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Men's lax to open season with No. 4 Johns Hopkins

Men's lax to open season with No. 4 Johns Hopkins

In college football, it's Notre Dame-Michigan. In college basketball, it's North Carolina-UCLA. In college lacrosse, it's Princeton-Johns Hopkins.Two of the most storied programs in collegiate men's lacrosse square off tomorrow on historic Homewood Field in both schools' season opener.Princeton, the two-time defending national champions, enters the game with high expectations for the upcoming campaign, a No.

SPORTS | 02/26/1998

Women's track to host Heptagonal Championships

In a span of two days, a season of training and competition will be gauged as a success or failure.

SPORTS | 02/26/1998

Men's track to host Heptagonal Championships

Men's track and field is looking for redemption.All eight members of the Ivy League and Navy will converge on Jadwin Gym this weekend to compete in the Heptagonal Championships, the most important event in Princeton's season.

SPORTS | 02/26/1998

Men's hoops to face Hill '85's Lions, Cornell in quest of title

The magic number is down to two as the men's basketball team takes to the road this weekend, looking to wrap up the Ivy League Championship with wins over Columbia tonight and Cornell tomorrow evening.The No.

SPORTS | 02/26/1998

Goalie position stands as Tierney's biggest question mark

Bill Tierney has a problem.Not that you'd know it by looking at the men's lacrosse coach, especially if you saw him in his spacious new office in the tower of Dillon Gym.

SPORTS | 02/25/1998

Men's lacrosse's Smith gives up attack, goals, keeps glory

Lorne Smith was always a goalscorer. He was the guy who anchored the attack on the high school lacrosse team, defeating one team after another with his lethal shot and heady play.

SPORTS | 02/25/1998

Men's lacrosse seeks third straight national championship

Last May 26, the men's lacrosse team routed Maryland, 19-7, in the NCAA championship final to successfully defend its national title and establish itself as the dominant team in collegiate men's lacrosse.This year, Princeton is looking to solidify its place as one of the best teams in lacrosse history."We try to set big goals around here," head coach Bill Tierney said.

SPORTS | 02/25/1998

Women's lacrosse looks to rebound from subpar season

After failing to qualify for the NCAA tournament in 1997 for the first time in six years, women's lacrosse hopes to regain its status as one of the nation's elite teams.With an experienced corps of defenders and the return of star junior midfielder Cristi Samaras, the Tigers hope not only to cruise through the Ivy League, but also to gain another berth in the NCAA Final Four, an honor Princeton earned every year from 1992 to 1996.An exhibition contest last October against Team USA gave Princeton many reasons to believe it will achieve its goal of returning to the Final Four.

SPORTS | 02/25/1998

Women's swimming hopes to take Ivy title

In championship meets, victors grab points wherever possible. And whenever possible.Last year, Princeton (8-2 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) finished second in the Eastern Women's Swimming League Championships to Brown (7-1, 7-0) by a mere 57 points.

SPORTS | 02/25/1998

Revived Samaras returns to lead women's lax back to Final Four

Last year the women's lacrosse team lost its record holder for points and goals scored in a season.This year she's back.After taking a one-year leave of absence, junior midfielder Cristi Samaras has returned to Princeton with plans to help lead the Tigers to where they didn't go last year ? the NCAA Final Four."I feel strongly we're going to win the national championship," Samaras said.

SPORTS | 02/25/1998

M. hoops keyed by offensive versatility

With four of the five starters on the men's basketball team (23-1 overall, 11-0 Ivy League) shooting over 40 percent from behind the three-point arc, opponents could think that Princeton's coaches do an incredible job of teaching their players the art of shooting.But unlike most teams, Princeton players don't usually take many contested jumpshots.

SPORTS | 02/24/1998

Memories of hoops in the dark should not have to be relived at Princeton

It used to happen all the time. My brother and I would play basketball in the dark on our hoop in the driveway.

SPORTS | 02/24/1998

Women's hoops' four seniors look to shine in final home weekend

Although its hopes of winning the Ivy League title were dimmed by last Friday's loss to first-place Harvard, the women's basketball team is not without goals for its final week of play.After Princeton (13-10 overall, 7-4 Ivy League) won only seven of 24 games in its 1996-97 campaign, the Tigers have made remarkable strides this season.

SPORTS | 02/24/1998

ECAC title still goal for m. hockey's Saltarelli

It is the most individualized position in the game of hockey. In a sport that emphasizes intricate passing and multiple players running systems as a single unit, the goalie stands alone as the final line of defense.Senior Erasmo Saltarelli has filled this role for the Tigers.

SPORTS | 02/24/1998

Wrestling falls to Penn, defeats Wagner in regular-season finale

Last Saturday's matches brought a trio of finishes to the wrestling team as the Tigers completed their first regular season as a varsity sport in five years.In a dual meet at Dillon Gym, Princeton finished its Ivy League competition against No.

SPORTS | 02/24/1998

Women's hockey drops two to UNH, Colby

This weekend the women's hockey team said parting words to its seniors, as the members of the class of '98 squared off in their final two home games at Baker Rink.After losing to Colby, 4-2, Saturday and to New Hampshire Sunday, Princeton (11-14-1 overall, 8-12-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) must get out of its current slump, or risk having to say goodbye to the postseason as well.In Sunday's game, the offensive statistics for each team were quite similar.

SPORTS | 02/23/1998

Murray departs after 20 seasons

After winning only one game the last three seasons, the lightweight football team needed a change to attempt to get back on the right track.

SPORTS | 02/23/1998

Men's fencing cruises past four foes this weekend; women 3-1

While the men's fencing team competed at Jadwin Gym against Harvard and Yale Saturday, its true fate was out of its hands.

SPORTS | 02/23/1998

Men's volleyball falls to No. 9 Loyola in four

"Growing up in the hood, you have good days and bad, and this was just another day in the hood.

SPORTS | 02/23/1998

Men's hockey loses early leads, falls to eighth in ECAC

Through all the ups and downs of the men's hockey season, there has been one solid assumption: the Tigers are going to the playoffs.That assumption is no longer sacred.This weekend Princeton (12-8-5 overall, 6-8-4 Eastern College Athletic Conference) had its third worst performance of the season, as the Tigers picked up just one point against St.

SPORTS | 02/22/1998

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