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Men's hockey looks for two victories in single weekend

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

Wrestling falls to Ivy foes Brown, Harvard, beaten by Drexel, ESU

As the wrestling team trekked through the second weekend of its Ivy League schedule, it hoped to continue improving upon its encouraging but losing performances from the previous weekend.

SPORTS | 02/09/1998

Athlete of the Week

The women's basketball game against league-leading Harvard Saturday was billed not as Princeton versus Harvard but rather as Princeton versus Allison Feaster.

SPORTS | 02/09/1998

W. swimming slays Harvard, bows to Brown

It was a tale of two cities and two Ivy League rivals. And two very different results.Saturday the women's swimming and diving team (8-2 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) exploded into the water to capture a thrilling 180-120 victory over Harvard in Cam-bridge, Mass.

SPORTS | 02/09/1998

Women's hockey earns split, stops three-game skid

You win some, you lose some.This season the women's hockey team has certainly proven this adage to be true, and once again it split a pair of games this weekend.After falling 5-2 to Cornell (12-6-1 overall, 11-4-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference, 3-2-1 Ivy), the Tigers (10-11-1 overall, 7-9-0 ECAC, 3-4-0 Ivy) pulled themselves back together to deliver St.

SPORTS | 02/09/1998

Women's track tops Penn; Penn St., UConn edge men

Both men's and women's track have hit their stride going into the home stretch of the season, a stretch that sees them face traditional rivals in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet and also in the upcoming Heptagonal Championships.The weekend saw seven meet records broken, and although the men fell short of victory, the future appears bright for both squads.The women squared-off against Penn, eventually winning handily by 18 points, 68-50.

SPORTS | 02/09/1998

Men's volleyball withers against No. 8 Penn State

No. 9 Penn State men's volleyball (3-6 overall) has lost only twice in the past 20 regular seasons in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association.Friday, Princeton looked to make it three times.It didn't happen.After a strong first game which Princeton (2-3) won, 15-12, the Tigers proceeded to drop the next three ? 12-15, 8-15, 11-15 ? losing by a score of 3-1.Fatigue and conditioning were a factor in the loss for the Tigers, whose season is still young, coming off a long, hard match against Juniata Thursday night."We're still getting used to playing a lot, and with two big matches in a row, we were beat up," freshman outside Steve Cooper said. Wrong play, wrong timeKey points did not go the Tigers' way, and errors came at the most inopportune times."We didn't play as well as we could've when we needed to," senior opposite Scott Birdwell said.Overall, Princeton played a consistent match, but Penn State had that extra edge that turned the tide in its favor.Essentially in their second season ? Penn State also has a fall season ? the Nittany Lions were on top of their game, finishing the match with a season-best .508 hitting percentage.The first game, though, was all Princeton, which rattled off a string of points after the score had been tied at eight to take a 14-9 lead.

SPORTS | 02/08/1998

Thirolf leads women's basketball to upset of league power Harvard

For 32 consecutive games, the Harvard women's basketball team had been a cut above its Ivy League opponents.

SPORTS | 02/08/1998

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