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AU serves up GW on Senior Day
By Laura Randisi | 04/12/2004

Senior day signifies the end of one moment in life and the beginning of another. At AU on Saturday morning, Seniors Kristina Georgieva and Katarina Kollarova were presented with flowers, hugs and good lucks before their final home match against George Washington University. After the ceremony, the Women's Tennis team stepped up to the net with racket in hand and sent the seniors off properly, defeating the Colonials, 4-3.

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Lacrosse trumps Monmouth, 12-8
By Kevin Hilgers | 04/12/2004

It's a good thing AU Women's Lacrosse scored four goals in the first 4:37 of the second half, for it was enough to diminish a late-match charge by the visiting Monmouth Hawks in Saturday's non-conference match. But in the end, AU held on to win, 12-8, at Reeves Field despite being outscored by Monmouth 4-2 in the final 18 minutes of the game.

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Win streak ends for Tennis
By Kevin Hilgers | 04/08/2004

Something had to give Wednesday afternoon at Reeves Courts: either the three-match winning streak of AU Women's Tennis's or the six-match streak of visiting University of Maryland-Baltimore Country. In the end it was AU's streak, and Kristina Georgieva's rackets, that gave out as the Eagles dropped the match to the Retrievers, 5-2.

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Men's Tennis splits weekend
By Elliot Smilowitz | 04/05/2004

AU Men's Tennis split a pair of matches this weekend, defeating Bucknell, 5-2, on Saturday before losing at Colgate, 4-3, on Sunday. The weekend brings the Eagles' Patriot League record to 3-1.

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From the Eagle Sports Desk
  04/05/2004

The Eagle Sports Desk with some briefs on the athletic achievements of Women's Tennis, Men's Golf, and two AU juniors.

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Lacrosse gets defensive in 6-3 win
By Jesse Epstein | 04/05/2004

The AU Women's Lacrosse team beat the Villanova Wildcats, 6-3, in a defensive battle Saturday afternoon at Villanova. Junior attacker Rebecca Copeland scored three goals for AU, matching the entire Wildcat output, to lead the Eagles to their fifth victory in their last seven contests.

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Hart attack?
By Jesse Epstein | 04/05/2004

Sports columnist Jesse Epstein discusses the resignation of former Women's Basketball coach Shann Hart.

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Talented UConn to win it all
By Jesse Epstein | 04/02/2004

In what has been one of the craziest sports years, college basketball fans have witnessed one of the craziest NCAA tournaments in recent memories. On the first weekend of tourney play, No. 1 seeds Stanford and Kentucky lost in surprising second-round matches against Alabama and University of Alabama-Birmingham, respectively.

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AU Soccer athlete back on the ball
By Ian Quillen | 04/02/2004

Last Saturday, Freddy Llerena finally made it back to the starting lineup. Forget that he only played the first 30 minutes of Men's Soccer's 4-2 loss at Wake Forest. Forget that it was a spring game. And forget that, by his own accounts, he was a bit rusty.

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Lacrosse falls in final seconds to UMBC
  04/02/2004

The women's lacrosse team suffered a heartbreaking 13-12 loss Tuesday to the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) by a last-second goal. Despite remarkable individual performances by senior midfielder Tara Michael and junior attacker Rebecca Copeland, the Eagles fell in UMBC's first win of the season.

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Top 10 Jock Pranks
  04/02/2004

Have no fear, April Fools is here. We at the sports desk would like to remind you of the most intolerable jock pranks we remember from high school. I'm sure many of you out there have been on the giving and receiving end of at least one of these. If there is any explanation necessary just turn to the nearest high school all-star athlete for a quick explanation or demostration.

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'Once an Eagle, always an Eagle'
By Dale Berdman | 04/01/2004

He's known as the prolific 5-foot-11 shooting guard for the AU Men's Basketball team, but there's a darker side of Clawed that the fans don't know about. Sitting in his nest in a rundown building in Southeast D.C. wearing only a wife-beater T-shirt and shorts, Clawed reminisced about a childhood gone awry.

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Yankees Sold, Moving to D.C.
By Red Boston | 04/01/2004

In a long-awaited move, cash-strapped New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner sold the underachieving franchise to Washington, D.C., mogul Abe Pollin. The team will move into RFK Stadium this week to begin the 2004 season. Pollin, who also owns the Washington Wizards basketball team, said, "It's our sincerest hope that this move will reverse the fortunes of the Yankees and possibly make them a World Series contender.

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Cheerleaders change when old lady complains
By Monty Adagomery | 04/01/2004

AU Athletics announced today that the Eagles cheerleaders will be changing their uniforms due to an ongoing law suit. Yesterday in court 72-year-old Eagles basketball fan Myrtle Smith claimed that she endured extreme emotional distress after watching an Eagles halftime show during a men's game in late February.

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