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Men's hoops hopes trip to Hoosier State holds reversal of fortunes

Men's hoops hopes trip to Hoosier State holds reversal of fortunes

Having stumbled out of the blocks down south and right here in New Jersey, the men's basketball team travels to the nation's heartland this weekend to seek its first victory of the season.Tonight, the Tigers (0-2 overall) will take on Weber State in the first round of Ball State's First Merchant's Bank Classic in Muncie, Ind.

SPORTS | 11/30/2000

Fencing teams to face battle at NYU tournament

Penn State has always stood in the way of Princeton's bringing home a fencing national championship."This year is our chance to change that," senior captain Terry Kim said.Whether or not the change will take place remains to be seen, but the first skirmish in that war will be fought this weekend as the fencing teams travel to New York University to face the Nittany Lions in addition to North Carolina and the host Violets.This will be the third competition for the defending Ivy League champs ? but the first team tournament of the season.

SPORTS | 11/29/2000

Cycling team receives big boon from surprising $10,000 sponsorship deal

It isn't often that someone decides to give you money without your even having to ask for it.What is even less common is getting over $10,000.However, this is the situation that the cycling club recently found itself in.Two weeks ago, the team received an e-mail from Bill Michaud, who is the owner of the Lincoln Mercury dealer in Princeton.

SPORTS | 11/29/2000

No recounts here: Numbers tell the story in Ivy sports

You've already heard more numbers than you'd ever hoped to.Bush leads by X votes, but there are X that haven't been counted yet, according to Gore.

SPORTS | 11/29/2000

Stone-cold women's hoops falls to Delaware

Coming off three road games to open its season, women's basketball looked to the friendly confines of Jadwin Gymnasium to help jump-start its struggling offense.Yet once again, the shots didn't fall and the offense sputtered, and the Tigers fell to Delaware, 66-47, last night in their home opener.Princeton (0-4), which came into the game averaging just over 40 points per game in its previous three contests, knocked down just 12 of 42 field goal attempts, including just four of 21 from three-point range.The Blue Hens (3-2) controlled the tempo from the opening tip, knocking down the game's first basket and never trailing throughout the entire 40 minutes.Both teams struggled to score in the early going.

SPORTS | 11/29/2000

Football encouraged by promising campaign despite 3-7 record

With the clock winding down on the season and Dartmouth about to kneel down on the game, Mike Higgins refused to give up.

SPORTS | 11/29/2000

Men's hoops turns to Rozier-Byrd, Wente for increased production

If a gardener gouges too deeply into the shrub he cares for, he runs the risk of killing it. But if he is careful, he can remove the longest limbs and leave a healthier, more attractive plant.Consider men's basketball head coach John Thompson '88, the new gardener who has to care for the pruning done by his predecessor.

SPORTS | 11/28/2000

Sebring, Gabel bring senior leadership to the court for m. squash

The leaders of the men's squash team are in a unique position this year."In individual sports, you pick the top players to be the captains," senior Harrison Gabel said.But that just happens to not be the case this season for the Tigers.Senior captains Gabel and Marshall Sebring were elected last spring to be this season's team leaders.

SPORTS | 11/28/2000

Not in Kansas anymore: Fox unlikely leader for w. hockey

Abbey Fox's road to assistant captain for the women's ice hockey team has been anything but a smooth ride.

SPORTS | 11/28/2000

Ryan Bonfiglio & Joe Clarke, Wrestling

Sending only four wrestlers to the VerticalNet Open this past weekend in Chapel Hill, N.C., Princeton wanted some big match experience but was not expecting to put forth a impressive showing.

SPORTS | 11/28/2000

Dave Stathos, Men's Hockey Goaltender

Junior Dave Stathos is the goalie for the men's hockey team. He recently sat down with 'Prince' Senior Writer Clark Thiemann.'Prince': When you were starting to play hockey, why did you become a goalie?Dave Stathos: I actually played forward between the ages of four and six and actually was pretty good.

SPORTS | 11/28/2000

Nothing finer than trip to Carolina for wrestling team's Clarke, Bonfiglio

Surpassing all expectations, four members of the Princeton wrestling team placed in the top three in their respective weight classes at the VerticalNet Open on Nov.

SPORTS | 11/27/2000

Welcome to the NCAA tournament: W. volleyball to face 28-0 Nebraska

It's the classic story of a modern day David and Goliath. Or maybe "Hoosiers." Either way you want to look at it, the women's volleyball team is getting ready for its most intense competition of the season."We're setting up for the biggest upset in national volleyball history," senior captain Emily Brown said.After winning the Ivy League Championship two weeks ago in Cambridge, Mass., Princeton earned a bid to the NCAA Division I Championships.

SPORTS | 11/27/2000

Harvard dynasty looms large for men's swimming, but Tigers are undeterred

For the last five years, the men's swimming and diving team has finished its season in the same undesirable place ? second, always looking up at the Eastern's champion.The champion of that meet for the last five years has been Harvard.But this year, with a deep core of experienced and talented seniors, along with a large group of skilled freshmen, Princeton hopes to reverse the outcome of years past."We are striving to slowly pick away at Harvard, who has been the main powerhouse in the East for the past several years," head coach Rob Orr said.This year, the team will rely on its balance in order to achieve its goal of finally toppling the Crimson.Princeton has already taken a big step on its road to a win at Easterns.In their first meet of the season, the Tigers dominated both Penn and Cornell Nov.

SPORTS | 11/27/2000

W. swimming hopes to repeat as Ivy champion

For four years, Brown women's swimming had dominated the pool at Ivies, with Princeton finishing second to the Bears for three of Brown's four consecutive championships.Last year's Tigers, however, changed all that.Fetching 794 points at the Ivy League championship, the Tigers capped an undefeated season by snatching the Ivy League title from Brown, ending its four-year reign.This season, the Tigers' goal is simple: win another Ivy League championship and leave the Bears gasping for air ? again."We're really fired up for the season," senior captain Kristen Szumera said.Repeating at Ivies is well within their reach.

SPORTS | 11/27/2000

Women's basketball still searching for first victory

Following a pair of lopsided losses to start the season, the women's basketball team finally found itself in a tight contest Saturday in the consolation game of the Beaver Classic in Corvallis, Ore.

SPORTS | 11/26/2000

Men's basketball's woes continue against Monmouth

When healthy, this is a young and inexperienced team. Saturday, it was something else entirely.The men's basketball team was without the services of two of its more experienced players, senior captain and forward Nate Walton ? out with a sprained ankle ? and junior guard Ahmed El-Nokali, still recovering from groin surgery.Also absent from the lineup was sophomore Chris Krug, who is taking a leave of absence until January for personal reasons.The result was only the second win for Monmouth (1-1) in seven meetings with Princeton (0-2). The Hawks rolled to a 70-59 victory."It hurts us," senior guard C.J.

SPORTS | 11/26/2000

After losing to Yale at home, men's hockey wins in New Haven

NEW HAVEN, Conn. ? After Yale's Jeff Hamilton rocketed a shot past junior goalie Dave Stathos 45 seconds into the third period to cut the men's hockey team's lead to 2-1, it seemed like the momentum had shifted the Elis' way.One minute later the crowd at Ingalls Rink was silenced as junior forward Brad Parsons drove to the net bouncing a shot off the pads of Yale goalie Dan Lombard.

SPORTS | 11/26/2000

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