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With returning attackmen like junior B.J. Prager and senior Matt Streibel it would be easy to assume that a freshman would have trouble cracking into the rotation for the men's lacrosse team.Freshman Ryan Boyle has not only cracked into that rotation but has taken it over and now leads the team in scoring with 11 goals and 16 assists through the first eight games of the season.But it was one week ago when the freshman had his breakthrough game.

SPORTS | 04/09/2001

Women's water polo avenges early-season loss to win Southerns

Women's water polo avenges early-season loss to win Southerns

Nothing beats winning a championship.Except, perhaps, winning that championship by crushing a would-be rival and getting revenge for an earlier loss....The Princeton wo-men's water polo team did just that last weekend, and continued its postseason winning streak last weekend by cruising to victory over Michigan, 11-5, in the title game of the Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division Championships.

SPORTS | 04/09/2001

Women's golf takes tenth in strong field at JMU Invitational

With an overall performance that fell short of the the women's golf team's full potential, the Tigers placed tenth in the James Madison Invitational this weekend.Despite favorable weather and a fairly standard course which would ordinarily favor good scoring, senior thesis stress plagued Princeton and kept the Tigers from attaining a higher finish.Princeton finished in tenth place, shooting a total of 643 ? 27 shots behind the winning teams.

SPORTS | 04/09/2001

Hoopes' individual title propels m. golf to second-place finish

The men's golf team captured a second place finish in the Navy Spring Invitational this weekend. Though a victory was within reach, Princeton fell short of a winning performance ? finishing seven shots away from gaining the crown.

SPORTS | 04/09/2001

Men's crews blast weekend opponents

Sometimes an early season loss can be a good thing. Starting the race fast does not always work. Look at the hare.Hoping to make like turtles and erase a shocking season-opening loss to Georgetown, the men's lightweight crew hosted Navy this weekend.

SPORTS | 04/09/2001

Baseball sweeps pair with Dartmouth

Sometimes the baseball team rides its pitching. Sometimes the bats carry the Tigers. And if there is one overriding message to be learned from Saturday's doubleheader against Dartmouth, it is this: Princeton can win either way.In a rematch of last year's Ivy League championship series, the Tigers (9-15 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) easily handled the Big Green (6-11, 2-4), winning the first game, 1-0, behind sophomore righthander Ryan Quillian, and then taking the second, 9-6.With every start, Quillian seems to get more and more comfortable in his role as the team's No.

SPORTS | 04/08/2001

Women's lacrosse trounces Yale in battle of top-two Ivies

As the clock ran out at the Soccer-Lacrosse stadium in New Haven, Conn. on Saturday, one could look out over the field and see two women's lacrosse teams that had battled, each vying for the top spot in the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 04/08/2001

Men's tennis picks up close wins over Brown, Yale

There is nothing more satisfying than the sweet feeling of victory.Unless you are able to have that same feeling of success twice in a row.And what is the only thing more satisfying than back-to-back victories?

SPORTS | 04/08/2001

Women's tennis rebounds for Brown win, then falls to Yale

When the women's tennis team attempts to rebound from a disappointing loss, it does so with a vengeance.The Tigers lost to tennis powerhouse Virginia Common-wealth April 1, 4-3.

SPORTS | 04/08/2001

Men's lacrosse bashes Brown, looks to take No. 1 spot after Syracuse loss

When the men's lacrosse team takes on an Ivy League opponent, the game isn't supposed to be close.

SPORTS | 04/08/2001

Past Masters: Baseball to meet Big Green, Crimson

This is the most important weekend thus far in the baseball team's developing season. Period.In a four-game road trip north, the Tigers take on Dartmouth tomorrow and Harvard Sunday in back-to-back doubleheaders.

SPORTS | 04/05/2001

Women's lacrosse battles Ivy League co-leader Yale in showdown for lead

Coming off an upset of defending Ivy League champion Dartmouth March 24, the Yale women's lacrosse team has shot up in the national rankings and could pose as the greatest threat to No.

SPORTS | 04/05/2001

Women's lightweight team travels to San Diego for Crew Classic

The women's lightweight crew team does not lose very often. Maybe once or twice a season ? rarely when it really matters.

SPORTS | 04/05/2001

Men's rugby seniors to get one more shot at rival Dartmouth

There has been a long-standing rivalry between the Princeton and Dartmouth men's rugby teams which has grown deeper in recent years.

SPORTS | 04/04/2001

WWP 101: Basic Water Polo (or: Not just California Dreamin' anymore)

Water polo. Although most people have heard of the sport, many have little concept of what it looks like, or how it is played.

SPORTS | 04/04/2001

Women's lacrosse overcomes early deficit to beat Delaware

Seven minutes into women's lacrosse's game against Delaware last night, Princeton found itself in an unusual position, down 3-0 to a fiesty Blue Hen squad.That was when junior attack Kim Smith stepped up her game.Smith would score two goals in a three-minute stretch to tie the score at three, and would add two more later on in the game to lead the Tigers to a 9-6 victory over Delaware in Newark, Del.After Smith tied the score, 3-3, the two teams would trade goals until halftime when both teams went to the locker rooms with five goals.Delaware was the squad to come out of the half hot, however, as the Blue Hens took a 6-5 lead on Ashley Moderacki's second goal of the game one minute, 12 seconds into the second half.Junior attack Lauren Simone would even up the score four minutes later and the Tigers would never look back en route to their seventh win of the season.

SPORTS | 04/04/2001

Baseball gets marathon win over Rider

It was the perfect day for a baseball game. The sun was shining, the skies were blue, spring peaked out from winter's shroud.

SPORTS | 04/04/2001

Galicinao, White spear softball sweep of Temple

The softball team was getting anxious. Eight games had already been canceled due to rain this season.

SPORTS | 04/04/2001

Women's rugby avenges loss to Penn State, captures Mid-Atlantic title

The women's rugby team was certain that Penn State, the defending national champions, had not spent the morning practicing in a parking lot.The morning before they took on the Nittany Lions, the Tigers found the practice field in terrible shape, so they ran their practice in the parking lot outside Pier 1 Imports in Roanoke, Va.Apparently, asphalt was good to Princeton, as the Tigers took home the Mid-Atlantic Rugby Football Union regional championship, defeating Penn State and Navy in two gritty, hard-fought games in the rain and mud.Though all three teams had already qualified for the round of 16 in the national championship tournament, this was a battle for seeding, and the Tigers came out on top, earning the top seed in the East Region for the national championship tournament.In the first game of the weekend, Princeton took on Penn State, the defending national champion, in a grudge match.

SPORTS | 04/04/2001

Questions & Answers

'Prince' staff writer Austin Starkweather recently sat down with defenseman Damien Davis and midfielder Owen Daly of the men's lacrosse team.'Prince': When did you start playing lacrosse?Damien Davis: I was in first grade.

SPORTS | 04/03/2001

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