next project ? rewriting the women's lacrosse team's record book.

SPORTS | 04/17/2005

Snyder hurls perfect game as Tigers sweep Big Green

When junior pitcher Erin Snyder stepped onto the mound at Class of 1895 Field on Sunday afternoon to face Dartmouth, no one in the stands ? or even in her own dugout ? would have thought that she would be able to improve upon her virtuoso performance in her previous day's outing against Harvard, when she struck out a staggering 21 Crimson batters.

SPORTS | 04/17/2005

News & Notes

Texas Rangers hurler Chris Young '02 picked up his first victory of the season Sunday afternoon, allowing four runs on six hits in five and two-thirds innings of work as the Rangers topped Tampa Bay , 6-5.

SPORTS | 04/17/2005

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