While the stands have cleared, the vendors have packed up and yet another Penn Relays has come to a close, the season for Penn women's track and field is far from over. The Quakers will host the Heptagonal Championships, the equivalent of Ivy League Championships, at Franklin Field May 9 and 10.

The seeds are out, the tournament is about to start, and it looks like Penn dodged a bullet while still not grabbing the golden apple. Last night the NCAA announced the bracket for the 2009 Women's Lacrosse Tournament, and the Quakers (13-2, 7-0 Ivy) received the fourth seed.

The men's lightweight crew team closed out its regular season in dominating fashion Saturday morning, cruising through its final regular-season meet against MIT and Saint Joseph's on the Schuylkill River. The victory - which was the Quakers' first of the season - featured sub-six minute times from all three boats in the varsity 8 and served as a definite morale booster heading into postseason competition.

Looking back on the 2008-09 Penn sports year, this wasn't exactly one to remember. Despite a strong start, things seemed to go downhill as the year progressed. In the fall, M. Soccer won the Ivy League, while Football, Field Hockey and Volleyball finished third.

With a fourth seed in the NCAA tournament, the Penn women's lacrosse team is starting their season anew. The Quakers (13-2, 7-0 Ivy) dropped their last two regular season games to No. 1 Northwestern and then No. 13 Stanford, tarnishing their undefeated record.

Sunday, Penn's heavyweight rowing team hopes to steer past April's troubles and glide to Ivy victory at the Eastern Sprints Championship. Held annually at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., the Sprints include the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges teams, which is comprised of the Ivies plus some other schools such as Navy, Northeastern and MIT.

Evanston, Ill., April 26 - As the Penn women's lacrosse team has risen to national prominence over the last three seasons, only one team has stood in its path. Northwestern has overshadowed the Quakers' rise with its own dominant, run as four-time national champion.

For the second-straight week, the women's lacrosse team has been foiled by an old foe. A week after No. 1 Northwestern defeated the Quakers, 11-9, No. 3 Penn lost to No. 13 Stanford, 8-6. Since 2006 the Quakers are undefeated against all teams not named Stanford or Northwestern, as the Wildcats and Cardinal gave Penn its two losses last year.

The first time freshman Tiffany Cheung played a full round of golf was at her high school golf team's tryouts. The native of Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif., found an old set of golf clubs in her garage and spent the summer prior to her freshman year of high school hitting golf balls with her younger brother.

When Glen Miller arrived in West Philadelphia three years ago to be introduced as the next coach of Penn, he was greeted with something he had not come to expect in his prior 15 years as an NCAA coach: a legitimate press conference. Roughly eight reporters from The Daily Pennsylvanian and many more members of the local media huddled around him to get a close look at Fran Dunphy's replacement.

Entering its final game of the season, the traditionally strong but recently slumping men's lacrosse team has no prospects of an Ivy League championship or even a winning record. But will their unfavorable circumstances prevent the Quakers (4-8, 2-4 Ivy) from pulling together one last all-out effort in Saturday's season finale against Army in West Point, N.

As the Penn women's lacrosse team prepares to face Stanford in the final game of the regular season, Becca Edwards, for one, is eyeing revenge. "I think we really have a lot of motivation," the senior said. "[Stanford is] the only team that we lost to in the regular season last year, and personally, for me that's the game I tore my ACL in, so I think it will be a fun game for us.

The NCAA announced the 2009 Women's Lacrosse Tournament bracket, and Penn received the No. 4 seed. The Quakers (13-2, 7-0 Ivy) will face unseeded Fairfield (17-2) Sunday at Franklin Field in the first round. The Quakers were predicted to get the No. 3, No.

For the Penn women's track and field team, this year's Penn Relays were all about the record books. Having qualified for Friday's ECAC final with its best finish of the season Thursday, the 4x100-meter relay team topped that in the final with its time of 46:74.

For three quarters, it seemed like the seniors on the men's lacrosse team forgot yesterday's matchup against Towson was their last home game. But in the final 15 minutes, Penn's 10 seniors turned it on, leading the Quakers to a 5-0 fourth quarter and a 10-6 come-from-behind win over the Tigers.

Derek Vigoa stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth inning of Penn baseball's final game of the season. The home contest against Columbia was tied at 9 with two outs. On the mound for the Lions was Brian Valero, a teammate of Vigoa's last season at Christopher Columbus High School in Miami, Fla.

After the final softball game of their Penn careers, seniors Emily Denstedt and Anna Puglisi expressed mixed feelings. According to Puglisi, the game was "fantastic, pretty much as good as it could've gone. It was a great comeback." Denstedt was more disappointed with her own performance.