CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The No. 7/8 University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse team scored the final four goals in Saturday's game with No. 10/10 Duke and pulled away for a 14-11 win over the Blue Devils in front of a capacity crowd at the Matthews Sportsplex Stadium. 

Penn improved to 1-1 on the young season with the victory, while the Blue Devils fell to 2-2 overall.
 
Notes
*The win was Penn's 23rd against a USILA ranked team under head coach Mike Murphy and his fourth against his alma mater in eight meetings.
 
*Penn nearly doubled up Duke in the shots category (52-28), the second straight game the Quakers have outshot their opponent.
 
*A clean game by Penn, which had no face-off violations and committed no penalties.
 
*Junior Sean Lulley set season/career highs in goals (6) and points (7) for the second time in as many games.
 
*Senior Adam Goldner scored twice on Saturday, giving him 99 career goals and pushing him past W. Kelso Morrill into sixth place on Penn's all-time goal list.
 
*Goldner extended both his goal- and point-scoring streaks to 27 games, dating back to the 2018 season.
 
*Junior Ben Bedard, who entered the game with one goal in his career, scored twice on Saturday.
 
*Junior Mitch Bartolo and sophomore Dylan Gergar both had a goal and an assist, while Jack Schultz had two helpers.
 
*Freshman James Shipley, for whom Saturday's game represented a homecoming—he was a two-time Charlotte Area Player of the Year at nearby Weddington—scored his first collegiate goal in his second college game. It tied the score 11-11 and sent Penn on its winning run.
 
*Senior FOGO Kyle Gallagher won 17 of 29 faceoffs, collected 15 ground balls, and scored his first goal of the season; Duke threw three different players at him on the X.
 
*Sophomore goalkeeper Patrick Burkinshaw had seven saves in collecting his first college win.
 
How It Happened
Sean Lulley got Penn off to a quick start, scoring his first unassisted goal just 45 seconds into the contest and then doubling the Quakers' lead less than three minutes later. Ben Bedard made it 3-0 shortly after that, but Duke got on the board as Joey Manown finished a feed from Cameron Badour. Penn's lead was 3-1 after one.
 
Duke got within a goal 3:14 into the second quarter when Dyson Williams finished Reilly Walsh's feed in transition, but Kyle Gallagher quickly re-established the two-goal margin by winning the ensuing faceoff and taking it to the house. Just 40 seconds after that, Lulley got his hat trick to make it 5-2. Four minutes later, Adam Goldner extended his goal- and point-scoring streak by sniping home a Jack Schultz feed for 6-2, before Owen Caputo got Duke back on the scoresheet with an unassisted effort.
 
Badour made it 6-4 off a CJ Carpenter feed, and then Garrett Leadmon made it a one-goal game with an unassisted tally with 2:22 left in the half. It was still 6-5 when the teams went to the locker rooms.
 
The third quarter was back and forth, Penn continually fending off Duke's comeback efforts. The Devils knotted the score at 6-6 early in the period, Williams finishing a Badour feed, but Lulley put Penn back in front and snapped a scoreless streak of 13:03 by netting his fourth of the day on a Mitch Bartolo feed with 8:55 left. Manown tied it back up with 7:35 left in the third, but the Quakers took advantage of a Blue Devils turnover and Bartolo finished a feed from Robert Schain. Duke again tied it up, Caputo off a Sean Lowrie pass, but Goldner scored his second just 41 seconds later. Lulley then added his career-high fifth with 1:29 left to make it 10-8, but Jadon Kerry scored with just five seconds left to get Duke within 10-9 heading into the fourth.
 
Caputo tied it up again, at 10-10, just 1:13 into the fourth, and then Carpenter scored just 1:17 later to give Duke its first lead of the day at 11-10. Freshman James Shipley—for whom Saturday's game represented a homecoming—thrilled the crowd and knotted the score at 11-11 off a feed from Dylan Gergar with 7:14 left, his first collegiate goal,
 
As it turned out, that set the Quakers off on their final run. Bedard put the Quakers back in front with 5:55 left off a Lulley feed, and then Penn took advantage of a man-up situation as Gergar scored his first of the day with 4:16 left. Lulley put the game to bed with his sixth goal of the day with 1:51 left, setting the final score.
 
Up Next
Penn plays its home opener next Saturday, hosting current No. 1 Penn State at Franklin Field. The Quakers and Nittany Lions—who fell on Saturday to Yale, 12-10—will face off at 1 p.m., and fans in the Philadelphia region who can't make it to the game will be able to watch it on NBC Sports Philadelphia Plus. Outside the Philly region, Saturday's game will air on ESPN+.