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'Prince' sports outlasts WPRB in annual game

'Prince' sports outlasts WPRB in annual game

They say you can only whip a kangaroo once before it leads a horse to water. The 'Prince' sports staffers are that kangaroo.After a crushing one-point loss last season, timely shooting, smothering defense and surprise free throw shooting helped the 'Prince' team return to glory in the annual Matt Oxman '01 Classic, as the writers held off a late charge by WPRB for a 49-42 victory Friday afternoon in Jadwin Gym.The lead went back and forth in the early going, with the 'Prince' holding the largest advantages.

SPORTS | 05/09/2004

Coach searches take different paths

On March 8, Princeton men's hockey coach Len Quesnelle '88 was fired amidst growing dissatisfaction within the Department of Athletics and among the team's players.

SPORTS | 05/09/2004

Baseball to swing for Ivy League title at Dartmouth

For the ninth straight season, the baseball team prevailed as champions of the Lou Gehrig Division, a spectacular tradition of divisional dominance unmatched this side of the Atlanta Braves.In four of those past springs, Princeton claimed the Ivy League title, fulfilling its supreme goal.

SPORTS | 05/06/2004

Sherry named 'Prince' Female Athlete of the Year

Learning how to juggle commitments is a way of life here at Princeton. Few have done this with as much excellence as Theresa Sherry, a senior standout on the women's varsity soccer and lacrosse teams.Sherry made her presence felt at Princeton within her first few months on campus.

SPORTS | 05/06/2004

Heptagonals loom for outdoor track

After what seems like an eternity, the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship is finally here.The men's and women's outdoor track and field teams will travel to Brown this weekend to compete in the highly-anticipated Heps, the pinnacle of the season.

SPORTS | 05/06/2004

El Halaby named 'Prince' Male Athlete of the Year

It's one thing to be the best player on your own team or the best player in your conference. It's simply remarkable to be the best collegiate player in the entire country ? and by a pretty wide margin.

SPORTS | 05/06/2004

Men's hockey finally has new coach

Snow, icebergs, and polar bears are things readily associated with the state of Alaska. With Director of Athletics Gary Walters '67's announcement yesterday, it would seem fitting to add one more item to the arctic list ? hockey.

SPORTS | 05/06/2004

Softball closes with split at Rider

It was a final push last Saturday as Princeton softball, already out of the race for the Ivy League title, tried to bolster its conference record in its last two games of conference competition against Columbia.Having lost two devastating games just a week before against Cornell, the Tigers' prospects at winning a third straight Ivy League title were nonexistent as they headed into their last home game of the season.

SPORTS | 05/06/2004

W. crew to row in EAWRC Sprints

While members of the men's crew teams will use this weekend to rest and get started on their Dean's Date papers, the women's teams will be hard at work.Both the open and lightweight women's teams head off to Cooper River in Camden to race in the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges Sprints Championship.

SPORTS | 05/06/2004

Women's golf travels to NCAA Regionals

With a forecast of partly cloudy skies and 80-degree weather, the women's golf team will take the Illinois State University Golf Course in Normal, Ill.

SPORTS | 05/04/2004

Second-place finish at nationals for w. rugby

In the ever-present rivalry between residents of the East and West Coasts for dominance in all things, consequential and not, this weekend's women's club rugby action won the former some bragging rights.

SPORTS | 05/04/2004

Moe Berg '23 led other life off field

Moe Berg '23 may well have had the most successful professional baseball career of any Princetonian.

SPORTS | 05/04/2004

Men's lacrosse faces Brown in must-win game for Tigers

One game away from the end of the regular season, Princeton men's lacrosse has no Ivy League Championship and no hope for an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship.Yet in the words of Paul Newman in the 1967 classic Cool Hand Luke:"Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand."Despite the lack of an automatic qualifier, the Tigers' solid record (8-3 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) and consistently high performance make them serious contenders for an at-large bid to the NCAAs."If we win on Saturday, I think we have a pretty definite shot at being in the tournament," head coach Bill Tierney said.Although Cornell has already clinched the automatic bid for the Ivy League, the Tigers may still obtain one of the 10 at-large bids doled out by the men's lacrosse committee on May 10.

SPORTS | 05/04/2004

Baseball takes on Rider

After clinching its ninth consecutive Lou Gehrig Division championship last weekend, the baseball team visits intrastate rival Rider (16-22) this afternoon for one final tuneup before hitting the road to play in the Ivy League Championship Series next weekend.For Princeton (24-18 overall, 12-8 Ivy League), the actual outcome of today's game will make little difference.

SPORTS | 05/04/2004

Late-game stick challenge results in three-goal swing as Tigers down Dartmouth, 10-8

When the pressure is on, great teams do anything and everything within their power to win. Such was the case Saturday, when No.

SPORTS | 05/02/2004

Open weight crew completes undefeated regular season

This weekend, while the rest of campus was busy preparing for lawnparties, the men's and women's crew teams were busy wrapping up their regular seasons in style.

SPORTS | 05/02/2004

Outdoor track with strong showing in Heps tune-up

This Saturday's Larry Ellis Invitational was supposed to be a tuneup meet for the men's and women's outdoor track and field teams before they head to the Heptagonal Championships next weekend at Brown.

SPORTS | 05/02/2004

Baseball clinches Gehrig Division title against Cornell

The baseball team wasted no time in clinching the Ivy League's Lou Gehrig Division title on Friday.

SPORTS | 05/02/2004

Women's lax clinches first ever undefeated regular season

The women's lacrosse team's quest for a perfect regular season ? and sole possession of the league title ? was nearly spoiled by unranked Brown this weekend.The Tigers (16-0 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) eventually overcame the Bears (6-8, 2-5) in Providence on Saturday.

SPORTS | 05/02/2004

Lay off my New York Yankees

I told myself I would not write this column. At least not this early in the season. I mean, c'mon, it's not even May yet.And yet, all around me, talking heads are trying to intimate that the Yankees' season is already doomed, and George Steinbrenner has begun his search for more overpriced players and over-the-hill talent.Here's my message: Chill the f?- out.The Yankees are going to be fine.

SPORTS | 04/29/2004

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