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Women's soccer gets a huge win in PL opener

By Kevin Hilgers | October 3

For the AU women's soccer team, the non-conference schedule was brutal. It had been shut out three times and lost two matches in overtime. The Eagles had been on the friendly side of a final score just three times. But Friday at Reeves Field, their luck may have turned, and it could not have been at a better time.

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Sports briefs

By Ian Quillen | October 3

XC men, women win George Mason invite The AU men's and women's cross country teams swept first-place honors at the George Mason Invitational Saturday. AU sophomore Steve Hallinan took the men's individual title in 24:43, his career-best 8,000 meter time. Junior Brendan Fennell took second in 25:12, and freshman Kevin Tschirhart took fourth.

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Losing the love of the game - in cyberspace

By Ian Quillen | October 3

The Internet is changing the behavioral protocall for all die-hard sports fans with a modem. Angry phone calls on sports talk radio are being replaced by angry rants on online message boards. In-person stalking is leaving in favor of Facebook stalking March Madness greats, New Years Day heroes, and former AU tennis star Tushar Garg.

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Sports briefs

By Kevin Hilgers | September 29

Volleyball overcomes hitting woes to win third PL contest The AU women's volleyball team overcame a hard-hitting Navy team and a rare game loss to overtake the Midshipmen in Annapolis Tuesday, 3-1 (30-22, 29-31, 30-23, 30-25). The Eagles (9-7. 3-0 Patriot League) lost the hitting battle, 64-58, for the first time this season.

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Danger abounds on our home turf

By Jesse Epstein | September 29

With Ladnergate, September 2005 will not be remembered as AU's brightest historical moment. But, I'm getting sick and tired of hearing people complain about money misspent for things that don't affect the school. So, as a frustrated flag football player and president of Delta Tau Delta, I'm going to complain about the thousands of dollars AU did spend for a "good reason.

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O, it's a shame what's up in Baltimore

September 29

Last Friday night, I took the train up to Baltimore to see my beloved Red Sox take on the Baltimore Orioles. The announced attendance that night was 46,000. Of those 46,000, probably all but 27 were Red Sox fans. How could a team with a successful history, wonderful stadium and decent ticket prices not draw well? What happened to a team that once set records for attendance and sold out every game? I think there are a number of reasons.

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On the surface, AU teams are divided

By Kevin Hilgers | September 29

In 1965, baseball's Houston Astros got a quick horticultural lesson: Grass grows best outside. After their first season in the Astrodome, their natural-grass field withered away. So they replaced it with the growing technology of synthetic turf, and thus began turf wars, which have divided athletes, fans and sports medicine experts.

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Working OT can't solve women's soccer's problems

By Jordan Beane | September 29

If AU's women's soccer team had one weakness Monday, it was set-play defense. Against Towson, that problem came to agonizing light. Towson scored two goals, one off a corner kick and one off a free kick, to beat AU in overtime, 2-1, at Reeves Field. Towson scored the game-winner off an Alison Reinhart free kick that got through the box and AU's 'keeper in the 106th minute.

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Field hockey, volleyball dominant during weekend: Front-line power propells weekend sweep

By Kevin Hilgers | September 26

In the past, the situation was fairly routine for the AU volleyball team. An Eagle setter would pop a pass along the net to the outside hitter, who would elevate and ready for the kill. But a split second later the attack would be repelled by the veritable wall of arms and hands on the other side of the net, rejecting the ball to the floor.

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Field hockey, volleyball dominant during weekend: Raised intensity sparks easy Eagle victory

By Katie Munroe | September 26

Off to its best start in program history, the AU field hockey team extended its unbeaten streak to eight games after a dominating 6-1 win over Longwood Sunday at Jacobs Field. The No. 4 Eagles (8-0), behind the three-goal effort of sophomore attacker Maggie Hall, wasted no time getting on the board as Hall took advantage of a breakaway in the eighth minute.

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turf column

By Jesse Epstein | September 26

September 2005 will not be remembered as the brightest moment in American University's history. But, I'm getting sick and tired of hearing people complain about money misspent for things that don't affect the school. So, ion honor of my frustration, I'm going to complain about the thousands of dollars AU did spend for a "good reason.

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Despite late slide, Nats' have a base to build on

By Missy Rosenberg | September 26

The bubble of the Washington Nationals' dream inaugural season finally burst Sunday. The team's 6-5 loss to the New York Mets mathematically eliminated the Nats from the playoff race. (By most accounts, their prospects had been slim for the last week or so.

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Men's soccer's victory is worth the wait

By Ian Quillen | September 26

After 90 tenuous minutes of regulation and 10 more of overtime could not break a 1-1 tie, the AU and Lafayette men's soccer teams huddled in front of their benches. Depleted players scurried for water bottles, anxious coaches dictated strategy for the second overtime, and in AU's huddle, Sal Caccavale dictated some of his own.

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AU women's teams drop D.C. rivals: Volleyball tops Hoyas in five

By Dan Jacobson | September 22

Coming back from a 2-1 deficit, the AU women's volleyball team ended a three-game losing streak by defeating Georgetown, 3-2 (27-30, 30-28, 28-30, 30-25, 15-13), on the road Tuesday night. AU (6-7) came in having lost six of seven, while Georgetown entered with a two-match winning streak.

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AL MVP: Who's it going to be?

By Jordan Beane | September 22

With only a few weeks left in the season, the MVP race in the American League is once again wide open. After all, it was last year when Vladimir Guerrero put the Angels on his back and pulled them into the playoffs, winning the MVP award along the way. So it seems about that time to take stock of the race, and the three main contenders.

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Coerced retirement insulting to love of the game

September 22

As a 23-year-old who's young at heart, one of the few ways to make growing up tolerable is to embrace the scenes of my youth. Maybe not the cloudy haze that once possessed my car on Saturday nights, but rathersuch times as when I scored 30 points in a middle school basketball game.

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This week in Eagle

September 22

Friday, Sept. 23 Volleyball: 7 p.m. vs. Bucknell Saturday, Sept. 24 Men's Soccer: 1 p.m. vs. Lafayette Volleyball: 2 p.m. vs. Colgate Sunday, Sept. 25 Field Hockey: 1 p.m. vs. Longwood

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