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Golf: Women’s team places 3rd, men’s team takes 5th at Ivy League Championship

Golf: Women’s team places 3rd, men’s team takes 5th at Ivy League Championship

The men’s and women’s golf teams concluded their seasons at the Ivy League Championship this weekend. Though the men lost steam after a strong start to finish fifth, the women’s team recovered from a rough first day to place third.

SPORTS | 04/24/2011

Women's Lacrosse: Poor 1st half dooms Tigers at Dartmouth

The women’s lacrosse team suffered a disappointing loss at No. 14 Dartmouth (9-3 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) on Saturday. The No. 15 Tigers (7-6, 4-2) fell to an early deficit and never recovered as the Big Green cruised to a 15-10 victory.

SPORTS | 04/24/2011

Baseball: Tigers drop nonleague road game

This weekend, the baseball team will finally return to Princeton after an 10-game road trip during which it went 6-4. The Tigers will kick off their seven-game homestand with doubleheaders against Columbia on both Saturday and Sunday. The Lions (16-18 overall, 6-6 Ivy League) are third in the Ivy League’s Lou Gehrig Division, just three games behind the division-leading Tigers (15-17, 9-3).

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

Web Update: Football wins 2011 Dodgeball Tournament

The annual campus-wide dodgeball tournament is always to be filled with surprising upsets in the middle rounds, and Thursday’s event was no exception. But the team left standing in the end was one many could have predicted: the football team. Football dominated Cap & Gown Club in the championship match, storming to an early advantage and closing out the 20-man match with seven players still on the court to claim the title.

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

Column: A melancholy blue: Fall of the Dodgers

Rarely, at the start of baseball season, does any event of particular intrigue come to light. Typically the commencement of every team’s 162-game march begins with some disappointing performances, other surprising ones and the realization that current standings likely have no bearing on the playoff outcomes in September.

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

Softball: Team to host Lions for pair of doubleheaders

In what has become a season-long battle with the weather, the softball team lost to Mother Nature again when the threat of thunderstorms forced the cancellation of its weekday doubleheader against Monmouth. In addition to countless reschedulings and postponements, it was the third time this season a game was cancelled due to inclement weather.

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

Women's Lacrosse: Princeton playing for Ivy League title

The women’s lacrosse team heads into the weekend to play the first of its three finals games left in its 2011 regular season. No. 15 Princeton (7-5 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) will play at No. 14 Dartmouth (8-3, 4-1) on Saturday in a game that could determine the Ivy League champion.

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

Men's Basketball: Henderson ’98 introduced at press conference

Mitch Henderson ’98 was formally introduced as the next men’s basketball head coach in a press conference on Thursday, one day after it was announced that he would succeed Sydney Johnson ’97. Henderson sat next to Director of Athletics Gary Walters ’67 in the Princeton Stadium press box while dozens of members and friends of the athletics department watched the ceremony.

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

Column: The virtual playing field

There is a group of competitors on the Princeton campus that is rather mysterious and never accepts interview requests. Psychoanalysts have suggested that this is a direct result of their secluded training exercises. While traditional sports teams practice on freshly cut grass or glossy gym floors, these athletes often prefer to practice and compete in the comfort of their own dorms, where there are minimal distractions from the task at hand. No, this is not the chess club’s 15 minutes of fame. The following is dedicated to the numerous gamers on campus.

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

Men's Lacrosse: Tigers aim to maintain postseason hopes

This weekend, the men’s lacrosse team will look to extend its two-game win streak when it hosts Harvard on Saturday. The game against the Crimson (7-5 overall, 1-3 Ivy League) is the last home game of the season and must be won by the Tigers (4-6, 2-2) if they hope to play into the postseason.

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

Women's Lacrosse: Tigers snap Penn’s 34-game Ivy win streak

The women’s lacrosse team sought vengeance when it traveled to Penn’s Franklin Field last night. Remembering a tough loss 13-9 to the No. 9 Quakers (9-4 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) in the conference tournament last season as well as a devastating 9-8 defeat in the game against Harvard last weekend, No. 19 Princeton (7-5, 4-1) was determined to win. The Tigers did just that, never trailing in an 11-7 road victory.

SPORTS | 04/20/2011

Men's Soccer: Schneider defies expectations, reaches the big stage

On April 12, 2011, former Princeton defender Teddy Schneider signed a contract with the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. For an undersized 5-foot-6-inch defensive prospect without blinding pace or truly exceptional ball control, the achievement was impressive, if not perhaps a case of predestination.

SPORTS | 04/20/2011

Basketball: In the service of Princeton hoops

It is a commonly known fact that college basketball, particularly at the Division I level, is a lucrative enterprise. CBS and Time Warner bought joint ownership of the NCAA Tournament television rights for $10.8 billion, and athletic departments around the nation dedicate hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars to support their programs. Much of the legwork for this fundraising falls on booster and friends groups.

SPORTS | 04/20/2011

Live Blog: 2011 Dodgeball Tournament

Thursday marks the annual campus-wide dodgeball tournament, when thousands of students compete for hundreds of teams to determine one champion. Check out the bracket and follow the action this evening with our live blog!

SPORTS | 04/20/2011

Column: Drafting a dodgeball ‘dream team’

As you may know, Thursday marks one of Princeton’s biggest annual events: the annual campus-wide dodgeball tournament. In the afternoon, thousands of undergraduates will flock to Dillon Gymnasium and hurl foam balls of various sizes at each other, with 101 teams narrowed down to one champion.

SPORTS | 04/19/2011

Men's Lacrosse: Between the pipes, a rock-solid leader

It’s tough to live up to expectations when you come into college as the No. 2-rated prospect in the country, and the No. 1 player at your position. But after hitting the ground running as a freshman and getting better year by year, Tyler Fiorito has done just that.

SPORTS | 04/19/2011

Men's Basketball: Henderson '98 named men's basketball head coach

Mitch Henderson '98 will succeed Sydney Johnson '97 as the head coach of the men's basketball team, the Department of Athletics announced on Wednesday.

SPORTS | 04/19/2011

On Tap with ... John Mishu

Sophomore outfielder John Mishu of the baseball team has attracted attention on and off the field in his two years at Princeton. He led the Tigers with a .304 batting average in his rookie year while mostly playing first base and has continued to produce this season since moving to the outfield, batting .278 and ranking second on the team with a .378 on-base percentage.

SPORTS | 04/19/2011

Around the Ivies: Harvard tops list of title contenders

Though the softball team split its first four Ivy League doubleheaders, four losses at the hands of Penn last week left Princeton at 4-8 in conference play and in third place in the South Division. With only eight games remaining against league opponents, the Tigers need several more wins to keep hopes of a conference championship alive. Here is a look at how the rest of the Ancient Eight has fared this season.

SPORTS | 04/19/2011

Softball: Penn sweeps Princeton in 4-game series

After splitting games with Harvard and Dartmouth last weekend on the road, the softball team looked for a strong showing at Penn this weekend. Unfortunately for the Tigers (13-21 overall, 4-8 Ivy League), the Quakers were impregnable at home and swept a pair of doubleheaders. Princeton now stands three games back in the Ivy League South Division after Penn (14-6-1, 6-6) took all four games, winning 4-2 and 2-1 on Friday and 7-2 and 9-2 on Sunday.

SPORTS | 04/18/2011

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