Last Saturday, all sprint football kicker Pete Stine could do was watch from the stands as his former varsity teammates squandered opportunities, leading to an overtime loss to Brown that was ultimately decided in a kicking contest. But head football coach Al Bagnoli still has some tricks up his sleeve.

After surgery and a long recovery, Lauren Pears is back for her senior season and ready to help lead Penn women's basketball back to respectability after a dismal 5-22, 3-11 Ivy record last year. Pears, leading the Quakers in nearly every statistical category through the first eight games of last season, tore her ACL against American in December.

If the Penn women's swimming team fulfills its expectations this year, it will shatter the Quakers' record books. After achieving the best Ivy finish in Penn history last year, this year's team returns 10 school record holders. Also, the loss of only one senior to graduation coupled with the team's highly touted freshman class means that the sky's the limit.

Two seasons ago, Glen Miller said the following after a win at Yale: "I think we all wish, except for a few teams in our league, that we had a postseason tournament. It's frustrating that we don't have one." Last week at the Red and Blue Scrimmages at the Palestra, Miller was asked what he thought about an Ivy League tournament.

Penn men's soccer coach Rudy Fuller knew that Brown was going to play defensively on Saturday. So when it came time to name his starting eleven for the crucial match against the Bears, he left sophomore Ryan Porch on the bench in favor of classmate Kevin Unger.

Editor's note: In the interest of better serving the campus community, starting today we will be featuring a club sports roundup every Wednesday. If you play a club sport and would like your team to be included, have a team captain or coach send an e-mail to MLConrad@sas.

Josh Owens, a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, moved one step closer to playing his college basketball for the Quakers this weekend. But Owens' status is still very much up in the air until he gives a commitment to one of his suitors. With that decision, Glen Miller will find out whether or not he has landed a player who could be the gem of the Ivy League Class of 2011.

As the Penn men's soccer team learned last Saturday, destiny is a fickle thing.

Cornell has had three captains from the start of the season, but for the first time this year, it sent three to the captains' meeting. The late Jaime McManamon, who died after his freshman year in a car accident, was honored this season as a tri-captain in what would have been his senior season.

It is usually easy to pinpoint the end of a dynasty. For the Yankees, it was Luis Gonzalez's hit in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series. For the Bulls, it was Michael Jordan's second retirement. For the Philadelphia Republicans, it was the 1951 election. For the Penn football team, the date is a little harder to pinpoint; the end of its dynasty earlier this decade has been more of a process than an event.

Football can be a very complicated game, but oftentimes it is very simple. In six of Penn's seven games this season, a very simple trend has prevailed - when the Quakers rush more than 25 times in the game, they win, and when they rush less than that, they lose.

Going into this past weekend, the Penn volleyball team seemed to have a hard road ahead of them. Languishing in a four-match losing streak, it was in seventh place in the Ivy League, and mental mistakes appeared to plague the Quakers. Nevertheless, Penn wasn't expecting anything less than two wins against Dartmouth and Harvard - and it got them both.

Basketball lands 3rd recruit for Class of '11 Penn basketball coach Glen Miller nabbed his third recruit for next year in Glenbrook South High School forward Dan Monckton. The 6-foot-5 high school senior from outside of Chicago had narrowed his choices down to Penn, Princeton, Brown and Eastern Illinois before settling on the Red and Blue.

The unrelenting rain at Friday's sprint football game against Navy proved to be a huge factor as the Quakers fell for the fourth time this season, 21-2. When asked to characterize the loss, Penn coach Bill Wagner responded, "It was a very, very tough game.

On Friday, at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, the Penn men and women's cross country teams ran in the 2006 Heptagonal Championships. Competing against their Ivy rivals, the women's team finished in fifth place while the men's team finished in sixth. Women's coach Gwen Harris and her team were disappointed with their fifth-place finish in the five-kilometer race.

Penn suffered a death from a thousand cuts on Saturday, most of them at the hands of Brown quarterback Joe DiGiacomo. They came in many forms. Short screen passes to tight ends and halfbacks. Tosses to wide receivers for single-digit gains. The occasional keeper or two.

Penn men's soccer goalkeeper Dan Cepero fittingly marked his senior night with a clean sheet during the Quakers' crucial tilt against Brown. Unfortunately for Penn, so did Cepero's counterpart. The result - a 0-0 double-overtime draw on Saturday night against the Ivy League's defending co-champions - probably belied the flow of the game.