Mid-Monday Mix: The Line happened

After dinner Friday my co-editors and I went down to check out The Line at the Palestra. It did not look good. I heard they signed up about as many season ticket holders as last year, but the crowd looked much smaller this year than last. I've got to give credit to the basketball teams for being involved and the Red and Blue Crew for trying to make the season kickoff event fun, but this looks like an event on its last legs. Whether the Athletic Department realizes this or not is another question. If you're interested in this topic, check out my column in the DP tomorrow.

Rundown:

Usually students leave for the fourth quarter of football games once they've tossed their toast and whatnot. But this season the fourth quarter is about all that matters. Once again, Penn came from behind to win an Ivy game, beating Yale 37-25 at Franklin Field. The Quakers scored 27 points in the final frame alone. Columnist Ethan Alter writes that Billy Ragone is no longer just a part of the system, but the engine that makes it go. And all the pieces around him are running like clockwork. Word of the day: Pooch.
Men's soccer has also had a penchant for making things interesting in the final minutes this season. While they tied up the game late to go into OT, Yale put in the golden goal, effectively ending their hopes at an Ivy title this year.
Women's soccer has won seven straight games. That's pretty crazy. The Quakers' goals for-against ratio in that span is 22-1. Needless to say, they shutout Yale 2-0 Saturday. They're still waiting for Harvard to lose though.
Field Hockey dropped its matchup with Yale, 2-1 after leading at halftime.
Volleyball played three tight sets with Princeton on Friday, but couldn't close out any of them as the Tigers had some very effective timeouts to kill Penn runs.
Sprint football topped Cornell this weekend, 35-28, as QB Todd Busler threw for a gaudy 398 yards. Army awaits next weekend.

Weekend Win: I'm still in awe of that W. Soccer goals for/against ratio. Are you serious? Weekend win goes to the Quakers defense and keeper Sarah Banks.

Multimedia: DP Videographer and W. Lax goalkeeper extraordinaire Emily Leitner put together this sweet highlight reel from the football game this weekend

Extra Extra: The Red and Blue Scrimmage happened this weekend. We got our first look at the 2011-12 men's basketball team — or at least those who aren't injured. See this page for all our analysis and interviews with players after the game.