Football
The 19th-ranked Harvard Crimson clinched at least a share of
the Ivy League championship last week with a 28-21 win over the
Penn Quakers in the final meeting of undefeated teams this
season. Senior quarterback Neil Rose led Harvard by completing
18 of 26 passes for 270 yards and three touchdowns, and was
named Offensive Player of the Week. Harvard now looks toward
this weekend's matchup with Yale in "The Game." The Bulldogs
hold a 64-45-8 lead in the series, but have dropped the last four
meetings. Harvard can win the Ivy championship with a win
Saturday.
Three Ivy League running backs last Saturday become the 11th,
12th, and 13th players in Ivy League history to reach 3,000 career
rushing yards. Columbia's Johnathan Reese already holds the
Columbia record, which is now 3,128 yards, good for sixth all-time
in the Ivies. Brown's Michael Malan (3,083, 9th) needs 16 yards to
break a school record, and Penn's Kris Ryan (3,061, 12th) will
need 122 Saturday to break the Quakers' career record.
Brown linebacker Joel Barone, a junior, was named the Ivy League
Defensive Player of the Week, recording 15 tackles, a sack, and a
forced fumble in the Bears 41-16 defeat of Dartmouth.
Cross Country
At the Regional Heptagonal Champion-ships in Dorchester,
Mass., five Ivy League women's heptagonal teams and one men's
team qualified for the NCAA championship later this month in
South Carolina. All five women's teams, Brown, Columbia, Cornell,
Dartmouth, and Brown, received at-large bids. The Dartmouth
men's team, who finished second at the meet, received an
automatic bid to the Championships.
Men's Soccer
Evan Ryan, a junior Brown midfielder, was named the Ivy
League Player of the Week. Ryan scored the only goal in Brown's
1-0 defeat of Cornell, his second game-winning goal of the
season. Brown faces Harvard this weekend to decide the Ivy
League Championship.
Princeton first-year Teddy van Beuren scored his first collegiate
goal in the Tigers' 2-0 win over Yale. The Tigers are ranked 12th in
the NSCAA poll, with Harvard at No. 17 and Cornell coming in at
No. 21.
Women's Soccer
Penn first-year Katy Cross earned Ivy Player of the Week after
her hat trick led the Quakers to a 3-1 victory over Harvard. Cross
has netted 12 goals for the Quakers, who shared an Ivy League
title for the first time this year. Penn is one of four teams to
advance to the NCAA Tournament, joining 22nd-ranked Princeton,
23rd-ranked Harvard, and Dartmouth at the tournament.
Esmerelda Negron, another impressive freshman, was the Ivy
League's Rookie of the Week. The Princeton forward scored two
goals in the Tigers' 4-0 victory over Fairfield.
Field Hockey
Princeton qualified for its fourth NCAA Final Four appearance
in six years with defeats of Northeastern (4-2) and Old Dominion
(2-1). It is the Tigers' seventh overall appearance in the Final Four,
which will be hosted by Kent State. The Tigers have reached the
final game twice in the past five seasons, once in 1996 and again
in 1998. The Dartmouth Big Green hosted and won this year's
ECAC championship, beating Drexel 2-1 in the championship
game, ending the season with nine straight wins.
Wrestling
The Penn Quakers will host the Keystone Invitational at the
Palestra this weekend. The event will include some of the best
collegiate wrestlers in the nation. The meet will feature Iowa
State's acclaimed Cael Sanderson, who is a perfect 119-0 with
three national championships in his first three years of collegiate
wrestling. The meet will mark the beginning of Sanderson's move
to a higher weight class, as he will now wrestle in the 197 lb. class
(moving up from the 184 lb. class).
The Quakers, ranked 12th in the nation, will look to All-American
seniors Yoshi Nakamura and Rick Springman to lead them into
the new season.