PHILADELPHIA – Championship Sunday, here we come! The #1 seed University of Pennsylvania men's soccer team topped #4 Brown in overtime in the first 2024 Ivy League tournament semifinal Friday afternoon at Rhodes Field.
 
Oliver Pratt sent #1 Penn to Sunday's final off his first goal of the season in the third minute of the overtime quarter. As a result, the Quakers will face third-seeded Princeton in Sunday's final after the Tigers overcame a 2-0 deficit to defeat second-seeded Cornell in double overtime, 3-2, in Friday's second semi.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*The Red and Blue plays in their first Ivy League tournament final in program history.
 
*Brown slightly outshot the Quakers on the night, 8-7. The Bears put six shots on goal while Penn tallied three.
 
*Sophomore Jack-Ryan Jeremiah scored the other goal in the match, nailing a penalty kick in the second quarter. 
 
*Goalkeeper Phillip Falcon III stopped five of six shots faced in the semifinal battle.
 
*Leo Burney and Falcon docked the full 94 minutes on the pitch.
 
How It Happened 
The Bears entered the matchup firing on all cylinders, as Mads Stistrup Petersen and Lorenzo Amaral tried to find the net in the first two minutes but could not sneak anything past sophomore Falcon.
 
The Quakers found their first opportunity of the match in the 13th minute, but Jeremiah's shot was off-target. Goalkeeper Henrik Weiper stopped his first shot of the day nine minutes later from Erickson Sakalosky. 
 
Twenty-four minutes into the battle, Jack Cloherty connected with Stistrup Petersen ??to Brown ahead 1-0. Senior Charlie Gaffney tried to retaliate with a shot in the 32nd minute but was stopped by Weiper. Four minutes later, Patrick Cayelli charged his way down the pitch, but Weiper silenced the attack to finish out the half. 
 
Coming out of the break, defender Joaquin Niehenke drew a foul in the 51st minute, allowing Jeremiah to take a penalty shot and tie up the match at one. Brown's Harri Sprofera tallied a shot in the 67th minute but could not take the lead as Falcon recorded his first save of the half. Six minutes later, Brown's Levi Pillar attempted a far out shot but was blocked by defender Burney.
 
Stas Korzeniowski had his first shot of the game with nine minutes left in regulation, but it went to the right of the net. Neither time could find the back of the net to end regulation, forcing the semifinal battle to extra minutes.
 
Three minutes into overtime, defender Pratt nailed the match-winning goal to push Penn ahead 2-1 and to Championship Sunday.
 
Up Next
The Quakers will take on #3 Princeton in the 2024 Ivy League tournament final on Sunday at 1 p.m. on Rhodes Field.