Junior Jason Pinsky won the A-Flight at the Farnsworth/Princeton Invitational tennis tournament yesterday in Princeton, N.J., according to Penn head coach Mark Riley. Freshman Adam Schwartz lost in the consolation match. Other top Quakers, including senior Mikhail Bekker, took the weekend off to allow the freshmen on the team to get some playing time.

This wasn't supposed to happen to the Penn offense - not after the test it passed in its opener against Lafayette. It looked as if quarterback Robert Irvin had already proven himself capable of getting the ball to his receivers, and Joe Sandberg had shown that he is the type of running back that can carry an offense.

The Penn volleyball team came into this weekend's Sheraton-Penn Invitational at the Palestra having spent the past two weekends at tournaments in North Carolina and California. Tired and with a losing record, the team was in desperate need of some home cooking.

Sophomore Lauren Sadaka unexpectedly came out as one of the top competitors for the women's tennis team this weekend at the Cissie Leary Invitational. Last year, Sadaka was forced to cheer for her team from the sidelines due to a tendonitis injury in her wrist.

If there were any doubts about the intensity of the cross-town rivalry developing between Penn and Villanova, last night's game should have silenced them.

After beating Rutgers by a combined score of 7-0 in the last two years, Penn junior Meghan Rose found out yesterday that a third victory against the Scarlet Knights would not come with such a lopsided score - if at all. That lightbulb likely went off even before the field hockey team found itself headed into overtime when the frustrated Quakers found itself tied 1-1 with its unspectacular opponents - despite nearly outshooting them by double digits.

Despite losing the battles of possession time and shots on goal, Harvard women's soccer managed to continue its dominance over Penn. The previously winless Crimson (1-6-1, 1-0 Ivy) improved to 12-2-2 all-time versus their Ivy rivals, escaping Rhodes Field with a 2-1 victory yesterday afternoon.

The score of Saturday night's game was just an illusion. If someone walked into Franklin Field during the last two-and-a-half minutes of the game and saw the scoreboard, they might assume that this had been a neck-and-neck contest all the way. They would be wrong.

The men's soccer team wasn't about to make the same mistake twice. After taking a lead against Harvard, the Quakers didn't wilt like they did against La Salle last Wednesday - they came back for more. Penn ended up a 3-1 winner, putting itself at the top of the Ivy League standings after the first weekend of league play.

Philadelphia soccer fans aren't likely to see Major League Soccer at Franklin Field - or any other local area venue - anytime soon. Rowan University and the Milestone Group - a New York-based development group - jointly proposed to build a soccer stadium on Rowan's West Campus in Harrison Township, N.

The last time the Villanova football team was on Franklin Field, the Wildcats had just sacked Quakers' quarterback Pat McDermott inside the 5 at the buzzer to put the finishing touches on a 28-24 comeback victory.

If there were ever a time for a wake-up call, this might have been it. On Wednesday, the men's soccer team saw its four-game winning streak cruelly snapped by La Salle. After going 2-0 up against the Explorers, Penn (4-2-0) conceded three straight to its city rival and fell, 3-2.

Villanova backup quarterback Frank Jankowski lived out every signal caller's dream by leading the Wildcats back from a 24-7 deficit to beat Penn last year - but Marvin Burroughs could only watch. The starting quarterback had broken his arm in two places two weeks earlier in the Wildcats' game against Rutgers, and he missed the entire 2005 season.

The women's soccer team probably thought its game against Temple on Wednesday would serve as the perfect way to gain momentum for the Ivy opener against Harvard. Twenty-one shots and 21 misses later, the Quakers (4-1-1) found themselves trying to regain their composure and bounce back against a battle-tested Crimson team.

With no postseason to shoot for in non-conference action, Week 1 for Ivy teams is about figuring out weaknesses in time for league play. For four coaches, whose teams open their Ivy schedules tomorrow, they better hope their players are quick learners. Harvard (1-0) at Brown (1-0) The marquee early-season matchup pits the last two Ivy League champions against each other, and both look a little different this season.

At first glance, nothing about Wharton MBA student Neal Mueller seems out of the ordinary.

Not a setback, coach Rudy Fuller said. Just a wake-up call. Terminology aside, the men's soccer team pulled defeat from the clutches of victory last night. After going ahead 2-0 in the opening 25 minutes, Penn conceded three straight goals to La Salle and lost at McCarthy Stadium, 3-2.