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Frosh expected to make immediate contribution to team

Frosh expected to make immediate contribution to team

Freshmen are often considered the bottom rung of the social hierarchy. They can, however, occasionally serve a useful purpose.The women's water polo team hopes that freshmen can be the difference this year in its goal of winning the Eastern Championships.The Tigers came ever so close to the title last season, but were thwarted by Brown in a 11-10 sudden-death double-overtime match in the finals of the Eastern Championships.The Tigers will rely on the play of seven freshmen to try and fill the void left by departing seniors and also to patch up the few holes in the team from last season.Freshmen two-meter Kathyrn Parolin and Mariah Zebrowski and also defender Julie Garton are just a few who will be counted on to adapt quickly to the college game."Jules brings speed to our counter and Kathryn and Mariah will help Adele [McCarthy-Beauvais] out in set," junior defender Jenny Edwards said.

SPORTS | 02/14/2002

Harvard, Dartmouth head down to Jadwin to take on sliding men's basketball

How bad was the men's basketball team against Penn Tuesday night? Not only did the Tigers lose by 24 points, but they also had six more fouls than field goals.But one game ? even if a pathetic one ? does not an Ivy League season make.And Princeton is still second in the conference at 5-2 (9-9 overall against Division I teams, 1-0 against D-III teams). The Tigers, who have lost back-to-back league matchups to Penn and Yale, haven't lost three Ivy games in a row since head coach John Thompson '88 turned his tassel in front of Nassau Hall.This weekend, the Tigers play Harvard and Dartmouth at Jadwin Gym, where they have won 50 straight conference matchups that weren't against Penn.The Crimson come to town Saturday night.

SPORTS | 02/14/2002

Women's hoops looking to snap league losing streak

This coming weekend, the women's basketball team will try to end its current six-game losing streak.

SPORTS | 02/14/2002

Women's fencing wins, men fall short

In the first major Ivy home meet of the season, the men's and women's fencing teams faced off against the Quakers for the first time since last year's two upsetting losses.

SPORTS | 02/13/2002

Wrestling still looking for first Ivy League victory of season

One week after their trouncing of Franklin & Marshall, the Princeton grapplers hoped to build on that win to stop a two-match Ivy League losing streak as they traveled to New England to take on league rivals Harvard and Brown.The Tigers had already lost close matches to Ivy foes Cornell and Columbia, wrestling well enough to stay in each match, but missing the right formula to record their first league win.Princeton headed to Massachusetts hungry for the elusive conference victory.The Tigers traveled first to Cambridge, Mass.

SPORTS | 02/13/2002

Men's hockey fighting for ECAC playoff spot

With only three weekends left in the season, the Princeton men's hockey team has its work cut out if it wants to finish in the top five and win home ice advantage for the playoffs.

SPORTS | 02/13/2002

Quakers take early lead and embarrass men's basketball, 62-38

As the Princeton announcer introduced the Penn players, the Quakers clutched one another and hopped in a circle like overactive toddlers in a playground.Then, like stern and conscientous parents they locked the backdoor, eliminated all fire hazards and set an example for others to follow.The men's basketball team (10-9 overall, 5-2 Ivy League) bowed to Penn (17-6, 4-3), losing 62-38, in its most crushing loss this season."We got spanked," freshman guard Will Venable said.Princeton missed shots in a variety of ways ? clanging balls over the rim, bouncing them off the blackboard, fumbling layup attempts and three-pointers alike.

SPORTS | 02/12/2002

Men's swimming beats Columbia and Navy in final dual meets of season

Men's swimming and diving wrapped up its dual meet schedule convincingly last weekend with back-to-back wins over Columbia and Navy.Princeton traveled to Columbia Friday, Feb.

SPORTS | 02/12/2002

Cold shooting dooms Princeton to second-straight Ivy League defeat

"The game three years ago always stays in our thoughts," Penn head coach Fran Dunphy said.He was referring to the "Palestra Miracle," a game in which Princeton came back from 24 points down at halftime to win the game, 50-49.Last night's competition between the two teams was like that game three years ago, except without the Palestra.

SPORTS | 02/12/2002

Tigers searching for answers

It wasn't the missed lay-ups. It wasn't the piss-poor officiating in the second half, no matter what the Tiger partisans claimed.

SPORTS | 02/12/2002

Women's swimming stretches streak to 32 with victory over Columbia

An undefeated season.A goal so unobtainable only one team in the National Football League has ever accomplished it.

SPORTS | 02/12/2002

Surprises mark men's squash's win against rival powerhouse Harvard

In what is fast becoming the biggest rivalry in college squash, Princeton (8-0 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) won the latest match 5-4 over Harvard (6-2, 4-1) before 500 stunned fans at the Crimson's Murr Center Sunday to win its second Ivy title in the last three years.The winner of the Harvard-Princeton match won the Ivy title the last three years, and in each of those years the margin of victory was 5-4.Head coach Bob Callahan '77 figured Princeton would need to win the top five positions to pull out a victory.

SPORTS | 02/11/2002

The rivalry? Not with Penn's paltry performance this season

North Carolina vs. Duke. Indiana vs. Purdue. Tennessee Tech vs. Middle Tennessee State.Rivalries are the blood that flows through college basketball's veins.

SPORTS | 02/11/2002

M. track finishes strong at Armory, Bucknell, sets two records

At this point, it's all about Heps and the post-season. As the indoor track season winds down, the chances to qualify for either the IC4A or NCAA championships grow fewer and fewer, adding a sense of immediacy to the last couple of meets of the year.

SPORTS | 02/11/2002

The game: the tables are turned – Penn hoops travel to Jadwin tonight for premier rivalry of Ivy League basketball

'The Game' is tonight at 7:30. Penn and Princeton. Always the biggest game of the season. The rival schools have been the end-all of Ivy League men's basketball for decades.

SPORTS | 02/11/2002

Men's hoops tops Bears, falls to Elis

The sellout crowd of 3,100 invaded the court as the team's star finished the visiting team with an emphatic dunk at the buzzer.

SPORTS | 02/10/2002

Downward slide continues for women's hoops against Ivy foes

With eight seconds left in regulation and the Tigers trailing, 67-64, junior Allison Cahill threw up a desperate shot from the three-point line.

SPORTS | 02/10/2002

Road blues: Men's hockey struggles on ECAC road trip, gets one point

In life, love and hockey, it's the little things that count.The Princeton men's hockey team has made huge strides on both ends of the ice since the beginning of the season.

SPORTS | 02/10/2002

Women's hockey struggles past tough Cornell, whips Colgate

The Princeton women's hockey team (13-6-2 overall, 9-3-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference ? North) beat the teams it was supposed to this weekend, as it disposed of Cornell (5-15-1, 4-7-1) and Colgate (11-11-2, 1-7-2).Although the Big Red and the Raiders both sit near the bottom of the ECAC-North, they are very different teams.

SPORTS | 02/10/2002

Men's volleyball splits first two league matches, looks to GMU

In its first Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association action of the year, the men's volleyball team knocked off rival Juniata College before losing to national powerhouse Penn State.The five-set (28-30, 30-27, 36-38, 30-24, 15-10) win was the Tigers' first win over Juniata in their last four matches."Juniata's a team that's on the same level as us but for some reason we've always lost to them," senior captain Scott Dore said.

SPORTS | 02/10/2002

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