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A League of Their Own: Win over Penn clinches Ivy title, sending women's soccer to NCAA tournament

A League of Their Own: Win over Penn clinches Ivy title, sending women's soccer to NCAA tournament

As time ticked off the clock late in the women's soccer game against Penn on Saturday night, the offensive mistakes, the sometimes-sloppy play and the missed opportunities of a season were forgotten.All the Tigers (13-4 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) focused on was the fact that if they could hold on to a 1-0 lead for a little longer, this group would be able to accomplish something no Princeton team had done since 1983 ? win an Ivy League Championship..As senior midfielder Julie Shaner and senior forward Amee Reyes froze the ball deep in the Quakers' end of the field, the clock ran out with the score 1-0 and the dream of the Class of 2001 finally came true.The Tigers had finished the season 6-1 in the league to tie with Dartmouth for the championship, but Princeton earned the automatic berth into the NCAA tournament by virtue of a 1-0 win over the Big Green on Sept.

SPORTS | 11/05/2000

Two plays steal momentum, leave football looking up at rest of league

Two plays that never should have happened led to two league losses for the football team during the break.The first proved that the point after is not an afterthought.

SPORTS | 11/05/2000

Two straight wins for men's soccer brighten dim season

The men's soccer team's season had been a disappointment so far. Gone were the Tigers' chances for a repeat as Ivy League champs.

SPORTS | 11/05/2000

Out-of-town scores key as w. soccer closes in on crown

The Dartmouth-Harvard women's soccer game has determined the Ivy League champion for the past six years.This year should be no different.If No.

SPORTS | 10/26/2000

M. cross country looks to defend Heps crown; women hope for improvement

Both the men's and women's cross country teams are up against tough competition today at the Heptagonal League Championships at Van Cortlandt Park, N.Y.

SPORTS | 10/26/2000

With QB situation up in the air, next two weeks to determine football's fate

If it were not for the fact that his team is in first place in the Ivy League, football head coach Roger Hughes would be having a miserable year.His firstand second-string quarterbacks went down with injuries, bringing on the third-string quarterback.

SPORTS | 10/26/2000

Men's soccer looks to build on momentum from Harvard win

Gianfranco Trippichio felt responsible. In the week before the men's soccer team played Harvard, the freshman midfielder's mind drifted during the day as he dwelled anxiously on the Tigers' terrible inability to score.The Tigers (7-5-1 overall, 1-3-0 Ivy League) had no wins in the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 10/26/2000

Field hockey set to take on national power UConn on Sunday

Hoping to continue its ascent in the national field hockey rankings, Princeton (10-3 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) will head to Storrs, Conn., this weekend to take on No.

SPORTS | 10/25/2000

Back from Sydney, rowers reflect on an 'amazing' experience

Rowers spend their lives trying not to stand out from the crowd. As far as sports go, crew is as unglamorous as they come.But every four years, rowers are given the chance to stand out in the spectacle of the Olympics ? standing alongside the world's other great, but more heralded, athletes.A number of Princetonian rowers, past and present, had the chance to compete in the 2000 Sydney Games.

SPORTS | 10/25/2000

'Take four': Splithoff out for season with broken jaw

In a wide open Ivy League football race featuring several potent offenses and numerous high-scoring games, the quarterback position has become one of utmost importance.Princeton (2-4 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) in particular has benefited from high quality passing this year ? but from multiple sources.While the Tigers have been blessed with tremendous depth at football's most important position, they have been cursed with the misfortune of having to test that depth.Last week against Harvard, the bad karma continued as freshman David Splithoff ? the third quarterback to start for the Tigers ? suffered an injured jaw on the Tigers' final offensive play.

SPORTS | 10/25/2000

News and Notes

With a 53-3 drubbing of Drexel on Sunday, the men's rugby team earned a spot in the finals of its conference, the Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union.

SPORTS | 10/25/2000

Primed for playoffs, men's water polo opens ECACs against Minutemen

An interesting pattern has developed in the progress of the men's water polo team this season. Early in the season, coming off the high expectations set by last year's 22-3 record and first-place division finish, Princeton felt ready to compete with the best of the East right from the start.Three weekends into their 2000 campaign, however, the Tigers found themselves languishing behind the incredible pace of last year's team, amassing a respectable ? but by no means great ? 8-5 record.

SPORTS | 10/25/2000

A style all her own

The first time I met women's soccer coach Julie Shackford it was the beginning of September and she was running in after practice.

SPORTS | 10/24/2000

Despite rough start, sprint football confident about strong finish

A new coach and a new attitude were supposed to make all the difference for the sprint football team this season.

SPORTS | 10/24/2000

Tigers shine in preseason contests despite looming NCAA rule changes

Last spring, the men's lacrosse team had one of its youngest rosters in recent memory. Yet despite their inexperience and the loss of their leading goal scorer to a knee injury, the Tigers responded to the adversity by not only winning the Ivy League title, but also reaching the NCAA championship game.This fall, thanks to a blend of veteran leadership and strong freshmen, Princeton is off to a flying start in its fall preseason."We've got a lot of people back that have played a lot of lacrosse," head coach Bill Tierney said.

SPORTS | 10/24/2000

Presidential Visit

More than two decades have passed since Cedric Dempsey applied to become the Director of Athletics at Princeton.

SPORTS | 10/23/2000

Women's open crew victorious at Head of the Charles

Imagine finding out you just rowed the best race of your life 30 minutes after you crossed the finish line.This is exactly what happened to the women's open eight this weekend at the Head of the Charles regatta in Cambridge, Mass.

SPORTS | 10/23/2000

W. tennis star Krishnamurthy wins two matches at ITA Championships

With the U.S. Open a distant memory and the 2000 professional Grand Slam events now long concluded, the collegiate version of tennis' major individual championships took center stage last week in Pacific Palisades, Calif., at the Riviera Women's All-American Championship.The event, which was the second leg of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Grand Slam, featured most of the nation's top collegiate tennis players ? including Princeton sophomore Kavitha Krishnamurthy.Krishnamurthy, ranked 36th nationally in a preseason poll, won her first two qualifying matches before losing her third match, thus failing to make it into the tournament's 32-player main draw.With a 64-player prequalifying draw held before the 64-player qualifying draw, entrance into the tournament's main draw was a formidable task for those ? like Krishnamurthy ? looking to earn one of four at-large spots into the main draw.

SPORTS | 10/23/2000

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