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National powers look to upset women's lacrosse in tournament

National powers look to upset women's lacrosse in tournament

Nineteen days. Sixteen teams. Fifteen upsets. One champion.These are just a few of the numbers wracking the women's lacrosse team's mind as it prepares for the 2002 NCAA tournament, which, beginning May 9, will ultimately culminate in the national championship May 19.Among the 15 other contenders, the top teams Princeton will have to watch out for are Georgetown, Loyola, Virginia, North Carolina, Duke, Cornell, and Maryland.Fortunately for the Tigers, they have already played six of those seven opponents ? and won five of those six games ? so they will be entering the first round of the tournament with a good idea of what to expect from the other top teams in the nation.Fortunately for the Tigers, they have finished the season ranked No.

SPORTS | 04/30/2002

Softball's regular season to end with games against St. Joseph's

Some seasons end with dramatic finishes to determine who goes to the postseason, or who gets home-field advantage.

SPORTS | 04/30/2002

Harris ties meet record, leads men's track at Penn Relays

The start of a race is usually marked by reverential silence, particularly if that race includes world 100-meter record holder Maurice Green.

SPORTS | 04/29/2002

Open women and heavyweight men crew teams race to first-place finishes

This weekend, the Princeton crew teams raced twice and recorded two triumphs for the first varsity eight squads.In a clean sweep, the open women's team claimed a total of six victories over Northeastern and Dartmouth, both Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges adversaries, in Hanover, NH.

SPORTS | 04/29/2002

Softball wins two behind strong pitching effort

Unexpected players provided the power for Princeton this weekend, but the Tigers' usual workhorses carried them to two victories in the rain-shortened Princeton Invitational.In the four-team tournament, Princeton played Manhattan and then Seton Hall on Saturday.

SPORTS | 04/29/2002

M. lax tops Dartmouth, sets up title game with Brown

The men's lacrosse team came away from Hanover, NH with a 13-7 victory over Dartmouth this weekend.

SPORTS | 04/29/2002

Women's golf team wins Northeast Championship, Redman leads effort

A week ago, life did not look so good for women's golf. The Tigers finished second at the Ivy League Championship ? and without the automatic bid to the NCAA Regional.This past weekend, things looked better as the team was in a familiar place ? at the top.

SPORTS | 04/29/2002

Women's track has good experience at Penn Relays, looks forward to Heps

To run your best, you have to run against the best.Or so the general theory goes, at least.

SPORTS | 04/29/2002

'Prince' sports tops 22.5-point favorite WPRB in hoops classic

The Princeton sports world is in balance again.Penn remembered it had more talent than the men's basketball team, the men's lacrosse team remembered it was good and 'Prince' sports beat WPRB sports Saturday night in the annual basketball game between the campus's two sources of athletics news.The 44-40 win at Jadwin Gym for the 'Prince' was its first in the last three years, but the sports scribes still hold a 82-3 all-time series edge.Holder Hall bookies put the athleteics announcers as early 22.5-point favorites, but the gap closed when the gaps started opening in the radio station's once-formidable lineup.Freshman Zack Pierce, a baseball beat writer and WPRB play-by-play man, decided Thursday to compete with the 'Prince.'"It's just a better group of people," Pierce said.

SPORTS | 04/28/2002

Women's lacrosse captures outright Ivy title with 10-6 win over Brown

There's an old sports saying: "It's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game."Luckily for women's lacrosse, that saying isn't exactly true.

SPORTS | 04/28/2002

W. water polo's season finishes with fourth place at Easterns

It's always sweet to win a championship, especially at home. Winning it is even better if it gets you a bid to the NCAA Championship.

SPORTS | 04/28/2002

Sweep of Pace puts division-leading baseball over .500 for year

The Tiger baseball team wanted to go to bed Sunday night above .500 for the first time since coming back from its spring trip 4-11, and senior captain Pat Boran played the role of Sandman.Boran's one-out double in the bottom of the ninth inning in game two of Saturday's doubleheader with Pace (10-30) scored sophomore utility man Steve Young and capped a 5-4 victory and two-game sweep of the visiting Setters.In the first game, freshman Ross Ohlendorf shook off a rocky third inning to lead Princeton (19-18 overall, 11-5 Ivy League) to a 9-3 win.

SPORTS | 04/28/2002

Baseball team takes break from Ivy schedule, prepares for Pace

With the Ivy League season coming down to the wire, the baseball team puts it all on the line this weekend when it takes on:Pace University?The Tigers (16-18 overall, 11-5 Ivy League) and the aptly-named Setters (10-25) square off in a doubleheader Saturday at Clarke Field before a Sunday finale at Pace.

SPORTS | 04/25/2002

W. lax prepares for last regular season matchup against Brown

With only one game left in the regular season, women's lacrosse has checked off almost everything that would appear on any team's to-do list.

SPORTS | 04/25/2002

W. water polo hosts Eastern Championships, seeks NCAA berth

The climax of most Division I sports is competing in the NCAA Tournament.The Tournament gives the team a chance to prove that it is among the nation's elite, but in order to get that chance the team must play well and earn a berth.

SPORTS | 04/25/2002

M. lacrosse intends to overpower league weakling, Dartmouth

Just as the men's football team traveled to Dartmouth this fall to take on the Big Green, the men's lacrosse team will do the same this weekend.

SPORTS | 04/25/2002

Softball team to host Princeton Invitational

On Sunday, the women's softball team returned to prominence in the Ivy League by capturing its first league title since 1996.It was the team's 14th overall in the 23 years the sport has been a part of the league.The Tigers finished with 13 league wins, which is the most in the history of the program.

SPORTS | 04/25/2002

Junior Rachael Becker excels for lacrosse and field hockey teams

Rachael Quinn Becker, a junior from Broomall, PA, is the leading defender on the top-ranked women's lacrosse team, with the highest number of turnovers caused and groundballs.

SPORTS | 04/24/2002

Women's lacrosse earns home win against Terps

The first twenty minutes gave no indication of what was to come.Down 5-0 with ten minutes left in the first half, the women's lacrosse team looked, perhaps, star-struck by its opponent, Maryland ? the Maryland that eliminated the Tigers from the tournament last year and went on to win the national title.The reigning champions jumped ahead just 45 seconds into the match, as the Tigers struggled to maintain ? or even to gain ? possession of the ball.Following a tricky save by freshman goalkeeper Sarah Kolodner seconds after the first Maryland goal, Princeton (14-1 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) tried to take advantage of the turnover and was able to transition smoothly into its usually unstoppable offensive set-up.

SPORTS | 04/24/2002

Galicinao and Del Calvo help softball to first Ivy title since 1996

For the first time in six years the softball team has won the Ivy League title. Maybe it is the weakness of the Ivy League this year, or possibly it is the strong core of freshman who have helped the Tigers reach the top of the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 04/24/2002

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