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Paul Morrison's performances have made it clear: The track star's future is now

Paul Morrison's performances have made it clear: The track star's future is now

Cross country and distance track coach Mike Brady remembers clearly the moment he knew how good Paul Morrison could be.It was the NCAA cross country championships last year ? and Morrison was a freshman phenom lost in a pack of the nation's best runners.Brady was watching from across the field as the pack emerged from the woods and faced a treacherously steep hill."Everyone came gingerly down that hill," Brady says.

SPORTS | 05/02/2000

Men's heavyweight crew rebounds from loss

Faced with gusty winds and harsh rain in Cambridge two weekends ago, men's heavyweight crew's perfect record was swept up in the storm when Princeton fell to Harvard by three seconds.Under clearer skies this past weekend, the heavyweights rebounded from the loss, beating both Cornell and Yale in Ithaca, N.Y., Saturday.Both the Tigers and the Elis started strong early, with Yale holding a slight lead over Princeton.

SPORTS | 05/02/2000

Women's squash team leader Julia Beaver has established a legacy of dominance

Her list of accomplishments is almost too long. She owns two team national championships and two individual national championships.

SPORTS | 05/02/2000

W. water polo tops three-time defending champ UMass to claim first Easterns title

With two-and-a-half minutes to play ? and the Eastern Championship on the line ? the women's water polo team and UMass were tangled in another test of endurance.For three straight years, the Minutewomen had come out on top of these battles.

SPORTS | 04/30/2000

Getting by: Baseball takes one out of four to clinch Gehrig

One win. That's all the baseball team needed. A single win in a four-game series against Gehrig Division rival Cornell, and the Tigers would clinch the division title.But the win just would not come easily."Coming into the weekend our confidence was pretty high," junior first baseman Andrew Hanson said.

SPORTS | 04/30/2000

Women's lax ekes out win over Brown

Coming off back-to-back losses against No. 2 Dartmouth and No. 1 Maryland, the women's lacrosse team needed a convincing win heading into the NCAA tournament.Saturday, against a mediocre Brown team, the No.

SPORTS | 04/30/2000

Men's lacrosse claims outright Ivy title with win

Trailing after only one minute of play, the men's lacrosse team found its streak of Ivy perfection that had taken four hard seasons to build in jeopardy.Princeton's seniors, however, were not about to let the league doormat snap a career's worth of work.The Tigers (9-2 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) scored nine consecutive goals and then held on to defeat Dartmouth (5-8, 0-5) 10-7, in Hanover, N.H.

SPORTS | 04/30/2000

Denbo, Morrison star for men's track at historic Penn Relays

Athletes including Michael Johnson, Gail Devers, Marion Jones. 45,203 spectators on Saturday, 102,193 overall.

SPORTS | 04/30/2000

Men's lax seeks to regain momentum in Hanover

An Ivy title was at stake, the national championship picture was up in the air and two potent teams were coming to town.While last weekend's men's lacrosse action at 1952 Stadium featured three of the top 10 teams in the nation battling for Ivy and national bragging rights, tomorrow's game at Dartmouth (5-7 overall, 0-4 Ivy League) is decidedly less interesting.The Big Green has finished in the bottom half of the Ivy standings for the past several seasons, and is once again struggling this year.

SPORTS | 04/27/2000

Double-sided defense on display as softball splits with Villanova

All season, the softball team has won on the strength of its dominant pitching ? and lost on the slipups of an error-prone infield.Yesterday's doubleheader at Villanova showcased both faces of Princeton's defense.The Tigers lost the first game, 3-0, on an error, but came back to win the second game, 1-0, on the strength of a one-hitter pitched by the combination of sophomores Sarah Jane White and Brie Galicinao.The host Wildcats were not very welcoming when Princeton first arrived.

SPORTS | 04/27/2000

Big Green could throw wrench into Princeton-Harvard rivalry

All year the baseball team has been fighting to reach the Ivy League Championship Series and gain revenge on Harvard, which has captured the title three straight years.

SPORTS | 04/27/2000

W. lax looks to boost confidence vs. Brown

The offense has sputtered recently like the engine of an aging car, stopping for stretches then speeding in spurts, causing consternation and several near-crashes.

SPORTS | 04/27/2000

Women's water polo hosts Easterns, hopes to improve on 1999 success

The 'Street' isn't the only place to look for action this weekend. DeNunzio Pool will be in a water polo frenzy as the Tigers (20-3 overall, 8-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) host the Eastern Championships.

SPORTS | 04/27/2000

Benjamin to be inducted into ITA Hall of Fame

Men's tennis head coach David Benjamin ? who will coach his team for the final time tomorrow against Georgetown ? will be inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Men's Hall of Fame on May 24 in Athens, Ga.After 26 seasons at the helm of the Princeton program, Benjamin has built up a 362-161 record with the Tigers.

SPORTS | 04/27/2000

Track stars prepare for Penn Relays as nation's eyes turn to Philadelphia

In college sports, it doesn't get much bigger than the Penn Relays. On Saturday ? the most important day of the competition ? over 40,000 people regularly pack the stadium to witness one of the world's greatest track meets.

SPORTS | 04/26/2000

Top-ranked Terrapins trounce women's lacrosse

With one minute left in the first half it seemed as if an upset was brewing.The women's lacrosse team (12-3 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) had scored back-to-back goals in a 40 second span to bring the Tigers back within two goals at 6-4.Maryland (16-1, 2-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) made sure that burst of hope was short lived, however, as Terrapin midfielder Quinn Carney calmly flipped the ball to cutting attack Allison Comito for a quick goal with 14 seconds left on the clock.Off the faceoff after Comito's goal, junior midfielder Julie Shaner took the ball downfield on a fast break and fired an open shot just over the top of the net as time expired.Princeton would not regain the momentum for the rest of the evening and Maryland cruised to a 14-6 win last night at Princeton Stadium."I think if we had answered there it would have been a big momentum builder," head coach Chris Sailer said.

SPORTS | 04/26/2000

Late-bloomer Wu finds niche as backup goaltender for men's lacrosse team

When children start playing lacrosse, they flock to the glamour positions.All youngsters like scoring goals, so many try to play attack.

SPORTS | 04/26/2000

Pitching leads streaking baseball over Temple

Although the baseball team used three equally dominating pitchers to power its way past visiting Temple yesterday, one in particular made his mark at Clarke Field ? and in the record books as well.Freshman reliever David Boehle broke the single season saves record in the Tigers' 4-1 victory over the Owls (14-24-3), as the hurler garnered his eighth of the season.

SPORTS | 04/26/2000

Two No. 2s: Liu and Hastings-Phillips conclude Princeton tennis careers

Nearing the end of their collegiate tennis careers, seniors Amanda Hastings-Phillips and Ahn Ahn Liu are in similar positions ? both are completing strong seasons at No.

SPORTS | 04/25/2000

A Player's Coach, in his own words words

There was a glimmer of hope at the end of football's disappointing 1999 campaign. Going into the fourth quarter, the team held an 18-point lead over Dartmouth in the final game of the season.Roger Hughes, then offensive coordinator for the Big Green, extinguished that light, erasing the deficit and sending the Tigers to the bottom of the Ivy League.Now, the same man will try to restore hope and the winning attitude of past Princeton teams.

SPORTS | 04/25/2000

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