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Field hockey to end regular season after winning title

Field hockey to end regular season after winning title

The field hockey team ends its regular season this Friday at Penn. In a season which ominously began with a new head coach and was initially marked by the absence of seven players lost to graduation, this final game seems somewhat anticlimactic.The Tigers (11-5 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) clinched their 10th consecutive Ivy League championship last week, so there is not as much on the line in tonight's game against Penn (10-6, 3-3).On Oct.

SPORTS | 11/06/2003

M. ice hockey to begin ECAC season

"What are you going to do today?"For the members of the men's ice hockey team, this question has become a mantra of challenge and inspiration.

SPORTS | 11/05/2003

M., w. crew dominate at Princeton Chase

"You'll turn left at this little boathouse," a campus guide directs first time visitors.

SPORTS | 11/05/2003

Battered and bruised, m. rugby fails to win EPRU title

Not once, but twice, the Princeton men's rugby team was seconds away from winning its semifinal game against West Chester University and qualifying for the Mid Atlantic Rugby Football Union (MARFU) Championship.

SPORTS | 11/05/2003

W. ice hockey starts off with two wins over Huskies

The women's hockey team began its season last weekend with two games against the Connecticut Huskies at the UConn Ice Arena.

SPORTS | 11/05/2003

The insanity of marathons and why we run them

On Sunday morning, 35,000 people started the New York City Marathon. The winner finished about two hours, 10 minutes later.

SPORTS | 11/05/2003

One writer's perspective on Game 6 of the World Series

As 55,000 fans stood in frenzied anticipation of the next pitch, the decibel level in the stadium climbed from thunderous to ear splitting.

SPORTS | 11/05/2003

M. water polo's Dan and Mike McKenna ponder water polo and sibling rivalry

Recently, 'Prince' staff writer Sofia Mata-Leclerc sat down with senior two-meter Dan McKenna of the men's water polo team and his brother and teammate Mike McKenna, a sophomore driver, for a session of questions and answers.'Prince': Being from Pennsylvania, how did you guys start playing water polo?Dan McKenna: We both actually started when each of us was in the eighth grade.

SPORTS | 11/05/2003

Wacky weekend shakes up Ivy football title race

This past weekend wasn't just "Survival Saturday" for the top 25 in Division 1-A football; "Survival Saturday" applied to the Ivy League as well.

SPORTS | 11/04/2003

Women's tennis sends four players to ITA Regionals

For four members of the women's tennis team, Fall Break kicked off with the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regionals Tournament over the weekend of Oct.

SPORTS | 11/04/2003

Football finds stride through consistency and better execution

On the final Saturday of October, the football team made its way to Cambridge, Mass., for Game 1 of the 2003 Harvard-Yale-Princeton football championship.

SPORTS | 11/04/2003

M. golf ends season in tie for fourth at Georgetown

In two battles that pitted the men's and women's golf teams against some of the top golfers in the nation, the difficult level of competition and sub-par weather conditions combined for an exciting conclusion to the fall season for the Tigers.The women ended the Pat Bradley Invitational in second place, while the men tied for fourth in the rain-shortened Hoya Invitational.The men finished with a combined score of 295 and tied with James Madison at seven-over par in Leesburg, Va.

SPORTS | 11/04/2003

Men's ice hockey gives scare to No. 10 St. Cloud State but drops pair of games

In case you have been waiting for some sort of sign that the men's hockey team is headed in the right direction, look no further than the Tigers' recent effort against No.

SPORTS | 11/04/2003

Co-captains Miller and Picketts reflect on Princeton field hockey

Recently, 'Prince' contributor Anne-Marie McGintee sat down with the field hockey team's two senior captains, Claire Miller and Cory Picketts.'Prince': How long have you been playing field hockey?Both: Since the seventh grade.P: What do you love about the sport?Claire Miller: Spandex and mouth guards.

SPORTS | 11/04/2003

Men's soccer beats Cornell, but drops two games to in-state rivals

For most Princeton students, Fall Break is a time to relax and enjoy a few stress-free days after the hard work that accompanies midterm week.

SPORTS | 11/03/2003

Men's water polo sweeps Southerns to win third title

So much for the dirty South.This past weekend the men's Water polo team swept clean the Southern Division Championships at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Penn.

SPORTS | 11/03/2003

W. volleyball beats Brown, Cornell, but falls to Yale

The women's volleyball team had its most important victory of the season on the first Friday of Fall Break and followed that performance up a week later with a convincing win against Brown.But in between these two impressive wins the Tigers (13-6 overall, 6-2 Ivy League) faced Yale, this time with a result less positive than their other two.

SPORTS | 11/03/2003

Senior Kroshus wins Heps; favored men's falls hard

Despite tremendous individual performances, Princeton's men's and women's cross country teams were apparently beset by a Halloween curse on Friday and failed to perform as they had hoped at the Heptagonal Championships in New York City.Senior Emily Kroshus and sophomore Cack Ferrell were the top two overall finishers in the women's race, though Columbia edged the Tigers out by five points.On the men's side, a third-place finish from senior Tristan Colangelo couldn't save the team from a disappointing fifth-place result.The women's team came into Friday's race with high hopes after what had proven to be a remarkable fall season to that point.

SPORTS | 11/03/2003

Women's soccer pulls out two wins over Fall Break

With the women's soccer season winding down, a 2-0-1 Fall Break is something to be proud of.True, but Princeton's target of the Ivy League title remains elusive.At the beginning of the break, Harvard, Syracuse and Cornell each looked to spoil a successful Tiger season.Princeton first faced the Crimson (5-5-5 overall, 1-2-3 Ivy League) in a tough league match in Cambridge, Mass.

SPORTS | 11/02/2003

Field hockey clinches 10th consecutive Ivy League title

For the field hockey team, Fall Break was a tale of two weekends.Ranked eighth in the country heading into the break, the Tigers (11-5 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) would embark on two road trips.

SPORTS | 11/02/2003

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