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Women's volleyball cruises to easy 3-0 win over Stony Brook

Women's volleyball cruises to easy 3-0 win over Stony Brook

The big grin on senior outside Sabrina King's face midway through the third game of women's volleyball's easy straight-sets win last night against SUNY-Stony Brook told the whole story.The Tigers, who are now 18-8 overall, 6-1 Ivy League, coasted through the match with confidence as King and senior middle Emily Brown got to close their last Princeton match at Dillon Gym with a decisive win."It's hard to get really excited when the team you're playing is not that good," Brown said.

SPORTS | 11/07/2000

Pair of victories puts women's volleyball atop Ivy League

After winning three of its four matches during Fall Break last week, the women's volleyball team is now No.

SPORTS | 11/06/2000

Streak ends for men's cross country at Heps

VAN CORTLANDT PARK, N.Y. ? Dartmouth snapped Princeton's string of nine consecutive Heptagonal League Championships in cross country and track by winning the men's Heps cross country meet Oct.

SPORTS | 11/06/2000

Struggles continue for sprint football in home losses to Navy and Cornell

The sprint football team had looked forward to its two games over Fall Break as a chance to turn its season around.

SPORTS | 11/06/2000

Women's hockey loses, ties in opening weekend

The women's hockey team opened its 2000-2001 campaign during Fall Break and found itself involved in a pair of tight contests right from the start.

SPORTS | 11/06/2000

Men's hockey goes 1-0-1 to open Quesnelle era

At Baker Rink on Saturday night, the key word for the men's hockey team was "new."Last year's head coach Don Cahoon was no longer barking orders from behind the bench.

SPORTS | 11/06/2000

Women's cross country takes seventh at Heps, looks ahead to Districts

High hopes came unceremoniously crashing to the ground for the women's cross country team as its quest to surprise the Heptagonal Championships field with an upset ended in a disappointing seventh-place finish.The Tigers hoped this would be the race where they would finally perform to their potential.

SPORTS | 11/06/2000

Offensive explosion clinches seventh straight title for f. hockey

With three games in six days, Fall Break was no time for relaxing for the field hockey team (13-3 overall, 7-0 Ivy League). It became, however, a time for celebration as Princeton posted three big wins over UConn, Cornell and Penn, earning its seventh consecutive Ivy championship....Princeton kicked off the week with a 2-0 shutout win over then-No.

SPORTS | 11/05/2000

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

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