{"id":187578,"date":"2026-03-11T18:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187578\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:57:08","slug":"womens-lax-drops-ranked-battle-at-6-florida-18-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187578\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Lax Drops Ranked Battle at #6 Florida, 18-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The University of Pennsylvania women&#8217;s lacrosse team continued its first road trip of the season, falling 18-9 at #6 Florida on Wednesday afternoon.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThough sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/lela-greene\/25087\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25087\" target=\"_blank\">Lela Greene<\/a> netted her first hat trick of the season, #6 Florida scored ten unanswered goals to create a deficit too deep for Penn to overcome, taking the game 18-9.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nQuaker Notemeal<br \/>\n*Midfielder Greene tallied a season-high three points off her hat trick.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n*<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/regan-o-brien\/25093\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25093\" target=\"_blank\">Regan O&#8217;Brien<\/a> netted a pair, <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/catherine-berkery\/25081\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25081\" target=\"_blank\">Catherine Berkery<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/avery-le\/25548\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25548\" target=\"_blank\">Avery Le<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/eden-welch\/25097\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25097\" target=\"_blank\">Eden Welch<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/mae-zaremba\/25099\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25099\" target=\"_blank\">Mae Zaremba<\/a> scored the Quakers&#8217; other goals in contest.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n*Le&#8217;s tally marked the first of her collegiate career.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n*<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/maggie-bankowski\/25080\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25080\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie Bankowski<\/a> led the X for Penn, winning five draw controls.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n*Goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-lacrosse\/roster\/orly-sedransk\/25095\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25095\" target=\"_blank\">Orly Sedransk<\/a> recorded 14 stops in the battle.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHow It Happened<br \/>\nThe back-and-forth scoring started three minutes in, with junior Welch and Florida&#8217;s Hamilton Clark scoring within 16 seconds of each other. Florida took its first and only lead of the first half with seven minutes left of the opening quarter. Junior O&#8217;Brien closed out the first with back-to-back goals to give the Quakers a 3-2 lead.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Gators opened the second, tying the game up at three off Gabbi Koury&#8217;s first tally of the season. The Red and Blue exploded after Koury&#8217;s goal, netting four straight goals courtesy of Zaremba, Le, Berkery, and Greene to push Penn ahead 7-3 with 7:19 left of the half. Florida slashed the Quakers&#8217; run four minutes later, followed by back-to-back player-up goals to put the game at 7-6 at the break.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFlorida continued to apply pressure to open the second half, as Kaitlyn Davies scored ten seconds into the quarter, trailed by another goal a minute later from Caroline Hoskins to give the Gators their first lead since the opening quarter. Midfielder Green netted Penn&#8217;s only goal of the quarter two minutes in, as Florida scored five unanswered goals to end the quarter leading 13-8.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe final 15 minutes of action continued to stay in the Gators&#8217; favor as they continued their goal-scoring run with five more goals to lead by ten with 3:45 left of the period. Sophomore Greene completed her first hat trick of the year to cut the run, but it was too late for a Quaker comeback as the Gators took the battle 18-9.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUp Next<br \/>\nThe Quakers (2-4, 1-0 Ivy League) close out their road trip at the USA Lacrosse Headquarters on Sunday, March 15, playing host to #22 Georgetown at 1 p.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n#FightOnPenn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The University of Pennsylvania women&#8217;s lacrosse team continued its first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-187578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}