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Cornell, Columbia drop women's hoops into fifth

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

Foil Leahy finishes first at IFA Championships

"My back," "my foot," "my French horn" ? these were Princeton fencing's real opponents at this weekend's Mid-Atlantic/South Regionals.

SPORTS | 03/10/2003

W. hockey demolishes Yale in two-game series

Yale women's hockey would have been better off staying on the bus this weekend. The Bulldogs stopped by Baker Rink for their Eastern College Athletic Conference quarterfinal series with the Tigers, and the Orange and Black promptly booted them from contention with degrading 6-2 and 8-0 wins.Senior forward Andrea Kilbourne led the way for Princeton with two goals and two assists in the 6-2 win Friday.

SPORTS | 03/09/2003

M. swimming takes second at Easterns

Men's swimming saved its best for last. But for the first time this year, its fastest wasn't enough.For the Tigers, it was a heartbreaking end to an outstanding season.

SPORTS | 03/09/2003

Absence of Boyle hurts men's lacrosse in loss to No. 1 Virginia

Every season, the men's lacrosse team opens by playing Johns Hopkins, Virginia, and Syracuse in the opening weeks before the Ivy season gets under way.Seeing as these teams are always among the elite in the nation, these games are an important measuring stick for how much improvement is needed.Tierney was not able to test his best lineup Saturday as the Tigers faced No.

SPORTS | 03/09/2003

Twenty game win streak snapped as w. lax loses

When a team wins 20 games in a row, that team is undeniably beyond good. A winning streak leads this team to forget what it is to lose.But winning streaks, like all good things, must end.This sad fact was the case for the women's lacrosse team Sunday afternoon.

SPORTS | 03/09/2003

Playing just for pride, men's hoops sweeps weekend

At the beginning of the weekend, there was hope. Though a long shot at best, the men's basketball team clung to the possibility of a share in the Ivy League regular season title.With three games left for both the Tigers and conference-leading Penn, and a three game spread in the standings, Princeton needed to win out its last three contests and pray that the Quakers would lose both games this weekend before the season finale at Jadwin Gym this Tuesday.Friday night, the Tigers (16-10 overall, 10-3 Ivy League) held up their end of the bargain with a gutsy 71-61 victory over visiting Cornell (9-18, 4-10).Penn did not cooperate with Princeton's hopes, beating winless Columbia 63-39, and mathematically eliminating the Tigers from the Ivy League race.The Quakers' triumph over Cornell the following night knocked Brown out of contention and, in the process, secured Penn's second straight NCAA Tournament appearance.On Friday, when Princeton was still fighting for its postseason life, the squad played hard and played well.

SPORTS | 03/09/2003

Road to the championship an uphill one for men's lacrosse

For the past three seasons, there has been just one tough question in men's college lacrosse: would the National Championship fall into the hands of Syracuse or Princeton?This year, however, the questions abound and answers are impossible to decipher.Last weekend, in the first full week of lacrosse, No.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

Men's head coach Tierney acts as teacher, coach

"The problem with the defense [in Saturday's loss to Johns Hopkins] was me," men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney said.It was an ironic statement, seeing as how it came from the mouth of a man who was recently inducted into the United States Lacrosse Hall of Fame as one of the greatest coaches the sport has ever known.On the surface, a lacrosse coach blaming himself for his team's ineffective defensive performance sounds self-deprecating, something only a coach without the foggiest idea about what he is doing would admit.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

Cornell and Columbia host w. basketball in Ivy race for fifth

At this point in the season it is no longer make-or-break.Playing this weekend to hold on to fifth place in the Ivy League, the more appropriate term for the women's basketball team's situation is salvage-or-junk.The Tigers (9-16 overall, 4-7 Ivy League) will take on Cornell (9-16, 3-9) tonight in Ithaca, and then travel to Columbia to face the Lions (10-15, 3-9) Saturday night.Both Cornell and Columbia are currently locked in a three-way tie for sixth place with Yale, just a game and a half behind the Tigers.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

W. lacrosse hopes to extend streak far past 30

The women's lacrosse season is 16 games long. Princeton lacrosse fans will not have to wait that long to forecast their team's chances to repeat as national champions, however.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

No. 1 Tigers enter season with only high hopes

"I know the Syracuse men beat Princeton," George Bush told the 2002 Syracuse men's national championship team earlier this year, "it's lucky you didn't play the women."The president of the United States was not exaggerating.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

ECAC tourney opens with w. hockey vs. Elis

A year ago, women's hockey captured home-ice advantage in the first round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference playoffs, only to lose the best-of-three series in a sweep to Harvard.This year, Princeton ? the third seed in the ECAC tournament ? is back at Baker Rink for round one, and the collapse against the Crimson is a distant memory.Sixth-seeded Yale visits campus for this year's best-of-three conference quarterfinal starting tonight, continuing Saturday and, if necessary, Sunday.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

Several wrestlers have chance to secure NCAA bids at EIWAs

The wrestling team goes to the mat this weekend as part of the oldest and most revered wrestling tournament in the nation.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

Christmas and co. set to take on Princeton

If you thought the road would get any easier for the men's lacrosse team after last week's painful 10-8 loss to Johns Hopkins, think again.Tomorrow, No.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

Looking for a miracle, m. basketball needs to sweep

The season is not over. Contrary to what many Princetonians have been saying, the men's basketball season is still going, and the Tigers will do battle against Cornell tonight and Columbia tomorrow night, both at home.Yes, an Ivy title and NCAA tournament berth are unlikely, but there is still a lot of basketball left to be played.In order for Princeton (13-10 overall, 8-3 Ivy League) to earn a share of the Ivy title, they need Penn (19-5, 11-0) to lose out and for Brown (15-11, 10-2) to lose at least one of their final two games.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

Men's lacrosse satisfied only with return to title game

Six national championships in eleven seasons. Three straight championship game appearances. Thirteen returning seniors, seven of whom are starters.

SPORTS | 03/06/2003

After sluggish start, men's volleyball makes easy work of NYU in 3-1 win

"It ain't over till it's over." As the men's volleyball team learned last night, Yogi Berra knew what he was tallking about.The Tigers had good reason to be confident entering the match against NYU, having stomped the Violets in fifty-five minutes in their last meeting.

SPORTS | 03/05/2003

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