Penn men's soccer suffers heartbreak with time running out
It was crushing.
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It was crushing.
After three weeks on the road, they’re coming home.
In the words of Eminem, “Kinda feels like deja vu.”
Number 29 got the ball with just under seven minutes left in the first quarter of Penn sprint football’s home opener. With the Quakers already up, 7-0, the freshman running back looked like he wasn’t going to gain any yardage as multiple Franklin Pierce players made contact with him.
For most freshmen entering collegiate play, everything is new. New coaches, new facilities, new training and, most importantly, new teammates.
Up in Rindge, N.H., lies Franklin Pierce. Perhaps it’s not an institution that Penn students hear about frequently in the world of Penn athletics, but for the 49 players on the Quakers’ sprint football roster, it’s a household name nonetheless.
As the old saying goes, two’s company, three’s a crowd, four’s too many.
Done.
It was do or die for the Red and Blue.
In the midst of 30 degree weather at last Saturday’s Penn men’s lacrosse game at Franklin Field, I found myself asking an important question while I still had sensation in my fingers and toes.
So close yet so far.
Two games in, two wins down and it’s two brothers who helped the team get there.
While it may not be a home matchup, Penn men’s lacrosse will not have to venture far for its game on Tuesday as it visits a local foe.
As juniors trek down Locust Walk wearing hats and holding canes on Thursday and final exams loom large within the next few weeks, Penn men’s lacrosse has something more significant on its mind.
As the smell of fresh barbecue wafted over Penn Park, the Penn club men’s lacrosse team finished the last few minutes of the first round of the NCLL tournament. Penn crushed Salisbury, 12-9, to advance to the Elite Eight while supporters happily tailgated.
Over the river and through the woods, to Radnor the Quakers go.
Entering into a weekend series with Princeton, Penn softball was in a tight race for the South Division crown.
It isn’t about how you start, but how you finish. And with Penn men’s lacrosse’s Ancient Eight season coming to a close on Saturday, the Red and Blue certainly finished on a high note.
Less than 24 hours after David Guetta graces Penn with his presence at Franklin Field, the Penn men’s lacrosse team will look to electrify a crowd of its own when it hosts first-place No. 17 Harvard.
All it took was a year.