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Women's rugby finishes No. 2 in nation

Women's rugby finishes No. 2 in nation

After last year's overtime loss to Stanford, the women's rugby team was hoping it could turn its luck in the national championship game around.Upstart Penn State had other ideas.After the Tigers crushed Illinois, 36-7, to earn a spot in the finals, they found themselves up against a determined Nittany Lions squad.

SPORTS | 05/09/2000

Softball finishes strong with sweep of Maryland

It was a bittersweet ending for the entire softball team, but especially for Sarah Peterman.The lone Tiger senior had just pitched her last game in an orange and black uniform.

SPORTS | 05/09/2000

Sentimental seniors say goodbye to Carnegie as crews prepare for Easterns

Almost a month later, the lightweight men's crew was still up to the task.Poor weather conditions on Lake Carnegie forced the postponement of its original April 6 race against Georgetown.

SPORTS | 05/09/2000

No. 2-seeded women's lacrosse earns first-round bye in NCAAs

The women's lacrosse team was hoping for one of the top four seeds and an accompanying first-round bye in the upcoming NCAA tournament.Princeton was not disappointed.After every other team to make the tournament had been named, the Tigers leapt out of their seats, knowing that they had landed the No.

SPORTS | 05/07/2000

Coming off dominating win over Hobart, men's lacrosse claims No. 3 seed in NCAA tournament

It had done everything it was supposed to do this season, and yet a certain touch of tension permeated the press room where the men's lacrosse team awaited its seeding for the NCAA tournament last night.Relieving fears of a recurrence of the disappointing placement they received last year, the Tigers (10-2) were rewarded for their season's efforts with a No.

SPORTS | 05/07/2000

W. water polo completes 25-6 season with eighth-place finish at nationals

UMass was on a mission for revenge this weekend. And this time, Princeton failed to rise to the occasion.The women's water polo team (25-4 overall, 8-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) was unable to repeat history, losing 9-6 to Eastern rival UMass for the first time this year as it closed out its seaon at the NCAA tournament this weekend in Bloomington, Ind.Princeton kicked off the weekend with a 13-11 win over Hawaii early Friday morning.

SPORTS | 05/07/2000

After three years of Ivy title-game frustrations, baseball claims the crown

Senior Jay Mitchell had scored the game's first run. Senior Buster Small had hit his first home run since 1998.

SPORTS | 05/07/2000

News & Notes

The women's rugby team ? which was named Overall and Women's Club Sport of the Year at the club sports banquet Wednesday night ? will head to Tampa, Fla., this weekend for the USARugby Final Four.

SPORTS | 05/04/2000

Baseball seeks to stomp stat-strong Big Green for Ivy title

By sheer numbers, the baseball team should not win this weekend's Ivy League championship series.

SPORTS | 05/04/2000

Men's lacrosse travels to Hobart, then awaits its seeding fate

With the Ivy League season out of the way ? and struggles with national powerhouses forged through ? it's about time the men's lacrosse team shoved aside that famous sports cliche, "We'll just take it one game at a time." The Tigers are looking ahead to the NCAA tournament, and, if everything goes according to plan, this weekend's game against Hobart will count for two games at once.Although seeding in the NCAA tournament is not dictated by college lacrosse polls, it is likely that disposing of the Statesmen (7-4 overall, 5-1 Patriot League) will assure Princeton (9-2, 6-0 Ivy League) one of the top four seeds.

SPORTS | 05/04/2000

M. track shines at Broadmeade

As a tune-up for some of the spring season's largest meets coming up, the men's track team hosted the Broadmeade Invitational Wednesday ? and ran away with several winning performances.In the 800, junior Tensai Asfaw was victorious with a time of 1 minute, 52.4 seconds.

SPORTS | 05/04/2000

Women's water polo looks to cap best season ever in NCAA tournament

Now that it has conquered the East, the women's water polo team (24-3 overall, 8-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) heads to Bloomington, Ind., this weekend to take on the nation.Competing in the Collegiate National Championships, beginning this morning, Princeton will battle Hawaii in its first round of action.

SPORTS | 05/04/2000

Slumping softball falls out of Ivy race

Going into this past weekend, the softball team needed a lot of help to have a shot at an Ivy title.

SPORTS | 05/02/2000

Q&A: Bill, Trevor and Brendan Tierney — Men's lacrosse

Bill Tierney is the head coach of the men's lacrosse team and the father of junior goalie Trevor Tierney and sophomore attack Brendan Tierney.

SPORTS | 05/02/2000

Paul Morrison's performances have made it clear: The track star's future is now

Cross country and distance track coach Mike Brady remembers clearly the moment he knew how good Paul Morrison could be.It was the NCAA cross country championships last year ? and Morrison was a freshman phenom lost in a pack of the nation's best runners.Brady was watching from across the field as the pack emerged from the woods and faced a treacherously steep hill."Everyone came gingerly down that hill," Brady says.

SPORTS | 05/02/2000

Men's heavyweight crew rebounds from loss

Faced with gusty winds and harsh rain in Cambridge two weekends ago, men's heavyweight crew's perfect record was swept up in the storm when Princeton fell to Harvard by three seconds.Under clearer skies this past weekend, the heavyweights rebounded from the loss, beating both Cornell and Yale in Ithaca, N.Y., Saturday.Both the Tigers and the Elis started strong early, with Yale holding a slight lead over Princeton.

SPORTS | 05/02/2000

Women's squash team leader Julia Beaver has established a legacy of dominance

Her list of accomplishments is almost too long. She owns two team national championships and two individual national championships.

SPORTS | 05/02/2000

Getting by: Baseball takes one out of four to clinch Gehrig

One win. That's all the baseball team needed. A single win in a four-game series against Gehrig Division rival Cornell, and the Tigers would clinch the division title.But the win just would not come easily."Coming into the weekend our confidence was pretty high," junior first baseman Andrew Hanson said.

SPORTS | 04/30/2000

Denbo, Morrison star for men's track at historic Penn Relays

Athletes including Michael Johnson, Gail Devers, Marion Jones. 45,203 spectators on Saturday, 102,193 overall.

SPORTS | 04/30/2000

Men's lacrosse claims outright Ivy title with win

Trailing after only one minute of play, the men's lacrosse team found its streak of Ivy perfection that had taken four hard seasons to build in jeopardy.Princeton's seniors, however, were not about to let the league doormat snap a career's worth of work.The Tigers (9-2 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) scored nine consecutive goals and then held on to defeat Dartmouth (5-8, 0-5) 10-7, in Hanover, N.H.

SPORTS | 04/30/2000

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