Senior midfield Drew Collins and the Penn men's lacrosse team dare to dream about the success they could and should have had this season. Results like Saturday's 7-6 win over No. 11 Brown in Providence, R.I., just add fuel to that imaginary fire. "It kind of showed today and a little bit on Tuesday [in a 10-9 loss to No.

Freshman pitcher Chris McNulty has come a long way since his first start against Delaware March 31. In that game, he surrendered eight earned runs in six innings of work. Saturday, however, McNulty led the Quakers to their first conference victory by pitching a complete game and allowing just three earned runs in the process.

By MAX WEISS Staff Writer weiss@dailypennsylvanian.com Emily Wolf and Lauren Sadaka are at two very different stages in their collegiate tennis careers. Wolf is a freshman just finishing up her first year on the team. Sadaka, on the other hand, is a senior trying to make the most of her last month before graduation.

As Hicham Laalej's singles match against Harvard slipped away, so too did the Quakers' hopes of a perfect home record and a winning season in the Ivy League. After taking the first set from Crimson senior Chris Clayton, Penn's junior was in control, leading 4-2 in the second set.

The men's tennis team knows it can't take home the title every year. So when they host Ivy rivals Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend, the Quakers (9-9, 0-3 Ivy) will be competing for something more than a trophy. "It's all about pride at this point," senior captain Jonathan Boym said.

Men's lacrosse can't win the Ivy League tomorrow at Brown, but the opportunity for an upset is still very much in the cards - again. After nearly toppling No. 2 Princeton Tuesday at home, the Quakers (2-7, 1-4 Ivy) will make a quick turnaround, heading to Providence, R.

The Quakers will have plenty to think about on their lengthy bus trip up to Ithaca, N.Y. this weekend. As they trudge northward on the way to a pair of doubleheaders against Cornell, they will no doubt be wondering how they can lift themselves from the rut they are in - the one that has seen them fall to 0-8 in the Ivy League.

With the score knotted at 6-6 in overtime, Penn women's lacrosse freshman Erin Brennan gained possession of the ball off a Dartmouth turnover, sprinted down the field and passed to senior Becca Edwards. Edwards came up alone against Dartmouth's goalie, with one little head fake pushed the ball in the net for the go-ahead goal.

For the Penn women's tennis team, the time is now or never. With only four matches left in the season, the Quakers are vying for a second win since their sole victory this season, a 7-0 sweep over George Washington University Feb. 20. They are also craving

After two quiet losses Wednesday in which Penn scored just three runs in two games against Temple, the team is no doubt looking for the bats to show up. This weekend's doubleheaders against Cornell (27-7, 6-2 Ivy) could be just the opportunity the Quakers (9-20-1, 4-4) need to erase any lingering bad memories of the Temple games.

The 10-0 Penn women's lacrosse team wasn't always at the top of the Ivy League. In fact, in coach Karin Brower's 10 years with the program, the Quakers have only beaten Ivy League rival Dartmouth twice - in each of the last two seasons. So tomorrow at noon on Franklin Field, Brower will hope that her third time is still the charm.

Ivy League lacrosse is in Samantha Bird's blood. Penn's senior attack comes from a line of women's lacrosse players. Bird's older sister, Courtney, graduated from Princeton last year, while her younger sister, Georgia, is currently a freshman on Dartmouth's roster.

What do you get when you blend a fake afro, a Celine Dion video, a cookie monster mask and a human banana? Besides a phenomenal theme party, of course. The answer: a third-place finish at the Student Athlete Advisory Committee's athlete talent show, revived for the first time since 2006 at the Zellerbach Theater this past Monday evening.

April 7 - With its hopes of an Ivy League title all but dashed, the men's lacrosse team viewed its Tuesday matchup with archrival No. 2 Princeton as a chance for redemption. The Tigers were fresh off an upset of then-No. 2 Syracuse - the defending national champion - so Penn was looking to pull off one of the biggest upsets in recent team history.

After an encouraging performance with the bats in its last Ivy weekend, the Softball team looked to carry that momentum into a doubleheader against city rival Temple. But besides a pair of home runs, the Quakers couldn't put any additional runs on the board, and the defense wasn't much better in 7-2 and 7-1 losses at Warren Field.

Just hours before the Phillies took the field for Major League Baseball's Opening Night, the Penn football team took to the gridiron at Franklin Field for the first time in 2009. Unlike the Phillies loss to the Braves, this one didn't count: it was the team's annual intrasquad scrimmage.

Colin Groshong may have graduated from Penn all the way back in 2007, but the Red and Blue are still following him. Well maybe just the Blue. Groshong, in front of former Penn lightweight rowing teammates and coaches, coxed the Oxford first team "Blue" boat to a win in the 155th incarnation of its paramount contest against Cambridge, known simply as "The Boat Race.