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After first win, men's tennis loses

By Antoine Pietri | February 13

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The AU men's tennis (1-4) team lost, 5-2, to the Maryland Terrapins (3-0) Sunday afternoon. The Eagles had experienced a brilliant victory against winless North Carolina - Greensboro the day before by a score of 7-0 for its first win of the season.

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AU athletics' new spring

By Ryan Spilhaus | February 13

The AU men's basketball season reaches its pinnacle Saturday at the annual Phil Bender event against Holy Cross. However, barring a miracle run through the Patriot League tournament and an even more miraculous run through the NCAA tournament, the AU winter sports season will mostly be winding down by the start of March.

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Hoops notes: Adams pumps up the family

By Patrick Ambrosio | February 13

In a crucial Patriot League contest, freshman guard Derrick Mercer ran the team's offense while being assigned to guard one of Colgate's best scorers. Mercer was matched up on defense with Colgate senior Alvin Reed, who scored 17 points in a victory against AU last season.

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Sports brief: AU swimmers take three at Navy Invitational

By Kevin Hilgers | February 13

The AU women's swimming and diving team won two events and the men placed first place in one event at the Navy Invitational Saturday. Junior Kaitlin Moughty won the 100-yard butterfly while sophomore Meghan Thiel found victory in the 100-yard freestyle.

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AU dealt first conference loss

By Dan Jacobson | February 13

The AU wrestlers came in with a plan on how take on Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling rival Navy. However, they weren't able to execute and lost multiple close matches in falling to Navy, 23-13, Friday night at Bender Arena. The loss to Navy was the Eagles' first conference loss of the year.

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Eagles halt two-game slide with win

February 13

Without relinquishing its halftime lead, the AU men's basketball team capitalized off 19 points from the foul line for a 72-64 win over Colgate Sunday. Junior guard Andre Ingram led AU (8-15, 4-6 Patriot League) with 19 points and freshman Derrick Mercer added 14 points and six assists for the Eagles, who snapped their two-game losing streak.

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Hadavi-less Eagles felled by Colgate

By Jesse Epstein | February 13

What it rains, it pours. And on Sunday, it poured for the AU women's basketball team against the Colgate Raiders, as it lost, 72-63, at Bender Arena. Playing without leading scorer, senior guard Tala Hadavi, who injured her knee in practice this week, the Eagles struggled defensively against Colgate.

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No luck for Eagle men either

February 9

The AU men's basketball team headed to Patriot League-leading Bucknell (19-3, 10-0 PL) Wednesday searching for its first win there since 2002. But Bucknell, poised for a second-straight PL regular-season title, cruised to a 74-57 win over the Eagles (7-15, 3-6).

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PL-leading Bison thrash Eagle women

By Jesse Epstein | February 9

The AU women's basketball team lost, 73-38, to the Bucknell Bison at Sojka Pavilion Tuesday night to fall to 3-6 in the Patriot League. Coming off an emotional win at Lehigh over the weekend, the Eagles never got on track against the Bison, falling behind early and never getting back in the game.

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Something was missing on this Super Sunday

By Jordan Beane | February 9

A few years ago I played in an indoor soccer league where my games were on Sunday nights during the winter. As I gazed at my schedule when it was passed out at the end of a team practice, I noticed one of our games was on Martin Luther King Day. I asked a friend why we weren't playing the game on the previous Sunday, to which he replied, "Come on man, that's Super Bowl Sunday.

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Is it really time for the Olympics?

By Jesse Epstein | February 9

Right after the Super Bowl, every sports fan goes into hibernation until March Madness starts in about a month. For college students, it's much the same. We have one month of boredom before the thrill of spring break and the end of the year right after that.

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Sports Briefs

By Kevin Hilgers | February 6

Track sets school records at Armory Collegiate Invitational Three runners from AU's indoor men's and women's track and field teams set records at the Armory Collegiate Invitational in New York last weekend. Junior Brendan Fennell smashed a 32-year-old record in the 5,000 meters Saturday, crossing the finish line at 14:23.

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Hadavi lifts AU to two-game win streak

By Jesse Epstein | February 6

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Some days will go down in history as program-changing days. On Saturday, the AU women's basketball team may have had one of them as it beat the Lehigh Mountain Hawks, 75-68, at Stabler Arena for its second road victory of the Patriot League season.

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AU can't hang close enough at Lehigh

By Jesse Epstein | February 6

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Eagles' men's basketball team walked into Lehigh with a swagger that would be unexpected from a middle-of-the-pack team set to face one of the league leaders. The Eagles looked like they knew they could hang with the Mountain Hawks, which they.

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What's good for Bucknell is just as good for AU

By Dan Jacobson | February 6

Last March, Bucknell, seeded No. 14 , was in the process of upsetting Kansas, seeded No. 3, in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. My friends and I got into a debate over whether or not we should root for Bucknell. Some people were rooting for Kansas because they saw Bucknell as a Patriot League rival and didn't want to see a rival of AU win in the NCAA Tournament.

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Tiger has it all to win Slam

By Jesse Epstein | February 2

Truth: Tiger Woods will enter this year's PGA Championship with a chance to win the Grand Slam. I won't say that he's going to win it, because quite frankly, I think he'll buckle under the pressure. But, after skipping the year-end Mercedes Championship to rest up for the 2006 season and opening with a flurry at last week's Buick, Tiger has positioned himself for his best year yet.

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Hot stove league takes baffling turn

By Pat Ambrosio | February 2

After a lull in dealing following the winter meetings, baseball's off-season briefly heated up this week as teams tried to fill their rosters before the start of spring training. Two major moves were made: a Red-Sox-Indians trade and the Padres' signing of Mike Piazza.

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