In a spectacular and emotional comeback, Penn managed to overcome a 7-3 deficit with five unanswered fourth-quarter goals, upending the Big Green 8-7.

It must have taken snow to finally make Tim Kaijala feel at home. The junior middle-distance runner charged ahead of the pack to easily win the men's 800-meter race on Saturday with a NCAA Regional, qualifying time of 1:50.

If Penn is forced to share the Ivy League men's tennis crown again this season, it won't be with Brown. The Quakers swept their New England road trip this weekend, getting by Yale with a 4-3 victory on Friday before upsetting fellow defending co-champion Brown 5-2 the following afternoon.

Yale provided a cold, cruel wakeup call to the women's tennis team on Friday, but the Quakers woke up just as quickly. Heavily-favored Penn beat Yale 5-2 and Brown 7-0, but not before the team was dealt a scare. The Quakers (13-4, 3-0 Ivy) lost 2-1 in doubles against the Bulldogs (7-8, 2-1), putting them behind early on.

Senior pitcher Erin Boyle must have ice water running through her veins. Boyle came in to "stop the bleeding," as she put it, after a rough first inning in the second game of Penn's doubleheader against Brown, when the Quakers opened the game by allowing five runs to score.

The Penn women's lacrosse team has swept its longest road trip of the year. And if its form in these games is any measure, the winning could continue for a while. In the last leg of the four-game swing on Saturday, the No. 11 Quakers (10-1, 3-0 Ivy) continued to dominate the Ivy League, pounding Harvard, 15-3.

Shortened Navy Invite suits M. Golf just fine After day one of the Navy Spring Invitational, Penn men's golf found itself in third place and only three stokes behind leader St. Bonaventure. For better or for worse, the team would never get a chance to improve on that opening showing.

He may be in sixth place in batting average on the team, but junior Kyle Armeny's stats doesn't tell the whole story. That's what Yale found out on Saturday when the first baseman connected for a single in Game 1 of the doubleheader in extra innings. The timely hit broke the tie that had been knotted up at six runs apiece and served as the catalyst to a six-run inning to give Penn its first win in extras of the season, 12-6.

Emily Denstedt will take the ball for the Quakers on Saturday against Yale as she seeks her team-leading seventh victory. After manhandling the Elis last year, she is in position for a repeat performance.

After starting off at 3-0, Penn (4-4, 1-2 Ivy) has just one win in its five games since, with the latest result a 20-5 drubbing at the hands of No. 1 Cornell last Saturday.

With only seven contests determining the Ivy League champion, every match is crucial. But the Penn men's tennis team will have more than just capturing the league crown on its agenda this weekend - they'll be seeking revenge. Last spring, the Quakers were left to wonder what could have been after they lost in a one-match playoff against Brown to determine the league's automatic NCAA tournament bid.

It's been two years since Lenka Snajdrova played competitive tennis, but she hasn't needed nearly that long to find her stroke again. "You lose all the feelings for the ball," Snajdrova said of returning to competition after sitting out last year. "It feels like you've never been on the court before.

Three weeks before the internationally acclaimed Penn Relays take place at Franklin Field, the men's and women's track and field teams are looking to break in the home turf a bit at this weekend's Penn Invitational. The men's team will certainly want to defend its home turf coming from last week's disappointing third-place performance in Annapolis for the Navy Invitational.

Just over halfway through the 2007 season, the Quakers have ridden their revamped pitching staff to the best overall record in the Ivy League. Yet this weekend, their young arms will face their biggest test yet. During day one of its first Ivy road trip to Yale (7-16, 1-3 Ivy) and Brown (7-13, 2-2), Penn (10-12, 4-4) will take on the league's most potent offense.

On a six-game winning streak and at the head of the Ivy pack, the Penn women's lacrosse team can continue its roll tomorrow at Harvard. And no one's guessing as to why. Off to its best start ever, the team's success is due to its balanced attack - rather than relying on one or two star players - according to head coach Karin Brower.

Baseball, Softball both pushed back after rain Due to inclement weather, the Penn softball and baseball teams' games were all postponed yesterday. No makeup dates have been announced as of last night. The baseball team had been scheduled to play at Lehigh at 6 p.

If Ibrahim Jaaber wants to play with the big boys, now's the time to start impressing scouts. In the opening game of the Portsmouth Invitational last night, Jaaber logged 18 minutes and five points for the Tidewater Sealants, who lost to the Holiday Inn-Portsmouth contingent, 110-71.