Box Score PHILADELPHIA – Down by seven goals early in the second half at Penn, the Big Red women's lacrosse team was not ready to call it quits.
 
Instead, on the tail end of an eight-day road trip, the Big Red rallied for an incredible seven consecutive goals to tie the contest with 1:22 left and force overtime. The Quakers scored the only goal of the extra period, though, and came away with a 12-11 victory at Franklin Field.
 
Each team had a seven goal run in the game, with Penn's coming early in the first half. The game was tied at 1-1, but the Quakers took an 8-1 lead after that and went into halftime up 10-3.
 
No. 10 Cornell (6-2, 2-1 Ivy League) regrouped in the second period, stunning the home crowd by rallying for seven consecutive goals against Penn (4-3, 3-0). Lindsay Toppe led Cornell with four, and Amanda D'Amico and Caroline Salisbury had two goals apiece to help the comeback effort.

Also instrumental in the dramatic reversal was goalie Carly Gniewek, who relieved started Courtney Gallagher with five minutes left in the first half. Gniewek made seven total saves to keep Cornell in the contest and allow just one Penn goal in the second half.

The Quakers scored with 26 minutes remaining in the second half, but they never struck again until the game-winner in overtime. Cornell had possession of the ball late in the second half, but a shot by Salisbury with five seconds left went wide to send the game to the extra period.
 
In overtime, Cornell again won the draw control. Toppe had a great chance on goal and hit the post, but the referees gave her a yellow card for a dangerous follow-through on her shot. With the extra player opportunity, Penn converted when Shannon Mangini put one in the back of the net with just 10 seconds left in the first half of overtime.
 
Cornell again had chances in the second overtime to tie the game and force a second overtime, but a Salisbury shot hit the side netting, and the Quakers cleared the ball away with 15 seconds left. Still, the Big Red forced a turnover and had one last frantic chance on net. Time expired, though, before Cornell was able to get off a shot.
 
Penn claims its seventh consecutive win over the Big Red and also takes over first place in the Ivy League. Cornell suffers its second straight one-goal loss in heartbreaking fashion after dropping an 11-10 game at No. 3 North Carolina on Wednesday.


In the early going, Sunday's game did not look like it was going to be close.
 
The first half saw Cornell lose 11 of 14 draw controls and the Quakers capitalize on their enormous possession advantage. With the game tied at 1-1, Penn won the next eight draw controls and extended its lead to 8-2 in that span.
 
The Big Red got an early goal from Salisbury just three minutes into the game on a free position attempt, but that was the team's only score until freshman Maddie Kiep broke a 7-0 Quakers run with 7:42 left in the half. Toppe had a man-up goal 80 seconds later to bring the game back within five, but the Quakers closed out the half with two more goals to return their lead to seven.
 
Cornell now has five days off before its next contest, a home game at Schoellkopf Field against Princeton on Saturday. The Big Red and Tigers will begin their game at 3 p.m.