NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The No. 7 University of Pennsylvania women's lacrosse team was level with 16th-ranked Yale late in the first quarter of Sunday's nationally televised Ivy League showdown at Reese Stadium, but the host Bulldogs dominated the rest of the way in gaining a decisive, 16-8 victory.
 
The team were tied at 2-2 with three minutes left in the opening period, but Yale scored twice in the final 2:46 and that was just the start. The Bulldogs outscored Penn 6-1 in the second quarter then scored the first four goals in the third to get this game to a running clock. The Quakers won the fourth quarter, 4-1, but it was too little, too late.
 
Penn lost in Ivy play for the second time in four days and fell to 8-3 overall, 2-2 in Ivy play. Yale, meanwhile, put itself in the driver's seat to host the Ivy League Tournament, the Bulldogs now 4-0 in league play and 10-1 overall.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Freshman Catherine Berkery led Penn's offense with three goals, her third hat trick as a Quaker, and she added an assist to post her fourth four-point game this season.
 
*Junior Anna Brandt scored twice, extending her multi-goal and multi-point streaks to eight games.
 
*Junior Erika Chung tied her career high by dishing out five assists, the fourth time she has hit that mark at Penn and second time this season.
 
*Junior Keeley Block had a goal and an assist for her eighth multi-point game this season.
 
*Senior Niki Miles was held to a goal on Sunday, ending her multi-goal and multi-point streaks which were at 25 entering the day. She maintained her goal-scoring sreak (now at 31 games) and her point-scoring streak (now at 35).
 
*Penn's other goal scorer on Sunday was junior Gracie Smith.
 
*Four different Yale players scored at least three goals: Chloe Conaghan (4), Sky Carrasquillo (3), Jenna Collignon (3), and Taylor Everson (3). Conaghan added three assists for a seven-point game.
 
How It Happened
Yale opened Sunday's scoring on a free-position goal a little more than three minutes into the contest, but Berkery opened Penn's account on a quick-stick goal that Chung fed from behind the goal. Block then gave the Quakers a 2-1 lead less than a minute later, quick-sticking a feed from Berkery, but Yale drew level with 6:22 left. That score held for more than three minutes, before the Bulldogs scored with 2:46 left in the period and doubled their lead 52 seconds later. It was 4-2 after 15 minutes.
 
Yale then opened the second-quarter scoring, but less than a minute later Miles finished a Chung feed to make the score 5-3 with 11:36 left in the period.
 
Penn would not score again until just 3:11 was left in the third quarter, a span of 23:25 of game time. The Bulldogs took full advantage, scoring the last five goals of the first half to take a 10-3 lead into the break, then knocking home the first four goals of the third quarter which got this game to a running clock. Smith ended the drought with a free-position goal, but the Bulldogs were again up by 11 after three, 15-4.
 
Brandt scored the first two goals of the fourth quarter to get the margin to single digits, and then after Yale got things back to 10 goals Berkery scored the final two goals in the game to set the score.
 
Up Next
The Quakers conclude this four-game run of road games at Cornell next Saturday, facing off with the Big Red in Ithaca at noon.
 
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