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Press Conference with Jenny Graap and Kate Ivory

PHILADELPHIA – The Big Red women's lacrosse team came back from a seven-goal deficit to force overtime last time it played at Penn in March, but the magic was not there on Friday night in the Ivy League Tournament.
 
The top-seeded Quakers built a four-goal lead in the first half and only extended in the second, pulling away for a 10-5 victory over the fourth-seeded Big Red at Franklin Field.

Cornell (10-6) will now await the NCAA selection show on Sunday night while Penn (10-5) advances to Sunday's Ivy League Tournament Championship Game against Dartmouth.
 
“We battled against a very talented Penn team, and I felt like we were just a little bit off in our shooting,” Cornell coach Jenny Graap said. “Our defense played really well, and we battled pretty evenly on the draw control.”
 
Senior Caroline Salisbury and junior Rachel Moody had two goals apiece, and Kelly Lang also scored for the Big Red.
 
Senior Courtney Gallagher had a tremendous game in net, making a career-high 13 saves to keep the contest close early. Her previous career high of nine came twice earlier this season.
 
Back in March, the Big Red trailed Penn 10-3 at halftime and was down 11-4 early in the second half but scored the next seven goals to force overtime. Cornell faced a less daunting deficit entering the second half on Saturday, trailing 6-2 after 30 minutes. But instead of catching up in the second half, the Big Red fell further behind as the Quakers went ahead by as many as six.
 
“We knew as a team that we could come back, and we definitely came in really hungry in the second half,” senior defender Kate Ivory said. “But I also think Penn knew that we were the team that can come back, so they came into the second half just as hard as we did.”
 
Penn wound up with a narrow 10-7 advantage in draw controls on the night and an equally narrow 13-10 edge in ground balls. Cornell was 0 for 8 on its free position shots, though, while the Quakers converted on two of its six free position chances.
 
Salisbury had her second goal of the night three minutes into the second half, but Penn tallied the next three over the next 15 minutes to distance themselves on the scoreboard while also draining the clock.
 
Salisbury got the action started for Cornell, scoring just 2:23 into the game with a bouncing shot from the right side of the fan.
 
The Quakers got the next three goals of the night. Meredith Cain scored on a free position shot from the center hash, Tory Bensen struck with 17:25 left in the half and Courtney Tomchik got through the middle of the Big Red defense to make it 3-1.
 
Moody broke up the three-goal Quakers run with 10:29 left in the first half. The junior took a pass from Toppe, and she immediately turned and fired far past Penn goalie Lucy Ferguson to make it a one-goal game.

That would be as close as the Big Red got the rest of the night, though.
 
Sixty-five seconds later, though, Cain took a pass from Caroline Bunting and beat Gallagher to bring Penn's lead back to two. Cain completed her quick hat trick 33 seconds after that to make it 5-2. A Sarah Hefner three-second violation gave Penn a free position shot a minute later, and Shannon Mangini made the most of the opportunity to bring the score up to 6-2 for the home team. The Quakers took that four-goal lead into halftime.
 
Claire MacManus took a yellow card one minute into the second half, giving Penn a great chance to go up by five. But the Big Red forced two turnovers and did not allow a goal during the two-minute advantage, and the team scored soon after regaining even strength. Salisbury got her second of the game from the right side of the fan, beating Ferguson in a similar manner to her first goal of the game with four minutes gone in the half.
 
The Quakers re-gained their four-goal lead with 20 minutes left in the half when Bunting had a tough-angle shot from the right side. Mangini got her second of the night 90 seconds later to give Penn its largest lead of the night and force a Big Red timeout. Penn scored the next goal as well, though, sand went up 9-3 at that point.
 
Moody tallied her second goal of the game and 20th of the season with under nine minutes remaining to cut the Quakers' lead to five goals, but Penn won the ensuing draw control and scored within a minute to go back ahead 10-4 and seal the victory.
 
Lang added a late goal for the Big Red, scoring with 2:56 left in the contest from close range.
 
Cornell now awaits its NCAA Tournament fate. The NCAA selection show, which airs live on NCAA.com on Sunday, will announce the field of 26 teams for the national tournament. Cornell will be hoping to earn one of 13 at-large selections to the field.