PROVIDENCE, R.I. – It seemed as if all was going right when the No. 14 University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse team took a 7-3 lead late in the second quarter. But that's when Brown began to make its march back, outscoring the Quakers, 8-5, the rest of the way to grab the 12-11 victory Saturday afternoon at Stevenson-Pincince Field.
 
Playing in his first game of the season and just the second of his career, sophomore Luke DiNola contributed to the Quakers' offense in a big way by netting four goals to lead the way. Ben Smith scored his second consecutive hat trick while Gabe Furey also added a pair of scores.
 
Penn drops to 4-5 overall and 2-2 in Ivy play, while Brown earns its first Ivy victory of the season to improve to 1-2 in conference and an even 5-5 on the year.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn falls to 0-4 following a win this season and surrenders its first unranked loss of the year.
 
*The Quakers are now 4-3 in games decided by two goals or less.
 
*Luke DiNola led the way with four goals in just his second-career game and his first appearance of the 2023 season. He did that on just five total shots, all of which were on goal.
 
*Ben Smith netted his third hat trick of the season and second in as many games with three goals on four shots on goal. Smith now has 17 goals and two assists for 19 points this season.
 
*Gabe Furey scored twice for his first two goals since March 18 against Princeton.
 
*Robert Schain, James Shipley and Sam Handley each had two assists to lead the Quakers in that category.
 
*Handley failed to score a goal for the first time in five games but tallied a pair of assists to up his point-scoring streak to 42 straight games, the fourth-longest such streak in the nation.
 
*Emmet Carroll, BJ Farrare, Peter Blake, Ethan Till and Piper Bond each tallied a caused turnover.
 
*Chris Arceri led the way with eight ground balls and was 12-for-25 from the X.
 
*Carroll had 12 saves and stopped 50.0 percent of the Bears' chances.
 
*Final shots were equal at 41-41, with Brown getting the slight edge on shots on goal at 24-23. Penn was 17-for-21 on clears while the Bears were a perfect 18-for-18. Brown led the Quakers on faceoffs, 14-12 and were 2-for-2 on man-up opportunities while Penn was 0-for-1.
 
How It Happened
Gabe Furey got Penn going just 54 seconds into the start of the contest with his first in three games, leading 1-0.
 
Brown answered back with 13:20 left, both teams trading goals until a 3-3 tie with 13:04 remaining in the first. That spurred four in a row for the Quakers with two for Luke DiNola sandwiched in as Penn took its largest lead of the game at 7-3 with 3:13 remaining in the half.
 
Griffin King and Jack Kelly went back-to-back for the Bears to make it 7-5 at the half.
 
Brown scored its third in a row and second straight for Kelly with 12:25 remaining in the third quarter to cut the deficit to one goal at 7-6, but DiNola netted his first career hat trick with a strike from Robert Schain to push Penn up 8-6 with 10:32 left on the clock.
 
A 4-1 run for Bruno pushed them in front for the first time at 10-9 following Devon McLane's second man-up goal of the game and his third of the fourth quarter.
 
With under five minutes remaining, DiNola scored his fourth goal of the game to tie the contest at 10-10, which was quickly negated by Matthew Gunty's faceoff goal to put Brown ahead, 11-10.
 
At the 4:11 mark, Schain scored off the feed from Sam Handley to tie the game at 11-11.
 
Kelly notched what became the game winner with just 2:17 remaining to lift the Bears ahead, 12-11.
 
The Quakers had one final offensive chance with under a minute to go, but Shipley turned the ball over on the Trevor Yeboah-Kodie cause with six seconds left and Brown ran out the clock to seal the win.
 
Up Next
Penn continues its New England swing next Saturday at noon against Harvard. The Crimson defeated #4 Cornell Saturday, 10-8, in Cambridge to hand the Big Red their first Ivy loss of the year.