Hometown chance sparks coach's exit Men's basketball assistant coach Chris Sparks is leaving Penn to return to his alma mater. Sparks will coach at Wilbraham & Monson Academy, a Massachussetts prep school, after two years under Glen Miller in Philadelphia, and another at Brown.

COLLEGE PARK, MD. - You can't score if you don't shoot. Or, in the case of the men's lacrosse team, you can't score even if you do shoot. The Quakers followed up terrible shooting performances against Princeton and Brown with another one at Maryland. They lost all three games by a combined 31-14 score.

Jason Pinsky's team is 3-4 in the Ivy League. A losing record, for a change. But he was in the mood for introspection. "I've been doing this for three years now. That's what I've based my whole career on - being solid, winning matches. Creating a legacy, which I feel I've done.

As a five-year-old growing up in England, Mike Blodgett used to hit old cars and animal cut-outs at a driving range. Now, as a 20-year-old, the junior hits greens in regulation for the Penn men's golf team. And he's come a long way from the merry old home of tea and crumpets: On Sunday, he became the first golfer in Quakers history to win the Ivy individual championship.

PRINCETON, N.J. - The Quakers needed to win game two of their Sunday doubleheader against Princeton in the worst way. They plated three runs in the top of the first inning, and sophomore Robbie Seymour went to the mound refusing to take any chances. That included letting a runner steal second base.

It was another disappointing weekend for the Penn softball team, but at least it could be proud of something: The Quakers toppled previous Ivy undefeated Princeton, 7-2, in game one of yesterday's doubleheader at Princeton, N.J. The other three games were undoubtedly frustrating for the Red and Blue, as they lost them by just five runs combined.

Singing, laughing and a customary Gatorade dousing of coaches marked the end of the Penn women's lacrosse team's Ivy League season. The Quakers coasted past Brown Saturday, 12-5, to collect their second consecutive Ivy title. But before Coach Karin Brower's clothes could even dry, the Quakers (12-1, 7-0) had their sights set on revenge and the Division I championship.

PRINCETON, N.J. - Sophomore pitcher Robbie Seymour entered the weekend giving up over a run every inning, but Penn coach John Cole was still trying to turn him into a starter. Cole reaped the benefits of his persistence yesterday, and the Quakers stuck around in the Ivy League title race a bit longer as a result.

With a whimper, the Penn men's tennis season was brought to a close as the Quakers dropped their final two matches this past weekend. The Quakers were upset by Cornell 4-3 in Ithaca, N.Y., on Friday and came home to Levy Tennis Pavilion only to be felled again by Columbia 5-2 yesterday.

Junior Michael Blodgett will always remember the 2008 men's golf Ivy Championship at Galloway National Golf Course in New Jersey. Blodgett dominated on the renowned course, winning Penn's first-ever Ivy League individual championship by three strokes. He also tied Brown's Larry Haertel for a new course record of 67.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - On Saturday in College Park, Md., the men's lacrosse team did everything right. Players won faceoffs, defended physically and got off plenty of shots. The one thing they could not do was score. Against the No. 7 Terrapins, Penn's offensive futility continued, resulting in a scoreless streak of over 51 minutes and another lopsided loss, this time by a 9-4 margin.

Thanks to a disagreement with his coach, Joseph Lok's tennis career ended one match early. Lok skipped the match and the team's Senior Day ceremony in protest of coach Nik DeVore's decision to bench him. The California native says that because of an ankle injury, he struggles to cover the court in singles, while he is fit to play doubles.

The Penn women's tennis team suffered its biggest loss of the season to Yale this weekend - without even playing the Bulldogs. After winning both matches against Cornell and Columbia to finish the season with a 6-1 Ivy record, the Quakers had done everything they could to defend their Ancient Eight title.

Long drives turn heads, but it's putting that wins titles. If the Quakers hope to somehow do that this weekend at the Ivy women's golf championship, they'll have to improve on what coach Francis Vaughn calls "an Achilles heel." The Quakers have to finish on the greens at the Atlantic City Golf Club in New Jersey in order to beat the six other Ivy contenders and win their first league title.

Whenever Penn suits up against Maryland, it seems like a lost cause. Over the past four years, the Terps have outscored the Quakers 60-25. Still, Penn remains optimistic of its chances to upset the nation's No. 7 team when it travels to College Park, Md., for a showdown tomorrow at 1 p.

Well, the hard part is over now. The No. 6 Penn women's lacrosse team upset its chief Ivy rival in No. 2 Princeton to clinch at least a share of its second-consecutive Ivy title. All that's left for the Quakers is beating middling Brown tomorrow at Franklin Field to win the regular-season championship outright.

Three out of 51. That's Penn's record against rival Princeton since 1982, the year that the teams began playing one another. If there was ever a time to begin making up such a monstrous deficit, this weekend's back-to-back doubleheader against the Tigers would be it.