HANOVER, N.H. – Playing its regular-season finale, and with its Ivy League Tournament hopes in the balance, the University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse team performed another high-wire act on Saturday at Dartmouth.
 
The 20th-ranked Quakers trailed for much of Saturday's game with the Big Green at Scully-Fahey Field, but scored three goals in a row to take an 8-6 lead midway through the fourth quarter. Dartmouth responded, however, and overtime was needed to settle things. Then another. Finally, just 1:05 into the second extra frame, senior Kevin McGeary—playing potentially his last collegiate game—put the hero cape on and scored unassisted to give Penn the 10-9 win.
 
Penn leveled both its overall (7-7) and Ivy League (3-3) records, and the other results around the League—Princeton beating Harvard, Cornell beating Brown—left the Quakers in good standing for a Tournament spot in two weeks in New York City. Nothing is guaranteed, of course, so the Red and Blue will anxiously watch the scoreboards next Saturday when Princeton hosts Cornell (1 p.m.), Yale hosts Harvard (3:30 p.m.), and Brown hosts Dartmouth (4 p.m.).
 
McGeary's goal was his only tally of the day, and it came after a long possession by the recent Boston Cannons draft pick. He was able to get close enough to rip a shot that found the net and propelled Penn to victory.
 
It capped a game that featured a fourth quarter that saw as many goals (9) as the first three quarters combined. In the first OT, both teams had chances to win but both goalies were equal to the task.
 
Adam Goldner had three goals for Penn, while Simon Mathias had two goals and three assists as he extended his goal and point-scoring streaks. Reilly Hupfeldt scored twice, including a goal that put Penn up 9-8 late in regulation.
 
Penn opened the scoring on Saturday, Ben Bedard netting his first collegiate goal, but Dartmouth scored the next two. Goldner knotted it at 2-2, but the Green scored with one second left in the first quarter to make it 3-2. Penn again tied midway through the second, Hupfeldt getting his first, but Dartmouth had the only other goal in the period and took a 4-3 lead to the break.
 
Dartmouth (2-10, 0-5 Ivy) made it 5-3 early in the third, but Penn quickly responded as Mathias finished a McGeary feed. That made it 5-4 after three. The fireworks were just starting.
 
Ben Martin (4 goals) put Dartmouth back up by two goals early in the period, but Goldner scored just 24 seconds later to make it 6-5 and then Mathias netted his second less than two minutes later to tie the score. Tyler Dunn gave Penn its first lead since 1-0 with 9:09 left on an unassisted marker, and then Goldner made it 8-6 off a Mathias feed.
 
Time to breathe easy, right? Not so fast. Dartmouth got goals from Martin and Mike Connolly—the latter on an extra-man situation—just 37 seconds apart to make it 8-8 with 4:01 to play. Nearly three minutes went by before Hupfeldt gave Penn a 9-8 lead with 1:13 left, but Richie Loftus netted his fourth of the day with 27 seconds remaining to force OT.
 
Penn outshot Dartmouth on the day, 42-26, and held a 15-8 advantage on the face-off X. Reed Junkin made six saves in the Quakers goal.