Squash runs in the Mattsson family. Thomas and Oscar’s mother, Deborah Lippincott, played squash for the Quakers in the mid-1970s. Their brother, Nils, played at Navy.

The DP sits down with Quakers’ recruit Darien Nelson-Henry and discusses his “big” impact on the program.

After barely escaping the Palestra with a weekend sweep of Cornell and Columbia, the Quakers have positioned themselves for a huge weekend road trip against Dartmouth on Friday and first-place Harvard on Saturday.

It hasn’t always been pretty and it certainly hasn’t been easy, but the Quakers have found ways to win close games this year — games they haven’t won in the past two seasons.

Every one of the 4,103 under those baby blue rafters knew whose hands would be trusted with the final shot: Zack Rosen. So, of course, it was Fran Dougherty, sweet baby Fran, who caught the inbounds pass from Miles Cartwright in midair and delicately kissed it off the glass for two points as the clock wound down to 0.5 seconds Saturday night against Columbia.

The top-seeded Quakers captured the Hoehn Cup to win the B Division championship.

On Saturday afternoon at the Shelli Calloway Memorial Towson Invitational in Maryland, the Quakers finished second at a four-team meet, scoring a 192.1, their second highest score of the season.

Alyssa Baron was not going to be stopped. After the Penn women’s basketball team lost to Cornell Friday night, 45-42, the Red and Blue’s sophomore leader scored 25 points as she carried the Quakers to victory over Columbia Saturday, 61-41.

For the 21st year in a row, the Penn wrestling team tamed the Tigers. In their regular season finale, the Quakers defeated Princeton, 24-10.

Miles Cartwright lofted a perfect inbounds pass with 1.5 seconds on the clock in overtime to Fran Dougherty under the basket, who got the alley-oop layup to give the Quakers a 61-59 victory over Columbia. SILCOX: Doc, at the buzzer

The last five minutes between Penn and Cornell saw lead change after lead change, with each respective fan group rising and falling with the arc of the basketball. In the end, it was the Quakers fans who had reason to celebrate, seeing the game effectively put away as Zack Rosen and Miles Cartwright hit huge three pointers back to back.

The Quakers went 2-5 in the first cycle of Ivy play, losing by an average of 15 points in those losses.Those games, however, are over and done with — and now it’s time to give the Ivy League another go around.

Penn will compete at the Towson Invitational against Ivy rival Cornell, Ursinis and host Towson, which takes place in Towson, Md.

When the Quakers host Cornell and Columbia this weekend — two teams that Penn defeated on the road five weeks ago — they understand that Round Two will have a much different look. What happened last time has no bearing come Friday.

Despite just missing out on playing in the A Division tournament, the Quakers will be the favorites entering the tournament that consists of the ninth to 16th nationally ranked teams.

It is a shame that strides to increase student attendance at basketball games were trivialized by Eli Cohen in a column yesterday, where he unfairly criticized Penn students and the Red and Blue Crew with many unfounded claims.

Saturday, Penn wrestling will travel to the Garden State to take on Ivy rival Princeton on its Senior Day in the Quakers’ last regular season tune-up before the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships.