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Women's basketball splits two Ivy games; turnovers help cause loss

Women's basketball splits two Ivy games; turnovers help cause loss

For the second consecutive weekend, the women's basketball team split its two weekend games. This time, however, there were no wild celebrations, no game-winning steals and no multi-year winning streaks that came to an end.Although Princeton (12-9 overall, 6-3 Ivy League) was able to salvage a 60-42 victory over Yale in New Haven, Conn., Saturday, a Friday defeat at Brown could prove devastating to the Tigers' hopes of winning the regular-season conference title.

SPORTS | 02/15/1998

National Champs

NEW HAVEN, Conn. ? By yesterday afternoon the question at the finals of the Howe Cup was not which team would win, but just how quickly the women's squash team would claim the Cup and the national title that goes with it.Princeton would not have to wait long.

SPORTS | 02/15/1998

Men's basketball wins two to set up showdown with Penn

A silent moment of fear descended on Jadwin Gym less than a minute into men's basketball's game against Yale Sat-urday night.

SPORTS | 02/15/1998

Women's track upset by Harvard, beats Yale; Crimson strategy key

The women's track team viewed the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet in Cambridge, Mass. as a tune up for the Heptagonal Championship.

SPORTS | 02/15/1998

Men's hockey again unable to win two; key injuries costly for Tigers

In the 1994-95 season, the men's hockey team defeated Cornell, 4-3, in overtime in the front end of a home Eastern College Athletic Conference weekend.

SPORTS | 02/15/1998

Track teams look to use H-Y-P's as stepping stone to Heptagonals

Two teams. One date. One mission.When the men's and women's track teams travel to Cambridge, Mass.

SPORTS | 02/12/1998

Men's volleyball victory

After a disappointing loss to No. 18 Rutgers-Newark Wednes-day night, the Tigers entered Dillon gym last night looking for a pick-me-up.

SPORTS | 02/12/1998

Men's hockey looks for two victories in single weekend

Just another weekend, say the men's hockey team. But that's what it's been saying all season. The question for the Tigers is: when will it be more than "just another weekend"?With only four weekends and eight games remaining, time is running out for Princeton (11-6-3 overall, 5-6-3 Eastern College Athletic Conference) to take a solid position in the ECAC standings.

SPORTS | 02/12/1998

Women's squash hopes for Howe Cup crown to cap perfect season

The only thing left for the women's squash team to do this season is bring home the Cup ? the Howe Cup, that is.After a remarkable 8-0 season, Princeton cruises into this weekend's national championship event, the Howe Cup Tournament in New Haven, Conn.

SPORTS | 02/12/1998

Defense often overlooked for men's basketball

The word is out about "the system."The men's basketball team's unique offensive style has generated a lot of attention in the national news media lately.

SPORTS | 02/12/1998

Former Tiger football star signs contract with Indianapolis Colts

The Princeton football record book reads like a rundown of former Tiger running back Keith Elias '94's stats.Monday, the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League decided that Elias might still be able to run down into the end zone, signing the Princeton great to a one-year contract.

SPORTS | 02/11/1998

Rutgers dominates early going; errors doom Tigers

Too little, too late.The men's volleyball team controlled the tempo of last night's match against No.

SPORTS | 02/11/1998

Pressley finally rewarded in her last year for women's basketball

With the women's basketball team battling for an Ivy League championship for the first time in three years, Zakiya Pressley is finally beginning to taste the success that she came to know well in high school.As a sophomore at Lakeside High School in Seattle, Pressley helped her team to capture the Washington State Basketball Championship.

SPORTS | 02/11/1998

Men's hoops, Howe Cup seize campus' attention; world focuses on Nagano

You've probably heard by now (after all, it's Thursday, three whole days after it happened) that our men's basketball team cracked the top-10 in both national polls this week.Perhaps you're aware that women's hoops defeated Harvard last weekend to end the Crimson's 32-game win streak.If you're a real Princeton sports enthusiast you might even know that women's squash is vying for ? and has a good chance of winning ? the Howe Cup this weekend.But outside our Princeton athletic bubble is another event, one that is supposed to unify the world, but isn't getting much student attention: the Winter Olympics.

SPORTS | 02/11/1998

Out of the shadows

Given all the recent publicity surrounding the men's basketball team's rise in the polls, it isn't too surprising that a Princeton player is seen in the opening sequence of SportsCenter.The logical choice might be senior center Steve Goodrich.

SPORTS | 02/11/1998

Men's squash rebounds from loss of Cantlin, coasts to easy victories

The men's squash team sat squarely at a crossroads last week. The Tigers had dropped their first match of the season Feb.

SPORTS | 02/10/1998

Former w. hockey coach stars in Olympics

Keeping focus through hours and hours of grueling practice. Pushing your body through fatigue and frustration to perfect every move.

SPORTS | 02/10/1998

Women's fencing remains in hunt for Ivy title with pair of victories

With the absence of junior phenom Caitlin Rich, a new regime has taken over Princeton women's fencing.

SPORTS | 02/10/1998

W. squash captures second ever undefeated Ivy season

With two freshmen and two sophomores among the top nine players on the women's squash team, one may have given the No.

SPORTS | 02/10/1998

Hockey success comes naturally for Tigers' faceoff specialist Apps

So many faceoffs occur in any given men's hockey game that only in rare late-game situations does a single one affect the outcome of the game.But any hockey coach will tell you that over the course of a game, the team that dominates the faceoff circle will usually dominate the game.

SPORTS | 02/10/1998

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