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The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes

The men's water polo team, which had maintained high hopes for Easterns this past weekend, suffered a devastating loss to Queens in the first round of the tournament, before winning its final two games of the weekend to capture a fifth-place finish.In the first round, the Tigers came out slowly and could never fully recover from an early deficit, finishing with a disappointing 12-11 loss.

SPORTS | 11/19/2000

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Men's hockey heads north to face off with ECAC powers Vermont, Dartmouth

Through the first few weekends of the men's hockey season in the Eastern College Athletic Confer-ence, nothing seems to be working according to plan.Perennial league doormat Union College is leading the ECAC with six points and debuted in the national polls for the first time this week on the strength of Brandon Snee's spectacular goaltending.Yale, a team that usually finishes in the middle of the ECAC pack, has already knocked off two of the top three teams in the country ? Boston College and New Hamp-shire....These two teams, however, are not the only surprises in the early weeks of the season.Princeton is also making its mark ? through today, the Tigers are the only team in the country that has not yet suffered a loss.Princeton has compiled a 1-0-3 record (0-0-2 ECAC) through its first two weekends, including a pair of 4-4 ties last weekend against Clarkson ? the team that knocked the Tigers out of last year's ECAC tournament ? and preseason favorite St.

SPORTS | 11/16/2000

The Daily Princetonian

Women's squash looks to regain team title

Preseason rankings mean nothing. The women's squash team has decided that it is going to pay attention to one thing: results.Last weekend, when the Tigers traveled to Cornell to play in the preseason Ivy League Scrimmage, they were more encouraged by the games than where they were placed on any list."I think we realized from this weekend how well we can do this year," senior captain Julia Beaver said.

SPORTS | 11/15/2000

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Men's squash hopes to repeat as Ivy champions

The men's squash team did something last season it hadn't done in 17 years: It won the Ivy League championship.The Tigers ended Harvard's 10-year stranglehold on the crown, defeating the Crimson in regular season play, 5-4, to get back to the top of the league.Now, Princeton returns to try to repeat as Ivy League champs with almost all of its top nine back, except for one key player."We're in a post-Peter Yik era," head coach Bob Callahan '77 said.The Tigers lost to graduation one of the most successful players in the squash program's history, Peter Yik '00.

SPORTS | 11/15/2000

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Q&A with men's basketball's new head coach John Thompson '88

John Thompson '88 is the head coach of the men's basketball team. He recently sat down with 'Prince' senior writer Andrew Funk.'Prince': With the graduation of so many players who played major roles last season, what kind of changes will you make to the offensive system?Thompson: We're going to run the same offense we've always run here ? I just think it's the way you should play basketball.

SPORTS | 11/13/2000