NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The nationally ranked University of Pennsylvania men's soccer team stayed undefeated in Ivy League play on Saturday afternoon, topping Yale 1-0 on the road to secure a 6-0 conference record.
 
#19 Penn clinched its third-straight Ivy League regular season title thanks to sophomore Connor Dawson's match-winning goal in the 58th minute.
 
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*The third consecutive Ivy League title marks the first three-peat in program history.
 
*Dawson's goal accounts for the second of his career and the season.
 
*Senior Stas Korzeniowski led the offense with four shots in the game.
 
*Jack-Ryan Jeremiah and Aaron Messer tallied assists on Dawson's goal.
 
*Sophomore goalkeeper Phillip Falcon III had a solid outing in the crease, stopping all three shots faced to post his eighth clean sheet of the year
 
*Burney, Dawson, Falcon, Messer, and Oliver Pratt were all over the field in the match, docking the full 90 minutes.
 
How it Happened
Yale started the offensive attempts in the match, making back-to-back shots in the eighth minute that were ultimately blocked by senior Messer and saved by Falcon to keep the battle at zero early. Two minutes later, junior Erickson Sakalosky tried Penn's first shot against the Bulldogs, but it went just right of goalkeeper Chris Edwards.
 
The next three shots came from Yale during the 18th minute, with the first from Quanah Brayboy hitting the crossbar to allow Teague McCammon to rocket one at Falcon that the sophomore saved. The Bulldogs tried another off a corner, but the Quaker defense blocked it to hold tough almost halfway through the first. Yale slammed another one toward Falcon in the 26th minute, but luckily, it hit the crossbar again before it could cause any damage.
 
Penn's second shot of the first didn't come till the 31st minute when forward Korzeniowski had a great opportunity coming down the field, but his shot went just wide of Edwards' empty net to hold the game at 0-0 with 14 minutes on the clock. The final shots of the quarter also came from the Quakers as Korzeniowski tallied his second shot in the 40th minute as he accepted a feed from Charlie Gaffney, but his shot went high. A header from Owen Sullivan followed that keeper Edwards Saved to keep the battle scoreless at the break.
 
Coming out of the break, the Red and Blue had an offensive burst, as juniors Patrick Cayelli and Jack Wagoner recorded back-to-back shots in the 48th minute that goalkeeper Edwards saved to keep the match at 0-0 early in the second half.
 
The even game was disturbed in the 58th minute as sophomore Jeremiah rocketed a corner kick that defender Dawson headed in to push Penn ahead 1-0. The sophomore's goal caused the floodgates to open for the Quaker offense, as senior Gaffney tallied two shots in the 63rd and 65th minutes that were saved and blocked.
 
Penn kept the pressure in the next few minutes as Korzeniowski added another shot to the board, accompanied by junior Pratt's first of the battle in the 68th minute. The Bulldogs' first shots of the second didn't come until the 75th minute, when McCammon shot one at Falcon that the keeper saved, followed by a tally from Ryan Cote that went wide.
 
Luckily for the Quakers, Yale's rally came too late in the match as the pair of shots were the last two in the bout to keep the match at 1-0 and Penn undefeated in Ivy League play.
 
Up Next
The Quakers (12-2-2, 6-0 Ivy League) close out the regular season next weekend, heading to rival Princeton on Saturday, Nov. 9, for a 2 p.m. Ivy League battle.