PHILADELPHIA – One For The Record Books!
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The No. 15 ranked University of Pennsylvania women's lacrosse team rewrote the record books in a 19-9 win over Rutgers at Franklin Field as a fifth-year veteran and third-game newcomer each rose to the top of the Penn single-game record lists.
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Freshman
Zoe Belodeau showed that her four-goal game last time out was no fluke. Not only did she record six points (two goals, four assists) she set a new Penn single-game record for draw controls with 11 – the fifth-most all-time in a single game by an Ivy Leaguer.
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Fifth-year senior
Emily Rogers-Healion tied Penn's single-game assists record with seven – equaling Erin Brennan's seven (also against Rutgers) in 2012.
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You know the game was chock full of sublime individual efforts when
Caroline Cummings (career high six goals) and
Gabby Rosenzweig (career high five goals and seven points) were not the lead story.
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Notes To Know
- Belodeau's 11 draw controls surpass Maddie Poplawski's nine at Drexel in 2012 as the new school record
- Rogers-Healion now ranks No. 15 all-time at Penn in career points with 116. Her 57 assists are No. 7 all-time at Penn.
- Rogers-Healion had assists to six different players, only doubling up Cummings.
- Rosenzweig and Rogers-Healion each had seven points – the first time Penn has had multiple players with seven or more points in a single game in school history.
- 19 goals scored by the Quakers is tied for 10th-most in a single game in school history and the most since scoring 19 vs. Columbia in 2012
- Caroline Cummings has now scored 57 goals over her last 22 games with at least one goal in each of those appearances.
- Gabby Rosenzweig has now scored 26 goals over her last nine games, including five hat tricks. She now has 56 career points in 20 career games.
- Zoe Krause scored her first career goal for the Quakers.
- Mikaila Cheeseman made a career-high seven saves in her 30:00 of work in the second half while allowing just three goals.
- Penn had a 20-9 edge on the draw, including an 8-1 advantage in the second half. Penn's 20 draw controls are the most since 2003 – that's as far as the confirmed Penn record for team draw controls goes.Â
How It Happened
The Quakers never trailed, scoring first off a Cummings goal 1:05 in. It took almost half the first period for the Red and Blue to find their rhythm, but when they did there was no looking back.
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Cummings completed her hat trick with 16:59 to play in the opening half, giving Penn a 4-2 lead. That started a 6-0 Penn run that all but put the game out of reach. The run lasted 6:26 of game play and saw
Erin Barry and Rosenzweig each score twice before Rutgers ended a 13:25 scoreless drought.
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The two teams were even most of the remainder of the first half, Penn scoring five times to four by Rutgers. Cummings added two more, giving her five before the break.
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In the second half, Cheeseman made four saves before the first five minutes elapsed, allowing her team to find its mojo. Penn would score six of the first seven goals in the second half – five different players finding the back of the net – to lock up its third win in a row at home to start the 2018 season.
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The Quakers open Ivy League play on Saturday, heading to No. 18 Cornell.
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