PHILADELPHIA – After playing four games in a row on the road—three of them in Ivy League play—the No. 14 University of Pennsylvania women's lacrosse team is home twice this week. The first comes Wednesday afternoon, as the Quakers go out of conference one final time and host No. 5 Loyola (Md.) at Franklin Field.
 
GAME 13 – #14 PENN (9-3, 3-2 Ivy League) vs. #5 LOYOLA (13-1)
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | 4 p.m.
Philadelphia | Franklin Field
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The Series with Loyola
*This is the 24th meeting between the Quakers and the Greyhounds, with Loyola holding a commanding 19-4 lead in the series.
 
*After playing just once from 2005 to 2019, these teams met in 2020 and again each of the last two seasons. Loyola won 15-7 last year in Baltimore and 12-10 two years ago here at Franklin Field.
 
*Penn's wins all came early in the series, in the first meeting in 1983 and then again in 1987, 1988 and 1989.
 
Penn in the National Stats (team)
*Ninth in scoring defense (8.33)
*Ninth in CTs per game (10.58)
*13th in DC percentage (.598)
*17th in shots per game (32.83)
 
Penn in the National Stats (players)
*Senior goalie Kelly Van Hoesen is third in goals-against average (8.23).
 
*Junior Erika Chung is 25th in assists per game (2.18).
 
Penn in the Ivy Stats (all games)
*Van Hoesen leads Ancient Eight goalies in goals-against average (8.23).
 
*Chung is third in assists per game (2.18).
 
*Senior Niki Miles is fourth in draw controls per game (5.17), fifth in points per game (4.17), sixth in goals per game (2.92), seventh in shots per game (6.58)
 
*Junior Anna Brandt is fourth in shots per game (6.92), ninth in goals per game (2.67), and tenth in draw controls per game (3.58).
 
*In caused turnovers per game, senior Sophie Davis is tied for the league lead (1.67), senior Aly Feeley is fifth (1.42), and seniors Izzy Rohr and senior Grace Fujinaga are tied for seventh (1.33).
 
*Davis also is tied for eighth in ground balls per game (1.92).
 
*Junior Keeley Block is eighth in shots per game (6.00).
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Despite a road Ivy League win on Saturday at Cornell, Penn dropped from 12th to 14th in the IWLCA poll. The Quakers remain 12th in the USA Lacrosse Magazine poll.
 
*Perhaps more importantly, though, when the NCAA's Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) came out on Monday Penn was still a robust seventh.
 
*Penn had won 11 Ivy League regular-season games in a row going back to the 2022 season, before falling 14-9 at Princeton two weeks ago. That included an undefeated 7-0 campaign last year when the Quakers won their 14th Ancient Eight title.
 
*The Red and Blue then defeated Harvard and Yale to win the Ivy League Tournament, earning the league's NCAA Championship automatic bid. In its 16th NCAA appearance, Penn beat UConn in the first round and gave eventual finalist Boston College all it could handle in the second round before falling, 9-7.
 
*Penn returns almost all the key components from last year's team including the reigning Ivy League Attacker of the Year (senior Niki Miles), Midfielder of the Year (junior Anna Brandt), and Defender of the Year (senior Izzy Rohr). The trio has garnered preseason All-America honors from Inside Lacrosse and US Lacrosse, and Miles and Rohr were named to the Tewaaraton Award's preseason watch list.
 
*The trio made history last year, as it marked the first time players from the same program won all three major positional honors since the Ivy League began awarding them in 2013. (Prior to that, the Ivy League did a Player of the Year and a Rookie of the Year.)
 
*Penn had 10 women earn All-Ivy last year; all of them are back this season. (This does not include junior Keeley Block, who missed last season due to injury after earning honorable mention All-Ivy recognition as a freshman in 2022. So make it 11 All-Ivy players in the lineup.)
  FIRST TEAM: Brandt (unanimous), Miles (unanimous), Rohr (unanimous)
  SECOND TEAM: Erika Chung, Kaitlyn Cumiskey, Grace Fujinaga, Maria Themelis, Kelly Van Hoesen
  HONORABLE MENTION: Aly Feeley, Natasha Gorriaran
 
*Not surprisingly, Penn was a unanimous pick to repeat as conference champion this season, scooping up all 16 first-place votes for 128 points in the Ivy League's preseason media poll that was announced on February 13.
 
*On top of the returning group, the Quakers secured two transfers for this season: Grace Turner (Stanford) and Carli Fleisher (Northwestern). Fleisher—named the 2022 National High School Player of the Year by USA Lacrosse Magazine—had her first two collegiate points at Temple, a goal and an assist.
 
*Miles has picked up where she left off last year, leading Penn with 35 goals and 50 points. She had five points (3g/2a) Saturday at Cornell.
 
*Miles has a goal-scoring streak of 32 games (started 5/1/22 vs. Columbia) and a point-scoring streak of 36 games (started 4/9/22 at Cornell).
 
*Miles had a multi-goal and multi-point streak of 25 games, dating back to last season (started 3/11/23 at Jacksonville), that was snapped April 7 at Yale when she was held to a goal.
 
*Miles reached the 100-goal milestone for her career in Penn's win over Georgetown on March 12; she became the 14th player in program history to reach that milestone and the first since Zoe Belodeau in 2021.
 
*Miles also leads the team with 62 draw controls and had just the fifth double-figure game in program history in that category on March 24 with 10 against Harvard. She is followed by Brandt (43) and Feeley (32).
 
*Brandt tied her career high with five goals against the Crimson (on five shots); coincidentally, she originally set the mark against Harvard, at Penn Park, in last year's Ivy League Tournament semifinal. In the process, the junior moved past 100 career points (currently at 116).
 
*Brandt has multiple goals and multiple points in Penn's last 10 games including four goals Saturday at Cornell.
 
*Chung tied her season/career highs when she dished out five assists at Yale. She leads the Quakers with 24 assists.
 
*Currently on the program's all-time lists: Miles is seventh in career goals (116) and sixth in career points (168); Brandt is 11th in career goals (110) and 22nd in career points (116); Chung is tied for seventh in career assists (65).
 
*Block was Penn's second-leading scorer and honorable mention All-Ivy recognition as a freshman in 2022; she is back after missing all of last season due to injury. The junior has multiple points in eight games and multiple goals in five including three hat tricks.
 
*Freshman Catherine Berkery has 22 goals and hit for two goals Saturday at Cornell; she already has nine multi-point and six multi-goal games this season.
 
*Defensively, Davis leads Penn with 20 caused turnovers, followed by Feeley (17), Fujinaga and Rohr (16 each), juniors Natasha Gorriaran and Brandt (13 each), and Miles (10).
 
*The Quakers are led by four captains this season: Miles, Rohr, Maria Themelis, and Morgan Smith.
 
*Head coach Karin Corbett is in her 25th season at the helm. The coach for 12 of Penn's 14 Ivy titles and a two-time Ivy League Coach of the Year—the honor has only been given since 2015—she has been head coach for 263 of the program's 416 wins.
 
*As part of her 116-43 Ivy League regular season record at Penn, Corbett is 95-15 (.864) since the 2007 season. That includes 36 straight wins from 2006-11, tied for the longest win streak in league history with Harvard (1987-93).
 
*Of note, Corbett's 116 Ivy League wins are third in conference history—behind only Princeton's Chris Sailer (183 from 1987-2022) and Dartmouth's Amy Patton (118 from 1993-2016)—her 12 Ivy League titles are second all-time behind Sailer (16), and her seven outright titles are behind only Harvard's Carole Kleinfelder (9 from 1980-2003).
 
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