HANOVER, N.H. – The No. 11 University of Pennsylvania women's lacrosse team closed out the regular season with a 13-6 win at Dartmouth on Saturday afternoon.
 
Penn heads into the postseason 12-3 overall and third in the league standings at 5-2. Dartmouth finishes the season 7-7 overall, 1-6 in Ivy play.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Junior Keeley Block was one of three Penn players to score three goals on Saturday and she also dished out two assists, giving her five points which matched her season high set March 8 at William & Mary.
 
*Senior Maria Themelis and junior Anna Brandt also had hat tricks on Saturday.
 
*Senior Niki Miles scored two goals and added two assists for four points.
 
*Senior Julia Chai scored twice on Saturday.
 
*Junior Erika Chung dished out one assist, giving her 100 points for her career. She became the 28th player in program history to reach the milestone.
 
*At the other end, senior goalkeeper Kelly Van Hoesen had 10 saves and a .625 save percentage for the day.
 
*Penn's defense had 10 caused turnovers, two each from Izzy Rohr, Natasha Gorriaran and Gracie Smith.
 
How It Happened
Dartmouth needed just 38 seconds to go up on Senior Day in front of a sizable crowd at Scully-Fahey Field, but Penn drew level five minutes later when Block converted a free-position shot. The Big Green had the only other goal of the quarter and took a 2-1 lead after one.
 
Penn took control after that, scoring the first three goals of the second and then five in a row bridging the halves to turn its 2-1 deficit into a 9-3 lead.
 
Miles got the run starting just 1:02 into the second with a free-position goal, then Chung fed Chai for a 3-2 lead and Chung's 100th career point. Miles sandwiched that goal with another free-position effort just 1:29 later. Dartmouth got one back with 4:13 to play, but then Themelis scored twice in the final minute and the Quakers took a 6-3 lead into the break.
 
Brandt got on the board with a free-position goal, followed less than a minute later by Block finishing a Miles feed. Another Chai goal made it 9-3 with 9:09 left, and after Dartmouth got one back Brandt scored on another free-position goal to make it 10-4 after three.
 
The fourth quarter started slowly, but Themelis and Block scored unassisted goals to make it 12-4 with five minutes left. Dartmouth scored twice late, before Brandt closed things out with just seven seconds left to set the final score.
 
Up Next
Penn will be the third seed in next weekend's Ivy League Tournament at Yale and will face second-seeded Princeton in Friday's first semifinal at 4 p.m. The host Bulldogs will play fourth-seeded Harvard in the second semifinal at 7 p.m. The final will take place Sunday at noon, the winner of that game earning the league's automatic bid into the NCAA Championship.
 
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