W. Tennis beats Tigers
The No. 42 women's tennis team (7-4-1) started its Ivy League season with a win. The Quakers beat Princeton (6-7) by a score of 6-1.
The match began outdoors but was forced inside due to rain.
The Quakers only lost two matches all day: first doubles and third singles.
Yulia Rivelis, Julia Koulbitskaya, Alexis Plukas, Raluca Ciochina and Caroline Stanislawski each won singles matches.
The Quakers did not win their singles points easily, though. Three matches went to three sets and and four sets required seven games.
Two doubles teams -- Plukas and Ciochina, then Stanislawski and Michelle Mitchell -- won their respective doubles matches.
Despite losing the first doubles match, the other two were won by a score of 8-5.
Penn will next travel to Yale on Friday.
-- Matt Meltzer
M. Track takes second at Navy Invitational
Thanks to the sprinters, the Penn men's track team took second place out of six teams at Navy in Annapolis, Md.
Grafton Ifill won the 200-meter dash at 22.30 seconds, while freshman Kevin Benjamin took second at 22.54.
The 4x100-meter sprint team took the relay event with a time of 41.6, and the other Penn team competing took second with 42.8. Both Princeton teams did not finish, and Navy was disqualified.
Senior Mark Materna represented the distance team, winning the 1500m at 3:56.50.
Navy won the event by a significant margin -- 216 to Penn's second-best 128.
-- Josh Wheeling
Strong day salvages weekend for W. Golf
The Penn women's golf team rebounded from a disappointing 14th-place standing at the end of day one to finish 12th out of 15 teams at the Hoya Invitational this weekend.
After scoring 359 on Saturday, the Quakers posted a 334 on the final day, which was good for a tie for the tenth-best Sunday score.
Georgetown, who hosted at the event in Leesburg, Va., shot 612, besting Penn's final score of 693 by 81 strokes.
Individually, sophomore Meg Bender was the Quakers' highest finisher; her 23-over-par 167 put her in a tie for 37th place. Junior Stephanie Stamas and senior Kim Thompson came in 57th and 61st, respectively.
Georgetown's Christy Larrimore won the event with a 1-over-par 143.
Yale was the top Ivy League team in the meet, placing second.
The Quakers will play in the Ivy League Championships April 21-23 in Hamburg, N.J.
-- Sebastien Angel
