FARMINGDALE, N.Y. – The 20th-ranked University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse team closed out the regular season on Friday night with a neutral-site, 13-11 non-conference win over the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass).
 
Penn ends the regular season with a 7-6 record, while the Minutemen fell to 10-5.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Junior Davis Provost set career highs in assists (3) and points (6) on Friday, adding three goals for his seventh hat trick this season.
 
*Grayson McClements had his second straight three-point game, scoring twice and dishing out an assist.
 
*Ben Beacham scored a goal and dished out two assists for three points, his eighth multi-point game this season.
 
*Senior Alex Martin also scored twice on Friday night, giving him nine points across the last three games—the first nine points of his collegiate career.
 
*After being shut out in Penn's last two games, senior Griffin Scane scored once and assisted another on Friday.
 
*Penn's other goal scorers were Jackson Maher, Anthony McMullan, Travis Smith and sophomore Paul vanBastelaar whose goal was his first as a collegian.
 
*In a return to Long Island, freshman faceoff man Quinn Ball went 20-8 (.714) on the X on Friday night.
 
*Dante Vardaro, another Long Island standout for the Quakers, led the defense with two caused turnovers and added three ground balls.
 
*Sophomore goalie Jack Pelot stopped 10 shots on Friday night.
 
How It Happened
Goals were hard to come by in the first quarter. UMass finally opened the scoring more than nine minutes in, and it wasn't until less than two minutes remained that McClements opened Penn's account. Provost scored just 47 seconds later, and the Quakers held a 2-1 lead after one.
 
Penn poured it on quickly in the second. Scane scored unassisted just 37 seconds in, and then vanBastelaar finished a Provost feed two minutes later. McClements and Beacham then scored 67 seconds apart, and the Quakers had reeled off six goals in a span of 7:01 on the way to a 6-1 lead.
 
UMass responded. Dylan Johnson scored twice in a 40-second span, giving him a hat trick on the night, and then Jack Turowsky made it a two-goal game off a Zach Auble feed. Provost had the answer, though, scoring with 2:34 left in the half and then draining another right at the buzzer. That left Penn doubling up UMass at the break, 8-4.
 
Beacham was the feeder on the first two goals in the second half, Martin scoring the first and then Smith converting in an extra-man situation. That had Penn up 10-4 less than three minutes into the period. However, the Minutemen came back with the next three goals and four of the next five, Maher's unassisted effort the only thing that broke the streak. The Quakers' lead was 11-8 after three.
 
Penn kept UMass at bay in the fourth, Martin going low to high off a skip pass from McClements and then McMullan sniping a feed from Provost in transition shortly after UMass had gotten back within three. The Minutemen scored two more times after that, getting it to 13-11, but Penn kept control the rest of the way.
 
Up Next
Penn is in scoreboard-watching mode tomorrow, waiting on the results of two Ivy League games that start at noon: Harvard at Cornell, and Yale at Brown. The Quakers need the Crimson and Bears to win those games; in all other scenarios, the four teams that qualify for the tournament will be Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Yale.
 
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