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M. hockey looks to RPI to regain confidence

M. hockey looks to RPI to regain confidence

With a record of 3-20-0 overall and 2-14-0 within the Eastern College Athletic Conference, the men's hockey team must look for silver linings wherever it can find them in an increasingly darkened sky.One such place may be in the team's games this weekend at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College.Much of Princeton's limited success this season has come against RPI (9-19-2, 3-11-2). Two-thirds of the Tigers' wins have been at the expense of the Engineers, and they hope that the goodwill of the gods will once again be with them as they visit Achilles Rink tonight.Princeton recorded its first win of the season at home against RPI on Nov.

SPORTS | 02/13/2003

Seniors to lead men's swimming one last time

No Kleenex will be needed.This Friday, the men's swimming class of 2003 will face Columbia and compete at DeNunzio pool one last time.

SPORTS | 02/12/2003

Van Beusekom emerges as savior for women's hockey

Loretto, Minnesota is a small farm town about 1,231 miles from the Princeton campus. A road trip between the two takes you across eight states, past two great lakes, and over nine interstate freeways.The connection: Princeton junior Megan Van Beusekom, a Loretto native and starting goaltender for women's hockey, the leader of a team that has gone from .500 to a national power in three seasons."Being from Minnesota, it's hard not to get into hockey," Van Beusekom said.She is right.

SPORTS | 02/12/2003

M. volleyball runs through soft NJIT

Technological advancements have clearly benefited everyone's life. Hence, technology students, the brain behind these improvements, make all of our lives easier ? in more ways than one.On Sunday night against the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the men's volleybal team proved this fact, making easy work of NJIT (0-4 overall), 3-0. Slow out of the gatesPlaying a team that finished with an overall record of 1-22 last season and that competes in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association in a lower division, the Tigers seemed certain to win.

SPORTS | 02/12/2003

M. tennis readies for season with young lineup

Men's tennis (1-2 overall) is ready to roar, but can its bite match its bark? Coming off of a semifinal loss in the fall's Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament, the Tigers look toward an Ivy season of tough competition, primarily from its biggest rival, Harvard.

SPORTS | 02/12/2003

Despite second half rally, Tigers fall to Penn, 65-55

Philadelphia ? The hearts of two universities beat with each bounce of the ball last night as the men's basketball team fell to Penn (13-5 overall, 5-0 Ivy League), 65-55, in Philadelphia.The PA announcer at the Palestra began the game: "The entire University of Pennsylvania Athletic Staff welcome the Princeton U . . .""BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."Not many words were heard the rest of the way that were not in chant form from the ocean of fans.Penn forward Ugonna Onyekwe dominated Princeton (10-8, 4-1) in all facets of the game, scoring 22 points and grabbing 12 rebounds.

SPORTS | 02/11/2003

O-N-Y-E-K-W-E spells doom for men's basketball

Most so called experts were giving the Tigers no shot at beating Penn at the Palestra. Not in front of more than 8,000 screaming fans and certainly not against a team with the most powerful frontcourt in the league along with deadly assassins from beyond the arc.The Tigers were able to handle the crowd and they did a reasonable job of covering Penn's outside shooters.

SPORTS | 02/11/2003

W. fencing beats Temple in final foil matches

Jabs, thrusts, tight outfits and great performances could be found in more places than just Cottage this weekend.

SPORTS | 02/11/2003

W. squash's Comey hero in victory over Dartmouth

Twice this weekend, sophomore No. 5 Frances Comey pulled out tough comeback wins for women's squash.

SPORTS | 02/11/2003

Baird, Bell lead the way for men's track at Penn State

The men's track and field team returned to Penn State for the second time in two weeks for a scored triangular meet against host Nittany Lions and the University of Connecticut.

SPORTS | 02/11/2003

M. squash eases through Crimson, Big Green

They didn't travel to Princeton from all over the East Coast, Canada and New Zealand to be disappointed.Many parents of men's squash players trekked across great distances to witness a pair of exciting matches this past weekend and watched as their sons clinched the Ivy League Championship for the third time in four years.An undefeated men's squash team (7-0 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) knew it had to be in top form as it faced Dartmouth (10-4, 2-3) and Harvard (6-2, 4-1).The first test was the Big Green on Saturday afternoon.

SPORTS | 02/10/2003

Wrestling wins final three matches to topple Harvard

The Princeton wrestling team started off a busy weekend of competition with a dramatic victory last Friday night over Harvard.With the Tigers down 19-16, junior heavyweight Joe Looke took the mat for the first time this season needing a victory to propel his team to its first EIWA dual win of the year.Late in the third period of the match, with the score tied 1-1, Looke scored a two-point takedown, sealing the deal in the heavyweight bracket and driving the final nail into Harvard's coffin.Looke's 3-1 victory tied the overall match score at 19-19.

SPORTS | 02/10/2003

M. hoops takes on Penn for Ivy League bragging rights

It has been 15 years since a school not named Princeton or Penn represented the Ivy League in the NCAA tournament for men's basketball.

SPORTS | 02/10/2003

Penn: Still not our rival

As is the tradition for such a momentous game as tonight's showdown in the Palestra, The Daily Princetonian and The Daily Pennsylvanian exchange columns bashing each other.

SPORTS | 02/10/2003

Oil, alcohol, and a Penn win

Now I may go to Penn, but I do know a couple of things. Literally.The first is that motor oil is not flammable.The second is that alcohol is flammable.Alcohol, like that (allegedly) served illegally by two former presidents of Princeton's most famous of institutions: eating clubs.

SPORTS | 02/10/2003

W. hockey skates through New York

Six-love, six-one, and done. It was a hearty beating, like a tennis match between Serena Williams and Anna Kournikova, only on ice.Women's hockey hardly broke a sweat this weekend on its tour of New York, picking up four points in the standings with a 6-0 win over Cornell and a 6-1 win over Colgate.Princeton (14-6-2 overall, 7-3-0 ECAC) skated into Ithaca Saturday night and chewed up the Big Red (3-15-2, 1-8-1) in a 6-0 shutout.The game-winning goal came 26 seconds into the first period when senior defender Nikola Holmes put the Tigers on the board with assists from junior forward Gretchen Anderson and senior forward Andrea Kilbourne.

SPORTS | 02/10/2003

W. swimming beats Lions, extends winning streak to 41

The 1972 Dolphins were arguably the greatest NFL team in history. The 2001 Miami football team can be labeled as one of the greatest college teams in history.

SPORTS | 02/10/2003

M. basketball beats Big Red, Lions; Penn awaits

The desire to look past Columbia and Cornell on the road, and to peer ahead to Tuesday's game against Penn, was enormous for the men's basketball team this weekend.

SPORTS | 02/09/2003

Men's swimming merciless in defeat of Navy

Naval Academy students spend much of their time learning to harness firepower in aquatic situations.

SPORTS | 02/09/2003

Women's basketball splits Ivy weekend

It was the kind of win that just made everything seem right for the struggling women's basketball team.On Friday night, Princeton (7-12 overall, 2-3 Ivy League) fell 75-66 to Columbia (10-8 overall, 3-2 Ivy League). The next night, the Tigers overcame a 37-26 halftime deficit to defeat Cornell (7-12, 1-5), 66-63, while also snapping a three-game losing streak in front of 3,000 screaming fans at Jadwin Gymnasium.

SPORTS | 02/09/2003

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