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High hopes for fencing at NCAAs

High hopes for fencing at NCAAs

While security will no doubt be tight at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, if the Tigers can get their weapons into the academy, they will definitely be competitive in an attempt to usurp the NCAA title from defending national champions Penn State.Though Princeton has consistently struggled in team competition against scholarship schools such as Penn State and St.

SPORTS | 03/13/2003

W. water polo travels west to test mettle versus strong competition

Next week's schedule promises to challenge the women's water polo team, making recent midterms seem like a breeze.Over four days, No.

SPORTS | 03/13/2003

Competition remains strong for m. lacrosse

With recent losses to the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the country, Johns Hopkins and Virginia, the men's lacrosse team is off to a 0-2 start entering spring break, and its schedule won't be getting much easier for a few more weeks.Princeton has away games over the break against two more teams ranked in the Top 15 in this week's United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association poll ? No.

SPORTS | 03/13/2003

Baseball heads to N. Carolina, Virginia in search of first wins

When baseball returns from its spring break tour through North Carolina and Virginia, that goose egg in wins should be history.The Tigers (0-4) play 13 games down south in 10 days from March 14-23, without a day off.

SPORTS | 03/12/2003

Softball to play with best at Buzz Classic

Contender or pretender?This is the question the softball team will attempt to answer over spring break.

SPORTS | 03/12/2003

M., w. tennis to head to southern Calif. sunshine

Men's and women's tennis will finally escape the confines of Jadwin Gymnasium to compete in the southern California sunshine over spring break.

SPORTS | 03/12/2003

Penn defeats women's basketball by ten points

The women's basketball team, playing in its final game of the season last night at Penn, found itself up nine points midway through the first half.

SPORTS | 03/12/2003

Triple match proves no problem for men's volleyball

What the men's volleyball team did this past weekend goes beyond what any typical sports terminology is equipped to handle.

SPORTS | 03/11/2003

With only pride at stake, men's hoops falls to Penn

Regardless of what their records may be, the Penn-Princeton game that closes the season is always the big deal.

SPORTS | 03/11/2003

Parker claims EIWA title with last second pin in final match

A quick glance at the score table revealed a three-point deficit and a measly 40 ticks of the clock remaining in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association wrestling career of senior captain Greg Parker (23-4 overall). Last year's 174-pound champion surged forward, pushing the action and looking for an opening in his opponent's seemingly impregnable defenses.He shot in low on a single leg takedown and flipped his surprised and flailing opponent, driving his inverted shoulders into the mat.

SPORTS | 03/11/2003

M. hockey put to rest with first round loss to Brown

After playing most of its season in a daze, the men's hockey team finally woke up in the past few weeks to see if it could make something of its berth in the Eastern College Athletic Association tournament.

SPORTS | 03/11/2003

W. water polo sweeps weekend, West Coast trip looms large

Even though they missed out on this weekend's better-than-average weather, the members of the women's water polo team were not that disappointed.

SPORTS | 03/11/2003

Cornell, Columbia drop women's hoops into fifth

The results of the women's basketball team's two games this weekend illustrate the unpredictable nature of Ivy League women's hoops.First, on Friday, the Tigers (9-18 overall, 4-9 Ivy League) fell at Cornell, 64-50, even though they had narrowly defeated the Big Red on Feb.

SPORTS | 03/10/2003

M. basketball to wrap up Ivy season with Penn

"The boys are back in town." This quote adorns the cover of the 2002-2003 Penn men's basketball media guide.

SPORTS | 03/10/2003

Women's hockey sweeps Yale, advances to ECAC semifinals

After splitting the season series with Yale, women's hockey played the Eastern College Athletic Conference quarterfinals like it had something to prove.Princeton more than proved it, blowing out the Bulldogs, 6-2, Friday and 8-0 Saturday to sweep the best-of-three series and advance to the conference semifinals.Trying to make amends for an upset loss on their home ice to Harvard a year ago, the Tigers (20-8-2) got two goals from senior forward Andrea Kilbourne as they cruised to a 6-2 win in game one.Third-seeded Princeton dominated play early, not allowing sixth-seeded Yale (9-20-2) to get a shot on goal until five minutes, 33 seconds had elapsed in the first period.Kilbourne scored her first at 11:59 in the opening period.

SPORTS | 03/10/2003

Foil Leahy finishes first at IFA Championships

"My back," "my foot," "my French horn" ? these were Princeton fencing's real opponents at this weekend's Mid-Atlantic/South Regionals.

SPORTS | 03/10/2003

W. hockey demolishes Yale in two-game series

Yale women's hockey would have been better off staying on the bus this weekend. The Bulldogs stopped by Baker Rink for their Eastern College Athletic Conference quarterfinal series with the Tigers, and the Orange and Black promptly booted them from contention with degrading 6-2 and 8-0 wins.Senior forward Andrea Kilbourne led the way for Princeton with two goals and two assists in the 6-2 win Friday.

SPORTS | 03/09/2003

M. swimming takes second at Easterns

Men's swimming saved its best for last. But for the first time this year, its fastest wasn't enough.For the Tigers, it was a heartbreaking end to an outstanding season.

SPORTS | 03/09/2003

Absence of Boyle hurts men's lacrosse in loss to No. 1 Virginia

Every season, the men's lacrosse team opens by playing Johns Hopkins, Virginia, and Syracuse in the opening weeks before the Ivy season gets under way.Seeing as these teams are always among the elite in the nation, these games are an important measuring stick for how much improvement is needed.Tierney was not able to test his best lineup Saturday as the Tigers faced No.

SPORTS | 03/09/2003

Twenty game win streak snapped as w. lax loses

When a team wins 20 games in a row, that team is undeniably beyond good. A winning streak leads this team to forget what it is to lose.But winning streaks, like all good things, must end.This sad fact was the case for the women's lacrosse team Sunday afternoon.

SPORTS | 03/09/2003

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