PHILADELPHIA – The 20th-ranked University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse team continues its season-ending stretch of three road games this weekend, spending a weekend in New England and facing Brown on Saturday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. Saturday's game is the Quakers' Ivy League regular-season finale, as they have the bye next week.
 
The Ivy Tournament Situation
Saturday's game is a must-win for the Quakers if they want to make the four-team Ivy League Tournament: a victory would have them finishing Ivy play at 3-3, while a loss would put them at 2-4 and out of the running for an ILT spot. That's because four teams have already reached three wins in league play this season (Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Yale). Out of that group, Penn's only direct head-to-head tiebreaker win would come against the Bulldogs, whom the Quakers beat 9-7 back on March 21. Yale has the Ivy bye this weekend before playing at Brown on April 25.
 
GAME 12 – #20 PENN (5-6, 2-3 Ivy League) at BROWN (6-5, 1-3)
Saturday, April 18, 2026 | 3:30 p.m. | Providence, R.I.
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Ivy League on ESPN+
A reminder that the Ivy League is paired with ESPN+ and you will be able to find all Penn home games, as well as road Ivy games and select non-conference road games, on ESPN+ this spring with the same high broadcast quality you've come to expect. ESPN+ is a subscription-based service that offers monthly and yearly packages. Click here to subscribe to ESPN+!
 
The Series with Brown
*64th meeting in a series that started in 1927; Brown leads the series, 36-27.
 
*While Bruno leads the all-time series, Penn has won the last two meetings and five of the last seven. The Quakers took a 9-8 decision last year and won 11-6 two years ago, with both of those games taking place at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.
 
*Penn's last win on Stevenson-Pincince Field was a biggie—the fourth-seeded Quakers knocked off top-seeded Brown, 14-9, in an Ivy League Tournament semifinal on May 6, 2022. Two days later, the Red and Blue rolled Yale in the ILT final, 16-9, to win the program's second straight Ivy Tourney championship and third overall.
 
Strong Schedule…Again!
Although it's a new head coach (Taylor Wray), Penn's tradition of strong scheduling continues. Coach Wray and his staff have set up a 13-game slate that features seven games against teams that were in the Inside Lacrosse Preseason Top 20 poll—including five of the top six teams—and four more against teams in the "also receiving votes" section. (The Red and Blue also was listed among IL's teams receiving votes.) On the 2026 Penn men's lacrosse ledger…
  #2 Princeton (4/11)
  #3 Syracuse (3/1)
  #4 Cornell (4/4)
  #5 Georgetown (2/14)
  #6 North Carolina (2/27)
  #13 Harvard (3/14)
  #19 UAlbany (2/17)
  RV Dartmouth (3/28)
  RV Delaware (2/21)
  RV Villanova (3/8)
  RV Yale (3/21)
 
Road Warriors
*After starting the season with five of its first seven games at home, Penn is playing five of its last six contests away from Franklin Field.
 
*Penn had more home games in February (4) than it does in March and April combined (2). We're taking some liberties here; the fourth home game was really March 1, but we counted it as February since it happened on a weekend that also included February dates.
 
A Stirring Comeback
Penn put together one of the most improbable wins in program history three weeks ago at Dartmouth. With less than four minutes left in the third quarter, the Quakers were down 14-6 to the Big Green and had scored just one goal across the previous 26:56. However, the Red and Blue roared to life at that point, scoring three unanswered goals in the final 3:36 of the period and then outscoring their hosts 7-0 in the fourth for a 16-14 victory.
 
Preseason/Midseason All-America Recognitions
*Junior SSDM Anthony McMullan received Preseason All-America honorable mention recognition from Inside Lacrosse for the second straight year, then received honorable mention recognition when IL announced its Midseason All-America teams on Friday, April 3.
 
*Senior middie Griffin Scane received honorable mention recognition by both USA Lacrosse Magazine and Inside Lacrosse when they announced their Preseason All-America teams.
 
*When Inside Lacrosse announced its Nike/Inside Lacrosse Power 100 Freshman Rankings for the 2026 season back in August, Jackson Maher (23rd) and Quinn Ball (26th) represented the Quakers on the list.
 
2026 Quaker Notemeal
*Penn's leading scorer last Saturday at Princeton was senior Alex Martin, who had two goals and one assist for three points—amazingly, the first three points of his collegiate career.
 
*Junior Davis Provost was Penn's only other multi-point player at Old Nassau (1g/1a). He leads the Quakers in goals (28), points (34), and shots on goal (56), has hit for multiple points in nine of Penn's first 11 games—scoring multiple goals seven times—and is the only player to score a goal and record a point in every game so far this season.
 
*Scane is second on the team with 22 goals this season, going for multiple goals in each of the first four games—including four-goal efforts against UAlbany and North Carolina—and three more times so far in Ivy League play (3 vs. Cornell, 2 each vs. Harvard and Dartmouth).
 
*Maher continues to lead Penn in assists, with 13, and is tied for second with 26 points. He has gone for multiple points in three of the Quakers' four Ivy games—1g/1a vs. Harvard, 1g/2a at both Yale and Dartmouth—and seven times overall this season.
 
*Junior Ben Beacham missed the Villanova game but came back with seven points in the first three Ivy games (2g vs. Harvard, 1g/1a at Yale, 3g at Dartmouth); he has six multi-point games this season.
 
*Sophomore Nate Lucchesi has eight points so far in Ivy play, sandwiching a pair of two-goal, one-assist performances against Harvard and Dartmouth around a two-point game at Yale (1g/1a); overall, he has nine goals and eight assists for his 17 points.
 
*Junior Grayson McClements has scored a goal in three of five Ivy games after going for three points at Villanova (2g/1a); he is the sixth Penn player to reach double digits in the points column, with 11 (7g/4a).
 
*Sophomore defenseman Dante Vardaro is typically assigned the top offensive threat, and leads the Quakers with 14 caused turnovers; however, he added an offensive element to his repertoire against Villanova with a goal and an assist (the goal coming in spectacular fashion, the long pole converting on a behind-the-back effort.)
 
*Overall, Penn has had 17 different goal scorers this season (including 13 with multiple goals) and 13 players who have dished out an assist.
 
*Penn's faceoff group is winning draws at a .566 rate this season (155-274) and went 20-5 in the Ivy opener vs. Harvard. The freshman Ball is 44-31 (.587)—including a 16-3 mark against the Crimson—while senior Ethan Costanzo is 31-25 (.554). With senior Mac Eldridge (72-50, .590) out due to injury, sophomore Stevie Davis saw his first action of 2026 last weekend at Princeton, going 8-13 against the Tigers.
 
*Sophomore Jack Pelot has started in goal for all 11 games this season and holds a .496 save percentage. Three weeks ago at Dartmouth, he was replaced by Declan Monahan for the fourth quarter and the junior stopped all three shots he faced to help spur Penn's comeback win.
 
*Eldridge, Scane, Ryan McLaughlin—who has played the last four games after missing the start of the season due to injury—and junior Jacob Pacheco are this year's captains.
 
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