Baseball coach John Cole called the entire weekend against Cornell a "big downer." Penn was shaken up to the tune of three losses in four games amid rain delays, extra innings and a hailstorm of Big Red offense, which poured on 36 runs to the Quakers' 19.

Just like last year, the women's lacrosse team finds itself in a position to take the Ivy League title as the season draws to a close. No. 6 Penn (10-1, 5-0 Ivy), the reigning Ivy champion, is in first place and has only two conference games left: today at No.

In a battle of Rocky-sized proportions, the underdog No. 6 Quakers' hopes for a second consecutive Ivy title hinge on the outcome of today's game at No. 2 Princeton. The team has had the date circled since the start of the season. "We started seriously practicing and working hard [for the Princeton game] the first day we got to school," senior goalie Sarah Waxman said.

All Penn's Taylor Tieman needed was a little extra motivation. And, unknowingly, the Villanova softball team might have handed her just that in the fifth inning of game two. "I looked over and they had already started packing up all their stuff, and I got kinda pissed," Tieman said.

After a disappointing stretch of eight straight losses over the past week, the Penn softball team is looking to recover. Yet the struggling Quakers (18-16, 5-7 Ivy) won't get much of a reprieve with a doubleheader today against the Wildcats. "I don't know a lot about Villanova," Penn coach Leslie King said.

Football coach Al Bagnoli paced the Palestra floor just after noon on Sunday and told members of his team to rouse classmates from their collective hangover. "You guys gonna call some people?" he said to a group of chatting players. "Drag 'em down here." Soon enough, a smattering of students filtered in, and by the end of the day the team had helped to add around 150 names to the National Marrow Donor Program's registry, said Yvette Torres, the NMDP's point person on the project.

Penn's 8-5 loss to No. 14 Brown last Saturday was the end of Ivy League play. It was not, however, the end of the world. While the Quakers were visibly (and understandably) dejected immediately after becoming the Bears' seventh straight victim, they have since taken the game - and season, for that matter - in stride.

The Quakers may no longer be in the hunt for the men's lacrosse Ivy League title, but that doesn't mean things aren't interesting for the teams that are still in it. Three Ancient Eight squads - No. 4 Cornell (4-0), No. 14 Brown (3-0) and No. 19 Princeton (3-0) - remain undefeated and are duking it out.

Yesterday's early triumph in the resumed game saw the visiting Cornell Big Red undergo a visible transformation in the second doubleheader. All of a sudden, a team that hadn't been hitting hit. A team that hadn't been pitching pitched. And most importantly, a Cornell team that hadn't been winning grabbed a pair of convincing victories - 8-1 and 16-5 - to leave the Quakers stunned at Meiklejohn Stadium.

With its back against the wall, the Penn women's tennis team got the job done. The defending Ivy League champions emerged triumphant from both of its Ivy conference showdowns this weekend, beating Harvard 6-1 and Dartmouth 5-2 to stay alive in their title defense.

Jess Lupardus is glad that she won't be facing Cornell's Samantha Hare again anytime soon. In game one of yesterday's doubleheader, Lupardus allowed just three runs in eight innings. The first came off a Hare solo home run in the fourth inning, the first hit that Lupardus allowed.

After a convincing 5-2 victory in game one of Saturday's doubleheader at Meiklejohn Stadium, Penn seemed to be rolling. The Quakers had weathered the excessive rain delay, and after taking a 6-1 lead in the first three innings of game two, they looked to be on their way to an easy sweep.

For the second-straight year, the men's golf team used the Princeton Invitational as its final tuneup before the Ivy League Championship. And for the second-straight year, the host school defeated all of the participating Ancient Eight foes. "If there's such a thing in golf as home-team advantage, then Princeton had it this weekend," Penn junior Michael Blodgett said.

Unfortunately for the Quakers, Ludacris' Friday performance was much more inspiring than the men's lacrosse game on the same field the next day. After a 25-minute lightning delay, Penn (5-5, 3-3 Ivy) had its offense shut down for a second straight contest in an 8-5 loss at No.

The school from Athens brought multiple Olympians to the NCAA Gymnastics Northeast Regionals , and for one day, Penn's Marissa Rosen got to be their teammate. Rosen was paired with the No. 1-seeded Georgia team, whose Courtney Kupets and Courtney McCool were both part of the silver-medal-winning U.

Coming into this weekend's matches against Harvard and Dartmouth, Penn found itself right in the thick of things, just half a game behind the first place Crimson. But its hopes for a third straight Ivy League title were likely dashed after a 7-0 loss at No.

The theme to Saturday's game between the Penn women's lacrosse team and Dartmouth was out with the old and in with the new. The Big Green said goodbye to their old turf this weekend, as they resurfaced Scully-Fahey Field for the home opener. They also said goodbye to a two-decade home winning streak over the Quakers, who won for the first time since 1988, 8-5.