Coming off of a big comeback win against Princeton last weekend, the Penn volleyball team enters its weekend slate with a growing confidence after having won four of its last five matches.

Penn will face Brown on Saturday in a game the Red and Blue must win to stay in contention for the Ivy championship and in the seniors’ last match at Rhodes Field.

This homecoming weekend, the Quakers will pay tribute to former captain Kate Gray, who is undergoing her final round of chemotherapy to treat chondroblastic osteogenic sarcoma, a form of bone cancer.

The Quakers (8-7, 2-3 Ivy) snapped a six-game losing streak to the Wildcats (6-12) and an eight-game losing streak at Villanova. Before Wednesday, the Red and Blue’s last victory at Villanova came in 1994. But the Quakers weren’t worried about history.

Like any college team, the sprint football squad has its fair share of players recruited for the team. However, the majority of the team is composed of walk-ons.

No one has had a more up-close-and-personal view of the toast toss over the years than Donald Kelly. As head athletic groundskeeper, Kelly oversees the maintenance, painting and layout of all athletic playing surfaces at Penn.

Former Daily Pennsylvanian sports editor and current Fox Sports broadcaster Ken Rosenthal was gracious enough to take some time out of his busy schedule to talk to the DP.

Fitting with the season, the Quakers traveled to Yale on Saturday, only to find themselves immersed in a horror story.

After a lackluster performance at Dartmouth on Oct. 13, Penn responded Saturday with a commanding 2-0 victory over Yale in New Haven, Conn.

For the first time in Ivy play, the women’s volleyball team came from behind to steal a victory, dropping the first two sets before sweeping the final three in Friday’s 3-2 decision over the Tigers.

For the second straight season, the Quakers fell, 2-1, to Yale. They now find themselves at 2-11 on the year and 0-4 in Ivy League play.

Not every quarterback Penn has faced so far has been green, but the defense’s continued failures at making big stops is troubling, and even more so against those without much career playing time.

Penn responded to an early deficit and pulled out a 3-2 win on the road at Yale. The Quakers finished their Connecticut trip the next day, falling 4-2 to Fairfield.

The Quakers’ last-place defense allowed Post score a season high in points as Post topped Penn, 48-27, at Franklin Field.

Sol Eskenazi and Sonya Latycheva won six straight matches en route to the regional title, beating four Ivy teams along the way, including top-seeded Princeton.

The Penn women took first at the Sacred Heart Fall Classic, while the Penn men placed fifth at the Ivy League Match Play.

In a game marred by squandered opportunities and defensive struggles, Yale handed Penn football its first Ivy League loss of the season.