Shift in the standings

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Last year, the Ivy League baseball season played out a lot like that of their professional counterparts.

One side, the American League or the Red Rolfe Division thoroughly dominated the other in interleague play. For instance, the team that finished last in the Rolfe (Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale and Brown) had the same record as the team that finished first in the Lou Gehrig division.

Except nobody told St. Louis, the 83-78 NL Central champion or Princeton, the 11-9 Gehrig Division champion, that they weren't supposed to have a chance, and the weaker division took the title in both cases.

But this year, the balance of power has shown some early signs of a shift. With the first of the two interdivisional weekends nearly complete (Brown and Cornell play a makeup this afternoon), Penn's division has already surpassed its win total from all of last season's 32 interdivisional games.

After going 6-26 against the Rolfe in 2006, the Gehrig is 9-6 this season, led by Penn's 3-1 effort against Harvard and Dartmouth.

And while this is good for Penn from a standpoint of balance of power, don't expect to be able to make the championship series with 11 wins.