After two losses to open the season, Penn earned its first win of the year with a 28-21 victory over Dartmouth on Saturday.

Coming off back-to-back 1-0 games, the focus for Penn against Cornell will understandably be on offensive precision.

After two five-set losses last weekend to Princeton and Towson, the Quakers (5-7, 0-1 Ivy) will look to rebound in their first full weekend of Ivy League play. Penn did not have a midweek game this week, which gave the team extra time to focus on what it can do to turn those close losses into wins.

First-year starting goalie Carly Sokach will put her instincts to the test Saturday when the Quakers (5-3, 1-1 Ivy) visit Dartmouth (4-4, 1-1) for one of their toughest challenges of the season.

Based on the Quakers’ 2-7 start to the season, it may be hard to believe that sophomore Duke Lacroix and junior Steven Baker are the best forwards in the Ivy League. Entering league play, however, coach Rudy Fuller still wholeheartedly believes that notion.

Harvard will be without Kyle Casey and Brandyn Curry, the school’s senior co-captain stars, for the upcoming basketball season. These are colossal, potentially season-ruining losses for the Crimson.

Coming off back-to-back 1-0 games, the focus for Penn has understandably been on offensive precision. Searching for its first win of the season, Cornell will likely come out with a little extra passion as it faces its superior Ivy League rival at home.

In all but two games since 2006, including each of the last three contests, the game between Penn and Dartmouth has been decided on the final possession.

Penn quarterback has many of the same qualities as Tim Tebow and Michael Vick — from running the ball well to having an unfortunate tendency to get banged up.

Friday, Penn faces Cornell — one of the weakest teams in the Ivy League — and it has a chance to make a strong statement to the rest of its opponents.

Forrest Clancy chose to play soccer at Penn despite growing up in London. His recruitment process began after Clancy sent a YouTube video of his game highlights to Penn coach Rudy Fuller.

The Penn men’s soccer team fell to its 33rd Street rivals at Vidas Field, 2-1, on a late goal. In the 10th minute, Drexel crossed what should have been a harmless grounder into the box, but no one picked it up until the Dragons’ Nathan Page found it near the penalty spot and drove it into the top left corner.

After a weekend when the Quakers tallied 10 goals in two games and secured their first two wins of the year, they’ll face Drexel on Wednesday in their last game before Ivy play begins Saturday.

Colleen Fink was brought in to be the head coach in 2010 after a successful venture at nearby Haverford College. There, she took the Fords from 10th place to fifth in the Division III Centennial Conference — propelling the program from irrelevance to the playoffs.

The best thing Alex Dayneka and Claire Walker of the Penn women’s soccer team did this summer was get away. Dayneka interned in Botswana, while Walker participated in an urban studies program in Berlin.

Copeland, the big man in the middle, is the anchor, heart and soul of the Quakers’ defense. But he cannot do it alone.

Even through two games, it’s too early to predict how the Quakers’ season will play out.