Jason Pinsky left no doubt about the importance of yesterday's No. 1 singles match against Saint John's Artem Vlasenko. He drove the message home on the very first point. A high-arcing Pinsky forehand sailed just a little longer than desired. Vlasenko let the ball bounce without a return, signaling that the ball landed out.

It took Corey Winkoff less than eight minutes to prove that he belonged in the men's lacrosse starting lineup. The freshman attacker scored in the first 7:41 of his career and 27 minutes later, he ripped the net again in the Feb. 23 game against Drexel. Now, six games into the season, Winkoff is second on the team in points, behind only captain Craig Andrzejewski.

"Come on! Right here!" Jason Pinsky yelled to himself when a break point presented itself in the second set. The senior captain, playing at No. 1, was up 6-3, 3-3, before winning that point to take the lead. "I knew eventually I was going to convert it, but I just had to be patient," he said.

It's been a good few days to be a Penn hitter. The Quakers are batting .344 in their last five games and .295 overall, nearly 50 points higher than their opponents. The outlier has been Adrian Lorenzo. The freshman outfielder entered Friday's doubleheader against Mount Saint Mary's as Penn's leading hitter but departed from the Quakers' loss to Lafayette under less auspicious circumstances.

In a contest riddled with walks, balks, hit batters and wild pitches, the only thing Penn's hurlers couldn't tally was a win. Lafayette rallied from 5-1 down to upend the Quakers 6-5 at Meiklejohn Stadium, eliminating the Red and Blue from the eight-team Liberty Bell Classic.

When none of the gears are turning, it's time to evaluate to the assembly of the whole machine. And after Penn softball's two disheartening losses against Lehigh yesterday, that's all head coach Leslie King could do. "I take full responsibility as a coach," King said.

For the Penn men's tennis team, today's match against St. John's marks the last non-conference tune-up before the Princeton match on Saturday. But after losing six of their past seven matches, the Quakers know better than to look past their next opponent. "St.

For seven innings, Penn's makeshift pitching operation bent but didn't break, allowing just three runs despite 13 baserunners. But in a madcap eighth inning, the Quakers rickety bullpen finally collapsed. Ironically, Lafayette's three-run rally started with a strikeout.

If you were one of the 3.3 million people who watched the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament online, you may have seen a familiar face at halftime. Columbia men's basketball coach Joe Jones (along with New York TV personality Jason Horowitz and St. John's coach Norm Roberts) was featured on all the halftime programming of NCAA March Madness On Demand at CBSSports.

Since the Penn baseball team returned from its spring-break trip, a few people have risen to the occasion and given the Quakers a leg up on the competition - the Meiklejohn Stadium grounds crew. Today's Liberty Bell Classic opener against Lafayette was supposed to be on the Leopards' home field in Easton, Pa.

After finally hanging on to upset a ranked team, the men's lacrosse team finds itself somewhere it hasn't been in over a year: the top 20. Thanks to their 12-10 win over then-No. 19 Harvard Saturday, the Quakers (4-2, 2-0 Ivy) have moved into the final spot in the Nike/Inside Lacrosse poll released yesterday.

The 2008 Penn softball team might be enjoying the best start in program history, but the real test of greatness is yet to come. Two losses and expectations of a tight Ivy League season will follow the Quakers to Bethlehem, Pa. for their scheduled doubleheader against Lehigh this afternoon.

Andrea Kremer has reached nearly every pinnacle of sports broadcast journalism. In 17 years at ESPN, she was a correspondent for Sportscenter, NFL Countdown and Outside the Lines, working every Super Bowl since 1985 The two-time Emmy award winner left the ESPN in 2006 to become a sideline reporter for NBC's Sunday Night Football.

Harvard goalie Joe Pike entered Saturday's game leading the Ivy League with a 4.29 goals against average. By the time he left Franklin Field, that number had ballooned to nearly six. Penn put five in the back of the net by halftime and added seven more by the final buzzer for a thrilling 12-10 upset over No.

Before the women's tennis team took on Marshall and William & Mary this weekend, senior co-captain Julia Koulbitskaya predicted that her team would have to be "well-prepared at the bottom of the lineup." Her words proved prophetic. On Saturday, the Quakers lost the top two singles slots, but victories further down the depth chart propelled them an upset over No.

ST. LOUIS - Coming into this year's NCAA championships, the Penn wrestling program had a streak of at least one All-American in 11 straight years. That streak is now over. In a tournament that coach Zeke Jones called "tough," the Quakers had subpar results at this year's three-day Championship at the Scottrade Center in downtown St.

With an individual record of 8-16, an overall finish of 34th and zero All-Americans at this year's NCAA Championships, it might seem that the Penn Wrestling team is in a bit of a rut. And looking at the numbers, it's true that this year's tournament was disappointing, especially after two straight years with a national champion.