There has been a different person leading the Penn women's golf team in almost all its tournaments this season. Any explanations? "We don't play the same venue each time," said coach Francis Vaughn. "There are horses for courses and courses for horses." This time, the course was the Raspberry Falls Golf and Hunt Club in Leesburg, Va.

Mix equal parts of good pitching and timely hitting. Add a dash of power and a pinch of defense. Stir together. For the first time all season, Quakers coach John Cole feels as if the recipe is complete.

Off to their best start since 1980, some members of the No. 11 Penn women's lacrosse team believe they still aren't getting their due respect. Now they have one less reason to think so. After the then-No. 14 Quakers (8-1, 3-0 Ivy League) beat then-No. 12 Johns Hopkins (6-4) 12-4 and Columbia (3-6, 0-3) 14-6 last week, coach Karin Brower was named the U.

A meeting on the Penn softball field helps confront adversity off of it

This was no ordinary women's tennis match. About 100 cheering fans were holding or wearing free T-shirts and eating pizza as Penn battled Princeton Saturday afternoon at Lott Courts. Michael Dowd's team went out of its way to set up and market this event, publicizing it on Locust Walk, and spending mostly its own money to make it happen.

PRINCETON, N.J., March 31 - The rankings said that Penn was the underdog coming into its Ivy League opener against Princeton. But when all was said and done, the Quakers were the ones to separate themselves from the field. The men's tennis team defeated host Princeton Saturday 5-2 in a match that lived up to its billing as a contest between two of the League's best.

Doug Brown has had mixed results closing games out for Penn in the ninth inning. Maybe coach John Cole has found the solution - make the senior pitch the first eight instead.

March might have gone out like a lamb for the Penn men's track and field team, but the lion was still roaring on Saturday for the women. Women's coach Gwen Harris and her team returned from the Maryland Invitational at College Park with a strong overall performance as well as exceptional individual showings.

Penn women's tennis gave its raucous crowd plenty to cheer about against Princeton on Saturday. The Quakers defeated the Tigers 5-2 in front of an unusually large following at Lott Courts.

Coming off of a stunning win at Johns Hopkins, the Penn women's lacrosse team knew that a trip to Columbia would likely be a walk in the park. Even so, the No. 14 Quakers sprinted from start to finish Saturday, netting nine first-half goals to lift them to an easy 14-6 win over the Lions (3-6, 0-3 Ivy).

If the Penn softball team didn't know what the keys to its success were, it does now. The Quakers rolled into Massachusetts to start off their four-game road trip on Saturday and lost both games to Harvard, 6-3 and 9-6. Yesterday, the Quakers went up to Hanover, N.

Despite a 9-1 home record and an Ivy Championship, a victory over Towson eluded the Penn gymnastics team in four tries this season. With one last chance to defeat the Tigers at this weekend's ECAC Championships, the Quakers (191.325) placed second only to Towson (193.

Forget Cincinnati. There's a new Big Red Machine in town. Cornell outshot, outsmarted and outplayed the Quakers to a 20-5 scoreline Saturday in Ithaca, N.Y. Penn (4-4, 1-2 Ivy) knew it had an uphill climb against the No. 1-ranked Big Red (7-0, 2-0). "They're going to score seven or eight goals on you no matter what," Quakers coach Brian Voelker said.

When Penn shortstop William Gordon tweaked his shoulder last week, the Quakers weren't just in danger of losing their No. 6 hitter - they would have been a man short in the bullpen as well. Luckily for Penn, the freshman will be available to be the man the middle infield for this weekend's home doubleheaders against Harvard and Dartmouth.

The men's lacrosse team has a chance this year to spoil Big Red's party

The Columbia women's lacrosse team may just be a pebble in the Quakers' shoe. And Saturday's game against the Lions is a small obstacle in Penn's campaign for its first Ivy title since 1982. Though the Lions (3-5) have not proven to be much of an opponent in the past, the Quakers are still starting their usual lineup.