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Women's rugby looks to Final Four; men relish historic season

Women's rugby looks to Final Four; men relish historic season

This past weekend, Princeton was a site on the "road to the Final Four." It hosted part of a national Sweet 16 where teams such as Stanford, Illinois, Penn State and Princeton came together to vie for the rights to a national title.

SPORTS | 04/19/2000

Football News and Notes

Tonight is a big night for football head coach Roger Hughes. After several weeks of spring training, the new Tiger coach will take command of the orange and black from the sidelines for the first time in a game situation.Princeton will have an intrasquad game this evening at the Princeton University Stadium at 6:00 pm.

SPORTS | 04/19/2000

Women's lacrosse downs Penn by 15-goal margin

When the Penn women's lacrosse team scored two goals within a minute of each other with eight minutes, three seconds to play in the first half ? bringing the score within four at 7-3 ? it was not instigating a rally.

SPORTS | 04/19/2000

Nat Hoopes — Men's Golf

Coming into this weekend's Ivy League Championship at Metedeconk National Golf Course, the men's golf team had struggled to maintain a consistent level of play.

SPORTS | 04/18/2000

Bailer, Baugher are on the draw for men's lacrosse

Two combatants, clad in their traditional armor, lie crouched in the middle of a field, with only a small rubber ball and a painted line between them.

SPORTS | 04/18/2000

Men's volleyball ends season with loss to Penn State, Ivy tournament win

When the smallest player on the court makes a block at the net, it can be the kind of play that sparks an underdog to an improbable upset.In the third game of the men's volleyball team's regular season finale against Penn State Saturday, the two teams were tied 1-1 in games.

SPORTS | 04/18/2000

Baseball and softball cancelled

The softball team's scheduled doubleheader against Hofstra at the Tigers' 1895 Field was cancelled yesterday due to inclement weather.

SPORTS | 04/18/2000

Men's heavyweight, women's open crews score impressive wins

The 1975 Cup and the Childs Cup are in familiar hands. For the 11th and sixth times, respectively, the women's open and the men's heavyweight boats were able to coast to victory, capturing their respective trophies this weekend.

SPORTS | 04/17/2000

Jessup wins pole vault for m. track in Tennessee; women fall to Penn, Yale

It seems that at nearly every meet the men's outdoor track team competes in, the Tigers get strong performances from complementary athletes, who manage to individually step up and support the cornerstones of the team.At the Hurricane Invitational, it was freshmen David Gary and Jon Bell.

SPORTS | 04/17/2000

All-American Stramandi seeks spot on U.S. national diving team

Danielle Stramandi just smiles ? and with the slightest embarrassment ? explains some of the awards she has earned so far this year.There are a lot.

SPORTS | 04/17/2000

Men's Golf wins Ivies

When senior captain Judd Pritchard of the men's golf team was a freshman, he found victory when he won the individual Ivy League title.

SPORTS | 04/17/2000

Women's water polo claims first Mid-Atlantic championship

With such a successful record, one would find it hard to believe the women's water polo team (20-3 overall, 8-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) is composed of 10 freshmen, three sophomores, two juniors and one senior.

SPORTS | 04/17/2000

Galicinao throws a perfect game against Penn, but softball splits two doubleheaders against the Quakers and Cornell

Few things are perfect in sports ? Don Larsen's pitching in Game Five of the 1956 World Series; Christian Laettner's 10-for-10 shooting against Kentucky in the quarterfinals of the 1992 NCAA Tournament.As rare as perfection is in the sports world at large, it is just as rare in Princeton sports.

SPORTS | 04/16/2000

Women's tennis stays perfect in Ivies; men fall to Harvard, 4-3

In a quest for a league title that is decided over only seven contests, every match is critical. This weekend was no exception, resulting in important consequences for both the men's and women's tennis teams.

SPORTS | 04/16/2000

WEEKEND WRAP-UP

Men's VolleyballThe Tigers finished their season with a 3-1 home loss to EIVA rival Penn State on Saturday.

SPORTS | 04/16/2000

Men's lacrosse cruises past Harvard in penalty-filled night game

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ? In trying to knock off the reigning Ivy League champs, Harvard took a novel approach.

SPORTS | 04/16/2000

Baseball lights up scoreboard in sweep of Columbia

The Round of 16 in the NCAA basketball tournament. A 16th birthday. Sixteen runs for the baseball team in yesterday's nightcap.

SPORTS | 04/16/2000

Women's lax notches 10th consecutive victory

Kim Smith was not having fun. The sophomore attack saw Harvard players streaking by, screaming encouragement to their teammates and spinning around stunned, silent Princeton players.The women's lacrosse team was losing to Harvard (4-4 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) 3-0, just four minutes into the first half.

SPORTS | 04/16/2000

Men's lax hopes to avoid upset bug against Harvard

For a team with perennial national championship aspirations, such as men's lacrosse, the progress of other national powerhouses must always be followed.This week saw major developments beyond Old Nassau with the breakdown of the old guard and the introduction of a new disorder in the college lacrosse landscape.In the first half of the season, two teams ? Syracuse and Virginia ? clearly separated themselves from the masses below.

SPORTS | 04/13/2000

Eight isn't enough: Baseball falls to Monmouth in N.J. slugfest

Eight runs and 11 hits: good numbers that usually leave a team satisfied and with a win. Not so for the baseball team yesterday.When the Tigers traveled to Monmouth to take on the Hawks (12-18), they were outdone at the plate in a 10-8 shootout.

SPORTS | 04/13/2000

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