PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse team will look to snap a two-game losing streak in Ivy League play on Saturday, hosting Brown at 1:30 p.m. on Franklin Field. The Quakers are 1-2 in Ivy play, 5-5 overall, and fell out of the USILA national poll this week.
 
Saturday's game will air worldwide -- except the Philadelphia viewing area -- on the subscription-based Ivy League Network (ILN), now available on Apple TV, Roku and the ILN app for Android and Apple devices. In the Philly viewing area, fans can watch Saturday's game on NBC Sports Philadelphia+.
 
The Series
The Quakers and the Bears are meeting for the 56th time, with Brown holding a 33-22 lead in the series. The Bears have won the last two matchups, taking an 11-7 win last year in Providence and a 17-6 decision at Franklin Field two years ago. Prior to that, Penn had won three in a row, the most recent being a 14-11 win in 2015 at Brown's Stevenson-Pincince Field.
 
About Brown
The Bears (4-4, 1-1) defeated Princeton last weekend in Providence, 14-13, after opening Ivy play with a 10-8 loss at Harvard. Prior to that Harvard game, Brown beat Villanova 12-9. Luke McCaleb leads the Brown attack with 31 points (17g, 14a), while Michael Panepinto is tied with McCaleb for the team's goal-scoring lead. Carson Song has a team-high 15 assists and 30 points. Ted Ottens was second-team All-Ivy a year ago at the face-off X, and he has a .562 win percentage on 169 draws this season. In goal, Phil Goss has a .577 save percentage.
 
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About Penn
*Penn has two players on this year's Tewaaraton Award Watch List, Keating and junior Simon Mathias. Keating also was recently named Midseason All-America Honorable Mention by Inside Lacrosse..
 
*Mathias continues to lead the Quakers with 34 points (19g, 15a) after recording three last Saturday at Yale. In addition, his point-scoring streak is up to 38 games which is every game of his college career and the tenth-longest streak in the country.
 
*Only a junior, Mathias already is 12th on Penn's all-time points list with 118; he needs 14 to tie Corey Winkoff (2008-11) for 11th place.
 
*Senior Kevin McGeary and junior Tyler Dunn were both held scoreless last weekend by Yale, but they remain second and third on the team, respectively, in points: McGeary 22 points (17g, 5a) and Dunn 20 points (18g, 2a).
 
*Like Mathias, McGeary recently hit triple digits in career points and is currently at 102 (73g, 29a).
 
*Sophomore Adam Goldner led Penn's attack at Yale with four points, and he has nine goals in the last three games (4 vs. Bucknell, 2 vs. Cornell, 3 at Yale). He now has 17 goals on the season as well as two assists for 19 points.
 
*Freshman Sean Lulley had a season/career high of three points against Cornell two weeks ago, scoring once and dishing off two assists. He now has 10 points this season (5g, 5a). Junior Joe Licciardi has nine points (3g, 6a).
 
*JJ McBride has scored in three of Penn's last six games, and had three points three weeks ago at Princeton.
 
*Penn has had two long poles score this season, as All-America candidate Keating scored against Michigan and Yale—amazingly, his 29th and 30th career goals—while Jack Ullrich tallied against Maryland. In the Duke win, Keating had two assists including a feed on the winner.
 
*Overall, Penn has had 14 different goal scorers this season and 18 players record at least a point.
 
*At the other end, junior Reed Junkin—the 2016 co-Ivy League Rookie of the Year with teammate Mathias—has a .497 save percentage and a 9.64 goals-against average. He came up with a career-high 20 saves and allowed just seven goals three weeks ago at Princeton.
 
*The Quakers return their top 11 scorers from last season. Of the 147 goals scored by the Quakers a year ago, all but six were scored by players who return to this year's roster.
 
*Keating was a third-team USILA All-America selection last year after earning honorable mention recognition as a sophomore. He is the top-scoring LSM in the country, entering the season with 28 goals and six assists for 34 career points.
 
*Mathias—who led Penn in goals (28), assists (20) and points (48) last year—was a second-team All-Ivy selection last year after sharing Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors in 2016 with Junkin.
 
*McGeary (23-12—35 in 2017) and Dunn (18-4—22) received honorable mention All-Ivy recognition last year.
 
*Three other players had a double-digit goal total last year: senior Reilly Hupfeldt (18), Goldner (11) and Keating. Junior Alex Roesner nearly joined the list, with nine goals.
 
*Santangelo was Penn's top face-off man last year, finishing with a .528 win percentage in 231 draws. Richie Lenskold had 73 faceoffs and had a .479 win percentage.