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Cross Country: Competitive Heps features nationally ranked Ivy League teams

Cross Country: Competitive Heps features nationally ranked Ivy League teams

Drenching sleet and snow, ankle-deep slush, subfreezing temperatures and gusting winds made the 2011 Heptagonal Cross Country Championships one of the most challenging races in Ivy League history. This year’s weather promises to be more forgiving, forecasting a dry Saturday with a temperature in the upper 60s. Nevertheless, the battle for the team title will be fiercer and more charged than the league has seen in recent years.

SPORTS | 10/25/2012

Women's Hockey: Junior-led women seek playoff return

After opening the season with two road wins, the women’s ice hockey team will kick off conference play this weekend. Ranked seventh in the preseason coaches’ poll, the Tigers will face their first ECAC competition this weekend when they host Dartmouth on Friday night and Harvard the following afternoon for their home openers. With goals of a more successful postseason than last year’s, Princeton will need to have strong performances in conference play to set up a deep playoff run.

SPORTS | 10/25/2012

Men's Hockey: Fully healthy, men look to bounce back

For the men’s hockey team, its chance to regain dominance on the ice after an exasperating 2011-12 crusade that ended 9-16-7 hinges on the Tigers’ greater familiarity with one another and their health. The reformed Princeton will have its first regular-season test this weekend against Brown and either Dartmouth or Yale in the Ivy League Shootout. The Tigers will return home after fall break to face a pair of their biggest rivals, Cornell and Colgate, to kick off ECAC play.

SPORTS | 10/25/2012

Women's Soccer: Princeton 2 games shy of NCAA bid

Just one year ago, the Princeton women’s soccer team had an Ivy League record of 1-4 and was headed toward a sixth-place finish in the conference. Its 10 overall losses that year were the second most in program history. This year, however, has been a different story. With two games remaining in the regular season, the Tigers sit alone atop the Ivy League standings and are in control of their own destiny.

SPORTS | 10/25/2012

Football: Tigers look to keep momentum in Ithaca

Coming off its biggest win in the tenure of head coach Bob Surace ’90, the football team will put its undefeated Ivy League record on the line against Cornell this Saturday in Ithaca, N.Y. Princeton, which stands alone atop the Ivy League for the first time in over half a decade, will look to carry over momentum from last week’s huge comeback victory at home against Harvard.

SPORTS | 10/25/2012

Sports Shorts: Pecotic, Muliawan win singles titles; Hoy scores OT winner

Princeton tennis players swept the men’s and women’s singles championships at the USTA/ITA Regional this week, and the women’s soccer team won its ninth straight game Monday night, beating La Salle 2-1 in overtime.

SPORTS | 10/23/2012

Stat Corner: Evaluating Harvard's 4th-and-1 decision

With two minutes and eight seconds remaining in Saturday’s football game, Harvard punted on fourth-and-1 from midfield, giving Princeton possession. You know what happened next: The Tigers drove 90 yards to complete a miraculous comeback and win 39-34. But they might never have had that chance had the Crimson gone through with that fourth-down play; a successful conversion would have allowed the visitors to run out the clock. Should they have taken that gamble?

SPORTS | 10/23/2012

Men's Water Polo: For Princeton, each unique pool adds another dimension

It’s difficult to imagine that an NCAA-sanctioned sport would allow conference games to be played in facilities whose specifications are not uniform but merely recommended — that a playing field could be so subjective that an NCAA national championship could be held in a facility whose significant dimensions can extensively vary, depending on an arbitrary year of the facility’s construction. But this kind of subjectivity is all too familiar to collegiate water polo players, at times entirely transforming their sport depending on the facility in which they play.

SPORTS | 10/23/2012

Golf: Tigers cap fall with 1st-place finishes

Both the men’s and women’s golf teams capped their fall seasons off with their first victories last weekend. The women finished first of eight teams at the Lehigh Invitational, winning by one stroke at Saucon Valley Country Club. Meanwhile, the men won the Ivy League Match Play Tournament, its first team victory since the spring of 2006.

SPORTS | 10/23/2012

On Tap with ... Stephen Everette

Stephen Everette is the head coach of the sprint football team, which will play its final game of the season at Penn in two weeks. The ‘Prince’ sat down with Everette to talk about coaching at Princeton, his “welcome-to-college” moment and his most embarrassing feel-good song.

SPORTS | 10/23/2012

Football: Freshman corner Gaffney breaks out for Tigers

After returning a kickoff 59 yards to trigger a thrilling come from behind win for the football team, freshman cornerback Anthony Gaffney has proven himself up to the challenge of starting for the Tigers and has shown that he has the maturity to make big plays in big situations. While the football program run by head coach Bob Surace ’90 and a Princeton diploma certainly factored into Gaffney’s decision to join the Tigers, it was the Orange Bubble’s proximity to home that drew him the most.

