{"id":120108,"date":"2026-02-21T22:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120108\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:39:13","slug":"mens-lacrosse-overwhelms-delaware-14-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120108\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Lacrosse Overwhelms Delaware, 14-6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tStory Links&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n   &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UNC.png\" alt=\"North Carolina\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> North Carolina<\/p>\n<p>2\/27\/2026 | 5:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        ESPN+  &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Feb. 27 (Fri) \/ 5:00 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UNC.png\" alt=\"North Carolina\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0North Carolina&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/opponent-history\/north-carolina\/108\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    PHILADELPHIA \u2013 The University of Pennsylvania men&#8217;s lacrosse team completed a solid week of action with a 14-6 win over the University of Delaware Saturday at Franklin Field.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPenn won for the second time this week, posting 29 goals in the process, in improving to 2-1 overall. The Blue Hens fell to 1-3 on the young season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nQuaker Notemeal<br \/>\n*Penn had a massive advantage on the shot chart (57-37) and on faceoffs (19-5) on Saturday against the Hens. Of particular note, senior <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/mac-eldridge\/24876\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24876\" target=\"_blank\">Mac Eldridge<\/a> was the hot hand on the X, winning 17 of his 19 faceoffs on the day.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n*Five different players scored multiple goals, led by senior <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/griffin-scane\/24902\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24902\" target=\"_blank\">Griffin Scane<\/a> and junior <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/davis-provost\/24899\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24899\" target=\"_blank\">Davis Provost<\/a> who had three apiece. Provost also had an assist.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n*Sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/nate-lucchesi\/24884\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24884\" target=\"_blank\">Nate Lucchesi<\/a> scored twice and dished out three assists for a game-high five points.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n*Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/jackson-maher\/25538\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25538\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Maher<\/a> had two goals and two assists on Saturday, giving him nine points for the week.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n*Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/grayson-mcclements\/24888\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24888\" target=\"_blank\">Grayson McClements<\/a> also had two goals, after entering the game with one for his collegiate career.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n*Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/leo-hoffman\/24882\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24882\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Hoffman<\/a> also had three assists on Saturday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n*Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/ben-beacham\/24871\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24871\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Beacham<\/a> finished the day with three points, scoring once and adding two assists.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n*Sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/pearse-macdonald\/24885\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24885\" target=\"_blank\">Pearse MacDonald<\/a> scored his first collegiate goal.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n*At the other end, three was the magic number for goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/jack-pelot\/24898\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24898\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Pelot<\/a>\u2014in his third appearance for Penn, the sophomore made 16 saves while allowing just the six goals, a stunning .727 save percentage.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n*John McCurry was Delaware&#8217;s only multi-goal scorer on Saturday, with two. No other player had more than one point for the Hens.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHow It Happened<br \/>\nThis will appear later today.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUp Next<br \/>\nPenn is back at home for a pair of games next weekend, hosting No. 5 North Carolina on Friday at 5 p.m. and top-ranked Syracuse on Sunday at noon. Sunday&#8217;s game against the Orange will air in the Philadelphia region on NBC Sports Philadelphia+ in addition to its national reach on ESPN+.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor the latest on Penn men&#8217;s lacrosse, follow @PennMensLax on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram, and on the web at PennAthletics.com.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>#FightOnPenn<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: North Carolina 2\/27\/2026 | 5:00&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-120108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}