PHILADELPHIA – Junior Allison Kuzyk and senior Julia Russo connected twice on Saturday during the University of Pennsylvania field hockey team's annual #DreamCrazy pink game, overcoming a two-goal deficit to defeat Brown, 3-2, at Ellen Vagelos Field.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Kuzyk's two goal performance are her first two goals of the season. She is up to five goals for her career.
 
*Russo's two assists were also her first two of the season and doubling her career tally, now with three.
 
*Sophie Freedman scored her first goal of the season, capitalizing on a penalty stroke.
 
*The penalty stroke goal for the second finish of the game was the third stroke of the season, all of which found the back of the cage.
 
*Frederique Wollaert collected her fourth victory of the season in goal, tending for the full 60 minutes and making five saves.
 
*Meghan McGinley earned her second defensive save of the season and her career.
 
*With the victory, Head Coach Colleen Fink now has 99 wins at the helm of the program.
 
How It Happened
Penn found itself trailing early in the matchup, with the Bears scoring twice in the opening 10 minutes.
 
The second quarter is when the Quakers came to life and started the stretch of three unanswered goals. In the 19th minute, the Kuzyk-Russo connections started the entertainment for Penn. Russo bringing the ball in on the left side of the circle, found Kuzyk in the middle who redirected the pass into the back of the cage.
 
The Bears took a narrow 2-1 lead into the half, but it wasn't long after the restart that Penn put away the equalizer. Less than five minutes into the third quarter, the play was called dead in the middle of the circle, awarding the Quakers with a penalty stroke. Freedman stepped up for the shot, sending a perfect top-shelf finish into the left side of the cage to draw the score even, 2-2.
 
All knotted up in the final frame, Penn broke the tie with another Kuzyk-Russo finish. In transition, Russo pulled the keeper out on her as she entered the circle. Russo flipped the ball over the keeper's stick, landing the chipped pass to Kuzyk who shoved it into the back of the cage for the game-winner.  
 
Up Next
The Quakers hit the road for a pair of games next weekend in Connecticut, taking on Yale on Saturday for an Ivy clash before squaring off against Quinnipiac on Sunday.