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Women's hockey loses first game, ties second at Niagara

Women's hockey loses first game, ties second at Niagara

In Eastern College Athletic Conference women's hockey, only eight teams advance to the playoffs. Going into this weekend's two games against eighth-place Nia-gara, Princeton was in ninth place.Thus, by playing the Purple Eagles, Princeton had a chance to take matters into its own hands instead of relying on another team to beat Niagara.

SPORTS | 02/18/2001

Men's hoops drops two to fall into tie for Ivy lead

NEW YORK ? Men's basketball head coach John Thompson '88 had seen this sort of movie before . . . and didn't like the ending.The sequel this weekend was even worse.

SPORTS | 02/18/2001

Women's hockey turns to Niagara along road to playoffs

One down, five to go.Last Sunday's 3-1 upset of No. 2 Harvard was just step one of Princeton's plan of assault.

SPORTS | 02/15/2001

Women's squash goes for third national title in four years

In both 1998 and 1999, the Princeton women's squash team won the national championship by winning the Howe Cup.

SPORTS | 02/15/2001

Men's hockey gets chance to avenge early-season loss to RPI

Rensselaer came into Baker Rink to play the men's hockey team Dec. 9 and left as 6-2 victors over a slow-to-arrive Princeton team.

SPORTS | 02/15/2001

Weekend Schedule

Friday, Feb. 16 Women's basketball vs. Columbia (7 p.m. at Jadwin Gym) Men's basketball at Columbia (7:30 p.m.

SPORTS | 02/15/2001

Men's hoops looks to extend Ivy lead at Columbia, Cornell

As the Ivy League season cruised past its midway point last week, the race for the men's basketball conference crown resembled a tightly-packed group of horses rounding the mile pole and heading for the backstretch.

SPORTS | 02/15/2001

Women's basketball to seek respect against Cornell, Columbia

Looking at their record, it would seem as if members of the women's basketball team don't have much to smile about.They have one win and 19 losses.

SPORTS | 02/15/2001

Wrestling pinned by Quakers, 34-7

Stunned by its loss to Cornell, the Penn wrestling team decided to unleash its wrath on the Tigers last night.

SPORTS | 02/14/2001

Cool, calm Lawrence collects honors for women's fencing

Thrust. Parry. Watch for the big move. Move her into position. Block. Parry. Attack. Set her up. Here it comes . . . block the move.

SPORTS | 02/14/2001

Athlete of the Week

The men's basketball team could very easily have come away from its last three games a broken team.

SPORTS | 02/14/2001

Concordia tops men's volleyball, hands Tigers first league loss

For the men's volleyball team, swapping coasts is like changing serves ? the Tigers go from one end to the other from time to time, but are well aware that they will be heading back in the near future.The change of coasts will always be a factor for any volleyball team, but a recent rule change might make the change of serves considerably less of a factor.Tuesday night, the Tigers finally returned home after a long stint on the West Coast and a brief visit to Massachusetts.

SPORTS | 02/14/2001

Princeton honors Women in Sports

Sometimes it is hard to remember that athletics is about more than just winning and losing, especially at a school with so much athletic success.Princeton is widely recognized as a leader in women's collegiate athletics.

SPORTS | 02/14/2001

News Notes

Ivy HonorsIndividuals for the women's hockey team and the men's basketball team garnered Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors for the second week in a row this week.For men's basketball, it was forward Andre Logan winning the award for the second straight week.

SPORTS | 02/14/2001

Men's hoops' inexperience pays at Penn

Freshman forward Konrad Wysocki was nothing but smiles after men's basketball's convincing 67-53 victory over Penn last night at the Palestra.

SPORTS | 02/13/2001

Men's track a dominant first, women fall to third at H-Y-Ps

The Harvard-Yale-Princeton rivalry is always intense, but it is not often that the Crimson, Bulldogs, and Tigers go head to head to head.On Saturday the track teams representing what U.S.

SPORTS | 02/13/2001

Powerful Penn tops w. hoops

With two minutes left in the game, even Princeton head coach Kevin Morris looked tired.He rubbed his face hard a few times, looked at the scoreboard and saw that his team was losing to the Penn, 66-49.

SPORTS | 02/13/2001

Shaken Quakers: men's hoops pounds Penn

PHILADELPHIA ? This time, no miracles were necessary. There were no game-winning desperation threes, no incredible comebacks, and a rather drawn-out finish.Playing in the most hostile environment in the Ivy League an under -manned, under-sized, under-appreciated Princeton men's basketball team outplayed a supposedly superior Penn squad, 67-53, before a capacity crowd at the Palestra.To begin the contest, Penn forward Ugonna Onyekwe outleapt Tiger center Nate Walton and tapped the ball to teammate Geoff Owens.

SPORTS | 02/13/2001

W. water pool splits four at DeNunzio

Coming into this weekend's series of difficult contests, the women's water polo team was sure of its talent, but uncertain of its preparation.

SPORTS | 02/13/2001

Young guns will dominate Philly goons

Before I start in with the arrogance, allow me to preface with a short allegory.My grand uncle used to take part in rapid-fire pistol competitions, where he befriended an Arizona state trooper to whom he routinely lost.He liked to tell a story about the time this trooper pulled a truck over for a traffic violation, unaware of the fact that the driver of the vehicle was a vicious axe murderer.

SPORTS | 02/12/2001

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