As one of just three seniors on the squad, captain Evan Prochniak has stepped up to assume a leadership role on the men’s fencing team.

As the buzzer called the end of the game, Miles Cartwright’s last-second three-point heave fell short and Fordham handed Penn a 70-68 defeat in the consolation round of the NIT Season Tip-Off tournament.

With three wrestlers in the finals, Penn had a chance to make up for a disappointing finish to last weekend’s Binghamton Open. All three title bouts went into overtime.

Penn’s title teams of 2009 and 2010 may have run the Ivy League table, but the 2012 version is the most impressive of the current dynasty.

It’s hard to make any generalizations about the Quakers four games into the season — no one can know how the young players are going to develop or how the team will gel.

The men’s and women’s squash teams had mixed results as they took on Bates and George Washington over the weekend.

The women’s swim team beat Cornell but fell to Princeton Friday at Sheerr Pool, while the men’s side experienced the same results on Saturday.

Penn women’s basketball now faces a test of morale after falling to Army on Sunday, 58-53. The Quakers have now dropped their first three games of the season.

Penn fell to the Dragons, 61-59, in a game that the Quakers let slip out of their grasps as the clock wound down.

Penn football earned its third outright Ivy League championship in four years Saturday afternoon with a 35-28 win over Cornell.

Penn’s biggest advantage to stopping Jeff Mathews and the Cornell passing attack on Saturday lies with getting to him with the linebacking corps.

Andrew Holland will make his first career start when the Quakers head north to Ithaca, N.Y., on Saturday to take on Cornell in a bid for the outright Ivy League title.

This year, 14 schools from across the country will make the trip to Philadelphia for one of the nation’s premier tournaments.

In order for the Quakers to have success at Army and in the future, they will need to rely on minutes from their first-year players, who are adjusting to both school and the team.

The two geographic rivals will face each other at the Palestra after a one-year hiatus. Drexel took the contest in 2010, 77-56.

When Penn hired him in 2009, McLaughlin had the highest winning percentage of any college basketball coach nationwide, and he has already guided the Quakers to their largest single-season turnaround in program history.

As Travis Cantrell led Penn to victory over Harvard on Saturday with a one-goal, two-assist performance, he also played his final match for the Red and Blue. While the season was littered with bitter defeats, he helped his team finish on a high note.