2008 Woodie Awards
VILLANOVA, Pa. - The Quakers had a chance to become the queens of the city this weekend. It turns out they are squarely in the middle of the pack in Philadelphia's soccer hierarchy.
After defeating La Salle at Rhodes Field 3-1 Friday, Penn was blanked on the road by Villanova 4-0 yesterday.
VILLANOVA, Pa., Sept. 22 - With star running back Joe Sandberg in street clothes on Saturday night, Penn got a little glimpse of what 2007 could have looked like.
Sandberg, a fifth-year senior who rushed for roughly 100 yards against Villanova each of the last two years, wasn't a lock to return to the Quakers this year after transferring from Penn to Rutgers and back again three years ago.
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The Penn quarterbacks' effort - a combined 23 for 42, 248 yards, two touchdowns and seven interceptions - is a misleading stat line.
They played far worse.
Villanova's defense befuddled quarterback Robert Irvin (five interceptions, 27 attempts) and backup Bryan Walker (two picks, 15 attempts) all night, and despite a good overall effort, the Quakers fell hard.
After 10 years of disappointment, the women's volleyball team finally got a victory against longtime rival Temple in the Sheraton-Penn Invitational.
"The Temple match was great," coach Kerry Carr said. "We really played on top of our game and beat a strong international team.
By the end of the night, the Penn quarterback combination of Robert Irvin and Bryan Walker had thrown a total of seven interceptions to hand Villanova a 34-14 win, their seventh in a row in this series.
Penn's best doubles team scores upset
The singles bracket of the Cissie Leary Invitational may have been a dud. But as far as Penn was concerned, the doubles competition couldn't have gone any better.
Fresh off of taking the William and Mary Invitational, Ekaterina Kosminskaya and Julia Koulbitskaya gave Penn its first ever doubles win at the Leary Invitational.
