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The Daily Princetonian

Men's tennis ends season with pair of Ivy League wins

It was the final match of the season and no one could compete with the men's tennis team. It put up a tough last fight to take third place in the Ivy League....After a sweep on Friday a-gainst Colum-bia, followed by a 6-1 win on Saturday over Cornell, the men couldn't have asked for a better ending to their season.On Friday, the Tigers went into their competition against Colum-bia with a vengeance, since they had lost to the Lions the past two years in a row."[Columbia] had beaten us the last two times for the Ivy title," sophomore Dan Friedman said, "but we knew if we were focused, we had a shot at beating them."Princeton won two of three doubles matches.

SPORTS | 04/22/2002

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Men's track wins quad meet with Rutgers, Iona and Manhattan

Eighteen days and counting. The Heptagonal championships are fast approaching, and the men's track and field team used a home meet last weekend to prepare for the focal league championship competition.Princeton hosted a trio of local schools: Rutgers, Iona and Manhattan, and came out victorious despite not fielding a full squad."This weekend was a tune-up for the beginning of the championship part of the season," junior half-miler David Dean said, "so a lot of people either rested or rabbited a race." Rabbiting is track vernacular for serving as a pacesetter for a portion of the race.

SPORTS | 04/22/2002

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M. lacrosse regains driver's seat in league with win over Cornell

Champions show up to play when it counts. Last Saturday, it counted.Capitalizing on six straight goals over a 10-minute span in the second half, the men's lacrosse team moved into a tie for first place in the Ivy League with a 12-7 thrashing of Cornell at 1952 Stadium.The Big Red (9-2 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) suffered its first conference loss in the process, while Princeton (6-4, 3-1) now needs only to win its last two games against Dartmouth and Brown to capture its eighth straight Ivy title.

SPORTS | 04/21/2002