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Winless Tigers open League slate

Winless Tigers open League slate

The Ivy League may be familiar territory for the Tigers, but there's something less familiar about this season: Princeton's men's lacrosse team isn't accustomed to starting league play winless.The Tigers (0-4 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) have not started a lacrosse season 0-4 since 1986.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

Cornell, Dartmouth, Yale lead pack of emboldened Ivy challengers

No. 13 men's lacrosse has won the Ivy League title for 10 consecutive years. On Saturday, league play commences once again for the Tigers (0-4 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) when they travel to New Haven to play Yale.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

Tigers host Penn, visit Rutgers this weekend

Riding this week's success against Fairfield in its home opener, the softball team ends its home stand with a doubleheader against Penn on Saturday.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

Tiger Nine hosts Bulldogs, Bears

Although the regular season for Major League Baseball does not start until Sunday, the unofficial spring training for the Tigers ends Saturday as they host Yale for a doubleheader at Clarke Field to begin the defense of their Ivy League Championship.The Elis (9-7 overall) come into the game on fire, having won eight of their last nine games including a 1-0 thriller over Connecticut on Wednesday.Princeton (5-11) is coming off a close Wednesday game of its own, as the Tigers held off a ninth inning Rutgers rally to take the game, 3-2.Both Yale and Princeton started the season similarly, traveling to the South over spring break and facing tough competition with limited success.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

Princeton heads to Ithaca to face Big Red

The women's lacrosse team (5-2 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) has spent the month of March facing off against the nation's top teams, playing six foes ranked in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Top 20 poll.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

Gloger to play for Louisville

Senior Spencer Gloger will play for Louisville in this weekend's Final Four, Rick Pitino confirmed in an exclusive interview with the 'Prince' last night."Illinois is going to be tough, so we thought Spencer's outside shooting skills would help us pull off the upset," Pitino said.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

Dartmouth, Cornell top challengers for Princeton

The women's lacrosse team entered the season ranked No. 2 in the nation, while perennial rival Virginia entered in first.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

Mariner talks MLB business

Selected to be the first speaker in Business Today's annual Princeton Seminar Series, Jonathan Mariner spent over two hours on Wednesday infecting his audience with baseball fever.Mariner, the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Major League Baseball, produced this effect naturally while detailing the ins and outs of his profession.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

Dixon and Gerken enjoy yoga, gophers

Recently, "Daily Princetonian" senior writer Sofia Mata-Leclerc sat down with a pair of men's golfers, juniors Jason Gerken and Jesse Dixon, to chat about nicknames, "Caddyshack" and yoga.Daily Princetonian: How did you get into golf?Jason Gerken: My dad played golf, and when I was growing up he kind of dragged me along several times, and I got to like it, got to practicing and started playing when I was four or five and started playing in tournaments when I was 10.Jesse Dixon: My dad bought my sister and me a set of clubs when I was like seven, but I didn't really play with him that much until I was like 10.

SPORTS | 03/30/2005

Facing man-down, 'D' must step up

It's a common sight in men's lacrosse: an overzealous defenseman checks an attackman in the head, a flag comes out of the referee's pocket and both coaches begin scheming about how to take advantage of the forthcoming situation.Well, not exactly both coaches.

SPORTS | 03/30/2005

Miller earns first career win

A baseball game just seemed appropriate on a glorious spring Wednesday, and those who made it down to Clarke Field were rewarded with a great game.Princeton (5-11 overall) met with Route 1 rival Rutgers (12-9) for the Tigers' final non-conference tuneup before league play gets underway.The contest was tight throughout, but it was the Tigers who scored two in the eighth and survived a ninth-inning Scarlet Knight rally to secure a 3-2 victory. Freshman hurlersFreshman pitcher Christian Staehely got the start for Princeton, only the second of his career.

SPORTS | 03/30/2005

Same game, different place

As freshman roommates at Princeton, Rich McKay '81 and his two best friends watched football every Sunday.

SPORTS | 03/30/2005

Amo scores winner in overtime

The last time the women's lacrosse team was forced into overtime, a 14-13 loss to Penn State on March 19, freshman attack Ashley Amo was not a starter.

SPORTS | 03/30/2005

Tigers host No. 8 Hoyas under lights

The women's lacrosse team's version of March Madness concludes tonight as the No. 4 Tigers host No.

SPORTS | 03/29/2005

Better watch out, Michelle Kwan, you got nothing on me

And you thought I was joking. Shame on you.Those of you who glanced at the 'Prince' sports page on March 1 may have taken a gander at my scribbling about my outing with the taekwondo club team.

SPORTS | 03/29/2005

Snyder hurls perfect game

In an afternoon that featured back-to-back home runs, a perfect game and many firsts, the softball team swept Fairfield in a doubleheader Tuesday afternoon at Class of 1895 Field.

SPORTS | 03/29/2005

Princeton prognosticators participate in pools

For a few minutes, at least, junior T.J. Barry was on top of the world.Like millions of people across the world, Barry took part in the annual tradition of "filling out a bracket" ? prognosticating the results of the men's basketball NCAA tournament ? and entering a pool with friends.Barry entered his picks in ESPN.com's Tournament Challenge, an online pool that several million college hoops fans enter each year.

SPORTS | 03/29/2005

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