PHILADELPHIA – The No. 11 University of Pennsylvania women's lacrosse team has one final regular season game ahead of the postseason. That takes place Saturday, when the Quakers make the long journey North to face Dartmouth in the Ivy League finale for both teams.
 
GAME 15 – #11 PENN (11-3, 4-2 Ivy League) at DARTMOUTH (7-6, 1-5)
Saturday, April 27, 2024 | Noon
Hanover, N.H. | Scully-Fahey Field
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The Ivy League Tournament Seeding Scenarios
Penn clinched its spot in the Ivy League Tournament with last Saturday's win over Brown and will be at top-seeded Yale next weekend (semifinals on Friday, final on Sunday). Seeding possibilities are as follows...
*Regardless of a win/loss at Dartmouth, Penn is the 3 seed if Princeton beats Harvard on Saturday
*Penn is the 4 seed if Dartmouth beats the Quakers and Harvard beats Princeton
*Penn's seed is TBD (2, 3 or 4) if the Quakers beat Dartmouth and Harvard beats Princeton

The Series with Dartmouth
*This is the 48th meeting between the Quakers and the Big Green in women's lacrosse, Dartmouth holding the narrowest of edges in the overall series, 24-23.
 
*That said, Penn has won three in a row, six of the last seven, and ten of the last 12 meetings.
 
*These teams met on Penn Park in Philadelphia last year, the Quakers rolling to a 15-8 decision as Niki Miles scored six goals and Anna Brandt netted four. The last time they played in Hanover, two years ago, the Red and Blue got a 12-4 victory.
 
Penn in the National Stats (team)
As of Monday, April 22…
*Ninth in scoring defense (8.50)
*10th in CTs per game (10.64)
*17th in DC percentage (.584)
*18th in shots per game (32.79)
*20th in scoring margin (+4.14)
*20th in free-position percentage (.525)
 
Penn in the National Stats (players)
*Senior goalie Kelly Van Hoesen is fourth in goals-against average (8.41).
 
*Senior Niki Miles in 13th in free position percentage (.706).
 
*Junior Erika Chung is 15th in assists per game (2.54).
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Following two big wins last week, including a 13-6 trouncing of then-No. 5 Loyola (Md.), the Quakers moved up to 11th in both the IWLCA and USA Lacrosse Magazine polls on Monday.
 
*Perhaps more importantly, when the NCAA's Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) came out on Monday Penn was a robust fourth.
 
*Penn had won 11 Ivy League regular-season games in a row going back to the 2022 season, before dropping back-to-back games at Princeton (14-9) and Yale (16-8) on April 3 and April 7. 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 42 goals and 59 points. She has racked up 12 points in Penn's last two Ivy games, with five two weeks ago at Cornell (3g/2a) and a season-high seven last Saturday vs. Brown (5g/2a).
 
*Miles has a goal-scoring streak of 34 games (started 5/1/22 vs. Columbia) and a point-scoring streak of 38 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; she has since gone for multiple goals and multiple points in all three games since then.
 
*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 72 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 (46) and Feeley (40).
 
*Brandt is second behind Miles in goals, with 38, and has multiple goals and multiple points in Penn's last 11 games including four goals each against Cornell and Loyola
 
*Chung set a program record last Saturday, dishing out eight assists in Penn's 19-13 win over Brown. She leads the Quakers with 33 assists.
 
*Chung's next point will be the 100th of her Penn career; currently she has 25 goals and 74 assists for 99 points. She would be the 28th player in program history to reach the milestone and join teammates Miles and Brandt on that list.
 
*Currently on the program's all-time lists: Miles is sixth in career goals (123) and career points (177) and t-10th in career assists (54); Brandt is eighth in career goals (116) and 21st in career points (122); Chung is sixth in career assists (74).
 
*Currently on the program's single-season lists: Chung is ninth in assists (33), Miles is t-12th in goals (42) and 14th in points (59), and Brandt is t-18th in goals (38).
 
*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 ten games, multiple goals in seven, and has had four-point performances in the last two games, against Loyola (2g/2a) and Brown (3g/1a).
 
*Freshman Catherine Berkery has 27 goals and has hit for multiple goals in each of the last four games; she already has 12 multi-point and nine multi-goal games this season.
 
*Defensively, seniors Sophie Davis and Rohr lead Penn and the Ivy League in caused turnovers, with 24 and 22, followed by senior Grace Fujinaga (19) and Feeley (18). Junior Natasha Gorriaran (16), Brandt (13), and Miles (10) also are in double digits in that category.
 
*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 and will coach her 400th game at Penn on Saturday. The coach for 12 of the Quakers' 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 265 of the program's 418 wins.
 
*As part of her 117-43 Ivy League regular season record at Penn, Corbett is 96-15 (.865) 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 117 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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