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Injuries, missed opportunities plague sprint football until season's finale

Injuries, missed opportunities plague sprint football until season's finale

Three plays ? one resulting in a broken hand and two ending in fumbles ? not only cost the sprint football team any chance it had for a win against Penn, but were also indicative of the team's entire season.Senior captain and tight end Mike Piazza sustained a broken hand on the Tigers' first play from scrimmage.

SPORTS | 11/13/2000

Injured women's cross country closes disappointing season

Coming off a disappointing seventh-place finish last week at the Heptagonal Championships, the women's cross country team headed into the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships last weekend with hopes of avenging its recent loss and repeating the extraordinary performance it had at last year's meet.The Tigers placed fourth in 1999, narrowly missing an at-large bid to the national championships.

SPORTS | 11/13/2000

Women's volleyball clinches crown with five-game victory over Cornell

Princeton women's volleyball is now officially the best team in Ivy Tournament history. After winning the championship match in last weekend's Ivy Tournament in Cambridge, Mass., the Tigers ? who have claimed 12 titles in the tournamen's 24-year history, including five championships in the past seven years ? are going down in the books as the most victorious team to date.Going into the tournament with the No.

SPORTS | 11/13/2000

Loss of Young forces men's basketball to look toward perimeter

Most Princeton sports fans are familiar with the men's basketball story by now.The Tigers finished yet another strong season under Bill Carmody in second place in the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 11/13/2000

Interim coach Morris moves quickly to direct women's hoops

Kevin Morris did not know what to expect.The newly-hired assistant coach had spent the week working the Princeton girls basketball camp and wondering whether he would be fired, promoted, or simply stay in his current position.Head Coach Liz Feeley ? who had hired him as an assistant ? was leaving to head the women's basketball program at Smith College.

SPORTS | 11/13/2000

Men's cross country takes fifth at Mid-Atlantics

After finishing fifth at the Mid-Atlantic Regional race Saturday, the men's cross country team's chance for a bid to the NCAA Championships and its only opportunity to continue its season seems just out of reach.

SPORTS | 11/13/2000

Blevins, Cheatham lead football to comeback win over Yale

NEW HAVEN, Conn. ? In two plays, the football team's season was saved.Down 14-13 with one minute, 12 seconds to play, 80 yards to cover, and no timeouts, Princeton rode the stunning efforts of senior fullback Marty Cheatham and sophomore wide receiver Chisom Opara to beat Yale, 19-14.Princeton completed its miraculous drive with a 32-yard scoring strike from senior quarterback Jon Blevins to Opara.

SPORTS | 11/12/2000

The end of the road: Loss to Maryland in NCAA quarterfinal ends field hockey's bid for national title

COLLEGE PARK, Md. ? Just 57 seconds into its NCAA national quarterfinal game against Maryland, the defending national champion, the field hockey team found itself down a goal.

SPORTS | 11/12/2000

M. hockey earns two points with Clarkson, St. Lawrence ties

Man-up and man-down situations are supposed to be important in hockey. But they're not supposed to be this important.In a wild opening weekend to its Eastern College Athletic Conference schedule, the men's hockey team tied both Clarkson (2-1-2 overall, 0-1-1 ECAC) and preseason favorite St.

SPORTS | 11/12/2000

Women's hockey splits weekend pair

Though the loud speaker blared the "Mission: Impossible" theme throughout the game, the women's hockey team found little difficulty overcoming Boston College as it glided to a 4-1 victory Sunday at Baker Rink.

SPORTS | 11/12/2000

Field hockey takes on Penn State in first round of NCAA tournament

After annihilating Penn 9-0 last weekend and topping off another undefeated Ivy season, the field hockey team (13-3 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) officially became conference champs for the seventh straight season.

SPORTS | 11/09/2000

WEEKEND SCHEDULE

Friday, Nov. 10 Men's hockey vs. Clarkson (7 p.m. at Baker Rink) Women's volleyball at Ivy League Tournament (through Sunday in Cambridge, Mass.) Sprint Football at Penn (7:30 p.m.

SPORTS | 11/09/2000

Season scuttled, 2-6 football hopes to resurface against Yale

The football team has found a number of ways to motivate itself this year. With every painfully close loss, the team has redirected its goals, evolving from dreams of an undefeated year through hopes of winning the Ivy League.Now, out of contention in the Ivy League at 2-3 with two games to play, Princeton (2-6 overall) has seen most of its goals washed away, making the remainder of the season a salvage operation."We have two games left in this season," senior defensive lineman Nick Freitag said.

SPORTS | 11/09/2000

Despite injuries, players, trainers unsure if artificial turf a factor

It seems everyone involved in athletics has an opinion about artificial turf. It gives the St. Louis Rams' offense an edge.

SPORTS | 11/09/2000

Men's, women's cross country look past Heps, seek success in Districts

For the first time in three years, the men's cross country team enters District Regionals without a Heps victory behind it.After a seventh-place finish at Heps last weekend, the women's cross country team is also looking for redemption this weekend.Both Tiger cross country teams will head to NCAA District II competition in University Park, Pa., with participation in NCAA championships on the line.

SPORTS | 11/09/2000

Tenth win, possible tourney berth, m. soccer's season hang in balance at Yale

There were times this season when Matt Behncke would listen to his older brother's phone messages and not want to call back."Sometimes you get a little tired of saying the same things," the junior men's soccer midfielder said.

SPORTS | 11/09/2000

'Lunch pail' Kilbourne combines talent with work ethic for women's hockey

Mark Messier is not someone often associated with collegiate women's hockey. This season, however, fans of Princeton's women's hockey team may see flashes of the New York Rangers' center in junior captain and center Andrea Kilbourne."She's definitely our Mark Messier," head coach Jeffrey Kampersal '92 said.

SPORTS | 11/08/2000

Women's hockey looks to challenge for ECAC crown

After missing the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament last season for the first time in seven years, the women's ice hockey team enters this season with confidence.

SPORTS | 11/08/2000

In like a lion: Lamb out to spark Tigers both on and off the ice

There are a number of similarities between senior forward Kirk Lamb ? this year's men's hockey captain ? and his predecessor, Darren Yopyk '00.They both grew up in Alberta, Canada, both played in the Alberta Junior Hockey League for the Bonnyville Pontiacs and were best friends while at Princeton.

SPORTS | 11/08/2000

Men's hockey out to prove itself under direction of new coach

Here's a pop quiz about the new-look men's hockey team: What is the correct pronunciation of the surname of rookie head coach Len Quesnelle '88?

SPORTS | 11/08/2000

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