BOSTON, Nov. 10 - There is only one game left in the football season, but the pieces have yet to come together for Penn's offense. The Quakers went a staggering 0-for-14 on third down in the second half of its 23-7 loss at Harvard on Saturday, and struggled to find the end zone despite fantastic field position.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 11 - Penn coach Glen Miller was expecting some growing pains. But these really hurt. There's no doubt the Quakers are especially sore after yesterday's loss 89-68 to Loyola Maryland. "It was just a disappointing effort from our standpoint," Miller said.

Wrestling produces 2 champs at tourney Penn's wrestling team initiated the season with some promising performances. The Binghamton Open held Saturday in Johnson City, N.Y. was the first trial for the relatively young and inexperienced No. 23 Penn team. Andrew Gold and Cesar Grajales highlighted Penn's performance with a pair of championships.

How's this to cap off a career day? Carrie Biemer hit a turnaround jumper at the last seconds of the Quakers' game against Elon Friday, securing a 56-54 victory. Biemer put up a career-high 28 points in the game and was named most valuable player of the contest.

In taming the Princeton Tigers last Saturday at Rhodes Field, the Penn women's soccer team secured an automatic bid to the NCAA College Cup and clinched a share of the Ivy crown. For this year's squad, that wasn't quite enough. The Quakers overcame what their coach deemed an early week "celebratory hangover" to outlast the Crimson 1-0 Saturday afternoon in Cambridge, Mass.

Down 37-24 to Drexel by halftime, every Penn fan's fears about the upcoming season were starting to be realized. The Quakers were not only shooting a dreadful 31 percent from the floor, but allowing Drexel to drain wide open three after wide open three, six in all, on the other end.

Loss at Yale takes V-ball out of title race The Penn volleyball team knew coming into the weekend that just one loss would eliminate it from Ivy League title contention. So down two games against Yale on Friday night, the Quakers rallied back to win the third 30-26.

The men's basketball team doesn't have an organized hazing ritual for incoming freshmen, but 6-foot-8 power-forward Jack Eggleston had a unique initiation onto his new team. "Brennan [Votel] broke my nose on the first day of classes," Eggleston said. "I had to sit out a couple of weeks . but other than that nothing too intense.

By Brian Finkel Staff Writer finkel@wharton.upenn.edu Just don't lose. A draw is all it will take for the women's soccer team to finally have the Ivy League title all to itself. After clinching a share of the Ivy League championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA postseason with a win over Princeton last Saturday night, the Quakers prepare to wrap up their regular season slate tomorrow with a match at Harvard (10-5-1, 3-3-0 Ivy).

The Penn men's basketball team comes into its first weekend of play with many more questions than answers. Coach Glen Miller says he hasn't even decided who will start tonight's game against Drexel other than Brian Grandieri. He joked that the senior guard will be "at the one, two, three, four and five.

For the three seniors of the Penn men's basketball team, the clock is ticking away on their final season. Seniors Joe Gill, Mike Kach and Brian Grandieri know all too well that over 15 years of playing amateur basketball are coming to an end. But how did they begin their hoops careers? Gill, a swingman from Doylestown, Pa.

When the Penn football team heads up to Harvard tomorrow, it will find itself in an all-too-familiar role at this point in the season. Out of contention for the Ivy League championship yet again, the Quakers can only hope to ruin the Crimson's hopes for another league crown.

It's hard to know how honest players and coaches are being when they call Penn senior captain Brian Grandieri a "tough competitor." After all, the term does get thrown around a lot in the world of sports. But when his own mother feels that those two words are what best sums him up - maybe they're all on to something.

The men's soccer team is in need of a break tomorrow, and there'd be no better time to get it than against No. 15 Harvard on the Crimson's home turf. It has been a tough season for the Quakers (5-8-2, 2-3 Ivy), who were shut out in their last two contests against Brown and Princeton and have lost five of their last six.

At 13 years of age, Conor Turley's journey seemed to have come to an end. Instead of enjoying his last year of middle school, Turley spent most of eighth grade in the hospital battling polyarteritis nodosa, a life-threatening disease that occurs when immune cells attack the arteries for unknown reasons.

This weekend, the Penn volleyball team is hoping its opponents can win. Against Princeton, that is. Penn and the Tigers, the two best Ivy League teams, play at Brown and Yale this weekend. For the Quakers to stay in the race for the Ivy title, Princeton (19-3, 11-0) needs to lose at least one game.

Villanova's No. 25 preseason rank places it among the nation's elite teams, but that's not the number the rest of the Big 5 is preoccupied with. The Wildcats have targets on their back in Philadelphia because of a different figure. Villanova's 11 consecutive Big 5 wins is the City Series' longest streak since it began 52 years ago.