The Crimson aren't the best lacrosse team in the Ivy League, but they look like it against Penn. In a back-and-forth game, Harvard scored the final three goals, including one only a minute into overtime, for the 7-6 win over Penn. It is the third time in three years the Quakers have lost to Harvard.
Bring on the Tigers. That was the overwhelming sentiment as the Quakers returned from their weekend trip to Virginia and now prepare to kick off their Ivy schedule against Princeton. The trip, which began with a 7-0 Penn defeat at the hands of William and Mary, ended on a high note as the Red and Blue cruised to a 5-2 victory over Old Dominion.
Penn coach Karin Brower and the women's lacrosse team have employed a simple formula: play at home and win. So when Cornell comes to town on Saturday, the red-hot Quakers - who have yet to lose in Philadelphia this season - will try to take full advantage of Franklin Field's comforts while they still can.
For a team that won the Ivy League title, it was only appropriate to close on a high note. In its final home meet of the season, the Penn gymnastics team finished its season by beating Cornell, 190.675 to 188.40. After two solid rotations on vault and bars, the Quakers were competing true to form with freshman Marissa Rosen nailing down a 9.
The Quakers kneeled on the top step of the third-base dugout. Freshman righthander Todd Roth was on the mound, and the scoreboard behind him revealed the list of zeros for Columbia: no runs, and more importantly, no hits. Roth pushed the count full with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, and he was one strike away from a no-hitter.
Three top-10 finishes highlight tourney win Both Penn golf teams were in action this past weekend. The men's squad competed in the George Washington Invitational and the women competed at the William and Mary Invitational in Williamsburg. The men's team won its tournament, beating out 24 teams.
Three top-10 finishes highlight tourney win Both Penn golf teams were in action this past weekend. The men's squad competed in the George Washington Invitational and the women competed at the William and Mary Invitational in Williamsburg. The men's team won its tournament, beating out 24 teams.
Bring on the Tigers. That was the overwhelming sentiment as the Quakers returned from their weekend trip to Virginia and now prepare to kick off their Ivy schedule against Princeton. The trip, which began with a 7-0 Penn defeat at the hands of William and Mary, ended on a high note as the Red and Blue cruised to a 5-2 victory over Old Dominion.
Penn coach Karin Brower and the women's lacrosse team have employed a simple formula: play at home and win. So when Cornell comes to town on Saturday, the red-hot Quakers - who have yet to lose in Philadelphia this season - will try to take full advantage of Franklin Field's comforts while they still can.
After losing a close game to Lafeyette 6-5 in the first half of its doubleheader, the Penn softball team had the last word, rallying to take the second game 5-0. Penn's first game was plagued by defensive miscues. The Quakers (8-6) committed a total of four errors that cost them five unearned runs.
Penn could certainly use a quick pick-me-up after Wednesday's disappointing extra-inning 2-1 loss to Lafayette: Columbia.
Day one of the NCAA Fencing Championships wasn't a banner event for Penn men's fencing. But if the lows were low, the highs were definitely high. Ron Berkowsky headlined the afternoon, going 12-2 in foil for a second-place finish in the event. The only foilist to have a better outing was Columbia's Kurt Getz, who finished at 13-1.
David Cornbrooks wants his ring back. It's the one he should have had last year. A little less than a month into its season, the Penn lacrosse team is off to a fast start, with an early leg up in the Ivy League standings and a weak Harvard team looming just ahead.
The Penn softball team is ready to resume play after being idle for over a week - and, as a surprising treat, will do so in its own backyard. Following a weekend full of snow, sleet and several cancelled games, including one against St. Joseph's, the players will get to stretch their legs today against Lafayette (5-5), a team whose number they've regularly had in the past.
Another fencing season is drawing to a close. For Michael Galligan, it will be his final one at Penn. Although the team's qualifiers were having fun and joking during the car ride over to Madison, N.J., to participate in the four-day NCAA Championships starting today, the Quakers still had mixed emotions about the seniors' final hurrah.
So the Athletic Department fired offensive coordinator Shawn Halloran after just one year at the position, and hired former Alabama-Birmingham tight ends and running backs coach Bill Schmitz to fill the vacancy.
The Ivy League title clincher and the first round of the NCAA Tournament aren't supposed to feel like preseason tryouts. For Brennan Votel and Justin Reilly, they may have been just that. We sit eight months away from the Penn basketball team's first rebuilding effort in four years.
Joe Scott was escorted to his new job by an eye-catching cheerleader with CBS's NCAA Tournament theme song blasting in the background. He may have thought he was dreaming, but he wasn't. And there was plenty more where that came from at Denver's Magness Arena yesterday, where Scott was introduced as Denver's new basketball coach.
As the losses continued to pile up, confidence somehow never wavered for the Penn men's tennis team, though lately it has not translated to positive results on the court. Perhaps all it needed was some home cooking, when its confidence off the court finally turned into a dominating performance.
It's been like a deal with the devil gone wrong. When the Penn pitching staff traded in its double-digit ERAs of the Florida trip for sterling sub-2.00 marks back in the Northeast, all of a sudden it found the run support missing. Now if only they could put the two phases of the game together.
One hundred sixteen games, 79 wins and three Ivy League titles - that's a pretty impressive accomplishment for the senior class of Stephen Danley, Adam Franklin, Ibrahim Jaaber and Mark Zoller. But how do they stack up with the greats from Penn - and the rest of the League - who have graced Ivy gymnasiums over the past four years?
With a 3-5 stretch in a trip through the Southern Conference last week, Lafayette's spring break might not have been what they expected. And as the Leopards come into town today to take on Penn (5-6) after such a trip, coach Joe Kinney just wants to avoid slipping into an even deeper funk.
After three years of disappointment, Princeton basketball may be in for another upheaval. Head coach Joe Scott will be announced as Denver's new coach at a 5 p.m. press conference today, sources told ESPN.com yesterday. Denver's Sports Information director would not confirm the hiring to The Daily Pennsylvanian last night, but he confirmed the press conference.
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