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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. ? A season of disappointment, a tournament of impossibility, but in the end, a celebration of the unbelievable ? a championship.In the arena where 18 years ago another underdog hockey team leaped into the national spotlight by winning a game in which no one gave them a chance, the men's hockey team (18-10-7 overall, 7-9-6 Eastern College Athletic Conference) defeated Clarkson (23-8-3, 16-4-2), 5-4, in double overtime to capture the ECAC tournament and earning Princeton an automatic bid to its first-ever NCAA tournament.Just 42 seconds into the second overtime, junior forward Syl Apps scooped up a loose puck in front of the Princeton bench and went on a solo breakaway down the ice with two Golden Knight defenders in pursuit. Game-winnerFrom the left side of the net, Apps flipped a shot over Clarkson goalie Dan Murphy's left shoulder.

SPORTS | 03/22/1998

Baseball wins three of five games during rain-marred spring break

For the baseball team, the spring break training trip is typically a time to work out the kinks and solidify the lineup.

SPORTS | 03/22/1998

Men's lacrosse rebounds from loss with wins over Penn State, UNC

Just in case you thought that the men's lacrosse team's first loss in two years (to Virginia) March 7, indicated the team was in trouble or the program had taken a step back, you need not worry.

SPORTS | 03/22/1998

Michigan State ends men's basketball's magical season

HARTFORD, Conn. ? Coming off a convincing win over UNLV March 12, the men's basketball team was set to face another big, physical team in Michigan State in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

SPORTS | 03/22/1998

Women's hockey toppled by UNH in ECAC semifinals

The glass slipper just didn't fit, as the women's hockey team was unable to pull a second straight upset in its would-be Cin-derella run through the Eastern College Athletic Conference championships.After downing second-seeded Northeastern, 3-2, March 7, the seventh-seeded Tigers (12-16-2 overall, 8-13-1 ECAC) were unable to knock off top-ranked New Hampshire, March 14, falling to the Wildcats, 7-2, in Boston.This time, Princeton was overwhelmed by a very good UNH (29-4-3, 18-1-3) team.

SPORTS | 03/22/1998

Tigers show Rebels out backdoor

HARTFORD, Conn. ? Everyone in the Hartford Civic Center knew it was coming. Princeton knew it.

SPORTS | 03/12/1998

M. hoops advance with 69-57 win

HARTFORD, Conn. ? With eight minutes, 52 seconds to go in the first half of the men's basketball team's 69-57 victory over UNLV last night, the No.

SPORTS | 03/12/1998

Men's lacrosse eyes victory over UNC in must-win game

It is a problem that most nationally prominent Princeton teams face: weak, but mandatory Ivy League schedules.

SPORTS | 03/12/1998

Healthy men's hockey has chance for redemption in ECAC playoffs

With all the excitement focused on men's basketball, and with a dismal record in the second half of its season, the men's hockey team has fallen into relative obscurity.

SPORTS | 03/12/1998

Women's hockey looks for upset over New Hamphsire in ECACs

It is true that big surprises come in small packages.The women's hockey team's victory last week was a surprise.But don't call the Tigers a small package.

SPORTS | 03/12/1998

Ivy League teams can reach the Final Four – it happened in '79

Every year the Ivy League sends a representative to the NCAA basketball tournament. The presence of of an Ivy League team in the Final Four, however, comes along about as often as Haley's Comet.

SPORTS | 03/11/1998

Modest about abilities, Hazen places team glory ahead of personal honors

In his final season for the Tigers, and in possibly his final year playing baseball, senior Michael Hazen looks back among his many baseball memories, and without hesitation recalls his greatest moment ? winning the Ivy League championship at Clarke Field two years ago."I don't have any stories of winning a game in the ninth inning with a home run or anything," Hazen says.

SPORTS | 03/11/1998

Men's basketball-UNLV: Contrasting styles meet

With wins over No. 5 Utah and No. 19 New Mexico last week, Nevada-Las Vegas was probably the last school the men's basketball team wanted to play in the first round of the NCAA tournament.Nevertheless, Princeton (26-1 overall, 14-0 Ivy League) will take on UNLV (20-12, 7-7 Western Athletic Conference) tonight in Hartford, Conn.

SPORTS | 03/11/1998

Tigers eager to compete in young sport of w. water polo

Women's water polo has yet to gain the recognition of women's swimming or basketball in America. Many of us may remember Olympic swimmer Amy Van Dyken's "Got Milk" commercial or WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes' eponymous shoes.

SPORTS | 03/11/1998

Change your pools now: Prince Sports Editors' Picks

Jeff DinskiNone of Philadelphia's Big Five qualified for the tournament this year, continuing a general trend of horrible Philadelphia sports teams.

SPORTS | 03/11/1998

Deep pitching staff to lead baseball in defense of Gehrig Division crown

A new coach, a new philosophy?The answer is yes and no as Scott Bradley takes over as head coach of the baseball team following the retirement of 16-year head coach Tom O'Connell after last season.

SPORTS | 03/11/1998

East Regional: A Closer Look

Sure, the men's basketball team is the No. 5 seed in the East and UNLV is the No. 12 seed, but what about the other 14 teams in the Tigers' bracket?

SPORTS | 03/11/1998

Talented Henderson will conclude career as one of Princeton's all-time great guards

In recent weeks, Mitch Henderson has been something of a walking advertisement for Blue Cross. His nose was broken in the men's basketball team's victory over Yale Feb.

SPORTS | 03/11/1998

Don't know much about hoops? Time to cram for the Big Dance

So what if you've been spending all of the men's basketball team's regular season locked in a Firestone carrel doing integral calculus?

SPORTS | 03/11/1998

Timely hitting keys softball to two one-run wins at Mayland tourney

When the softball team traveled to College Park, Md., last weekend to play both Maryland and Mary-land-Baltimore County, it didn't expect to have much of a home-field advantage.But after coin tosses determined that Princeton would play as the home team in both games, the Tigers capitalized on the technical home-field advantage by using their final at-bats to defeat both Maryland squads.The Terrapins (9-4 overall) and Princeton (2-0) battled for eight innings, before back-to-back run-scoring doubles by sophomore second baseman Kamilah Briscoe and senior center fielder Bevin Keenen gave the Tigers an encouraging 3-2 come-from-behind win.Princeton was forced into a must-score situation after Maryland scored a two-out run in the top of the eighth.

SPORTS | 03/10/1998

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