When softball meets Lehigh tomorrow in a doubleheader at Warren Field, the Mountain Hawks will be the third set of predatory birds that the Quakers have met in seven days. Each time, Penn has come out looking more like the prey. After two humbling losses in the Quakers' home opener against the Saint Joseph's Hawks, 4-1 and 10-0, the young Penn team dropped two razor thin losses to the Monmouth Hawks, both by the score of 1-0.

Just one day after the men's basketball season ended, sophomore Harrison Gaines announced that he was transferring out of Penn at the end of the semester. The guard from Victorville, Calif., averaged 9.9 points per game this year, second on the team to Tyler Bernardini's 13.

In 2006, Robert Irvin had one of the best seasons for a Penn sophomore quarterback in the past half-century. Then he lost much of the next year to injury and would never again claim the top of the depth chart. But the coaching staff had never found a consistent replacement for him until late last season, when they were forced to turn to unknown sophomore Keiffer Garton, having literally run out of options.

California dreaming isn't over yet. Ten days after completing its West Coast spring trip, the Penn men's tennis team will take on California-Riverside at Lott courts today in the final match of the non-conference schedule. The Quakers are happy to return to Philadelphia and hope that home-court advantage will give them an edge over their West Coast foes.

Glen Miller will be returning next season as head coach of the Penn basketball team, the team's co-chair John Rockwell confirmed last night. A member of the board of athletic overseers, Rockwell also endows the head coaching position. Other sources close to the program have indicated that the beleaguered coach met one-on-one with Athletic Director Steve Bilsky last week to evaluate this past season, Miller's status and the current state of the program.

Doug Glanville put together one of the most successful baseball careers of any Ivy League athlete. After co-captaining Penn's 1991 league championship squad, he went on to hit .277 in nine seasons (1996-2004) patrolling centerfield for the Cubs, Phillies and Rangers.

Penn's Stephanie Wheeler trailed Columbia's Tess Finkel, 4-2, with thirty seconds left in a first-to-five epee bout at the NCAA Championships. In courageous fashion, the sophomore quickly recorded two touches, sending the bout to overtime, where she ended up winning 5-4.

Men's lacrosse can't be happy enough to get out of New England. A hopeful weekend turned sour after the Quakers were shut down Saturday at No. 16 Harvard, 11-4, then lost a 15-11 shootout at Bryant the next day. After dropping an overtime heartbreaker to Yale over spring break, the Red and Blue (1-5, 0-2 Ivy) hit the road for Ivy League redemption in Cambridge, Mass.

Penn men's golf conquered the wind, questions about their depth, and 19 other teams this weekend in Bethany Beach, Del., so it's certainly understandable that two teams managed to slip through their grasp. Minus their star senior Mike Blodgett, the Quakers used a strong collective effort to finish third among the 22 schools participating in the George Washington Invitational at Bear Trap Dunes.

Against Cornell this weekend, junior midfield Ali DeLuca put away four goals, including one she has been working on all season - the fake flip. "I think we have a lot of trouble on the flip and the fake flip," DeLuca said. "We've always practiced that all year, and [coach Karin Brower] really wants us to get that down, so it worked nicely.

At its best, Penn baseball is a team with hitters who can knock the ball out of the park and pitchers with special stuff. At their worst, the Quakers are an immature team prone to inconsistency at the plate and on the mound. During its first four-game series of the season, both sides showed up.

ST. LOUIS - For Rollie Peterkin, the March 19-21 NCAA Tournament was the same disappointment, just a different year. Just like in 2008, the Penn 125-pound wrestler advanced all the way to the round of 12 - the round just before All-American status is guaranteed - only to lose a close match and see his dreams of placing at nationals go up in smoke.

"Rusty" is the best way to describe the Penn women's golf team's performance this past weekend, according to coach Mark Anderson. "That's expected for the first tournament in the spring, especially coming from the northeast," Anderson said. "It's good to have a tournament like this to see what we need to work on, even though we didn't play great.

Deja vu. The members of the Penn softball team had seen it all too recently as the second game of their doubleheader against Monmouth ended Saturday. After a 1-0 loss in the first game, the Quakers fell to the Hawks by the same score - and in almost the same exact fashion - in the nightcap.

Two teams, 36 innings. That's more than your typical meet-and-greet. Fortunately, familiarity seems to favor Penn's baseball team; after dropping its first game to Georgetown several weeks ago by a double digit margin, the team rebounded to win four of the remaining five games against the Hoyas.

Villanova won the game but lost its luster. The Wildcats looked nothing like a No. 3 seed until the final ten minutes of its 80-67 first-round win over American at the Wachovia Center. They'll move on to face No. 6 UCLA in the NCAA Tournament's second round tomorrow, but uncertainty is now surrounding them like a cloud.