Box Score NEW YORK CITY – The nationally ranked University of Pennsylvania women's lacrosse team returned to Ivy League action at Columbia on Saturday afternoon, toppling the Lions 18-7.
 
Keeley Block recorded a special milestone in the outing, scoring her 100th career point off a four-point performance to help lead Penn to an undefeated 2-0 Ivy League record.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Senior Block and Regan O'Brien led the Red and Blue's offense in the battle, tallying hat tricks against Columbia.
 
*Erika Chung tied her season-high five points off three assists and two goals.
 
*Freshmen Sarah Kelley and Mae Zaremba netted their first collegiate goals in the win.
 
*Penn dominated the outing, scoring the Lions 40-18, with 32 shots registering on goal.
 
*The 17 goals in the battle are the most the Quakers have scored so far this season.
 
*Orly Sedransk worked hard in the cage against the Lions, stopping seven of 13 shots faced.
 
How It Happened
The Lions got to work early in the Ivy League match, leading 2-0 five minutes into the first. Senior Chung cut the hole to a goal with 8:47 left of the period to get Penn on the board. The Quakers controlled most of the remaining seven minutes of the quarter, as senior Block tied the game three minutes later, followed by Lela Greene pushing the Red and Blue ahead 3-2 with less than two minutes on board. Columbia closed out the first with a free-position goal to tie things at three going into the second.
 
The Lions continued their pace to open the second, scoring not even two minutes in to snatch the lead back, but the Quakers exploded offensively with five-straight goals to lead 8-4 with 6:40 left of the first half. Sophomore O'Brien, freshman Kelley, Catherine Berkery, Freshman Zaremba, and Anna Brandt accounted for the five Quaker goals.
 
First-year Kelley kept the run going with her second tally of the day to extend the lead to five goals with 4:32 on the clock. Columbia eventually cut the run in the final minute of the second to put the game at 9-5 at the break.
 
The Red and Blue came out of the break with a fury as O'Brien and Block netted back-to-back goals in the second minute of the third to lengthen Penn's lead to 11-5. Sophomore Berkery scored the final goal of the period to push the Quakers' lead to seven goals with 7:30 remaining in the third. Penn's defense held strong in the quarter, as goalkeeper Sedransk made three saves in the period.
 
The final 15 minutes of regulation opened with Columbia finding its footing with two straight goals to put the game at 12-7 with 12 minutes remaining. Attacker Block cut the quick run with her fourth hat trick of the year to start a Quaker run that would stretch to the end of the fourth. Attacker Chung, Gracie Smith, Patricia Columbia-Walsh, and O'Brien all tacked on goals to the board to give Penn a 2-0 Ivy League record off the 18-7 win over the Lions.
 
Up Next
The Quakers (5-3, 2-0 Ivy League) have a quick turnaround, returning to Franklin Field on Monday for a 3 p.m. ranked battle with #6 Maryland.