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Men's hockey controls Vermont to pick up first win of season

Men's hockey controls Vermont to pick up first win of season

After going winless in the last two weekends of play, the performance of the men's ice hockey team this weekend was an improvement, if only a small one.Despite losing Sunday's match up against Dartmouth, 5-2, the Tigers showed poise in their 5-4 victory against Vermont Saturday night.

SPORTS | 11/19/2001

Goalies shine as women's hockey ties Providence, shuts out Elis on the road

After suffering through many third-period breakdowns and eight one-goal losses last season, the women's ice hockey team made it a goal for this year to hold strong down the stretch and to not let games slip away in the last 20 minutes.The team showed the resolve and poise it has been looking for this weekend as Princeton (2-3-1, 1-2-0 ECAC) tied Providence, 1-1, Friday and beat Yale 4-0 on Sunday.In Friday's matchup, junior netminder Sarah Ahlquist stole the show, stopping 23 of 24 shots she faced."Sarah played great," senior co-captain Aviva Grumet-Morris said.

SPORTS | 11/19/2001

Men's swimming picks up three convincing Ivy League victories

Like the blockbuster "Harry Potter" adaptation, men's swimming and diving had a solid opening weekend.On Friday, the Tigers traveled to Philadelphia for a double-dual meet, in which they easily defeated Penn 177-66 and Cornell 172-71.Sunday, Princeton was back on the road, headed for Providence, R.I., where they outswam Brown 198-89.With these wins, the Tigers extended their undefeated dual-meet streak, which goes back to 1999, to 14-0.

SPORTS | 11/19/2001

Men's water polo comes up well short of goal at Easterns

It was 10:50 a.m. on Saturday morning. Most students were just waking up and getting ready for brunch.

SPORTS | 11/18/2001

Michigan knocks field hockey out of NCAA Tournament

The Princeton field hockey team was finally knocked out of the NCAA tournament in the semifinals, succumbing to Michigan, 4-2.

SPORTS | 11/18/2001

Splithoff, Opara lead way as football ends season by mauling Big Green

HANOVER, N.H. ? In 1815, the United States beat Britain in the Battle of New Orleans. The only problem was that the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812, had been signed several weeks beforehand.In a similarly anticlimatic matchup, Princeton (3-6 overall, 3-4 Ivy League) whipped Dartmouth (1-8, 1-6) 35-14 Saturday in Hanover, N.H.The Tigers finished the season tied for fourth in the Ivy League and won back-to-back games for the first time since 1998.

SPORTS | 11/18/2001

Cal, St. Joe's overwhelm men's hoops at Black Coaches' Association tourney

Tradition haunted the men's basketball team when it traveled to California to compete in the Black Coaches Association Classic this weekend.

SPORTS | 11/18/2001

WEEKEND WRAP-UP

Women's basketballThe women's basketball team made a bold statement on Friday, opening its season with a 76-61 triumph over Lehigh.

SPORTS | 11/18/2001

Rutgers gets early goal, withstands late Princeton flurry as Scarlet Knights eliminate women's soccer, 1-0

The women's soccer team's dream season has finally come to an end. After winning its first round NCAA tournament game Friday against Loyola-Maryland, Princeton dropped its second round match to New Jersey rival Rutgers, 1-0, Sunday at Lourie-Love Field.

SPORTS | 11/18/2001

Field hockey makes fourth appearance in Final Four

If there is an underdog in the 2001 NCAA field hockey Final Four, Princeton is it. At least by the numbers.Of the four participants - Michigan, Maryland, Princeton and Wake Forest - the Tigers have the lowest ranking.

SPORTS | 11/15/2001

Tigers lose to Golden Bears 58-70

Despite 17 points by sophomore center Konrad Wysocki, the men's basketball team fell to Cal 70-58 in the first round of the BCA Classic Thursday night in Berkeley, Calif.Wysocki went 6-for-8 from the field on the evening including a pair of three-pointers, but Princeton fell behind by 16 at halftime and was unable to make up the difference in the second half.The Tigers shot a respectable 58 percent from the field as a team, but were hampered by 24 turnovers which eventually made the difference as the Golden Bears only handed the ball over 15 times.Junior guard Mike Bechtold was the only other Tiger in double figures, scoring 11 points one 4-for-8 shooting.

SPORTS | 11/15/2001

Men's water polo top seed in wide-open field at Easterns

This Saturday, the Princeton men's water polo team will attempt to start off the Eastern Championships with a bang when it plays Massachusetts at 10 a.m.

SPORTS | 11/15/2001

Football faces Dartmouth in final game

Two and six. Next to the bottom of a weak league going into the last game of the season. But for anyone who wants to be optimistic, the Tigers are playing the one team below them in the Ancient Eight - Dartmouth.It has been a rough, heart-wrenching year.

SPORTS | 11/15/2001

Women's soccer plays host to Loyola in first round of NCAA tournament

Heading into its first round game of the NCAA tournament against Loyola, the women's soccer team should feel pretty comfortable.The Tigers are 15-2-2 on the season, while the Greyhounds are barely above .500 with a 9-8-2 record.

SPORTS | 11/15/2001

With five returning starters, Brown leads list of teams chasing Princeton for Ivy championship

Men's basketball in the Ivy League is like the Cold War. Just as the United States and the Soviet Union competed for supremacy in every way, from nuclear arsenals to ice hockey, Penn and Princeton battle on all possible fronts.

SPORTS | 11/14/2001

El Nokali looks to take over as leader of young team both on the court and off

At 8:30 p.m. on Monday night, senior guard Ahmed El Nokali was on the phone in his room, which smelled like the dinner from Wendy's that he had not yet eaten.

SPORTS | 11/14/2001

Q & A With Women's Hoops Head Coach Richard Barron

'Prince' staff writers Chandra Russell and Blaire Russell recently sat down with women's basketball's head coach Richard Barron.'Prince': Where did you coach before you came to Princeton?Barron: I coached for nine years total at the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tenn.

SPORTS | 11/14/2001

Men's soccer's Ivy hopes rest on outcome of Harvard-Brown game

And it all comes down to Saturday. One game to decide the Ivy League Championship. Will it go to Harvard, Brown, or Princeton?

SPORTS | 11/14/2001

Freshman class adds size, depth, talent to Tigers' undersized upperclass roster

Against North Carolina in the NCAA tournament last year, the Tiger starting lineup averaged six-feet, five-inches.

SPORTS | 11/14/2001

Deep men's team eyes Harvard with goal of Ivy League title

Men's swimming and diving is tired of second place.Actually, the Tigers been tired of second place for a while now ? about six years.Either Princeton or Harvard has won the Easterns title every year since 1973, but the Crimson have won the last six, and nine of the last 10.

SPORTS | 11/14/2001

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