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Struggling men's soccer spoils perfect Ivy season for league-leading Quakers

Struggling men's soccer spoils perfect Ivy season for league-leading Quakers

It is strange that a scoreless tie might be the highlight of the men's soccer team's season, but with the undefeated Penn team playing for the Ivy League championship, the Tigers chose a good game to play their best soccer.Normally a Penn vs.

SPORTS | 11/10/2002

Football blown out by Penn, falls out of league title contention

The football team continued its streak of impressive fourth quarter performances Saturday against Penn.The rest of the game, though, was one of the most one-sided games ever at Princeton Stadium, as Penn (7-1 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) took a 30-0 lead into the fourth quarter to win by the final of 44-13.During the first half the Quakers dominated the Tigers, outgaining Princeton (5-3, 3-2) 202 yards to 29.

SPORTS | 11/10/2002

Field hockey can win outright Ivy title at home against Penn

Head coach Beth Bozman and her field hockey team needed to win at least a share of the Ivy League title to qualify for the NCAA tournament.

SPORTS | 11/07/2002

Football faces Penn in game key to league title race

Two weeks ago, the football team, at 2-0, sat atop the Ivy League with two other teams ? Harvard and Penn.

SPORTS | 11/07/2002

M., w. heavyweight crew teams train at Boston's Head of Charles

Year after year, men's and women's heavyweight crew are among the nation's best. Given this rich tradition of Princeton rowing, expectations are always lofty.This year is no different.As always, the Tigers have their sights set high, mindful of the legacy they must defend."We see alumni on the national team every day," junior Tyson White said.

SPORTS | 11/07/2002

Football by the numbers: A guide to some of the season's significant gridiron statistics

0 ? Times the football team has beaten rival Harvard since 1995, not incidentally the last time Princeton won the Ivy League title.1 ? Actual victories by the Tigers since 1993 against the Quakers, this week's opponent.

SPORTS | 11/06/2002

Men's hockey cruises through preseason, drops North Dakota and Providence games

The color of the leaves on the trees are changing and there is a chill in the air. To some this would indicate one thing only: the onset of a winter that will undoubtedly last way too long.For avid sports fans, however, the changing season indicates something completely different and much more exciting ? hockey time.And, for the men's ice hockey team, this season started with a bang.At the beginning of fall break, the Tigers took to the ice for their two preseason exhibition games.

SPORTS | 11/06/2002

Shackford lifts women's soccer

With only one regular season game left to play, women's soccer (13-2-0 overall, 6-1-0 Ivy League) has amassed quite a list of achievements this fall, including an NCAA tournament bid and at least a share of the Ivy League title.

SPORTS | 11/06/2002

Women's, men's golf set team records in Fall Break tourneys

Princeton golf certainly didn't fade quietly into the winter off-season. With both the men's and women's team posting top five finishes over fall break, coaches and players alike are looking anxiously towards the spring season and eyeing Ivy titles.The men's team spent Fall Break at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Virginia, competing in the Hoya Invitational.

SPORTS | 11/05/2002

Men's rugby defends EPRU championship, women fall short

This season the men's rugby team has learned to play and win in high-pressure games, and this experience proved invaluable when the Tigers defended their league championship by beating Westchester, 31-5.After losing to Westchester in its first game of the season, Princeton (5-1) had to win all of its remaining games to defend its 2001 Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union title.The Tigers' success in the fall qualifies the team for higher-level tournaments in the spring.

SPORTS | 11/05/2002

Division I-AA football boasts 108 teams, 14 leagues

If one were to start in Princeton, draw a line directly east to the ocean and another directly north to Canada, and call the area in that box "the Northeast," one would find that "the Northeast" has about one-ninth of the country's population.

SPORTS | 11/05/2002

Freshman Uberoi and w. tennis expect to contend for Ivy title

Without even competing in an Ivy League match for the women's teninis team, freshman Neha Uberoi established herself last weekend as one of the rising stars in the League, advancing to the quarterfinals of the Omni Hotel Eastern Regional tournament in Cambridge by defeating top-seeded Alice Pirsu of Penn.Uberoi, who had already lost to Pirsu during the fall, played aggres sively from the baseline, varying the depth of her powerful groundstrokes.

SPORTS | 11/05/2002

Natalie and Alexis Martirosian

'Prince' staff writer Anuj Basil recently sat down with sophomores Alexis and Natalie Martirosian from the women's field hockey team.'Prince': Why did you choose Princeton?Natalie: Field hockey was by all means a factor.

SPORTS | 11/05/2002

Unbeaten Navy's quick start spoils sprint football's home finale

When it rains it pours. This old adage not only applies to life, but to the world of sprint football.Over the break, Navy (5-0, 2-0 Collegiate Sprint Football League) defeated Princeton (0-5, 0-3) by a score of 59-8, handing the Tigers their worst loss of the season.The Midshipmen entered the contest riding an eight-game winning streak, which included five consecutive league victories.

SPORTS | 11/04/2002

Football's backup quarterback Verbit leads comeback vs. Cornell

Early in the fourth quarter against Harvard Oct. 26, football's star quarterback, junior David Splithoff, was crushed when trying to scramble for a first down.

SPORTS | 11/04/2002

M. soccer upsets Harvard, falls at snowy Cornell over break

American legend says that on the evening of Halloween strange things happen. Tradition has it that children hit the streets to trick-or-treat in costumes emulating the evil spirits thought to be roaming the world on this day.A strange thing did happen to the men's soccer team this fall break, only on the evening preceding Halloween.

SPORTS | 11/04/2002

Men's water polo finishes as runner up in Southern and ECAC tourneys

Men's water polo breezed into the finals of both of its two tournaments over fall break, but on both occasions, the Tigers went home disappointed.The team's active break schedule began with a trip to the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament in Annapolis, MD.

SPORTS | 11/04/2002

Women's volleyball wins three of four Ivy matches over break

With five matches in nine days, the volleyball team didn't have much of a fall break.The Tigers faced Dartmouth, Harvard, Villanova, Columbia, and Cornell this past week in a test of their endurance.Despite tough losses to Har-vard and Villa-nova, Princeton (13-5 overall, 6-3 Ivy League) steadily improved its play over the course of the week.

SPORTS | 11/04/2002

Football falls to Harvard, tops Cornell

In overtime, playing on a snow-covered field, Princeton led Cornell, 32-25.Needing a touchdown to force a second overtime, Cornell called a timeout.

SPORTS | 11/03/2002

Women's cross country fourth at Heps

It's tough to win a championship when your competition comes in and blows the entire Ivy League ? plus Navy ? out of the water.The Princeton women's cross country team returned from the Heptagonal Championships this past week, where they dueled with eight other schools for the prestige of being crowned champion for the cross country season.The Tigers entered entertaining the hope that they could pull off the upset and win, since they had recently performed well against most of the other teams with title chances.It wasn't meant to happen.Columbia placed five runners in the top ten to crush the competition, and Princeton cruised to fourth place in a closely contested finish with Yale, Cornell, and Dartmouth, all of who finished within eight points of the Tigers.

SPORTS | 11/03/2002

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