PHILADELPHIA – In a battle of the two best defenses in the Ivy League, the 16th-ranked University of Pennsylvania men's soccer team broke through for a late first-half goal while yielding a lone shot on goal in a 1-0 win over Brown Saturday evening at Penn Park.
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* The teams came into the match as the only two Ancient Eight members allowing less than one goal per match.
* Penn last yielded a lone shot on goal back on September 6, 2021 in a 3-0 win over Colgate, 28 matches ago.
* The Quakers' offense generated a lone shot on goal for the first time in their last 23 matches, dating back to a 1-0, September 25, 2021 victory over Monmouth. That match was also the last time Penn won 1-0 prior to Saturday.
* For the first time since 2010, Penn picked up its 10th win of the season AND moved to 4-0-0 in Ivy League play.
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Stas Korzeniowski scored for the third time in his last four matches, moving one goal back of
Ben Stitz for the team lead (nine) while tying Stitz for the team lead in points (22).
* Korzeniowski became the fourth team member with at least two match-winning goals this season, joining Stitz (three),
Michael Hewes (two) and
Leo Burney (two).
* Penn's unbeaten streak is now at 10 (9-0-1), the longest for the program since the 2008 team opened the season 7-0-3.
How It Happened
Brown mustered three off-target shots in the opening half-hour, as both 18-yard boxes were strongly defended by the back lines.
After coming on as a sub in the 32nd minute,
Mateo Zazueta made his presence felt roughly 90 seconds later, delivering a terrific through-ball to Korzeniowski who launched a left-footed rocket past the Brown keeper for his eighth goal of the season.
Isaac McGinnis missed high and to the right with a shot in the 36th minute, the only shot attempt for either side until Brown missed off-target in the 64th.
In the 86th minute, Brown finally put a ball on goal, but the long distance shot proved little trouble for Penn keeper
Nick Christoffersen who recorded the clean sheet.
Up Next
Penn heads up to Cambridge next Saturday for a 1 p.m. match with Harvard, the programs' first meeting before the month of November since 2006.
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