Sports Briefs

Penn Hoops teams no longer the hunted

A year after they were tabbed to win the Ivies, both Penn basketball teams will enter the season as Ivy League underdogs.

The Quakers men were picked third, the women second, in an annual poll released yesterday of 16 members of the media that cover Ivy League athletics.

Princeton was voted the favorites in men's basketball, grabbing seven first-place votes and 115 total points. Brown (four firsts, 107 points) was tabbed second, just ahead of the Quakers (five,106).

Harvard (seven, 114) garnered top honors in the women's poll, followed by Penn (seven, 103) and Dartmouth (two, 93).

-- Jason Bodnar

F. Hockey defender gets first-team nod

Last year, the Penn field hockey team went 0-7 in the Ivy League, and one of its defenders, Monique Horshaw, was a second team All-Ivy honoree.

This year, both the Quakers and Horshaw moved up. Penn finished 4-3 in the Ancient Eight, while Horshaw was named to the All-Ivy first team yesterday.

Horshaw, a senior, is Penn's lone first-team honoree. Quakers junior midfielder Kylee Jakobowski made the All-Ivy second team.

Ivy champion Princeton garnered the two big honors. Tigers junior Ilvy Friebe was named Player of the Year, in a season in which she set Ivy records for points and goals. Princeton midfielder Natalie Martirosian garnered Rookie of the Year honors.

-- J.B. M. Soccer captures Philly Soccer 7 crown

In a week of highs and lows for Penn men's soccer, Penn was officially eliminated from the Ivy League title race following a 3-0 loss to Princeton last Saturday. On Wednesday, the Quakers were crowned victors of the Philadelphia Soccer 7.

For the first time in the twenty-three year history of the PS7, Penn was awarded the title outright, finishing with a 3-0-1 record. The Red and Blue's championship was clinched, after La Salle lost to Temple last weekend.

Playing only for pride, the Quakers (6-7-1, 2-3 Ivy League) travel to Cambridge this weekend to take on Harvard (9-3-1, 4-1).

Last season, Penn won its only Ivy League match against the Crimson.

-- Lance Stier

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