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Freshmen may have big impact for m. lacrosse

Freshmen may have big impact for m. lacrosse

With the start of the season only four months away, The 'Prince' asked legendary men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney to help give a synopsis of how the class of 2008 will make an impact on this year's team. DefenseAlex Hewit, from Chatham, N.J., was an All-American goalie at Delbarton School, and joins his brother, junior midfielder Grant Hewit, on the team."Alex will compete with David Law '06, our starter from last year, and Matt Larkin '05 for our goalie spot." Tierney said.

SPORTS | 11/02/2004

W. hockey goes 1-1 at No. 10 Providence

Same amount of goals, greatly different results.That sums up the women's hockey team's weekend at Providence.

SPORTS | 11/01/2004

NCAA president discusses fiscal irresponsibility

Myles Brand, the current president of the NCAA, is cast in a different mold than his predecessors.

SPORTS | 11/01/2004

M. hockey loses opener to St. Cloud State, ties Ala.-Huntsville

In its first two non-league games of the season, the men's hockey team (0-1-1) lived and died by the power play.

SPORTS | 11/01/2004

Men's, women's golf end their fall seasons over break

The men's and women's golf teams were not idle over Fall Break, as both teams concluded their fall seasons with tournaments in Tennessee and Virginia.

SPORTS | 11/01/2004

Men's soccer goes 0-1-1 in league play

The men's soccer team entered Fall Break with a 2-0-1 league record and an opportunity to better its chances at an Ivy League title.

SPORTS | 11/01/2004

W. volleyball splits four league matches

Following four league games over Fall Break, the women's volleyball squad finds itself a game and a half behind league leaders Harvard and Cornell.After splitting the four games, head coach Glenn Nelson finds himself one win shy of the 500 mark for his career at Princeton.During the first weekend of Fall Break, Princeton (15-6 overall, 6-3 Ivy League) hit the road against Cornell and Columbia.

SPORTS | 11/01/2004

Sprint football drops final home game to Midshipmen

The first night of Fall Break was anything but relaxing for the sprint football team, which dropped its last home game of the 2004 season, 61-20, to Navy (5-0 overall) and extended its 33-game losing streak to 34.Navy, a traditionally strong program who had beaten the Tigers (0-5), 77-16, in the first game of the season, came out strong and never let up.

SPORTS | 11/01/2004

Guide to the NBA's Eastern Conference

On Wednesday I went to the U-Store to buy the NBA preview edition of Slam magazine ? about the extent of the research I do for any of these columns.

SPORTS | 11/01/2004

Tennis at ITA Regionals

Juniors from the men's and women's tennis teams were the centerpieces of each team's showing at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Eastern Regionals.The men went to Blacksburg, Va., and junior Darius Craton reached the final 16 in both the main singles bracket and the doubles bracket with classmate Josh Burman.As the No.

SPORTS | 11/01/2004

Field hockey controls league destiny, wins late vs. Harvard

Fall break. A time of rest and relaxation for the average Princeton student following the crazed week of midterms.

SPORTS | 11/01/2004

Women's soccer wins Ivy League title

Mothers everywhere worry about their children's teeth on Halloween. But this year the mothers of women's soccer could rest easy, as it was toothpaste and not any candied treat that gave Princeton a nasty trick on Oct.

SPORTS | 10/31/2004

Potent Crimson running game spoils football's Homecoming

"We haven't been a dominant team," Harvard head coach Tim Murphy said. "We've just been an extremely resiliant, mentally tough football team."Based upon the Crimson's performance during Saturday's 39-14 win against Princeton (4-2 overall, 2-1 Ivy League), Murphy may be guilty of understatement.

SPORTS | 10/31/2004

Men's water polo ensures undefeated league record

For most Princeton students, the first few days of Fall Break are a time of relaxation far removed from the stress and late nights of Midterm Week.

SPORTS | 10/31/2004

The Cardinals start a new sob story and maybe a new curse

Anuj (over there on the other side of the page) wrote about 1500 words for his column. But you've already heard all that.

SPORTS | 10/31/2004

Heps a tough time for cross country

For cross country, a Friday meet in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx turned out to be anything but a walk in the park.Both the Princeton men's and women's cross country teams had weak performances as Columbia cruised to a sweep of the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships."I felt like a guy who had never run a day in his life," senior Austin Smith said.Smith placed 13th, with a time of 25:13 over the eight-kilometer course and finished second for the Tiger men.

SPORTS | 10/31/2004

My Red Sox finally didn't blow their chance for a ring

The Curse of the Bambino is over. The dark, ominous clouds that had been hanging over the Boston Red Sox organization are now gone.

SPORTS | 10/31/2004

Missed extra point dooms football in comeback bid vs. Cornell

Maybe the football team didn't deserve to win this game. But it was an awfully painful way to lose.After being thoroughly outplayed for 40 minutes by Cornell, Princeton scored two touchdowns to close the gap to 21-20 with six minutes, 48 seconds to play.

SPORTS | 10/31/2004

Men's water polo wins Southern Championship

"There is do or do not, there is no try," said Yoda of the epic Star Wars series. This Fall Break the Princeton men's water polo team chose to do, winning all six of its games and taking the Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Championships title in typically dramatic fashion.The score was tied at eight with just a minute and a half left in the finals of the Southern Championships.

SPORTS | 10/31/2004

Four years of winless football have not dampened Bakke's college experience

There are many ways to define victory, not all of them straightforward.For most Princeton students, the achievements of the sprint football team over the past five years wouldn't fall under any definition of that particular v-word, but for senior quarterback Dennis Bakke, his involvement with the team has won him something more important than any single game ever could.Bakke, a captain in his fourth year on the team, is a Wilson School major who plans on writing his thesis on the riveting topic of foreign policy of the U.S.

SPORTS | 10/21/2004

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