But when it came down to voting for the captain of the 2012 squad, only one player stood out: defensive end Brandon Copeland.

Since top pitchers Vince Voiro and Cody Thomson were sitting out to rest, Cole decided to give his lesser-used arms an opportunity. But they couldn’t get the job done, and the Quakers fell to the Explorers, 11-4, at Meiklejohn Stadium.

Working together, the freshman-sophomore pair has posted an 8-5 overall record on their way to stabilizing the doubles portion of the Penn tennis team’s lineup.

Rather than have a player averaging nearly four goals per game, as Northwestern senior Shannon Smith does, the Red and Blue prefer to distribute the wealth.

The Quakers visited in-state foe Bucknell for a respite from Ivy play but found only an onslaught of offense.

Penn sits in the bottom position of its division, tied with Columbia at 5-3. Cornell, at 7-1, is alone at the top, for now. As Penn coach John Cole said of the tight race, “Anything can happen in this league.”

The Penn women’s golf team finished third in the Brown Invitational on Monday.

But much like the perennial NL East champs, the 2012 Quakers struggle mightily at the plate. In this weekend’s 1-0 loss to Dartmouth, Alexis Borden was stellar again, allowing just one run on three hits while completing the game. But it was all for naught.

Less than a year after the uprising that ousted longtime president Hosni Mubarak, Aaron Ross has journeyed to Egypt, where he has been working for the past five months as a freelance journalist in Cairo and around the region.

Much of this heritage is retained in the men’s game today. Players wear helmets, thick gloves, shoulder pads, arm pads and elbow pads. Contact is encouraged and imposing one’s physicality on the opposing team is at least as important as speed and skill. Women’s lacrosse is essentially a different sport.

With just three weeks until the historic Penn Relays, the Red and Blue turned in dominating individual performances in this weekend’s Penn Invite against a relatively weak field.

On Saturday afternoon, gymnasts Dana Bonincontri and Kirsten Strausbaugh competed in NCAA Regionals at North Carolina State and although they turned in career-best performances, neither will advance to the NCAA Championships.

The Penn women’s tennis team moved to 0-3 in the Ivy League for the fourth consecutive season, losing to No. 27 Yale and No. 53 Brown.

The Quakers dropped two games to Dartmouth on Saturday before sweeping Harvard the following day in Boston to earn a split on the weekend.

As a sign of spring season finally hitting full gear, all three Penn crew teams participated in races over the weekend, with varying results.

On Saturday night, the Penn men’s lacrosse team lost their fourth straight Ivy game, 11-10, to Brown at Franklin Field.

Facing Northwestern, the defending national champions, the Quakers could not pull off the upset at Franklin Field.