In the first half of Saturday afternoon's game against Columbia, it looked as if the Penn women's soccer team of 2001 was back.
Penn jumped out to an early 2-0 lead behind the offensive duo of sophomore forwards Katy Cross and Rachelle Snyder.
However, the Quakers stumbled in the second half, conceding two goals on the way to their second tie of the season.
Snyder drew first blood against the Lions (3-6-2, 0-2-2) by hammering home a free kick in the fourth minute of play. It was Snyder's first goal of the season.
Snyder, the Quakers' second leading scorer last year with 23 points on 10 goals and 3 assists, tacked on two more points to her career total with the goal.
Cross maintained her commanding lead in the Ivy League scoring race by earning her 28th and 29th points of the season on her goal.
After receiving a pass from sophomore defender Amy Salomon, Cross netted Penn's second goal of the game in the 21st minute.
Cross' closest competitors in the scoring race are Harvard's Joey Yenne and Princeton's Esmeralda Negron. Each has amassed 18 points this season.
Cross leads the Ivy League in every scoring statistic except assists, where she trails the leader, Yenne, by three.
Although Penn (5-6-2, 1-1-2) emerged at the end of the half with a 2-0 lead, it was not without a defensive test.
The Lions mustered seven shots in the first half, forcing Penn junior goalkeeper Vanessa Scotto to make four saves.
The Red and Blue took the field in the second half looking to maintain their offensive spurt.
"We were pretty confident by the end of the first half. We had dominated play," Salomon said. "During the second half we wanted to focus on maintaining our shape in the 4-4-2 and making solid runs up top. We wanted to create even more offense than we had."
The Quakers were unable to realize their goals in the second half, as a more courageous Columbia team took the field.
The Lions dictated the pace of play, scoring two goals on four shots to tie the score and send the match into overtime.
Columbia's goals were scored from free kick opportunities.
"They scored on free kicks, which is always disappointing," Salomon said. "We were lower in the second half, and we didn't have the same fight we had in the first half."
As the game entered overtime, the momentum swung back in the Quakers' direction.
Penn created three legitimate scoring opportunities in the two ten minute overtime periods behind Cross, freshman forward Jenna Linden and sophomore midfielder Lauren Bome.
Bome had the Quakers' best opportunity, firing a shot off the Columbia crossbar during the second overtime.
Despite an offensive surge, the Quakers were unable to find a way to score a game winner.
"Anything is better than a loss in the Ivy League," Salomon said. "But we were disappointed not to hold onto our lead in the second half."
The Quakers will look to even their record at .500 next Saturday when they travel to New Haven, Conn., to take on Yale.
