WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – The No. 14 University of Pennsylvania women's lacrosse team had little trouble with unranked William & Mary on Friday night, grabbing an 18-7 win over the Tribe at Martin Family Stadium.
 
This game was pushed up to Friday night due to a forecast for extremely inclement weather on Saturday in the area. The change did not seem to affect the Quakers in any way.
 
Penn remained undefeated at 5-0, while W&M fell to 3-5.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn outshot W&M 43-18 and had a 19-9 advantage on draw controls on Friday night; the Tribe scored just two goals in the run of play on Friday night, five of their goals coming from free-position shots.
 
*Senior Niki Miles once again paced the attack, scoring four goals for the third time this season and dishing out a pair of assists to finish with a season-high six points. She has recorded at least four points in every game so far this season.
 
*Junior Keeley Block netted her second hat trick of the season (the other coming at Temple) and added two assists for a season-high five points.
 
*Senior Julia Chai also had a five-point game on Friday, a career high, as she scored twice and added three assists. After going scoreless in the first three games, she has nine points in the last two contests.
 
*Junior Erika Chung continued to find her open teammates, dishing out three assists to give her 15 in four appearances this season. She also scored once.
 
*Freshman Catherine Berkery is now 5-for-5 with multiple points; she had two goals and an assist on Friday for three points.
 
*Juniors Anna Brandt and Gracie Smith both scored twice on Friday, while senior Kaitlyn Cumiskey and sophomore transfer Carli Fleisher scored once each and senior Maria Themelis dished out an assist.
 
*Brandt led the Quakers with eight draw controls on Friday night, followed by Miles who had five.
 
*Senior Aly Feeley led Penn with four caused turnovers, a season/career high, while Block had two. As a team, Penn caused nine turnovers.
 
*Kelly Van Hoesen went most of the way in goal tonight, making five saves and allowing five goals (three on free-position shots) before giving way to Caitlin Noack for the final 5:24 of game action. The sophomore allowed two free-position goals and made a save.
 
How It Happened
Playing against head coach Karin Corbett's alma mater for just the second time in her 25-year tenure, Penn wasted little time establishing itself on Friday night, Miles scoring just 53 seconds into the contest and again 2:35 in. That set the Quakers off on a 6-0 game-opening run. Miles had her hat trick before the game was nine minutes old, and Chung had three points after assisting goals by Chai and Berkery just 33 seconds apart. The Quakers' lead was 7-1 after one.
 
Penn kept pouring it on in the second quarter and briefly got the game to a running clock with 10:22 left in the period when Block scored her second of the day off yet another Chung assist. William & Mary came back with three of the last four goals in the period, but the Quakers took a 12-4 lead into the halftime break.
 
The Tribe opened the second-half scoring, as well, before Brandt got on the board off a Chai feed midway through the period. That set the Quakers off on a six-goal run, three of the goals coming before the end of the third and three more coming in the fourth.
 
Brandt scored her second off a Miles feed, Block completed her hat trick, and Fleisher finished another Miles feed to score the Quakers' fourth-quarter goals. The Tribe finally scored again with 4:04 left in the fourth, ending a scoreless drought of more than 24 minutes, and set the final score with 1:09 left.
 
Up Next
The Quakers will be in action twice next week. The first game takes place on Tuesday against Georgetown at the US Lacrosse Headquarters in Sparks, Md. Next Saturday, the Red and Blue hosts No. 6 Michigan 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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