With starting quarterback Billy Ragone out, Penn turned to fellow fifth-year senior Ryan Becker at QB and didn’t miss a beat, beating Yale, 28-17, to avenge the Quakers’ only loss in Ivy play from last season.

The Quakers were able take apart an undermanned Princeton squad on senior night and obliterate the Tigers, 72-29, to win the Ivy League title in their seniors’ final game at Franklin Field.

In a rematch against Princeton, who won the previous matchup in five sets, the Quakers pulled out a straight set victory.

While the Elis (6-7, 2-2 Ivy) have been in the middle of the pack, Penn (10-3, 3-1) has already surpassed its win total from last season.

Penn, Yale and Princeton are tied for first after each accumulating two wins and one tie.

On Saturday night at Rhodes Field, the Quakers (10-1-3, 3-1 Ivy), will look to show off their dominant defense against the Yale Bulldogs (7-5, 2-2). Penn enters play in sole possession of second place in the Ivy League, one game behind first-place Harvard.

This weekend, the Quakers will participate in not one, but two regattas. The Head of Schuylkill regatta will take place on Saturday and then the team will head to New Jersey for the Princeton Chase on Sunday.

When the Penn volleyball team takes on conference rival Princeton, it won’t just be playing for the Red and Blue — they’ll be playing for pink.

After a fantastic performance against Columbia, Penn’s defense will need to be on its toes this week, as Yale’s up-tempo option offense will call for the front seven to stick with their respective assignments.

Coach Al Bagnoli told the DP Wednesday that Ragone’s X-rays and MRIs came back negative, meaning that Ragone did not sprain his ankle at Columbia. Still, Bagnoli said the team is “treating it like it’s a sprained ankle” and labeled Ragone as questionable for Saturday’s home game against Yale.

Although the Penn water polo team lost its semifinals matchup and third-place matchup to Princeton and Harvard’s varsity teams, an Ivy Club Championship and a strong performance against varsity teams has whetted the team’s appetite for winning and challenging the best.

Members of the Penn men’s lightweight and women’s crew teams step up to continue the legacy of a California coxswain who succumbed to cancer in 2010.

Despite finishing second in the Ivy League preseason media poll to Harvard, which received every first-place vote, coach Jerome Allen was very confident in his team’s chances heading into the 2013-14 season during the Ivy men’s hoops teleconference Wednesday morning.

With nary a shot on goal, NJIT found itself the latest victim of the Penn women’s soccer team’s stifling defense.

After a nonconference victory over Lafayette and two wins over inferior Ivy opponents, Penn’s special teams have been a cause for concern.

Only after Octavia Payne was pictured in Time Magazine, frozen in mid-air, did her family finally think of ultimate frisbee as a real sport.

Against Columbia, in a game where the offense seemed unable to finish its drives, Penn’s defense showed that it has the potential to carry the team to great heights.