Stephanie Ragg

Last weekend, the Penn women's golf team finished just two strokes shy of Yale and host Columbia at the ROAR-EE Invitational. The Quakers slipped from third place to fifth place in the second day of play, but this upcoming weekend they have one last opportunity to outperform its Ancient Eight rivals.

This is the last chance for the women's tennis team. As the Quakers close their 2009 season with matches against Columbia and Cornell this weekend, the Quakers will try to avoid a winless Ivy League season, in sole senior and team captain Lauren Sadaka's last weekend wearing the red and blue.

For the Penn women's tennis team, the time is now or never. With only four matches left in the season, the Quakers are vying for a second win since their sole victory this season, a 7-0 sweep over George Washington University Feb. 20. They are also craving

Lauren Sadaka's match against Yale's Vicky Brook came down to a few points and some debatable calls. However, it didn't end in Sadaka's favor. She lost on a grueling tiebreaker, 4-6, 7-5, 10-6 - her only loss of the weekend in either singles or doubles. "[Lauren's] one of the greatest competitors we've ever had at Penn, and she's the inspiration for everyone else on our team," interim coach Sara Schiffman said.

The Penn women's golf team thought they had finally edged past one of their top Ivy rivals, Columbia, at the annual Hoya Invitational yesterday at The Members Club at Four Streams course in Beallsville, Md. But by some stroke of fate - and some good strokes from the Lions - the Quakers were leapfrogged on the leaderboard.

If history is bound to repeat itself, the Princeton women's tennis team better not underestimate the Quakers. Last year, then-No. 72 Penn defeated then-No. 64 Princeton, 5-2, on the Tigers' home court. This year, the Red and Blue will have home-court advantage when they take on the Tigers in their first Ivy League match of the season.

"Rusty" is the best way to describe the Penn women's golf team's performance this past weekend, according to coach Mark Anderson. "That's expected for the first tournament in the spring, especially coming from the northeast," Anderson said. "It's good to have a tournament like this to see what we need to work on, even though we didn't play great.

Walking 36 holes - nearly nine miles total - while carrying heavy clubs and still keeping a competitive attitude is a tough challenge, but Lisette Vitter is confident her team can handle it. "I think our team can do it, I think we're all very hard workers," the Penn women's golf captain said.

Walking 36 holes - nearly nine miles total - while carrying heavy clubs and still keeping a competitive attitude is a tough challenge, but Lisette Vitter is confident her team can handle it. "I think our team can do it, I think we're all very hard workers," the Penn women's golf captain said.

With No. 39 Princeton looming after spring break, the women's tennis team will need all the preparation it can get for that match. Good thing the Quakers (1-5) are going on a trip to California during the break.