SPORTS | 10/23/2012

Women's Soccer: Late rally keeps hosts perfect in league play

With three other Princeton victories over Harvard earlier in the day, the women’s soccer team was not to be outdone Saturday night, defeating Harvard 3-1 to preserve its undefeated Ivy League record and bring its overall record to 10-3-1. The game was close in the beginning, but the Tigers pulled away toward the end of the game, scoring two goals in two minutes to secure the victory.

SPORTS | 10/21/2012

Field Hockey: No. 2 Princeton hands No. 4 UConn 1st loss

The field hockey team continued its impressive play this weekend with a couple of home wins over Harvard and Connecticut. The big game was against Connecticut on Sunday (16-1), which was undefeated coming into the game. The No. 4 Huskies are the sixth ranked team that No. 2 Princeton (13-1 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) has had to play so far in the season. The Tigers have succeeded in all but one of these matchups, in which they fell to then-No. 2 Syracuse.

SPORTS | 10/21/2012

Men's Soccer: Wettermann scores game-winner in OT

After 102 minutes of relentless, physical play, the men’s soccer team created a final great opportunity deep in the Harvard end when senior defender Mark Linnville launched a long throw-in from the left sideline. Linnville’s toss sailed into the box, flicking the head of freshman defender Josh Miller in traffic and bouncing up in the air before settling at the feet of sophomore midfielder Alex Wettermann. Wettermann took a quick settling touch with space before rocketing a right-footed shot from 12 yards out, beating the keeper to the right. The goal, the first of Wettermann’s Princeton career, catapulted Princeton to a 2-1 victory over the rival Crimson and incited mass celebration at Roberts Stadium on Saturday evening.

SPORTS | 10/21/2012

Sports Shorts: Volleyball, sprint teams defeated

Despite a career-high 18 kills from sophomore middle blocker Tiana Woolridge, the women’s volleyball team surrendered a 2-0 lead and fell to Penn in five sets on Friday evening. After a series of close defeats, the sprint football team was blown out by Army on Saturday afternoon, while the crews opened 2012-13 competition at the Head of the Charles regatta.

SPORTS | 10/21/2012

Football: Princeton's comeback stuns Harvard, 39-34

With less than 30 seconds left to play in Saturday's football game, the undefeated Harvard Crimson was closing in on sophomore quarterback Quinn Epperly. Princeton was down 34-32, sophomore starting quarterback Connor Michelsen was injured, the homecoming crowd of 10,823 was on its feet, and Epperly was on the wrong foot as he hurled the ball toward the end zone.The ball fell into the arms of junior receiver Roman Wilson. He held on as he hit the ground. The Crimson looked on in disbelief as the Tigers roared.

SPORTS | 10/19/2012

On Tap with ... Spenser Huston

Sophomore Spenser Huston is the starting left tackle for the football team, which hosts its homecoming game against Harvard this weekend. Huston was the only freshman to start on Princeton’s offensive line last season and has continued to have success this year. He even scored a touchdown last week against Brown, a very rare and special feat for an offensive lineman. Huston sat down with the ‘Prince’ to talk about the Garden State, rap music and his first touchdown ever.

SPORTS | 10/18/2012

Football: Immovable Princeton defense takes on unstoppable Harvard offense

The football team is set to face its biggest challenge of the year in its biggest game of the year when it hosts defending Ivy League champion Harvard on Saturday. The Crimson (5-0 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) has won its last 14 games, dating back to last season, and is looking to beat Princeton (3-2, 2-0) for the sixth straight time.

SPORTS | 10/18/2012

Field Hockey: No. 2 Tigers host Crimson, No. 4 Huskies

Hoping to extend its four-game win streak even further, the field hockey team will host an Ivy League opponent as well as a fellow top-five team at Bedford Field this weekend. Princeton (11-1 overall, 4-0 Ivy League), currently ranked second in the nation, will face off against Harvard (3-9, 1-3) on Saturday afternoon and turn around to play No. 4 Connecticut (15-0) the following day.

SPORTS | 10/18/2012

Soccer: Long throws pay big dividends

In the ninth minute of the men’s soccer team’s nationally televised home game against Creighton last week, senior defender Mark Linnville perfectly executed one of Princeton’s most important assets: the long throw-in. His driven toss from the sideline sailed into the box, grazing the head of sophomore forward Cameron Porter before sophomore midfielder Myles McGinley slotted the loose ball into the back of the net, giving Princeton an early lead.That goal marked just one of many such chances created this season by Linnville’s unique ability, allowing the team to create dangerous scoring opportunities from any throw-in in the attacking third of the field.

SPORTS | 10/17/2012

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