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After losing a 3-1 halftime lead last night and facing a suddenly hot Villanova team, the freshman-laden women's water polo team could have folded.Princeton (1-0 overall, 0-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) responded like veterans, however, and came back to score eight of the last nine goals to take a 12-5 victory at DeNunzio Pool.The Tigers came back from a 4-4 tie and dominated the second half, pulling away with a surge over a Wildcat team that looked lethargic in the latter stages of the game."It's good to have the first game out of the way," head coach Luis Nicolao said.

SPORTS | 02/16/2000

Women's hockey faces pivotal weekend

Women's hockey faces pivotal weekend

The guest list hasn't quite been finished yet. Some already know that they'll be going; others aren't so sure.

SPORTS | 02/16/2000

Women's tennis ranked 46th in new ITA poll

With the release of yesterday's Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) national rankings, the women's tennis team has once again proven itself to be the cream of the Ivy League crop.

SPORTS | 02/16/2000

Poor defense plagues w. hoops' season

The Ivy League women's basketball season starts with an eight-way tie for first place. Each team has the same record and must play the same 14-game schedule.This year, many observers expected Princeton to break the tie in the early going and rise to the top of the conference standings.

SPORTS | 02/16/2000

Men's, women's fencing defeat Penn in only home meet

The men's and women's fencing teams took big steps toward respective Ivy League titles last night at Jadwin Gym.The women (14-2 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) never let Penn in the contest, sweeping the Quakers in all three weapons.

SPORTS | 02/16/2000

Men's volleyball defeats NJIT in four, exacts revenge for tournament loss

After seeing its 1999 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tournament come to an end at the hands of New Jersey Institute of Technology, the men's volleyball team had revenge on its mind heading into last night's rematch at Dillon Gym.

SPORTS | 02/15/2000

Bernd's two pins lead wrestling to weekend split at Duquesne

A ray of light fell on the wrestling team last weekend at Duquesne. Just when everything seemed to be bleak, the future got brighter.The Tigers solidly defeated Waynesburg, 29-18, and just narrowly lost to Duquesne, 19-18.

SPORTS | 02/15/2000

Men's hoops loss to Penn will test fans' loyalty

The last few seconds of last night's game went by in slow motion. It was an out-of-body experience.

SPORTS | 02/15/2000

29-percent shooting dooms men's hoops

Down nine with four minutes, 37 seconds to play, the men's basketball team needed someone to step up and make a few clutch outside shots.

SPORTS | 02/15/2000

Men's track triumphs at H-Y-Ps

Going into the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet Saturday in Cambridge, Mass., the men's indoor track team knew that it had more talent and depth than its rivals, event for event.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Rumble in the Jungle: Men's hoops to host Penn tonight in the latest installment of Ivy League basketball's best rivalry

Only seven games into the Ivy League season, it is do-or-die time for Princeton.Men's basketball's loss to Yale gave Penn, which comes to Jadwin Gym tonight, a one-game lead in the conference.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Young: Head to the mound — and stay there!

Chris Young, you must really love this time of the year ? baseball season is just around the corner.Just think, Chris.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Men's swimming defeats Navy, looks ahead to Easterns

In the men's swimming team's final tune-up before the Eastern Championships, the Tigers sailed past visiting Navy with a dominating 186.5-112.5 victory Sunday at DeNunzio Pool.With the win, Princeton finished the regular season with a 10-1 record as head coach Rob Orr notched his 59th consecutive home meet win at DeNunzio.With strong performances up and down the roster, the Tigers surpassed Navy in 12 of 16 events.In the freestyle competition, sophomores Kevin Volz and Nathan Rebuck combined for three winning performances.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Athlete of the Week: Peter Yik

With the score tied, 4-4, in the men's squash team's match against Harvard Saturday, there were two men left playing ? senior No.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Men's squash defeats Harvard for Ivy title

Peter Yik crouched on the court with the sound pounding behind him. The Harvard stands were packed for the men's squash meet that would decide the Ivy championship, a title that Harvard had hoarded for nine straight years.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Tigers will give Penn fans another reason to whine

Okay Penn fans, you're probably expecting the usual list of cheap shots and insults that so often grace our pre-game columns whenever your basketball team is involved.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Women's squash tops Harvard

While the women's squash team's weekend performance in Cambridge, Mass., was not quite as dramatic as that of the Tigers' male counterparts, it was nonetheless a win.

SPORTS | 02/14/2000

Men's hoops sweeps Ivy pair as fans prepare to welcome Quakers

After months of turmoil, all is finally well in Carmodyville. For the first time this season, the entire roster was medically cleared to play, and the men's basketball team turned in two dominating performances.The entire 15-player roster got involved in a 72-47 thrashing of Dartmouth Friday, and rode on the back of sophomore center Chris Young for a 73-55 win over Harvard Saturday.

SPORTS | 02/13/2000

Four-point weekend moves w. hockey closer to playoffs

Finally.All season, the women's hockey team has been working towards a victory over one of the nation's elite teams, only to fall short every time.A last-minute goal by No.

SPORTS | 02/13/2000

W. hoops bus accident foreshadows weekend

After last weekend, the women's basketball team thought it was on the right track. It had won its first Ivy League game, 55-52 over Brown, bringing its season total for wins to four.Princeton (4-17 overall, 1-6 Ivy League) has run into lots of problems over the first part of its season, but on Thursday night the Tigers took that to a new level.As the team bus traveled through southern Connecticut, a car and an 18-wheeler bumped yards ahead of Princeton's bus.

SPORTS | 02/13/2000

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