Another battle for second will be played out in tonight's Ivy scoring race. Hanks and freshman Hana Peljto are neck-and-neck at 15.4 ppg. Peljto leads Hanks by exactly one point. Penn senior Diana Caramanico leads the league in scoring at 21.4 ppg. Peljto and Hanks will be the among the favorites to battle for the scoring title for the next two seasons.

Peljto recently earned Ivy Rookie of the Week Honors for the seventh time this season. She is a lock to be first Crimson player to earn Ivy Rookie of the Year Honors since Allison Feaster '98.

Tonight will be the last call for the Crimson's senior class--the last remaining link between the present and the 1998 Harvard team. Three of the seniors--co-captain Kristen Boike, Lisa Kowal, and Carrie Larkworthy--lived through an unforgettable experience during their freshman seasons, while co-captain Melissa Johnson transferred to Harvard after her sophomore year at North Carolina. It is a class whose seemingly unliminted potential was stunted due to injuries.

Johnson was among the league's most dominant centers during the 1999-2000 season in which she earned second-team All-Ivy honors, That season was cut short on Feb. 12, 2000 against Penn when Johnson sustained the knee injury that has since plagued her. Prior to the injury, Caramanico and the rest of the Quaker defense had been helpless to stop her.

Larkworthy, after three years of battling injuries, finally became a key contributor of the bench during her senior year. She always got the call whenver the Crimson needed some aggresive defense on the perimeter. She even hit some big threes on occassion--an added bonus.

Kowal was a key player on the 1998 team as a freshman. She had hoped to carry that success through the rest of her career, but the following season, a twisted vertebrae in her neck significantly limited her activity over her next two seasons. Months of rehab finally paid off this season, as Kowal has started nearly every game.

Now all that's left for the seniors is a final shot at Dartmouth. A victory would make for one special sweep.