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Fencing teams unable to get over Penn State hump, defeat NYU, UNC

Fencing teams unable to get over Penn State hump, defeat NYU, UNC

Salieri and Mozart. Any European country in a land invasion against Russia. And now, finally, the Princeton fencing team against Penn State.Throughout history, there have always been competitive struggles in which the underdog was just barely unable to come out on top against the opponent it badly wanted to beat.

SPORTS | 12/04/2000

Muncie madness: Men's hoops tops Weber State, Ball State to win tournament

While the game of basketball was born in Massachussetts, its heart and home truly reside in Indiana ? the Hoosier State.

SPORTS | 12/03/2000

Men's hockey claims comeback victory over Colgate, endures Big Red shutout

The men's hockey team has earned eight points in the first four weeks of its Eastern College Athletic Conference schedule.In each of those four weeks, the Tigers (4-3-3 overall, 3-3-2 ECAC) have earned two of four possible points.In one way this shows consistency on the part of a young Princeton team.

SPORTS | 12/03/2000

Women's volleyball falls to top-ranked Huskers in NCAA tourney

Picture this: You step out onto the center court, ready for the biggest game of your life ? the lights blazing, music blasting and the crowd deafening.

SPORTS | 12/03/2000

Women's hockey takes home pair of victories from St. Cloud

Time had run out, and the score was still knotted at 3-3 as the women's hockey team found itself in its first overtime period of the season against St.

SPORTS | 12/03/2000

Land o' Lakes: Homecoming for five members of women's hockey team

Sometimes, heading home is just the thing to help someone get out of a rut. Five members of the women's hockey team hope that a trip to their home state ? Minnesota ? will end Princeton's recent slide.The Tigers head to the Land of 10,000 Lakes ? more specifically, St.

SPORTS | 11/30/2000

High-scoring men's hockey faces opposite in Cornell

There's an old adage that says that a good defense always beats a good offense. Or is it that a good offense always beats a good defense?

SPORTS | 11/30/2000

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

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