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Track teams head to Hanover in search of Heps glory

Track teams head to Hanover in search of Heps glory

Football has the Super Bowl, baseball the World Series, sailing the America's Cup. To find indoor track's ultimate event for Princeton's men and women, look no further than the Heptagonal Championships, which are being held this weekend at Dartmouth's Leverone Field House in Hanover, N.H.Nine teams ? the eight Ivy League schools plus Navy ? compete at Heps, but on the men's side, the Tigers are the team to beat.

SPORTS | 02/24/2000

Men's volleyball triumphs over NYU, 3-1

Coming off a disappointing homestand, the men's volleyball team hit the road last night and came away with a solid four-game victory over New York University.

SPORTS | 02/23/2000

Hughes hiring brings shuffling of assistants for Tiger football

Football head coach Roger Hughes will have to do a lot to turn around a program that finished 1-6 in Ivy League play, tied for last place in the conference.First, he has to decide who's going to help him try.While the process of hiring and firing is far from over, some decisions have been made.

SPORTS | 02/23/2000

Women's water polo looks to improve on 26-win season

In only its third season as a varsity sport at Princeton, the women's water polo team is aiming high.

SPORTS | 02/23/2000

Question & Answer with David and Peter Yik

Peter Yik is the senior No.1 for the men's squash team. David Yik is the freshman No.2 for men's squash.

SPORTS | 02/23/2000

Jason Garrett '89 signs with Giants as backup quarterback

Ten years after leaving Princeton for a winding professional football career, Jason Garrett '89 is on his way back to New Jersey as a backup quarterback for the New York Giants.

SPORTS | 02/23/2000

Modest Nichols leads Tigers with clutch scoring, tenacity

Some athletes stand around talking to themselves. Some eat the same pregame lunch. Some meditate in solitude.However, for Cassie Nichols, women's water polo's sophomore sensation, getting psyched for a game involves warming up to music ? with her team."She is the ultimate team player," head coach Luis Nicolao said.

SPORTS | 02/23/2000

Track teams fare well at home invite

Both the men's and women's indoor track teams competed in the Princeton Invitational this Saturday at Jadwin Gym.

SPORTS | 02/22/2000

In a bleak season, Lauren Rigney shines for women's hoops

Lauren Rigney is not the women's basketball team's leading scorer. Nor is she the team's best rebounder.

SPORTS | 02/22/2000

Penalty-prone Morin shakes reputation, leads surging m. hockey

A Princeton men's ice hockey record was broken Feb. 11 at Union. The occasion was not met with a ceremony or an ovation from the crowd, however.Senior forward Benoit Morin broke the unofficial school mark for career penalty minutes with a roughing call late in the first period against the Dutchmen's Alex Todd.

SPORTS | 02/22/2000

Tigers sandwich weekend with sweeps of Springfield, cellar-dwelling Southampton

The men's volleyball team was hoping to use this weekend's matches in the friendly confines of Dillon Gym to climb the standings in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association before heading on the road for the next five contests.As the Tigers discovered, however, things don't always turn out as planned.Princeton (5-5 overall, 4-3 EIVA) managed to win the first and third matches of the weekend, dropping the second in a heart breaking five-game loss to visiting Juniata (5-6, 2-4). The Tigers pounded a weak Southampton (0-10, 0-4) team Friday, coasting to a three-game win ? 15-5, 15-8, 15-11 ? and rallied from Saturday's loss to beat Springfield College (7-5, 4-3) by scores of 15-4, 15-7, 15-9, Monday.The second game in the match against Southampton opened with several lineup changes on the Princeton side of the net, including a rare substitution for senior setter and captain Jason Morrow."They're not as strong as they've been in the past," head coach Glenn Nelson said.

SPORTS | 02/22/2000

Bhupathi takes second at Invitational

With the surge of the Princeton women's tennis team to No. 46 in the nation, in particular the rise to No.

SPORTS | 02/21/2000

No. 1 Trinity downs men's squash

Marcus Cowie was tired. Trinity had already claimed the regular-season national squash championship earlier in the afternoon, streaking to a 7-1 lead entering the final match Saturday at Jadwin Gym.Princeton (9-1) had lost, but there was a new battle now transpiring on court No.

SPORTS | 02/21/2000

New practice room highlights hectic week for wrestling

With only a few more weeks left in the wrestling season, Princeton is determined to take advantage of every remaining moment.

SPORTS | 02/21/2000

Women's hockey's playoff hopes dim following pair of losses

The 'tables' of the Eastern College Athletic Conference women's hockey standings were set going into this weekend's two away games.Princeton entered the weekend in eighth place in the ECAC and riding high off a two-game winning streak.

SPORTS | 02/21/2000

Men's hoops finds range, sweeps Ivy weekend pair

If there were any questions about whether or not the young men's basketball team would rebound from the loss to Penn, they were answered this weekend.After shooting a meager 29 percent against the Quakers Tuesday, Princeton lit up Cornell and Columbia with better than 50 percent shooting in both games.

SPORTS | 02/20/2000

Penn wrests national crown from women's squash, 5-4

NEW HAVEN, Conn. ? Seniors Blair Irwin and Liz Kelly hoped that when they graduated they would be able to join an elite group of Princeton graduates ? one that has been populated most recently by former members of the men's lacrosse team.

SPORTS | 02/20/2000

Retooled defense keys w. hoops' sweep through Empire State

Much like a person rummaging through a lost-and-found bin, the women's basketball team has finally felt the euphoria of locating a long-lost item.This weekend, the team rediscovered its defense en route to its first Ivy League weekend sweep of the season.Friday night in New York City, Princeton (6-17 overall, 3-6 Ivy League) knocked off Columbia (4-16, 3-5) in a 62-44 slugfest.

SPORTS | 02/20/2000

Win over Dartmouth propels m. hockey into fourth-place tie

Before yesterday's game against Dartmouth, men's hockey head coach Don Cahoon figured that three or four goals would be enough for his team to claim a victory.

SPORTS | 02/20/2000

Underdog w. squash hopes to capture Howe Cup

The women's squash team may be hoping to "three-peat" this weekend as national champions, but what Princeton specifically wishes for is a repeat of its performance at last year's Howe Cup, the tournament that determines the national champion.Last year, the Tigers lost in the regular season to Harvard, which took the Ivy League title.

SPORTS | 02/17/2000

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