PHILADELPHIA – The 20th-ranked University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse team concludes the regular season on Friday night, facing the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) in a non-conference game that will take place on a neutral field at Farmingdale (N.Y.) High School.
 
The Ivy Tournament Situation
Following Friday's game, the Quakers will be in scoreboard-watching mode on Saturday as hopes remain alive for an Ivy League Tournament berth. In particular, their eyes will be on two games that both start at noon—Harvard at Cornell, and Yale at Brown. Penn needs the Crimson and Bears to win those games; in any other scenario, the four teams in the Tournament are Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.
 
GAME 13 – #20 PENN (6-6, 3-3 Ivy League) vs. UMASS (10-4)
Friday, April 24, 2026 | 5:30 p.m. | Farmingdale, N.Y.
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The Series with UMass
*This is just the second meeting between the Quakers and the Minutemen and the first regular-season tilt.
 
*The first matchup took place in the first round of the 1987 NCAA Championship, Penn winning the game 11-10 at Franklin Field; it was the Red and Blue's first postseason win after losing its first five NCAA games from 1975-85. Penn then lost to Maryland in the quarterfinal round, 12-8.
 
Ivy Honors For Pelot
Sophomore goalkeeper Jack Pelot was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on Monday, after he came up with 14 saves—three of them in the two overtime sessions—as Penn beat Brown in Providence last Saturday, 12-11, keeping the Quakers' ILT hopes alive.
 
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 has ended the season with five of its last six contests away from Franklin Field.
 
*Penn had more home games in February (4) than it did 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 four 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 each of the last two weeks has been senior Alex Martin, who had three points two weeks ago at Princeton (2g/1a) and then four points last Saturday at Brown (3g/1a). Amazingly, they are first seven points of the senior's collegiate career.
 
*Junior Davis Provost had another multi-point game at Brown (1g/2a), his second in a row and tenth this season. He leads the Quakers in goals (29), points (37), and shots on goal (60), has scored multiple goals seven times this season, 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 14—nearly double Provost and Nate Lucchesi, who are tied for second with eight each—and is second on the team with 28 points. The freshman went for multiple points in four of the Quakers' six Ivy games—1g/1a vs. Harvard and Brown, 1g/2a at both Yale and Dartmouth—and eight times overall this season, and has a goal/point in all but one game this season (3/8 at Villanova).
 
*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 seven multi-point games this season, including last Saturday at Brown (1g/1a).
 
*Lucchesi, a sophomore, had eight points in Ivy play despite missing the Princeton game two weeks ago; overall, he has ten goals and eight assists for his 18 points. (Pretty cool day last Saturday for the Lucchesi family, as Nate hit for the 2OT winner at Brown while his brother, Nick, scored the OT winner for Villanova in a 16-15 win over Marquette that clinched a Big East Tournament spot for the Wildcats.)
 
*Junior Grayson McClements netted his first collegiate hat trick last Saturday at Brown, his third multi-goal game this season (2 each against Delaware and Villanova), and scored in five of Penn's six Ivy League contests this season.
 
*Sophomore defenseman Dante Vardaro is typically assigned the top offensive threat, and leads the Quakers with 15 caused turnovers; however, he has an offensive flair as well, with goals against Villanova and Brown this season—both of them behind-the-back "pole goals". He also had an assist in the win over the Wildcats.
 
*Overall, Penn has had 18 different goal scorers this season (including 14 with multiple goals) and 13 players who have dished out an assist. Senior LSM Ryan McLaughlin became the 18th different goal scorer in last Saturday's win at Brown, the captain's "pole goal" the second of his collegiate career.
 
*Penn's faceoff group is winning draws at a .571 rate this season (172-301), and last Saturday at Brown the Quakers won 15 in a row including all 11 in the second half. The freshman Ball is 60-37 (.619)—including a 16-6 mark against the Bears last Saturday—while senior Ethan Costanzo is 31-27 (.534). With senior Mac Eldridge (72-50, .590) out due to injury, sophomore Stevie Davis saw his first action of 2026 two weeks ago at Princeton, going 8-13 against the Tigers.
 
*Sophomore Jack Pelot has started in goal for all 12 games this season and holds a .502 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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