W. Lax NCAA Tournament 1st round: Penn 16 Colgate 7 FINAL

FINAL PENN 16 COLGATE 7

Even though Colgate scored the last goal, the Quakers are the one advancing. Next Saturday the Quakers will face Boston University although the game will be held at Drexel's stadium due to graduation festivities at Franklin Field.

A full recap will appear later today on the Buzz.

1:03 Penn 16 Colgate 7

Colgate still isn't giving up, as they now have a higher total than Penn's average goals allowed per game (6.00).

1:32 Penn 16 Colgate 6

Seaman gets her second off of classmate Meg Smith's pass. The goal now makes this game Penn's highest scoring of the season.

3:04 Penn 15 Colgate 6

With the game well in hand, the Quakers are subbing out most of their starters and giving some valuable tournament experience to the underclassmen. However, this lack of the Quakers' top tier talent leads to a Colgate goal.

10:50 Penn 15 Colgate 5

Penn reextends its lead to 10, causing the clock to keep running due to the mercy rule, as Spiro gets her second goal of the game.

16:54 Penn 14 Colgate 5 Colgate finally answers back, as Colleen Bubnack gets her second of the game.

18:00 Penn 14 Colgate 4

DeLuca get a crisp pass from junior Hannah Rudloff and the sophomore earns her third goal of the game. 20:18 Penn 13 Colgate 4

Less than a minute later sophomore Barb Seaman off of sophomore Courtney Lube's pass streaks into the crease and fires a shot past Drexler.

20:51 Penn 12 Colgate 4

Spiro gets fouled and then on the ensuing free position shot nails in a goal. Penn also scored around the 22 minute mark.

HALFTIME

The Quakers were definitely in control in the first half, although when Colgate had the ball they did pretty well. In fact, Waxman only got two saves, whereas Drexler got six. Although of course Waxman has let up four goals vs ten.

And the winner of this game will get Boston University. The Terriers beat New Hampshire 16-8. Looking at the other scores, No. 3 Maryland is leading Temple 8-5 at half. North Carolina is half way to an upset, leading No. 4 Virginia 6-3. And finally No. 8 Princeton is tied at six with Vanderbilt.

The crowd here at Franklin Field isn't as large as it has been this year, as the Northwestern game clearly had a larger and more vocal crowd. In fact the Penn parents, normally quite vocal aren't too loud today. Maybe that's because their vocal and emotional leader, Mrs. Kym the security guard only just appeared.

Despite the slightly smaller numbers, there are a couple of Penn Athletics "bigshots" in attendance, including AD Steve Bilsky and women's basketball coach Pat Knapp. However they're not sitting next to each other. Interesting...

0:00 Penn 10 Colgate 4

Colgate got a couple of late chances to cut the lead down, but Penn goalkeeper Sarah Waxman made two key saves.

1:20 Penn 10 Colgate 4

Ambrozy gets her first goal of the game as Manson increases her point total with an assist.

7:09 Penn 9 Colgate 4 Penn's four-goal run ends with Molly Carroll's first goal for the Raiders. 8:06 Penn 9 Colgate 3

Lehman gets a nice pass from Giordano and rips off a shot. Colgate goalkeeper Sara Drexler knocks it down, but it still trickles into the goal.

12:04 Penn 8 Colgate 3

The Quakers keep increasing its lead off a free position goal by DeLuca. She had picked off a pass around midfield, sprinted to the Raiders' goal, yet got fouled before she could shoot.

14:22 Penn 7 Colgate 3

Penn takes a four goal lead after some crisp passing from senior Chelsea Kocis allowed Manson to rip a shot to the upper left corner for a hat trick.

17: 25 Penn 6 Colgate 3

But just as Colgate refuses to go away, Penn refuses to let them come back. Freshman Giordano makes sure of that by getting a feed from sophomore Emma Spiro. It came after a Kaitlyn Lombardo shot ricocheted off the post.

20:10 Penn 5 Colgate 3

Colgate gets another tally, as they refuse to be put away. I should add that there is a sizable Colgate crowd here today, many of whom are more vocal than the Penn supporters.

22:24 Penn 5 Colgate 2

Penn increases its lead back to three off of Manson's second goal.

24:01 Penn 4 Colgate 2

Another minute goes by and Colgate gets its second of the game. Clearly this is going to be a high scoring affair.

25:02 Penn 4 Colgate 1

Penn rebounds from the Colgate goal with a tally of its own from sophomore Ali DeLuca.

26:13 Penn 3 Colgate 1

But then 18 seconds later Colgate takes the ball off the draw, drives down field and scores its first goal. Clearly when the Raiders have the ball they're still potent.

26:31 Penn 3 Colgate 0

Then thirty seconds later senior Melissa Lehman gets a feed of off classmate Manson and the Quakers are up by three still earlier.

27:00 Penn 2 Colgate 0

Freshman Guilia Giordano gets a feed off of senior Allison Ambrozy for the Quakers' second goal

First Half 29:30 left Penn 1 Colgate 0

And just like that Penn is already in the lead. The Quakers took the opening draw, and after almost losing possession senior Rachel Manson got the ball, cut across the crease from the left side and ripped a shot that gave the Quakers quite the early lead.

Welcome to Franklin Field on this gray May day. The Colgate Raiders (11-9) come to town to take on the No. 2 seed Quakers (14-1, 7-0 Ivy League) in the first round of the NCAA tournament. I'll be providing game updates, although as this is an NCAA championship event I'm limited on how often I can blog. So I'll post my updates roughly every five minutes (written in bold) even though I'll give the time designation for all the goals.

The Raiders come into this matchup on a four game winning streak, including wins over American to win the Patriot League championship and over MAAC champion Marist in the NCAA play-in game.

The Quakers meanwhile, are on the nation's second longest win streak at 12 games, having gone undefeated since a March 9 loss@ Stanford. During the streak the Quakers rose to No. 1 in the nation after beating then-undefeated No. 1 Northwestern.

The winner of this game will get the winner of No. 7 Boston University (who owns the nation's longest win streak) and New Hampshire.