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

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

Men's tennis heads home from West with three losses, one win

Men's tennis came home last night after a disappointing spring break in Southern California. Starting the week off with an 8-2 record, the Tigers return just 9-5.

SPORTS | 03/23/2003

Victory over Penn State ends slide for w. lacrosse

The women's lacrosse team has not lost four games in a row since head coach Chris Sailer first took the reins in 1987, but the Tigers entered this weekend in danger of doing just that.

SPORTS | 03/23/2003

Hofstra and Syracuse fall to ascending Tigers

With less than 10 seconds left in the men's lacrosse game Saturday against Syracuse, junior attack Ryan Boyle had the ball in Orangeman territory trying to run out the clock.

SPORTS | 03/23/2003

Bouncing back won't be easy for w. lacrosse

It's been a long time since the women's lacrosse team has had to bounce back from a loss. Just about a year, in fact.

SPORTS | 03/13/2003

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

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

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

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

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