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Despite poor play, men's soccer comes away with tie

Despite poor play, men's soccer comes away with tie

Strong defense has been the key to the men's soccer team's success all season, and Saturday's game against American University proved just how important ball control and mistake-free play can be for Princeton.Ranked 17th in the country, and undefeated since Oct.

SPORTS | 10/22/2001

Return of playmakers factors into football's improved performance

Senior defensive end Phil Jackman rolls off his blocker as Harvard quarterback Neil Rose drops back.

SPORTS | 10/22/2001

Hosting Infiniti Classic, men's lacrosse shows stuff in comeback against Towson

The score was eight to nothing. In any sport in which the score is tallied one point at a time, that is a blow-out, a sign for the spectators that two uneven teams are on the field.That was the impression that fans at this weekend's Princeton Infiniti Lacrosse Invitational got when Princeton fell behind Towson by the score of eight to nothing at the end of the first quarter.Many were saying that this year's Tigers were simply not going to be as strong as last year's team, which beat Syracuse on Memorial Day to bring home the NCAA Championship.Others accredited the early blow-out to Towson's continuing improvement.

SPORTS | 10/22/2001

Women's open eight team keys successful weekend for crew

For crew, this time of year is supposed to be the off-season. Autumn days are an opportunity for outdoor training before heading inside for winter workouts.

SPORTS | 10/22/2001

Field hockey remains undefeated in Ivy League with victory over Harvard

The Princeton field hockey team (12-2 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) went into this weekend facing two important but very winnable games.

SPORTS | 10/21/2001

Northrop wide left, football loses another heartbreaker at Harvard

With only seven seconds left in the fourth quarter, Princeton was down by two. The Tigers put their faith in senior place kicker Taylor Northrop, who is in competition to break the Ivy League record for most field goals in a career.

SPORTS | 10/21/2001

Turning the Tide

The Princeton coaching career of women's soccer's head coach Julie Shackford, coming into the 2001 season, was far better than average.

SPORTS | 10/21/2001

Women's volleyball notches first two Ivy wins over Brown, Yale

A champion has a confident swagger. But if that champion loses three straight league games, that strut dissipates very quickly.

SPORTS | 10/21/2001

Men's water polo loses brutal match to Navy in CWPA weekend action

A child could have seen it coming. In a championship match filled with frustration, tension, and officiating that had both head coaches in a frenzy for the duration of the game, what more appropriate culmination could there be than a water fight?With 4 minutes, 22 seconds remaining in a 9-8 loss to Navy in the championship game of the CWPA Crossover Weekend at DeNunzio Pool yesterday, Princeton senior driver Robert Urquhart scored a goal to pull his team within two goals when a fight broke out near the Navy net.Whistles went wild as the Tigers (11-4 overall, 6-1 CWPA) and Midshipmen (11-3 overall) flailed at each other mercilessly, the emotions from a tightly-played game finally spilling over."It was building," Princeton head coach Luis Nicolao saidd, referring to the rising tempers.

SPORTS | 10/21/2001

Sprint football hoping to repeat past, collect first win against Big Red

There are only five schools in the country that play sprint football. If you venture too far from the campuses of Army, Navy, Cornell, Penn or Princeton, no one has any idea the sport even exists.With such a small set of teams, chances are pretty good you've never seen a sprint football game.

SPORTS | 10/18/2001

Rivalry still alive as football faces undefeated Harvard

When Princeton and Harvard meet, throw the records out. The two universities compete for the best students, recruits and professors.

SPORTS | 10/18/2001

Head of the Charles gives crew chance to test early-season form

Crew isn't typically a fan-friendly sport. A hundred-thousand people don't generally turn out to watch a regatta.

SPORTS | 10/18/2001

Women's soccer's title run goes through Cambridge

This weekend, the women's soccer team's match against No. 11 Harvard will almost certainly draw fewer spectators than the football team's game against the Crimson.

SPORTS | 10/18/2001

Women's soccer survives late scare to beat Villanova

The cold evening deserved a match that would heat it up. And for that purpose, no game could have been better.

SPORTS | 10/17/2001

NEWS AND NOTES

Two Tigers earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors this week as Theresa Sherry of the women's soccer team and Rachael Becker of the field hockey team received the award.Sherry, a sophomore forward, scored three key goals in the past week.

SPORTS | 10/17/2001

Women's club soccer looks to league title, bid to nationals

This year, women's club soccer will enter new territory, ? namely, Tuscaloosa, Ala. ? where Princeton intends to compete at the eighth annual National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association Tournament.

SPORTS | 10/17/2001

Negron steps up on offense in first year for women's soccer

The Princeton women's soccer team is off to its best season in years, currently ranked 25th nationally with a record of 9-1-1.

SPORTS | 10/17/2001

Women's cross country's Casey sets good example on and off the course

It began as a means to an end, yet running soon became the ultimate end for women's cross country captain ? senior Catherine Casey.Well, almost the ultimate end.

SPORTS | 10/17/2001

Men's soccer plays to scoreless draw against No. 16 Loyola

Sometimes you only get one chance. For men's soccer last night, that chance lasted 45 minutes. For the entire first half of the Tigers' game against Loyola, the momentum was decidedly in their favor.

SPORTS | 10/17/2001

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

So far this season, junior attack Ilvy Friebe has dominated the headlines for the field hockey team.Last week, her classmate, attack Rachael Becker, jumped into the spotlight and showed that there was more than one Tiger who could dominate a game.The winner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference and Ivy League Player of the Week honors, Becker scored four goals in Princeton's three wins last week, including the game-winning goals in wins against both Delaware and UConn.In the 3-2 win over the Blue Hens, Becker scored the third goal for Princeton to give it the win.Then the Tigers faced off against Brown in Providence, R.I.

SPORTS | 10/17/2001

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