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W. hockey beats UNH, Quinnipiac to push unbeaten streak to eight games

W. hockey beats UNH, Quinnipiac to push unbeaten streak to eight games

"Make Patty Proud."The brand-new banner that adorns the facade of the student section at Hobey Baker Rink, honoring former Princeton women's hockey great Patty Kazmaier, was certainly in sophomore forward Gretchen Anderson's peripheral view as she scored the lone goal in a 1-0 overtime upset of the No.

SPORTS | 12/09/2001

WEEKEND WRAP-UP

Indoor trackThe men's and women's indoor track teams saw their first action of the season at the New Year's Invitational at Jadwin Gym on Friday night.

SPORTS | 12/09/2001

Men's hockey hopes to garner first road victory

Challenges are nothing new to the men's ice hockey team. Each weekend this season has been an adventure for the team, as it has gone through ups and downs in its play.

SPORTS | 12/06/2001

Ways to improve the Princeton hoops experience

Tomorrow night is the second home men's basketball game of the season and since many of the upperclassmen will be fulfilling obligations on Prospect Avenue, residential colleges, it's your chance to show what a good crowd is all about.

SPORTS | 12/06/2001

Women's basketball rides 4-2 record into contest with Army

Unless you really thought America was going to lose the War of 1812 ? and come on, war fans, who really did?

SPORTS | 12/06/2001

Struggling men's hoops faces Monmouth

Princeton men's basketball has had a rough start on the season thus far ?winning just one of its first six games.Tomorrow night at 7:30, the Tigers will return home to Jadwin Gym to take on last year's Northeast Conference Champion and NCAA tournament qualifier, Monmouth, and attempt to pick up their second win on the season before facing No.

SPORTS | 12/06/2001

Women's hockey to host Quinnipiac, New Hampshire

After a slow start to its season, the women's hockey team is finally coming into its own.Last weekend, the Tigers (5-3-2, 3-2-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference-North Division) recorded two solid victories over Colgate and Cornell.

SPORTS | 12/06/2001

Questions & Answers: Pairs who play

Field hockey's freshmen Alexis and Natalie Martirosian, women's soccer's juniors Lynn and Krista Ariss, and freshmen Rochelle and Janine Willis - identical twins all, recently sat down with 'Prince' staff writers Blaire and Chandra Russell to discuss life as twins on and off the field.'Prince': When you first started out playing the sport, did you find you had different skills, leading to your having different roles on the field?AM: Although our styles are similar, Natalie is somewhat more attack-minded.KA: Right when we started playing at age five, Lynn was definitely the more defensive player and I was more aggressive.JW: Well, at the beginning it was hard to tell.

SPORTS | 12/05/2001

AVIVA GRUMET-MORRIS Women's Hockey

Coming into the season, women's hockey was not suffering from a lack of talent, simply a lack of players.But going into last weekend's contests against league doormats Cornell and Colgate, the Tigers knew that despite being shorthanded, they would have to pick up a pair of victories.After a dominant defensive effort against the Raiders Friday night in which her defense allowed only five shots to reach goaltender Sarah Ahlquist, senior defender Aviva Grumet-Morris turned on her offensive firepower the next night, tallying a pair of assists and her first goal of the season in Princeton's 4-1 win over the Big Red.Grumet-Morris has been the anchor of a very young Princeton defense this season and has performed admirably, even while skating double shifts much of the time.

SPORTS | 12/05/2001

NEWS AND NOTES

Women's Soccer's Deerin, Ariss and Willis recognizedIn addition to being named Ivy League Player of the Year before the beginning of the NCAA Tournament, junior midfielder Heather Deerin was named to the All-Mid-Atlantic Region first team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

SPORTS | 12/05/2001

Inside play leads women's basketball over Lafayette

There were no smiles as the women's basketball team walked off the court after last night's game against Lafayette - even though they walked off with the victory.Junior Maureen Lane started the game off with a quick layup - a fancy hook shot from under the hoop - that set the tone for the rest of the game.

SPORTS | 12/05/2001

Kelly building on past success as lone men's squash senior

Let's make one thing clear: Senior Peter Kelly doesn't like Yale."I just think that they suck as people," the senior men's squash captain said.

SPORTS | 12/05/2001

Senior Campbell returns from Africa to lead women's fencing

Senior fencer Lindsay Campbell is very attached to her epee.For those of you who are thinking of triangular shaped dwellings made of cowhide and wondering how the editors let such an egregious typo slip, the epee is a triangular blade, the heaviest and most similar to the classic dueling sword of the three competitive fencing weapons.

SPORTS | 12/04/2001

Eight-time national champion Penn State tops men's fencing

Men's fencing traveled to Rutgers University last weekend to take on Penn State, North Carolina and NYU.Heading into Sunday's quad-meet, the Tigers were looking to avenge last season's lost to perennial powerhouse Penn State."Wehave almost beaten them in the last couple years.

SPORTS | 12/04/2001

From top to bottom, Ivy League enjoys early-season success

Lehigh is a football powerhouse. The Mountain Hawks are 11-0 overall, including wins over Princeton and Cornell, and are currently in the second round of the Division I-AA playoffs.In men's basketball, however, the Mountain Hawks have been punished by the Ivy League . The Ancient Eight have gone 3-0 against Lehigh with wins by Harvard, Dartmouth and Columbia.The Mountain Hawks are admittedly not the Patriot League's best team.

SPORTS | 12/04/2001

Man advantage no advantage at all for men's hockey so far this season

Offense wins games, but defense wins championships.Most sports fans have heard this clich

SPORTS | 12/04/2001

Led by Parker, Venturi, wrestling team seeks to expand last year's accomplishments

After finally tasting success last year, it seems that the wrestling team is ready for the full serving this season.Returning only four starters from last year's lineup, the Tigers still have a great deal of confidence in their lineup.

SPORTS | 12/04/2001

Early success not enough as No. 5 Iowa handles wrestling

Playing the role of the underdog, Princeton shocked No. 5 Iowa by taking an early lead in the meet, and almost winning four matches against one of the nation's most historic wrestling programs.In the fourth meet of the season for Princeton (1-3), the Tigers traveled to Blair Academy, in Blairstown, NJ, to face the Hawkeyes.With six of the 10 wrestlers in the lineup for Iowa ranked in the top 15 in the nation, Princeton knew it had a difficult task.

SPORTS | 12/04/2001

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