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Penn (3-2, 4-3) prepared itself for the Crimson with a 21-10 victory over the suddenly timid Tigers. The Quaker wish-bone attack (about as exciting as watching stoplights change) motored for 331 yards, all via the ground, enroute to a new school season rushing record...
Penn lost once this season, to Princeton, but it seems the Quaker boat filled with water halfway through the race. Cox Rothstein said yesterday, "I expect Penn to be right there with us. It will be our toughest race...
...only real challenge of the day came at number one singles, where Captain Dan Waldman nearly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory before polishing off Quaker Rick Meyer, 5-4, in a third-set tiebreaker. Meyer, one of the best players in the East, epitomized the frustrating decline of Penn's once mighty tennis squad--the loss was his third in a final-set tiebreaker this year...
Three-man Scott Walker--whose play has been as hot as his flaming red hair--then disposed of Quaker Paul Moss, 6-2, 6-4. Walker has yet to lose a singles or doubles match in league competition...
...minutes Saturday, it looked like the adjustments would pay off and earth the Crimson an upset over the red-hot Quakers. At 4:04 of the final quarter, MacKenzie rung up the third goal of his hat trick to tie the game, 9-9. Penn looked tired, and when Michelson stopped a point-blank shot to stymie a Quaker scoring bid moments later, the momentum seemed to have swung to the well-conditioned Crimson...