Penn athletes ready to showcase their talents
Did you ever wonder to yourself, can the men's basketball team juggle? Can the football team sing?
Here's your chance to find out.
For the third straight year the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee is organizing the Student-Athlete Talent Show. Various intercollegiate sports teams will put on skits, sing, dance and otherwise perform. The show will take place at the Palestra Monday, April 7. Admission is free for all Penn students.
-- Andrew DeLaney
Green honored as ECAC Athlete of the Week
Following a meet-high 9.8 on the uneven bars in a narrow loss to Temple Saturday, Penn gymnastics junior Christy Green was named the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference's Athlete of the Week. William and Mary's Suzzanne Chaves shared the award with Green for this week.
The 9.8 was the fourth highest score in the history of the Penn gymnastics program and a career-high for Green.
Green tied teammate Desirae Gaesparo for second place against Temple with a 9.775 in the floor competition. She also scored a 9.425 to tie for sixth on the vault. The Red and Blue close out their season this Saturday at the ECAC championships at Yale.
-- A.D.
Softball off to Lafayette for doubleheader
Only darkness stopped the Penn softball team this weekend -- the Quakers (6-7-1) won the first game of a doubleheader against Delaware and ended game two in a scoreless, 15-inning tie because of the impending night.
The win in the first game was Penn's first win over the Fightin' Blue Hens in three seasons.
Against Delaware, Penn junior Nicki Borgstadt pitched all of game two, striking out eight batters and allowing four hits.
The Quakers look to continue their success today when they travel to Lafayette at 3 p.m. to play a doubleheader.
The Leopards are coming off losses on both sides of a doubleheader against Saint Joseph's on Tuesday. In the first game, the Hawks blitzed Lafayette, 18-7, and the game fell subject to the eight-run rule. By the second inning, St. Joe's had built an 18-0 cushion.
The second game, however, saw a rebirth in the Leopards' pitching and defense, holding the Hawks to one run. Unfortunately for Lafayette, however, the Leopards did not manage to cross the plate at all.
Like much of the Quakers' early competition, Lafayette used its spring break to compete in the Rebel Spring Games, held in Florida.
The Leapords went 2-6 in the Southern sun, and have only had the two losses against St. Joe's since then.
The Quakers do not have any mutual opponents with Lafayette this spring. However, Penn defeated St. Joe's in the fall, 2-0.
-- Zachary Silver
