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Softball beats Monmouth, but falls to Scarlet Knights

Softball beats Monmouth, but falls to Scarlet Knights

It's good to be home.After opening the season with a dozen consecutive road games, softball returned to the friendly confines of Class of 1895 Field on Thursday afternoon to host Monmouth (4-11). Princeton (4-9 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) earned a much-needed victory, easily defeating the Hawks, 4-2.The Tigers attacked early.

SPORTS | 03/27/2003

M., w. tennis face non-conference opponents to prep for Ivy play

With Ivy League play nearing, both men's and women's tennis host tough non-conference opponents this weekend in preparation for the weeks of league play ahead.Women's tennis (5-3) got a head start to its weekend play ? and a much needed boost ? with a 5-2 win over Rutgers (6-5) on Wednesday.

SPORTS | 03/27/2003

W. lacrosse hosts Georgetown in rematch of national title game

Last year, the women's lacrosse team lost once. That was against Georgetown in the season opener, a fight that lasted all the way into double overtime and could easily have gone in Princeton's favor.

SPORTS | 03/27/2003

Under lights and rain, w. lax destroys Lions

Women's lacrosse both continued a streak and began a streak last night in its 15-2 victory over Columbia in Class of 1952 Stadium, its first Ivy League contest of the season.First, the Tigers (2-3 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) added one more game to its winning streak against Ivy opponents, bringing the count to 11 straight contests.Second, after setting a school record with 19 straight wins last season, the Tigers set in motion their first winning streak of the 2003 season.Last night's game put to rest for the moment any fears that might have accumulated earlier this season when the supposedly unstoppable Tigers lost three games in a row to Loyola, Virginia and Duke.Granted, the team it played, Columbia, has finished in the Ivy League basement in each of the relatively young program's five seasons.

SPORTS | 03/26/2003

Men's crew thaws out in time for season's start

As every Princetonian knows, winter in New Jersey this year seemed to drag on, with warm weather refusing to break the snow and ice.

SPORTS | 03/26/2003

Women's golf hits the links, starts season right with win at Georgetown Invitational

Victory seems to fit sophomore Avery Kiser and the women's golf team to a tee.The team began their season last weekend in Reston, VA at the first annual Georgetown Hoyas Invitational.

SPORTS | 03/26/2003

Tradition to continue as w. crew begins spring season

As the mercury rises and Lake Carnegie returns to liquid form, both women's crew teams are setting out to prove themselves as top Ivy League and even national competitors.If history tells us anything, we can count on the open and lightweight teams to continue a strong Princeton tradition in the sport.Open women's crew at Princeton dates back to 1972, when it was introduced as one of the original women's sports on campus.

SPORTS | 03/26/2003

Football loses leading tackler, Keasey, for next season

Junior middle linebacker Zak Keasey of the fooball team was declared academically ineligible yesterday evening in a press release by the University.Keasey will be allowed to return to Princeton in the future, but there was no time specified for his return.

SPORTS | 03/26/2003

Track teams travel to sunny locations for break

In an effort to gear up for the outdoor track season, the men's track traveled to Florida, and the women to California.The men concluded a week of training by heading north to temperate Myrtle Beach to compete at the Coastal Carolina Relays.

SPORTS | 03/26/2003

Baseball set to challenge Harvard for Ivy League

As the sky clears and the weather warms up, the baseball team has finally gotten its opportunity to emerge from the underground practice facility in Jadwin Gym to take the field.

SPORTS | 03/25/2003

M. lacrosse defeats Scarlet Knights, but barely

Down 8-7 with just over nine minutes left in the game, the men's lacrosse team used a three-goal spurt over a 51-second span to retake the lead it had lost earlier in the fourth quarter and escape with a narrow 10-8 win over Rutgers in Piscataway last night.Down 7-5 after three quarters of play, the host Scarlet Knights (7-1) came out in the fourth quarter like the pacesetter at the Preakness.

SPORTS | 03/25/2003

M. volleyball buries St. Francis, George Mason to revive season

The men's volleyball team went through the most critical three-game stretch of the season this break, raising itself from the dead after a loss to Juniata and salvaging its season with heart-wrenching wins against St.

SPORTS | 03/25/2003

Softball looks to repeat as Ivy League champs

Playing without Princeton's version of Babe Ruth won't be easy for softball this season, but things could have been worse.

SPORTS | 03/25/2003

Athlete of the Break

Determined not to let the men's lacrosse team's struggles last any longer, junior attackman Ryan Boyle exploded over spring break last week, helping the Tigers to two crucial wins in their non-conference schedule.After losing its opening two games to Johns Hopkins and Virginia, Princeton had its back up against the wall with two more tough games against nationally ranked teams.A week ago, Boyle set a career-high in points when he scored three times to complement his six assists against Hofstra.

SPORTS | 03/24/2003

Injured w. tennis struggles through Spring Break

The Tigers raced like limping horses during Spring Break competition. Hampered by illness and injury, the women's tennis team trudged through three intense battles against top Div.

SPORTS | 03/24/2003

Softball wins three, loses seven on break, but shows promise

In sports, success is about getting up just one more time than you get knocked down. The way the women's softball team recovered from losing its initial three games of the season speaks volumes about the team's ability to deal with adversity and suggests that the Tigers will have yet another successful season.Princeton began its season and the break by taking on Georgia Tech in a double header.

SPORTS | 03/24/2003

M., w. fencing combine to finish sixth at NCAAs

With two Princeton fencers heading into last weekend's National Collegiate Athletic Association championships ranked among the top five in the world, an individual title was all but assured.But despite a host of valiant bouts, the Tigers returned late Monday with no medals in hand.

SPORTS | 03/24/2003

Baseball faces seven teams on southern swing

The baseball team went 4-8 on its road trip through the South over Spring Break. Its overall record now lies at 4-12, improving from 0-4 before the break.In North Carolina, the Tigers went 2-7 before traveling to Virginia, where they split four games with William & Mary.First on the docket was North Carolina-Wilmington (17-10) on Friday, March 14.

SPORTS | 03/24/2003

Women's water polo faces off against top teams in Calif.

The women's water polo team finished its week on the west coast 3-3, but its competition against the nation's top-ranked water polo team, UC-Los Angeles, and other highly-ranked teams was enough to push the Tigers from No.

SPORTS | 03/24/2003

No. 4 Big Green edge w. hockey in semifinals of ECAC tourney

Women's hockey found itself two wins away last weekend from a date with the national championship.Unfortunately, the team watched the Women's Frozen Four from the dorms as Dartmouth edged Princeton, 4-2, in the Eastern College Athletic Conference semifinals last Saturday at Brown's Meehan Auditorium, ending the Tigers' season."We hung with them," junior forward Gretchen Anderson said.

SPORTS | 03/23/2003

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