Senior swimming captain Chaz Maul is familiar with breaking things. After fracturing his hand in the beginning of the season, Maul jumped back into the pool this Saturday and shattered a long-standing Dartmouth pool record in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 56.

It was home sweet home for the men's squash team on Saturday. Playing at Ringe Courts for the first time in six weeks, Penn downed Amherst, 9-0, in the morning and handled Williams, 6-3, just hours later. The No. 7 Quakers (5-2, 1-2 Ivy) had an auspicious start to the semester and to their stretch of four non-conference contests.

Junior squash player Kristen Lange won her first two games, 9-3, 9-0, against Williams' number one player, Toby Eyre, but when it came down to game three, she felt herself lose some control over the match this past Saturday. "I got really anxious and started trying to end the points really quickly," Lange said.

Like most of his Penn teammates, sophomore guard Harrison Gaines looked lethargic in the first half against winless NJIT. From the outset, the Highlanders were determined to slow the pace of the game and deny the ball to Penn's first option, Tyler Bernardini.

After a tense day of trading wins with Yale, the Penn women's swimming team needed to place first and second in the 400-yard freestyle relay - the day's last event - to tie the meet. Unfortunately, the women finished first and third, and as a result, the Bulldogs beat the Quakers, 152-148, in the Penn-Yale-Dartmouth tri-meet in Hanover, N.

When you're in a rut, sloppy seconds may not look so bad - even if they are coming from the likes of Columbia and Yale. Disheartened by Navy, demoralized by UCF and destroyed by Temple, the Quakers (3-8) are headed to the Garden State tomorrow to take on NJIT, a team emerging from back-to-back thrashings by the Lions and Bulldgos a mere week ago.

Ivy League Tournaments have finally arrived. After 55 years of determining championships through regular season round robins, tiebreakers and one-game playoffs, the Ivy League announced that men's and women's lacrosse will be the first sport to hold a conference tournament to determine its automatic NCAA qualifier.

The women's squash team looks unbeatable - again. After winning its first six matches of the season for the third straight year, Penn will host No. 9 Williams and No. 17 Amherst tomorrow for its first matches at Ringe Courts in nearly two months.

Men's track coach Charlie Powell has one goal for the Quakers in the winter meets at the beginning of the season: to qualify for championship meets starting with the IC4As. "This is only our third meet," Powell said. "We try to get people to qualify for championship meets, such as the Heptagonals, IC4As and eventually the NCAAs.

NEWARK, N.J.-The scariest thing about the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Fleisher Center isn't who plays in it. The Highlanders' basketball team has set historical lows since entering Division I after the 2005-06 season and, naturally, don't boast a particularly impressive set of weapons.

None of the current members of the men's swimming team has ever tasted a winning record in the Ivy League. But Penn (3-3, 2-3 Ivy) has a chance to eclipse that .500 mark for the first time since the 1990-91 season with a pair of wins against Yale (2-2, 1-1) and Dartmouth (0-4, 0-3) on Saturday at Hanover, N.

Two of the "Little Three" are coming to town, but that doesn't mean the men's squash team is hosting vertically-challenged squads. After a six-week break, the Quakers will face Amherst and Williams - who along with Wesleyan make up the "Little Three" of New England elite colleges.

Remember the game? Jan. 24, 2007. Fran Dunphy returns to the Palestra, for the first time wearing Temple cherry. Tipoff. Penn looks good. So do the Owls. Quakers go down 19, then fight back to even. Mark Zoller at the line. First is good. Second is good! Penn wins! Penn wins! It was the greatest game I've seen in my four years watching Penn play, and probably the greatest for many fans who have been watching ten times that long.

Women's squash coach Jack Wyant required all his players to participate in intrasquad scrimmages and practices over break as preparation for the team's match against No. 27 Franklin and Marshall last night. Looks like the training sessions paid off big time.

Penn senior Carrie Biemer's career-high 32 points were still not enough to carry the women's basketball team in a 76-63 loss to Rider in Lawrenceville, N.J. on Tuesday. Biemer was 11-for-27 from the field - including 5-for-10 from beyond the arc - but no other Quakers scored in double figures or even attempted more than five shots.

Many athletes are unable to overcome the extreme emotional and physical roller coaster that results from a major injury. Everyone has the option of quitting - an easy escape route that appears to the frustrated and discouraged - but Steve Martucci isn't one to take shortcuts.

Basketball has taken Ira Bowman places he never thought he'd be. The Palestra was his first unexpected destination, but after transferring from Providence College he found himself as one of the Ivy League's all-time greats and the 1995-96 Player of the Year.