SPARKS, Md. – The No. 15 University of Pennsylvania women's lacrosse team was dominant in the middle quarters of Tuesday night's game with Georgetown at the USA Lacrosse headquarters, and the result was a comfortable, 14-4 victory over the Hoyas.
 
Penn was up just 3-2 after one quarter and 4-3 early in the second, but the Quakers scored the game's next eight goals and held GU scoreless for more than 29 minutes to cruise to the win.
 
Penn remains unbeaten at 6-0, while Gtown fell to 2-6.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn outshot Georgetown, 34-10, and put 23 of them on goal.
 
*The Quakers also doubled up the Hoyas on the draw, 14-7, and were a perfect 18-of-18 on clears Tuesday night.
 
*Senior Niki Miles had another standout night, scoring a season-high five goals and dishing out an assist for her second straight six-point game.
 
*In the process, Miles moved past the 100-goal mark for her career and now has 104. She is the 14th player in program history to reach the milestone and the first since Zoe Belodeaux in 2021.
 
*Junior Anna Brandt had her first hat trick of the season and her third straight multi-goal game, scoring three times and adding an assist for four points.
 
*Junior Keeley Block scored twice on Tuesday night, her fourth multi-goal game this season and second straight.
 
*Penn's other goal scorers were Aly Feeley—who also led the Quakers with six draw controls—Erika Chung, Catherine Berkery, and Gracie Smith. Julia Chai dished out an assist.
 
*At the other end, senior goalie Kelly Van Hoesen raised her season save percentage with four stops and a .500 percentage.
 
*Georgetown's goals came from four different players.
 
How It Happened
Georgetown actually opened the scoring on Tuesday night on a nice skip pass to the front of the goal, but Penn needed less than two minutes to draw level when Miles grabbed a ground ball in traffic behind the goal, split the defenders who were challenging for the GB, and came out front to convert. Just 15 seconds later, Feeley gave Penn a lead it wouldn't relinquish when she won the draw and just kept going all the way to goal for the finish.
 
Block opened her account with an unassisted goal that rocketed inside the far high post, but Georgetown got it within one with a goal late in the shot clock to make it 3-2 after one.
 
Miles' 100th came six minutes into the second quarter, when she went around her defender and poked a shot inside the lower far post from the left side. Just one minute later, however, GU again used the skip pass to score, this time on the left side of the goal.
 
Nearly five minutes went by before Miles converted on the free position, then a little more than a minute later Block had a shot saved only for Berkery to scoop up the rebound and finish. The killer goal came in the final seconds of the half, Brandt racing around the Hoyas defense on the right side and then throwing a pass back to a wide-open Smith in front for the easy conversion. That made Penn's lead 7-3 at the break.
 
Any thoughts of a GU comeback were squashed early in the third, Chung getting on the board off a Miles feed and then Brandt going 1-on-1 for her second of the night before the period was two minutes old. Block and Brandt then sandwiched 1-on-1, unassisted goals around another Miles free-position finish and the Quakers up were 12-3 after three.
 
The Hoyas scored their first goal in nearly 30 minutes with 8:46 left in the period, but two minutes later Miles was finishing up her night with a nice individual effort. Less than two minutes after that, Brandt found Chai on the left side in transition and kept going to goal after her pass, Chai rewarding the effort with a nice feed for the give-and-go goal. That got the game to a running clock and closed out the scoring.
 
Up Next
The Quakers will host No. 6 Michigan on Saturday in the opener of a women's/men's doubleheader at Franklin Field as the programs celebrate their annual Alumni Day.
 
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