Softball stung by ’Nova in weekend rematch
The Quakers swept their opening three games of the Penn Spring Invitational, but ultimately lost in the final to Villanova.
The Quakers swept their opening three games of the Penn Spring Invitational, but ultimately lost in the final to Villanova.
When the Quakers take on the Big Red at Franklin Field on Saturday, Cornell will still be without the two-time Ivy League Player of the Year. But don’t be fooled, the Big Red (5-1, 1-0 Ivy) are still a team to be reckoned with.
The likely goal for Penn and Lafayette this weekend, as they play a set of home-and-home doubleheaders against one another, will be to make some final tweaks to the rotation and round into form.
The woman who made the miraculous 2000-01 Ivy title season possible will have her spot solidified amongst Penn’s athletic greats this May.
When the Quakers take on the Big Red at Franklin Field on Saturday, Cornell will still be without the two-time Ivy League Player of the Year. But don’t be fooled, the Big Red (5-1, 1-0 Ivy) are still a team to be reckoned with.
The likely goal for Penn and Lafayette this weekend, as they play a set of home-and-home doubleheaders against one another, will be to make some final tweaks to the rotation and round into form.
The women’s lacrosse team will make the always arduous trek to No. 18 Cornell this weekend to face yet another nationally ranked team.
Lange was a four-time first-team All-American and three-time College Squash Association Individual Championship runner-up. But Lange’s ascent while playing on the Women’s International Squash Players Tour circuit has been substantial.
While the Red and Blue would like to bring home their first win at the meet since 2004, they’ll have to go through a Towson squad that has outperformed them on two separate occasions this year.
Coming off of a third-place finish in the javelin at the Wake Forest Invitational, the junior is hoping to find even more success at this Saturday’s Big Five Invitational at Franklin Field.
In the latest U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Coaches’ Poll, the Ivy League has two teams ranked in the top 13 — No. 4 Cornell and No. 13 Princeton — and two squads, Harvard and Yale, receiving votes.
In a final non-conference tune-up before Ivy play starts next weekend, Penn fell to local rival Temple, 4-3.
Penn women’s softball suffered two narrow defeats Wednesday afternoon in a doubleheader at Lehigh, as the Mountain Hawks scored in just two innings in the two games. Meanwhile, Lehigh’s pitching held Penn scoreless, leading the team to 3-0 and 2-0 victories over the Quakers.
Though seniors Zane Grodman and Vidur Kapur did not win an Ivy title this year — nor any in coach Andy Ma’s three-year tenure — they helped the team come together during a tumultuous period, leaving Ma in excellent position for future seasons.
The Quakers beat Villanova Wednesday afternoon to get their first win against the Wildcats since 2009.
While the final score was an 11-9 Hoyas victory, the most important number of the night was 17, the amount of turnovers the Red and Blue committed.
Palestra custodian Dan Harrell plans to retire at the end of this school year after 23 years tending to the Cathedral of College Basketball.
Beginning Thursday, senior Brendan McHugh will compete in the NCAA men’s swimming championships in Seattle, Wash.
It will be pitching that the Quakers will turn to as they take on Lehigh in a midweek doubleheader Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m.
Rosen is a unique player. Listed at 6-foot-1, 170 pounds, it’s easy to knock his athleticism. But somehow, that doesn’t matter. For Rosen, it’s all about his mentality.