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Men's rugby defends EPRU championship, women fall short

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Field hockey clinches share of Ivy League title, NCAA berth

With two key league wins in the first half of fall break, the field hockey team has secured at least a share of its ninth consecutive Ivy League championship, as well as another NCAA tournament berth.After a, 4-1, win over Harvard at home last Saturday, and a, 5-2, win over Cornell in Ithaca, the Tigers improved their Ivy League record to 6-0, with just one league game left to play.

SPORTS | 11/03/2002

Harvard drops women's soccer, 1-0, for Tigers' first loss

The U.S. Postal Service prides itself that "neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" can stop its couriers from delivering mail.Like the most dogged postman, women's soccer was undeterred by the weather in Ithaca, N.Y.

SPORTS | 11/03/2002

Men's X-C finishes third at Heptagonal Championships

Despite three All-Ivy finishes, Princeton's men's cross country team placed a disappointing third at the Heptagonal Championships, held Friday at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.Dartmouth defended it's title with 56 points, and was led by the one-two finish of Jared Shoemakker and Tom McCardle, the latter of whom is a multiple time All-America and visibly paced his younger teammate, often turning over his shoulder to shout encouragement.Columbia, who had beaten Princeton at the Paul Short Invitational earlier this fall, placed second with 63 points.

SPORTS | 11/03/2002

Perfect w. soccer season to be put on hold against Harvard

Women's soccer's No. 15 national ranking may frighten some of its opponents. But even though it is the weekend before Halloween, it is a sure bet that Harvard, which comes to Lourie-Love Field tomorrow evening, will not be scared of the Tigers.The Crimson have already played some of the top teams in the country this season, and while they haven't yet beaten a Top 25 opponent, they've demonstrated that they have the ability to play with any team in the country.

SPORTS | 10/24/2002

Men's, women's cross country prepare for Heps over fall break

As clocks shift forward and frost impends, the men's and women's cross country team's will be numb to distractions as they approach the most heated Heptagonal Championship race in recent memory.Unlike in past years, where the men's team has quite easily dominated the league, the caliber of competition has been raised and four teams have legitimate shots at victory next Friday morning.The Heptagonal Championships ? the conference meet for the Ivy teams plus Navy ? are held annually in the extremely challenging urban Van Cortland Park in the Bronx.

SPORTS | 10/24/2002

In virtual championship game, field hockey matches up against Harvard

While the bulk of the student body will be at home or on vacation over fall break, the field hockey team will be doing anything but relaxing as it tries to improve on a pair of season records: 4-0 in conference and 3-5 out of conference.The Tiger's unblemished Ivy League mark will be tested twice in the next week.

SPORTS | 10/24/2002

In battle for first, Princeton, Harvard football meet tomorrow

For a school with no rival, tomorrow's home football game with Harvard is about as big as it gets.The schools were favored to win the league coming into the season and have perfect 2-0 records in conference play.

SPORTS | 10/24/2002

It's about that time for a Tiger victory — oh, and Harvard sucks

The last time the football team beat Harvard was 1995. The Crimson's six straight victories since then encompass their longest winning streak in the history of the rivalry, which dates back to 1877.Princeton has lost close games to Harvard, such as last year's heartbreaker in Cambridge, Mass., when Taylor Northrop's '02 49-yard field-goal try sailed wide left.

SPORTS | 10/23/2002

Men's soccer's Douglas attributes success as player to the influence of former teammates

Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Andrew Robinton sat down with men's soccer senior forward Matt Douglas.

SPORTS | 10/23/2002

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