PROVIDENCE – Six In A Row!
 
The No. 8-ranked University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse team (6-3, 4-0 Ivy) won its sixth consecutive game, besting Brown, 16-9.
 
Junior Adam Goldner led all players with six goals and seven points – setting career-highs in both categories. Freshman Sam Handley continued his torrid play, totaling six points on two goals and four assists.
 
Eight different players scored for the Quakers, who took a season-high 61 shots and only trailed for 42 total seconds during the game.
 
Notes To Know…

• Penn is 4-0 in the Ivy League, the last team without a loss in Ivy play. You have to go back to 1984 to find the last time the Quakers were 4-0 to begin an Ivy League season.
• The Quakers have won six games in a row, their longest winning streak since an eight-game run in 2014. Only Virginia is on a longer winning streak at the moment, with eight wins in a row.
• One week after defeating Yale for the first time in their careers, Penn's senior class picked up its first win against Brown.
• 16 goals scored against Brown are the most by a Penn team against the Bears since the 1983 team also scored 16.
• Senior Simon Mathias finished with a goal and an assist. His goal with 2:28 to play in the fourth quarter was the 100th of his career – making him the fifth Quaker all-time to reach the 100-goal mark and the first since Pete Janney '00.
• Mathias extended his point-scoring streak to 52 career games, the second-longest active streak in the country. He has now scored at least one point in every game he has played, and his 161 points are No. 8 all-time by a Quaker.
• Mathias now has at least one goal in 29 consecutive games, tied for the longest-active streak in the country.
• Goldner's six goals give him 33 for the season – a new season-high for the junior. His 37 points are also a new season-high.
• Mitch Bartolo tied his season-high with three points (1g, 2a).
• Handley finished with six points (2g, 4a), giving him 5+ points in each of his last four games.
• Joe Licciardi had two goals and an assist, setting a career-high in goals in a game and tying his single-game high in points.

 
How It Happened…
The only time Penn trailed all game was following a Luke McCaleb goal 3:13 into the game to open the scoring. The Quakers would quickly answer, Mitch Bartolo taking an Adam Goldner pass and skipping a bouncer home just 42 seconds later to tie the game, 1-1.
 
Goldner would then net the next two, giving Penn a 3-1 lead with 5:18 remaining in the first quarter. His second goal was an EMO strike, with Bartolo this time playing the role of set-up man.
 
Brown would climb within one on two more occasions, the final time coming with 6:42 to play in the second quarter when Darian Cook made it a 5-4 game. Penn would score the next four goals – three to close the first half and one to open the second – and take a 9-4 lead and never look back.
 
After Cook's goal, Brown was not only held off the scoreboard, they were held without a shot on goal for nine minutes as the Quakers found goal from Licciardi, Goldner (twice) and Sean Lulley. Goldner's two goals during this stretch were heartbreakers for the Bears – each came with under 1:00 to play in the first half. Brown only had two shots during that run, one a last-second prayer to close the half and the second a wide offering just before George Grell ended the drought.
 
Grell's goal was followed by another Brown strike just over two minutes later, but the Red and Blue countered with goals from Goldner and Licciardi 1:32 apart midway through the third quarter. Goldner's goal again was setup by Bartolo, and Licciardi worked a pretty individual play to duck by a defender then dive and shoot for his score with 7:05 left in the third.
 
Brown would again climb within three, scoring three of the next four goals to make it a 12-9 game with 6:37 to play in the fourth. That was as close as the Bears would get as Penn went on a 4-0 run to close the game and secure its sixth win in a row. Dylan Gergar had two of those goals, while Handley assisted on the final three.
 
The Quakers head to Harvard next weekend, looking to clinch a share of an Ivy League title against the Crimson. Faceoff in Cambridge is set for 1 p.m. on April 13.