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M. crew to race at Eastern Sprints

M. crew to race at Eastern Sprints

The men's heavyweight crew was hoping for a positive start to the month of May. Head coach Curtis Jordan had hoped at the beginning of the season to use successful efforts against Harvard, Brown and Cornell to build momentum for the team as the Tigers trained for the Eastern Sprints.However, the ideal scenario simply did not pan out, and the Tigers will enter Eastern Sprints on a losing streak of three standard races.

SPORTS | 05/08/2003

Men's lacrosse begins quest for national title against Albany

It's the final home game for 13 seniors. It's the beginning of the journey to what is hopefully a fourth consecutive spot in the national title game.

SPORTS | 05/08/2003

Outtz, Kroshus shine for w. track at Heptagonals

Not everyone was entirely happy last weekend as the Princeton women's outdoor track team finished seventh at Heptagonals.Heps represent the finale of each track season, when all eight Ivy League schools and Navy come together to challenge each other for the championship.

SPORTS | 05/06/2003

W. lacrosse to face Le Moyne in first round match-up

In the first round of last year's NCAA Tournament, the women's lacrosse team beat its opponent by the largest margin of victory in a tournament game ever, 25-3.

SPORTS | 05/06/2003

Baseball wins three vs. Cornell

Baseball needed only one win in four tries against Cornell this weekend to clinch the Lou Gehrig Division championship and a birth in the Ivy League Championship Series.They got three.After dropping the first game of Friday's doubleheader at Clarke Field, 2-0, Princeton (25-19 overall, 15-5 Ivy League) found its bats in game two, blowing out the Big Red (16-20, 9-11) to secure the title with a 19-2 win.The teams played another doubleheader Sunday in Ithaca, N.Y., and the Tigers tuned up for the ILCS with 4-0 and 9-3 wins.Senior Ryan Quillian (5-4) got the first chance on the mound to clinch Princeton's sixth straight Gehrig Division title, but he got little help.The Tigers' bats were stifled by Big Red pitcher Dan Baysinger, who tossed a complete-game shutout in Cornell's 2-0 seven-inning first-game win.There were only five hits and no runs on the board going into the fifth inning.

SPORTS | 05/06/2003

McCarthy-Beauvais writes her name into women's water polo recordbooks

For the last four years, senior Adele McCarthy-Beauvais has been one of the cornerstones of the women's water polo team.In a sport that has only existed at Princeton for a mere six years, McCarthy-Beauvais has certainly written her name into this program's history.In her sophomore season, she made her first mark on the team, setting the all-time scoring record for Princeton University.

SPORTS | 05/06/2003

Softball splits with Rider, St. Joe's in home tourney

Early Saturday morning, the softball team's main objective for the season was finally completed.The Tigers (24-19-1 overall, 11-3 Ivy League) had been forced to travel to Providence to finish the ninth inning of their suspended game against Brown (16-23, 5-9). Princeton hung on for an 8-5 victory, giving the team sole possession of the Ivy League title.The contest resumed with two outs in the top of the ninth, with sophomore pitcher Melissa Finley on first base.

SPORTS | 05/06/2003

Dramatic final relay lands m. track in second at Heps

With more drama than a Theta's bad self-tanning experience on the eve of houseparties, the men's Heptagonal Track and Field Championships concluded in a frustrating manner Sunday night.

SPORTS | 05/06/2003

M. squash's El-Halaby wins national championship in freshman season

Yasser El-Halaby, this year's Daily Princetonian male Athlete of the Year, made attending a squash match this season worthwhile.

SPORTS | 05/06/2003

M. lax decimates Brown, secures fourth seed in NCAAs

Last year, men's lacrosse traveled to Brown on the last weekend of the regular season needing a win to clinch the Ivy title and get into the NCAA tournament.

SPORTS | 05/04/2003

Women's lacrosse blows out Brown

Amidst the revelry and festivities of Houseparties on Saturday the women's lacrosse team was all business.

SPORTS | 05/04/2003

Questions abound for football during spring practice

After two weeks of spring practice, the football team has gained little except more questions. The team lost 23 seniors to graduation and played spring ball with 17 players out either because of injuries or because they were playing another sport.One of the biggest losses, however, did not fit in either of those categories ? former junior linebacker Zak Keasey, who led the team in tackles the last two seasons, was announced as academically ineligible for the 2003 season on March 26.Head coach Roger Hughes described his defense as a "doughnut" because of the lack of strength in its center ? defensive tackle and linebacker.With Keasey gone along with his fellow starters at linebacker, seniors J.R.

SPORTS | 05/04/2003

Softball takes on St. Joe's, Rider in Princeton Invitational

As House Parties weekend begins, many visitors will arrive on campus to celebrate with their Princeton dates.

SPORTS | 05/01/2003

Do or die time: Men's lax must win vs. Brown

"If we beat Brown, we're in the [NCAA] tournament," men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney said.

SPORTS | 05/01/2003

Men's club lax beats Penn, earns Final Four spot

Forget Dartmouth. Forget Cornell, Syracuse, Georgetown, Virginia and all the teams that may stand in the way of Princeton lacrosse capturing national titles this season.

SPORTS | 05/01/2003

W. lax upsets No. 2 Maryland, looks ahead

Entering this week ranked No. 6 in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches' Association Poll, the women's lacrosse team did not just win its game against No.

SPORTS | 05/01/2003

Baseball needs one win against Cornell to clinch Gehrig Div. title

Princeton baseball started its campaign for a return to the Ivy League Championship Series this season by being swept in four games by Richmond, going 4-8 on a brutal Spring Break road trip and dropping two of its first three home games.After 20 games, the Tigers were 6-14 and looked like anything but a contender.There was one important asterisk: Princeton had not started conference play yet.Since the slow start, the Tigers have gone 16-4 in their next 20 games and are suddenly the favorites in the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 05/01/2003

Six fourth inning runs enough for baseball to down St. Johns

Under the lights in Jamaica, N.Y., on Tuesday night, the baseball team sunk its teeth into St. Johns, despite missing a couple of bicuspids.

SPORTS | 04/30/2003

Men's track to compete in Heptagonal Championships

One year ago, the Heptagonal Championships came down to the final event: the 4x400 meter in which Princeton lost to Penn by a single point.

SPORTS | 04/30/2003

'Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?'

A recent song by recording artist Avril Lavigne asks the question "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?"Whether or not you like it or even know it, the song was, for many months, just another icon of the teenybopper pop movement (masking itself as rock), receiving more than its fair share of radio play.

SPORTS | 04/30/2003

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