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W. hockey trounces McGill, finishes break 2-1

W. hockey trounces McGill, finishes break 2-1

While hundreds of millions of people were preparing to see the Tampa Bay Buccaneers demolish the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII, the Princeton women's hockey team shook off its final exam rust by defeating one of Canada's best hockey teams, McGill, 3-1?a team which sports one of the best amateur goalies in the world.Five days later, Princeton blew out Vermont to notch its fifth Eastern College Athletic Conference win and followed that up with a conference loss to Dartmouth, putting Princeton in the doldrums at fifth place in the conference. Taking on one of the bestMcGill (20-5-2) came into Baker Rink Jan.

SPORTS | 02/03/2003

M. hockey continues to struggle in conference play

While most people spent the break catching up on some well-deserved sleep, men's hockey battled Dartmouth (11-8-1 overall, 7-6-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) and Vermont (9-12-3, 6-8-0 ) at Baker Rink.There was no shortage of goals in Friday's 5-2 loss to the Big Green.

SPORTS | 02/02/2003

W. basketball hurt by poor shooting against Ivy foes

Princeton's women's basketball team (6-11 overall, 1-2 Ivy League) won a game over intersession, but it was its least important one.

SPORTS | 02/02/2003

In Ivy play, Tigers start season right

Men's basketball began intersession by blowing out Ursinus after almost three weeks off. The next two games were a different story, however.

SPORTS | 02/02/2003

Wrestling falls to powerhouses Lehigh, Cornell

Facing two of the best teams in the region, the Tigers were unable to pull out victories. Princeton wrestled in two meets this past week, facing Lehigh at home Thursday and travelling to Cornell Saturday. Against the Mountain HawksIn the first meet, held in the friendly confines of Dillon Gymnasium, the Tigers surged out of the gate, refusing to back down and be intimidated by Lehigh's top-five national ranking.

SPORTS | 02/02/2003

Men's hockey hopes to turn around year in time for playoffs

The men's hockey team has only 10 games left to turn its season around to prepare for the Eastern College Athletic Conference playoffs, beginning with a home game against Dartmouth on Feb.

SPORTS | 01/19/2003

Forward Schaen, guard Schafer headline excellent recruiting class for men's basketball

As the three-time "defending champion" in U.S. News and World Report's top national universities, the authorities at Princeton clearly do not take lightly to falling behind the competition.

SPORTS | 01/19/2003

Geography lessons, playing the odds and pleasant surprises

This is the last issue of our board, and the last opportunity for the outgoing sports editors ? Matt Simmons, Kimberly Ruthsatz and Ramesh Nagarajan (from left to right) ? to express what The Daily Princetonian has meant to us.

SPORTS | 01/19/2003

Women's hockey approaching ECAC games with Vermont and Dartmouth

The time for No. 8 women's hockey to prove its mettle ? if it has not done so already ? has arrived, as the Tigers head into a long stretch of nothing but Eastern College Athletic Conference opponents on the docket for the rest of the regular season.After hosting McGill in an exhibition game Sunday, women's hockey will get back into action with a two-game weekend at the end of Intersession.

SPORTS | 01/19/2003

Women's hoops, after beating Penn, ready to get into heart of Ivy season

"It's nice to be able to wipe the slate clean and say everybody is 0-0," women's basketball head coach Richard Barron said before the team's Ivy League season began with a victory over Penn Jan.

SPORTS | 01/19/2003

Men's fencing displays depth in 25-2 win over Stevens Tech

In the depths of reading period, the men's fencing team still found time to slice themselves away from their studies to bolster their record with a resounding victory against Hoboken's Stevens Technical Institute.In what would be a nearly perfect match, the Tigers defeated Stevens Tech 25-2.

SPORTS | 01/16/2003

Trinity hands w. squash first defeat

Going into a match with the defending national champions is intimidating under any circumstances.This past Saturday proved no exception for the Tiger women's squash team.Princeton (4-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) started off 2003 with a loss to Trinity.

SPORTS | 01/16/2003

No break from training regimen for women's swimming

With no meets during Winter Break, the women's swimming team could afford to take a little time away from DeNunzio Pool.

SPORTS | 01/16/2003

Women's track takes time off from writing papers to defeat Rutgers

During reading period, most students are locked away in some corner of Firestone or Frist, banging away at their computers or cramming for exams.But the women's track team found time Saturday to face Route 1 rival Rutgers in an indoor track meet at Jadwin Gym.The Tigers won eight of 17 events against the Scarlet Knights, but got enough points to win the dual meet, 87-55.Junior Emily Kroshus led a sweep for the Tigers in the one mile run, clocking in at four minutes, 57.71 seconds, more than ten seconds ahead of fellow junior Pilar Marin.

SPORTS | 01/16/2003

W. basketball continues Ivy League play after match-up with Lafayette

Before the second semester begins in early February, the women's basketball team will have three more entries in its record book.

SPORTS | 01/14/2003

W. hockey drops Brown in OT, loses to league-leader Harvard

The middle of the pack and the best in the country were first on the agenda as women's hockey began the bulk of its Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference schedule this weekend at Baker Rink.

SPORTS | 01/14/2003

Late heroics not enough as wrestling drops close meet to Drexel

With a quick move, Parker grabbed on to the Drexel wrestler, put him off balance and then threw him to the mat.

SPORTS | 01/14/2003

M. basketball hosts Crimson, Big Green to open league play

For the past three years, the Tigers have concluded the non-Ivy schedule with seven lossses along with four or five wins.

SPORTS | 01/14/2003

Blockbuster beer pong trade rocks Charter Club players

CHARTER ? In a move that will certainly shift the balance of power in the beer pong community, one of the sport's best teams is rumored to be parting ways.'Prince' Sports learned yesterday afternoon that senior pong standout Andrew Lenz will likely trade longtime playing partner and fellow senior Matt Simmons for international pong superstar Yi Yong Fan before the start of the Charter Club pong tournament this March.Yi currently runs a junior pong clinic in Portland, Ore., but is coming out of retirement to play in the Charter tournament."Simmons has played Robin to my Batman long enough," Lenz said.In an interview given to Paddle Palace magazine, Yi said that "There is so much potential in the U.S.

SPORTS | 01/12/2003

Dartmouth contracted by Ivy League, Penn may be next up

NEW YORK ? After a six-hour meeting last night, the Ivy Group presidents voted 7-1 to expel Dartmouth College from the athletics league, effective immediately.Yale's Richard Levin said, "We have known for some time that the Ivy League had grown too big.

SPORTS | 01/12/2003

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