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Season scuttled, 2-6 football hopes to resurface against Yale

Season scuttled, 2-6 football hopes to resurface against Yale

The football team has found a number of ways to motivate itself this year. With every painfully close loss, the team has redirected its goals, evolving from dreams of an undefeated year through hopes of winning the Ivy League.Now, out of contention in the Ivy League at 2-3 with two games to play, Princeton (2-6 overall) has seen most of its goals washed away, making the remainder of the season a salvage operation."We have two games left in this season," senior defensive lineman Nick Freitag said.

SPORTS | 11/09/2000

'Lunch pail' Kilbourne combines talent with work ethic for women's hockey

Mark Messier is not someone often associated with collegiate women's hockey. This season, however, fans of Princeton's women's hockey team may see flashes of the New York Rangers' center in junior captain and center Andrea Kilbourne."She's definitely our Mark Messier," head coach Jeffrey Kampersal '92 said.

SPORTS | 11/08/2000

Women's hockey looks to challenge for ECAC crown

After missing the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament last season for the first time in seven years, the women's ice hockey team enters this season with confidence.

SPORTS | 11/08/2000

In like a lion: Lamb out to spark Tigers both on and off the ice

There are a number of similarities between senior forward Kirk Lamb ? this year's men's hockey captain ? and his predecessor, Darren Yopyk '00.They both grew up in Alberta, Canada, both played in the Alberta Junior Hockey League for the Bonnyville Pontiacs and were best friends while at Princeton.

SPORTS | 11/08/2000

Men's hockey out to prove itself under direction of new coach

Here's a pop quiz about the new-look men's hockey team: What is the correct pronunciation of the surname of rookie head coach Len Quesnelle '88?

SPORTS | 11/08/2000

W. soccer falls to Wisconsin in double-OT thriller

MADISON, Wis. ? The women's soccer team almost carried Wisconsin. On the chilly shores of Madison's Lake Mendota, the Tigers nearly pulled off a first-round NCAA tournament upset.

SPORTS | 11/08/2000

Women's golf triumphs at Georgia St.; men tie for sixth place at Georgetown

While both the men's and women's golf teams headed south over break hoping to conclude their fall campaigns with resounding victories, only the women's team returned with another championship.Ending its fall season, the men's team got stuck in competitive gridlock around the Washington Beltway, tying for sixth at the Georgetown Invitational.

SPORTS | 11/07/2000

News & Notes

The field hockey team will take on Penn State in the first round of the NCAA tournament Saturday in College Park, Md.

SPORTS | 11/07/2000

M. water polo loses to Navy in Southerns title game

Trailing 6-2 at halftime in the finals of the Southern Championships at Navy Sunday, the men's water polo team appeared to be on its way to a surprisingly lopsided loss against the always-tough Midshipmen.But this was a Princeton-Navy matchup, and if the Tigers have proven nothing else this year, they have shown that when they get together with their rivals from Annapolis, matters are never settled until the final buzzer.In that second half, Princeton (22-8) battled back with three consecutive goals, and though the Tigers fell short in the end, 6-5, they proved that their rivalry with Navy is as fierce as ever.Princeton has now played three one-goal games with the Midshipmen this year, losing Sept.

SPORTS | 11/07/2000

Jordan Rettig - Women's Soccer

When junior midfielder Linley Gober put the women's soccer team ahead of Penn, 1-0, in the Tigers' final regular season game last Saturday, one couldn't help but feel that the rest of the contest was a mere formality.The reason: Senior goalkeeper Jordan Rettig, who would go on to post a shutout for the sixth time in seven Ivy games.Leaping in the air to intercept crosses and diving to block shots, Rettig dominated the Princeton penalty area as she has done all season.

SPORTS | 11/07/2000

Women's soccer opens NCAAs against Wisconsin

A rivalry will be renewed when the women's soccer team travels to Wisconsin today to take on the Badgers in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.It's not the rivalry between Princeton and Wisconsin, however.

SPORTS | 11/07/2000

Women's volleyball cruises to easy 3-0 win over Stony Brook

The big grin on senior outside Sabrina King's face midway through the third game of women's volleyball's easy straight-sets win last night against SUNY-Stony Brook told the whole story.The Tigers, who are now 18-8 overall, 6-1 Ivy League, coasted through the match with confidence as King and senior middle Emily Brown got to close their last Princeton match at Dillon Gym with a decisive win."It's hard to get really excited when the team you're playing is not that good," Brown said.

SPORTS | 11/07/2000

Pair of victories puts women's volleyball atop Ivy League

After winning three of its four matches during Fall Break last week, the women's volleyball team is now No.

SPORTS | 11/06/2000

Streak ends for men's cross country at Heps

VAN CORTLANDT PARK, N.Y. ? Dartmouth snapped Princeton's string of nine consecutive Heptagonal League Championships in cross country and track by winning the men's Heps cross country meet Oct.

SPORTS | 11/06/2000

Struggles continue for sprint football in home losses to Navy and Cornell

The sprint football team had looked forward to its two games over Fall Break as a chance to turn its season around.

SPORTS | 11/06/2000

Women's hockey loses, ties in opening weekend

The women's hockey team opened its 2000-2001 campaign during Fall Break and found itself involved in a pair of tight contests right from the start.

SPORTS | 11/06/2000

Men's hockey goes 1-0-1 to open Quesnelle era

At Baker Rink on Saturday night, the key word for the men's hockey team was "new."Last year's head coach Don Cahoon was no longer barking orders from behind the bench.

SPORTS | 11/06/2000

Women's cross country takes seventh at Heps, looks ahead to Districts

High hopes came unceremoniously crashing to the ground for the women's cross country team as its quest to surprise the Heptagonal Championships field with an upset ended in a disappointing seventh-place finish.The Tigers hoped this would be the race where they would finally perform to their potential.

SPORTS | 11/06/2000

Offensive explosion clinches seventh straight title for f. hockey

With three games in six days, Fall Break was no time for relaxing for the field hockey team (13-3 overall, 7-0 Ivy League). It became, however, a time for celebration as Princeton posted three big wins over UConn, Cornell and Penn, earning its seventh consecutive Ivy championship....Princeton kicked off the week with a 2-0 shutout win over then-No.

SPORTS | 11/05/2000

A League of Their Own: Win over Penn clinches Ivy title, sending women's soccer to NCAA tournament

As time ticked off the clock late in the women's soccer game against Penn on Saturday night, the offensive mistakes, the sometimes-sloppy play and the missed opportunities of a season were forgotten.All the Tigers (13-4 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) focused on was the fact that if they could hold on to a 1-0 lead for a little longer, this group would be able to accomplish something no Princeton team had done since 1983 ? win an Ivy League Championship..As senior midfielder Julie Shaner and senior forward Amee Reyes froze the ball deep in the Quakers' end of the field, the clock ran out with the score 1-0 and the dream of the Class of 2001 finally came true.The Tigers had finished the season 6-1 in the league to tie with Dartmouth for the championship, but Princeton earned the automatic berth into the NCAA tournament by virtue of a 1-0 win over the Big Green on Sept.

SPORTS | 11/05/2000

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