NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The last two teams that are unbeaten in Ivy League play meet Saturday in Philadelphia as the No. 13 Yale women's lacrosse team visits No. 22 Penn (1:00 p.m.,
ESPN+,
International Stream,
Live Stats). Yale is 3-0 in league games and Penn is 2-0. This is the first of four straight league games to end the regular season for the Bulldogs – and three of them are on the road. Penn's last Ivy League loss at home was 9-8 to Harvard Mar. 5, 2022.
Last Game
Yale
handed No. 14 Army its first loss of the season Tuesday night at West Point, edging the Black Knights 14-13. The Bulldogs trailed 10-8 in the third before rallying, taking the lead for good on a goal by junior attacker
Bri Carrasquillo (Alpharetta, Ga.) with 7:56 left. A save by sophomore goalkeeper
Cami Donadio (Winter Park, Fla.) with a minute to play sealed the win.
A Pair of Pennsylvanians
Yale's roster has two Keystone State natives. Senior goalkeeper
Clare Boone (Stewartstown, Pa.) has appeared in six games this season, all starts, and has a .403 save percentage. She is a graduate of St. Paul's School for Girls. Sophomore attacker
Caroline Burt (Newtown Square, Pa.) has appeared in 11 games, including four starts. She has four goals and two assists. She is a graduate of Episcopal Academy.
Penoyer Owns Yale Career Assists Record
With four assists last Saturday at Brown, senior attacker
Olivia Penoyer (Manlius, N.Y.) has set the Yale career assists record. Here are the top five:
Olivia Penoyer (91)
Laura Karmatz '95 (86)
Erin Porta '99 (78)
Sarah Queener '03 (66)
Nicole Piasecki '84 (66)
Penoyer had 37 assists last season, six shy of Karmatz' single-season school record (set in 1994). She leads the league in assists this season with 25, putting her on pace for 34 in the regular season.
Fallon Vaughn a Midseason All-American
Sophomore midfielder
Fallon Vaughn (Concord, Mass.) joined sophomore attacker
Jenna Collignon (Hinsdale, Ill.) to give Yale two
Honorable Mention ILWomen Midseason All-Americans. Vaughn is tied for fourth in the Ivy League in caused turnovers (13) and is second on the Yale team in goals (25), having scored at least three goals in each of the last six games. She is third on the team in points with 35.
Collignon Earns Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week for Fourth Time
Sophomore attacker
Jenna Collignon (Hinsdale, Ill.) earned the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week award for the fourth time Monday. She had four goals and three assists, tying her career high in points, in the 18-6 win at Brown Saturday. Collignon has been
named to the Tewaaraton Award Women's Watch List and was an
Honorable Mention ILWomen Midseason All-American. She leads the Ivy League in goals (36) and points (44). She has an 18 game point-scoring streak dating back to last season. The last time she was held without a point was Mar. 13, 2022 at Boston College.
Around the Ivy League
Penn (2-0) and Yale (3-0) enter the weekend as the only teams unbeaten in Ivy League play; Brown (2-1), Cornell (2-1) and No. 18 Princeton (1-1) are the teams with one loss. The Quakers and Tigers, having played one less game than all the other Ivies, will catch up on Wednesday Apr. 19 when Penn hosts Princeton.
Here is a look at the league slate for the weekend:
Saturday
- 1:00 p.m. No. 13 Yale at No. 22 Penn
- 1:00 p.m. Brown at Dartmouth
- 1:00 p.m. Harvard at Cornell
- 3:30 p.m. Columbia at No. 18 Princeton
Bracketology
With Yale the only Ivy League team at 3-0, the Bulldogs were recently
picked by USA Lacrosse Magazine to earn the league's automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament. No other Ivy League team was projected to make the tournament, which includes 15 automatic berths and 14 at-large berths. Princeton was listed as one of the last four teams out.
Scouting Penn
Penn (6-4, 2-0 Ivy League) is 1-4 against nationally ranked opponents this season, with a 13-12 OT win vs. then-No. 16 Johns Hopkins Feb. 25. The Quakers' two Ivy League wins have come at Columbia (17-7) and at Harvard (16-13). Yale's
11-10 win last year vs. Penn at Reese Stadium snapped a 15 game winning streak for the Quakers in the series.
