2008 Woodie Awards
It should have been a routine play, a no-brainer. Down just a touchdown with more than 14 minutes left to play, Dartmouth faced 4th-and-10 on its own 38. What ensued should never have decided the game.
But punter Brian Scullin never put the ball to his foot, and instead tossed a short pass to special teamer Matthew Dornak.
On Saturday, sophomore running back Michael DiMaggio carried the Quakers on his bulky legs.
Quarterback Robert Irvin had a very respectable first half against Dartmouth. But without any semblance of a running game, the Quakers could not get the offense going, forcing Kyle Olson to punt the ball away six times before halftime.
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Three-plus seasons of the unexpected (and the outright ridiculous) has made me hesitant to draw broad conclusions whenever Penn beats an unremarkable team like Dartmouth, especially in a game lowlighted by a 7-7 half. So I'll refrain from doing that. What, then, does one say about Saturday?
The consensus in the pressbox and my inbox pegged the big developments as (a) Penn's inability to sustain drives, and (b) kicker Andrew Samson's three-for-three afternoon on field goals - notable only as a contrast to seasons past.
M. Soccer | First shock, then Shokoufandeh
Senior scores two late goals to help M. Soccer avoid embarrassment against Cornell
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The scoreboard showed Cornell up, 2-1, and the clock was ticking down. Penn forward Omid Shokoufandeh "thought it would be easy" beating the Big Red; instead, he was watching the unthinkable unfold.
A loss to Ivy bottom-feeder Cornell would not mean not only an embarrassing way to snap the men's soccer team's eight-match undefeated streak but also an 0-1 conference hole.
Senior scores two late goals to help M. Soccer avoid embarrassment against Cornell
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W. Soccer | Surfing the web and scoring goals
Internet leads W. Soccer to chase history, beat Cornell
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Sophomore midfielder Sarah Friedman came into Saturday's match with Cornell knowing she could shatter Penn's single-season assist record.
"Kristin [Kaiser] and Kaitlin [Campbell] and I were researching Cornell, and one of the Web sites had written something about it," she said.
Internet leads W. Soccer to chase history, beat Cornell
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On Saturday, the Penn women's volleyball team opened its Ivy season at home with a familiar result: a loss to Princeton, its sixth-straight loss to the Tigers.
Senior co-captains Steph Gwin and Kathryn Turner have had enough of it.
"There was definitely anger and frustration on the part of Steph and myself, and I know that the two of us decided we're not going to stand for this kind of level anymore," Turner said.
In the two games leading up to Saturday's showdown at Dartmouth, the Penn women's field hockey team had finally overcome the slow starts that had plagued its season. But within two minutes, Dartmouth scored and stopped Penn's progress. The Big Green added another before halftime en route to a 3-2 win.
W. Golf | Practice makes almost-perfect
W. Golf spends 'hours' on range, greens, shows improvement with 10th-place finish
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After his team wrapped up first-round play on Saturday, women's golf coach Mark Anderson knew the day was far from over.
The Quakers had carded a 46-over 336 on day one of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships, and he wasn't ready to let them head back to their Williamsburg, Va.
W. Golf spends 'hours' on range, greens, shows improvement with 10th-place finish
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Sophomore Luke Grau crossed the finish line of his 8K race with a time of 24:51- and only one sneaker.
Grau proved himself in more ways than one at the Paul Short Cross Country Invitational in Bethlehem, Pa., on Friday,where Penn finished 12th.
Coming in 20 seconds -but 25 places overall - behind teammate and fellow sophomore Chris Baird, Grau opted to abandon his unstable sneaker after another runner had stepped on his heel about one mile into the race.
