PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania field hockey team used a strong first half to put away Dartmouth, 4-1, on Saturday afternoon at Ellen Vagelos Field. The Quakers scored less than five minutes into the contest and added two more just 48 seconds apart in the second quarter to pull away from the Big Green.
 
Penn has won three in a row and is now 6-5 overall; more impressively, the Quakers are 4-0 in Ivy League play for the first time since 1995. Dartmouth fell to 4-5 overall and is now 1-3 in Ivy play.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn outshot Dartmouth on the day, 10-7, and put all ten of those shots on goal.
 
*Senior co-captain Allison Kuzyk scored for the seventh straight game, the longest scoring streak by a Penn player since Alexa Hoover—the program's all-time scoring leader—began the 2015 season with goals in seven straight games.
 
*Sophomore Livia Loozen scored her fifth goal of the season and her second in three contests.
 
*Senior co-captain Lis Zandbergen also had a goal on Saturday, her second this season.
 
*Sophomore Dylan Breier scored her first collegiate goal on Saturday.
 
*Sophomore Julia Ryan had two assists on Saturday, giving her five on the season which is now second on the team behind Kenah who has seven after assisting Kuzyk's game-opening goal.
 
*Freshman Honor Roberts was credited with an assist on the Zandbergen goal Saturday, her first collegiate point.
 
How It Happened
Penn needed less than five minutes to get on the board Saturday. Off a short corner, Kuzyk took the pass from entry Kenah and converted her shot to give the Quakers a lead they would not relinquish.
 
It was the two goals early in the second that really put this game away. The first came when Kuzyk drove across the front of the goal just above the top of the circle and fed Ryan. The sophomore drove into the circle, turned the stick and fired a backhanded shot that was stopped. However, the rebound squirted over to Loozen on the doorstep and she converted to double the Quakers' lead.
 
Just 48 seconds later, Penn's lead was three. Ryan again was the feeder, as she drove up the middle through a pair of Big Green defenders and fired a pass into the circle that Breier re-directed over the Dartmouth keeper's left pad. The Big Green challenged the play, but the goal stood after a review.
 
Penn added to its lead with a little less than four minutes left in the third quarter when Zandbergen finished a cross from the left side by Roberts. It was the end of a nice sequence that saw the Quakers work the ball down the field, using both sides as they went from one end to the other.
 
Dartmouth got on the board with a little more than 11 minutes left in regulation. Moving the ball down the right side of the field, the Big Green's Meg Barnes got the ball inside the right side of the circle and fired a cross in front that Emma Reynolds re-directed inside the far post, past Wollaert's right pad.

Quotable
"Coming off a tough Ivy League game at Princeton just a couple of days ago, our staff was proud of the discipline our team displayed going into today's game. The mindset was focused on our playing principles and we also had the underlying theme, offered up by Penn alum Gretta Ehret, to embrace the 'dream crazy' mentality. We were fortunate enough to have Gretta at practice yesterday, and she spoke to the team about her legacy and what 'dream crazy' really means. It was a meaningful moment that had a profound impact on our young women. Gretta's legacy will live on in this program forever." - Colleen Fink, Penn head coach
 
Up Next
Penn is back in action again tomorrow, traveling out to the Main Line to take on Villanova. The Quakers and Wildcats are scheduled to face off at the Proving Grounds in Conshohocken at noon.