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Women's team hopes middle distance, field strength can lead to Heps success

Women's team hopes middle distance, field strength can lead to Heps success

Though this year's women's indoor track team is young, the underclassmen-laden Tigers may be laying the groundwork for a future Heps champion."We've got the events pretty well covered for the first time in a while," head coach Peter Farrell said.Seventh last year at Heps, the Tigers' last title came just a few years ago in 1997.

SPORTS | 12/06/2000

Despite injuries, men's squad poised to start new Heps streak

They say that all good things must come to an end, but the men's indoor track and field team refuses to believe it.

SPORTS | 12/05/2000

Lafayette's hot (24-25) free-throw shooting dooms men's basketball

EASTON, Pa. ? To explain his team's 80-73 loss to host Lafayette last night, Princeton head coach John Thompson '88 said, "We didn't defend."He had one of the words wrong, though.

SPORTS | 12/05/2000

Women's team hopes middle distance, field strength can lead to Heps success

Though this year's women's indoor track team is young, the underclassmen-laden Tigers may be laying the groundwork for a future Heps champion."We've got the events pretty well covered for the first time in a while," head coach Peter Farrell said.Seventh last year at Heps, the Tigers' last title came just a few years ago in 1997.

SPORTS | 12/05/2000

Women's hoops' offensive struggles persist in 10-point loss to Lafayette

EASTON, Pa. ? If you ask people what the hardest aspect of basketball is, you will get a number of different answers.Some will say understanding defense, others will say executing the offense.

SPORTS | 12/05/2000

U. of Cape Town squash tour comes through Princeton

Imagine: 15 college students, going across the Northeastern United States, sans adult supervision, traveling ? and sometimes sleeping ? in two Winnebagos.

SPORTS | 12/05/2000

Nate Walton

After a discouraging loss to Monmouth dropped it to 0-2 on the season, the men's basketball team needed a shot in the arm.

SPORTS | 12/04/2000

Wrestling's strong start continues as Tigers dominate weekend

Rolling through the East Stroudsburg Duals, the wrestling team gained confidence and a winning attitude.

SPORTS | 12/04/2000

Princeton women outdistance rival Brown, Tennessee, Villanova and American behind combination of youth and experience

With lots of new faces dominating the women's swimming roster, one might not have expected what happened this weekend.

SPORTS | 12/04/2000

Tiger men hang tough with seventh-ranked Tennessee, finish second at home invite ahead of Brown, Penn State and Villanova

The incredibly stifling, humid air. The walls plastered with team banners and inspirational Tiger posters.

SPORTS | 12/04/2000

Fencing teams unable to get over Penn State hump, defeat NYU, UNC

Salieri and Mozart. Any European country in a land invasion against Russia. And now, finally, the Princeton fencing team against Penn State.Throughout history, there have always been competitive struggles in which the underdog was just barely unable to come out on top against the opponent it badly wanted to beat.

SPORTS | 12/04/2000

Men's hockey claims comeback victory over Colgate, endures Big Red shutout

The men's hockey team has earned eight points in the first four weeks of its Eastern College Athletic Conference schedule.In each of those four weeks, the Tigers (4-3-3 overall, 3-3-2 ECAC) have earned two of four possible points.In one way this shows consistency on the part of a young Princeton team.

SPORTS | 12/03/2000

Women's volleyball falls to top-ranked Huskers in NCAA tourney

Picture this: You step out onto the center court, ready for the biggest game of your life ? the lights blazing, music blasting and the crowd deafening.

SPORTS | 12/03/2000

Muncie madness: Men's hoops tops Weber State, Ball State to win tournament

While the game of basketball was born in Massachussetts, its heart and home truly reside in Indiana ? the Hoosier State.

SPORTS | 12/03/2000

Women's hockey takes home pair of victories from St. Cloud

Time had run out, and the score was still knotted at 3-3 as the women's hockey team found itself in its first overtime period of the season against St.

SPORTS | 12/03/2000

Land o' Lakes: Homecoming for five members of women's hockey team

Sometimes, heading home is just the thing to help someone get out of a rut. Five members of the women's hockey team hope that a trip to their home state ? Minnesota ? will end Princeton's recent slide.The Tigers head to the Land of 10,000 Lakes ? more specifically, St.

SPORTS | 11/30/2000

High-scoring men's hockey faces opposite in Cornell

There's an old adage that says that a good defense always beats a good offense. Or is it that a good offense always beats a good defense?

SPORTS | 11/30/2000

Men's hoops hopes trip to Hoosier State holds reversal of fortunes

Having stumbled out of the blocks down south and right here in New Jersey, the men's basketball team travels to the nation's heartland this weekend to seek its first victory of the season.Tonight, the Tigers (0-2 overall) will take on Weber State in the first round of Ball State's First Merchant's Bank Classic in Muncie, Ind.

SPORTS | 11/30/2000

Fencing teams to face battle at NYU tournament

Penn State has always stood in the way of Princeton's bringing home a fencing national championship."This year is our chance to change that," senior captain Terry Kim said.Whether or not the change will take place remains to be seen, but the first skirmish in that war will be fought this weekend as the fencing teams travel to New York University to face the Nittany Lions in addition to North Carolina and the host Violets.This will be the third competition for the defending Ivy League champs ? but the first team tournament of the season.

SPORTS | 11/29/2000

Cycling team receives big boon from surprising $10,000 sponsorship deal

It isn't often that someone decides to give you money without your even having to ask for it.What is even less common is getting over $10,000.However, this is the situation that the cycling club recently found itself in.Two weeks ago, the team received an e-mail from Bill Michaud, who is the owner of the Lincoln Mercury dealer in Princeton.

SPORTS | 11/29/2000

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