Behind senior captain Carrie Biemer's 28 points and third double-double of the year, the Penn women's basketball team took home its second straight Ivy League victory with a 66-49 win over Brown. The Quakers used an 18-2 run over eight and a half minutes in the first half to take a commanding lead.

Valentine's Day in New Haven. This Penn team just can't catch a break. But after a historically bad weekend in Philadelphia - in which the Quakers endured their first Ivy League weekend sweep at home since 1968 - Yale's cozy John J. Lee Amphitheater might not be as bad as it seems.

Almost a year to the date after Jeff Orleans announced that he'd step down as Ivy League executive director as of June 2009, the Council of Ivy Group Presidents announced yesterday that Robin Harris will replace Orleans effective July 1.

Just think of Rob Belcore as the Scottie Pippen to Zack Rosen's Michael Jordan. That is, if your Scottie was a slightly scruffy college freshman with a penchant for video games, and your Michael is his six-foot, carrot-top roommate from North Jersey. Yes, the analogy isn't a perfect fit for Belcore and the red-headed Rosen.

It was just another day in outfielder Gary Johnson's rollercoaster journey to Major League Baseball. Now an MBA candidate at Wharton, Johnson had nothing to hide when a man came to his AAA Salt Lake City clubhouse for random drug testing. He knew something was up, though, after he saw one of his teammates use the dugout bathroom instead of showing up for the test.

In a conference where dominant big men are scarce and big-time athletes are scarcer, consistent jump-shooting becomes all but a necessity. But it's no secret that Penn has been deficient from the perimeter over the past two seasons, and this year's Ivy League campaign has started no differently.

Going into Saturday's matchup at Cornell, the Penn women's basketball team had scored more than 63 points in a game just once all season. That "high" came at a "low": in an 81-70 loss to Temple that marked the beginning of a month-long, eight-game losing streak.

See Jack Eggleston run - the sophomore forward had logged more minutes than any Quakers player entering Saturday's contest against Cornell. See him jump - his one-handed, Palestra-rocking jam against Saint Joseph's a couple weeks back may well be the team's season highlight thus far.

This time last year, Sarah Waxman was prepping for her senior season as goalie for the Penn women's lacrosse team - one that would culminate with a trip to the national championship game. Now, she finds herself 2,000 miles from Franklin Field, in Oaxaca, Mexico, teaching English and history to Mexican high-schoolers.

Anyone with a Brown graduation ring is a step behind Adrian Williams. The sophomore guard on the men's basketball team already has a championship ring from Super Bowl XXII - actually, his dad does. "He kind of keeps it stashed away," Williams said. "I think he brings it out for special occasions.

Zack Crimmins isn't known for his shooting touch. Indeed, although he towers over most of his Ivy brethren - the Columbia center is one of three 7-footers in the league - he hardly dwarfs their box score accomplishments, netting just 45 points in his first 27 collegiate games.

It's already that time again. Just two days after men's basketball was virtually eliminated from Ivy League championship contention, the first step toward the next football season took place. Penn Athletics released the 2009 football schedule around noon yesterday.

He is the only Penn basketball player worthy of such a distinction: Harrison Gaines has Cornell's number. After dropping 19 points in each of the Quakers' two games against the Big Red in his freshman season, Gaines responded to a spot start Saturday with gusto, leaving Cornell coach Steve Donahue searching for answers.

If success has a price, Tyler Bernardini doesn't seem to be receiving his credit card bills. The expectations - stemming from an impressive freshman campaign - have built, but the sophomore guard is content to just give one response. "I'm just trying to play basketball.

The outlook was bleak for the men's squash team. After coming up short against Harvard Saturday, it faced a 4-3 deficit yesterday against Dartmouth. And Penn's Porter Drake and Mark Froot were each down, 2-0, in their respective matches. But the Quakers fought through, and at the end of the match it was Drake screaming triumphantly and Dartmouth's Tyler Young throwing his racket against the glass after a frustrating defeat.

Penn knows that against certain teams, being physically overmatched is all but guaranteed. With schools like North Carolina and Villanova on their schedule, the Quakers are certain to get pushed around from time to time. One time it is never supposed to happen, however, is against another Ivy League team.

By LEIGH SILVER Staff Writer silver@dailypennsylvanian.com Ekaterina Kosminskaya knows that sometimes, you just can't win every match. Playing as the Penn women's tennis team's No. 1 in both doubles and singles, the junior could only muster a 2-2 record against Virginia Commonwealth and Richmond this weekend.