Two straight overtime games, two straight kicks shanked to the right and two straight Ivy League losses. In the end, that was the fate of the Penn football team.

Al Bagnoli said Saturday that he doesn't operate an NFL franchise, so he cannot solve his kicking woes by just cutting the ineffective junior Derek Zoch and signing a free agent. That much is true, but I also think that if Al Bagnoli coached an NFL team, he might not be coaching it much longer.

It was just a matter of time before one of their shots found the back of the net. Behind two late goals by freshman forward Jessica Fuccello, the women's soccer team overcame a two-goal deficit to tie Brown, 2-2, after 110 minutes of play yesterday at Rhodes Field.

Kristin Connelly had never started a game in her four-year Quakers career, and she only appeared in eight games over that span. Yesterday, however, she was the hero. Senior Day became Kristen Connelly Day after she deflected Margaretha Ehret's blast for the lone goal in a 1-0 victory over Brown.

The young Penn women's soccer team has already matched last year's win total. Now, with two games remaining, the Quakers have a chance to achieve the 10-win season for which they have strived since Day 1. This will be no easy task, however, as Penn (8-4-2, 1-3-1 Ivy) hosts Brown (9-3-3, 3-1-1) this Sunday afternoon.

Homecoming games are usually scheduled to set the home team up for an easy win. The matchup is picked months in advance to ensure that the larger-than-average crowd leaves the game satisfied. But the men's soccer team will not be facing any pushovers tomorrow.

The Penn football team lost in overtime for the second straight week, falling 30-27 to Brown. Until Brown tied the game late in the fourth quarter, it appeared as if the highlight of the contest would be Chris Wynn's 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the third quarter.

This weekend, the Penn volleyball team will hope that home-court advantage, as well as aggressive hitting and solid defense, can help it win two games after last weekend's two road losses. Both Harvard (9-10, 3-5 Ivy) and Dartmouth (10-8, 4-4) come to town as the Quakers try to improve on their seventh-place standing in the Ivy League.

Week 7 is officially trap week in the Ivy League. Yale and Princeton, both coming off huge wins, put their perfect records on the line with a pair of winless teams. No. 18 Princeton (-10.5) at Cornell On paper, it doesn't look like much of a test for one of the two unbeatens left in Division I-AA.

In front of the players who created it, Al Bagnoli is hoping for some repeated history tomorrow. This Homecoming, Penn (4-2. 2-1 Ivy) is facing Brown (2-4, 1-2) on Oct. 28, just as it did in 2000. The previous weekend that year, the Quakers had lost by three at Yale, just like what occurred this past weekend.

The Penn rowing teams are gearing up for a busy weekend, which begins with the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta tomorrow and ends with the Princeton Chase Sunday. The annual HOSR will feature races with college teams from all over the country, as well as a variety of races ranging from high schools to rowers ages 60 and above.

Brown linebacker Zak DeOssie grew up around football. In fact, you might say that DeOssie is just continuing the family trade. He is following in the steps of his father, NFL linebacker and special teams long snapper Steve DeOssie. The younger DeOssie is starting his career much like his father did.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Junior Keith Vereb played an hour and a half of soccer on Saturday, but he really only needed three minutes. They came at the opening of Penn's must-win match at Yale, when the Quakers came out firing and earned a free kick from upwards of 30 yards out.

The big play eluded the Quakers in the second half; and so did the win. "There were plays to be made, [plays] that were there," Walker said.

Last weekend, the Penn women's rowing team proved it could compete against the best in the world. The Quakers placed 10th out of 57 teams at the collegiate eight event at the Head of the Charles in Boston, Mass., the largest head race in the world. The team also finished 17th out of 45 in the championship eights competition.

Junior Jason Pinsky fought hard in his semifinal tennis match. Behind the supportive crowd that shouted "Go Pinsky!" after almost every point, he came up with numerous scrappy shots. In the end, however, the home crowd left disappointed as a strong start to the third set by Virginia Tech's Arvid Puranen proved to be too much for Pinsky, Penn's top-seeded player, to overcome.

Over the weekend, the Penn volleyball team got a reality check at the hands of Yale and Brown and limped home with two disappointing road losses. Eager to prove themselves in the strong Ivy League, the young Quakers lost 3-0 to the Elis and 3-2 to the Bears.