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After struggling his way to a disappointing fifth place finish at last weekend's Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championship meet in Annapolis, Md., all junior 197-pound wrestler Jake Butler could do was wait and hope.Butler had entered the weekend with high aspirations, seeded fourth but hoping to claim one of the top three places at the tournament and earn an automatic bid to NCAA championships, which begin on March 17 in St.

SPORTS | 03/09/2005

Tigers go out with a whimper

Tigers go out with a whimper

In front of a sparse and listless crowd at Jadwin Gym last night, the men's basketball team went out with a whimper.It wasn't the worst the Tigers have played this season, nor was it the best.

SPORTS | 03/08/2005

Tigers sweep Maryland, Bucknell, Salem Int'l

The women's water polo team showed no signs of fatigue as the Tigers continued their season-long road trip this past weekend at Salem International University in West Virginia.

SPORTS | 03/08/2005

Putting the 'power' in yoga

Graduate student Mike Austen knows the key to a lady's heart. Ask him why he's up at 8:30 a.m. for Michael Cremone's power yoga class, and he tosses a playful smile at the woman sitting on the yoga mat beside him."My wife," he says.Austen is one of six males in Cremone's 24-member class at Dillon Gym today.

SPORTS | 03/08/2005

Tigers upset No. 13 George Mason in five

After a timeout late in the fifth game, the men's volleyball team stepped back onto the court ahead, 14-12, against George Mason University.

SPORTS | 03/08/2005

No Happy Ending

With 34.1 seconds remaining in last night's men's basketball game against Penn, Quaker center Steve Danley slammed home an emphatic dunk to ice the game and send the crowds heading for the door.

SPORTS | 03/08/2005

Three men, four women qualify for NCAA championships

This past weekend was both an exciting and successful one for the men's and women's fencers as they entered the NCAA qualifying rounds at Drew.

SPORTS | 03/08/2005

Three-peat: El-Halaby claims national crown

Junior Yasser El-Halaby made history this past weekend. With his record-setting third individual national championship, El-Halaby became the first male to ever accomplish that feat before his senior year."This year there was added pressure," El-Halaby said.

SPORTS | 03/08/2005

M. hoops seniors will be missed

It's difficult, in the midst of enormous disappointment, to savor the present.When something goes wrong, it's human nature to fight through it, to get it over with as quickly as possible, to look forward to a brighter future.The five seniors on the men's basketball team will take the court at Jadwin Gym tonight for the final time, and for them, the present is all there is.

SPORTS | 03/07/2005

Time Running Out

After two convincing wins over Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend, the men's basketball team (15-12 overall, 6-7 Ivy League) will be playing tonight to avoid the first losing Ivy League season in Princeton history.After squandering an 18-point lead in the final eight minutes of their first match-up with the Ivy League-champion Penn Quakers (19-8, 12-1) this season ? a game they went on to lose, 70-62, in overtime ? the Tigers will have a chance tonight to send their historically hated rivals off into the NCAA Tournament on a low note.And after pouring in a combined 32 points against the Big Green and the Crimson, senior guard Will Venable will need just one point tonight to become the 26th player in University history to reach the 1,000-point mark for his superb Princeton career.In other words, though Ivy League schedule-makers may have originally envisioned that tonight's game at Jadwin Gym between Princeton and Penn would be a battle for the conference title and a post-season berth, enough is still at stake to make Princeton's final game of the season well worth watching.The opportunity to see Venable, senior center Judson Wallace and their fellow classmates play in the final game of their collegiate careers will be among the most compelling reasons to watch."It'll be a good way to go out having the opportunity to play Penn in the final game," Venable said.

SPORTS | 03/07/2005

Crimson narrowly edges Tigers at Easterns

For senior Justin Chiles, one-hundredth of a second was the difference between being an EISL champion or being just another runner-up.

SPORTS | 03/07/2005

Schaus' no-hitter highlights Tigers' 4-1 start

The softball team opened its season with four straight shutout wins in round-robin play at the East Carolina Pirate Clash in Greensboro, N.C., this weekend.

SPORTS | 03/07/2005

Ivy League's top two teams roll by Tigers

It's cold and wet up in New England, but it was a dry streak that doomed the women's basketball team this past weekend.Against the No.

SPORTS | 03/07/2005

Tigers drop pair of one-run thrillers

Offense was in no short supply this weekend for the baseball team. Wins were, however.Princeton opened up its 2005 campaign this weekend against Richmond in Virginia.

SPORTS | 03/07/2005

Digovich kicked off w. hoops team

Sophomore forward Katy Digovich said Monday night that she has been kicked off the women's basketball team.Digovich, who started 17 of the Tigers' first 22 games this season, last played in a game on Feb.

SPORTS | 03/07/2005

No Pain, No Gain

The season opener for the women's lacrosse team was a tale of two halves. Luckily for Princeton (1-0), the positives of the second half far outweighed its undisciplined play in the first half.

SPORTS | 03/06/2005

Bulldogs end Tigers' season with series sweep

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 finished its season Saturday after getting swept by Yale in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League playoff quarterfinals.Throughout the season, Princeton easily dispatched teams that were ranked lower but struggled for ties and close losses with teams that were ranked higher.

SPORTS | 03/06/2005

Venable reaches 999 career points in Tigers' victory over Dartmouth

On a night the men's basketball team honored its storied past, this year's team moved one step closer to avoiding making the wrong kind of history, and senior guard Will Venable came oh-so-close to making a little history of his own.With the majority of the 1964-65 Tigers in attendance to mark the 40th anniversary of their run to the Final Four, Venable took over down the stretch, scoring seven of his 19 points in the game's final two minutes to power Princeton (15-12 overall, 6-7 Ivy League) past Dartmouth (10-17, 7-7), 65-54, on Saturday night in Jadwin Gym.At game's end, Venable stood at 999 points for his career, one point short of becoming the 26th Tiger to reach 1,000 points with just one regular season game left to play in his career.The win also kept alive Princeton's hope of finishing the Ivy League season with a .500 record.

SPORTS | 03/06/2005

Bradley '65, Walters '67 reflect 40 years later

Midway through the men's basketball game Saturday night, members of the 1964-65 Princeton team ? which reached the Final Four of the NCAA tournament, finishing third in the nation ? were honored.

SPORTS | 03/06/2005

Logan scores 15 as Princeton demolishes Harvard on Friday

With four minutes, 16 seconds remaining in the men's basketball team's 66-44 shellacking of Harvard on Friday night, senior forward Andre Logan pushed the ball up the court on a fast break, dribbled behind his back to lose his lone defender and coolly laid the ball in off the glass.When he did, the dwindling number of fans in the student cheering section resurrected a chant that has spent most of the season collecting cobwebs: "Andre!

SPORTS | 03/06/2005

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