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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Penn's Zack Losco scored the final four goals of the contest, including the game-winner with 50 seconds to play, to help the Quakers to an 11-10 win over No. 11 Cornell in the first semifinal of the Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Tournament this evening at Harvard Stadium. The victory ended the Big Red's eight-game winning streak over Penn and advanced the Quakers into the championship game on Sunday where it will face the winner of the Harvard-Yale game.
 
Losco's four-goal performance in the fourth completely erased all the momentum that Cornell had built when it went on a 6-0 scoring run and held the Quakers scoreless for the entire third quarter to build a 10-7 lead heading into the final stanza.
 
"It was a heck of a game," said interim head coach Matt Kerwick. "It's too bad we had to come out on the wrong end but a lot of credit goes to Penn. We knew to be successful we needed to win the face-up, man-up, and man-down situations, and they won all of those stats."
 
Cornell (11-4) was led by Matt Donovan with three goals and three assists, while Dan Lintner tallied three goals and one assist. Cornnor Buczek finished with two points (one goal, one assist) to become just the 14th midfielder in Big Red history to register 100 career points. Joe Paoletta was the only other multi-point scorer for Cornell with two goals.
 
The Big Red will now wait to learn of its NCAA fate when the bracket is announced on Sunday at 9 p.m.
 
"It's out of our hands now," said Kerwick. "But we have a great group of young men and we hope we get another shot to play again."
 
Losco finished with a career-high six points on five goals and one assist, while Pat Berkery and Drew Belinsky added two goals and two assists, respectively, to lead the Quakers.
 
Penn (10-3), winners of seven games in a row, held the edge in shots (35-29), ground balls (40-32) and face-offs (14-of-25). They scored on 3-of-5 extra-man chances and held the Big Red to just a 1-of-4 performance.
 
In goal, Brian Feeney made nine saves, while Christian Knight, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, stopped seven for the Big Red.
 
The action was back and forth in the first period, with Lintner getting the first goal of the day when an errant pass bounced off the back of the Feeney's stick and into the goal. Consecutive goals from Losco and Berkery gave the Quakers its first lead of the day at the 7:35 mark.
 
Cornell knotted the game at 2-2 when Buczek split a double-team and found John Edmonds on the crease for a man-down goal. Penn notched the final two goals of the quarter, including its second man-up goal of the game off a shot by Kevin Brown, to take the 4-2 lead into the first break.
 
Donovan drew first blood in the second period with a turnaround jump-shot but Jeff Puckette answered with a goal on the doorstop off a beautiful feed from Belinsky. Penn made it two in a row with a goal by Nick Doktor on a great individual effort to go up, 6-3.
 
Paoletta ended the Quaker run when Donovan found him cutting to the goal but Danny Feeney won the restart and went straight to the goal to return the three-goal advantage to Penn (7-4) with 1:37 to go in the half.
 
Lintner had the goal of the game, and started a 6-0 run, when he rolled around the cage, took a pass from Donovan, and blistered a behind-the-back shot into the net with 11 seconds remaining in the half to make it a 7-5 game at the intermission.
 
Buczek registered the 100th point of his career with the first goal of the third quarter with a blistering shot from the right alley. Moments later, Paoletta knotted the game before Donovan scored back-to-back goals to give Cornell its first lead since 1-0, going up, 9-7, at the 8:15 mark.
 
A pair of penalties put the Big Red two-men down, but a huge save from Knight sent the ball the other way and Lintner electrified the audience with another behind-the-back goal to make it 10-7 entering the final break.
 
Losco ended a 17:40 Penn scoring drought in the opening moments of the fourth quarter and never looked back, leading his team to the 11-10 victory.