PHILADELPHIA – After 38 minutes of back-and-forth action, the Big Red men's lacrosse team closed the game on a 9-2 run to down No. 15 Penn, 20-13, on Adams Field this afternoon in Philadelphia. The win snapped a two-game skid by Cornell vs. the Quakers and improved the Big Red to 4-3 overall and 1-1 in Ivy League play. Jeff Teat lead all scorers with six goals and two assists, while midfielder Jake McCulloch finished with a career-high eight points on five goals and three assists. Altogether, 11 different Big Red registered at least one point, with Clarke Petterson (three goals, one assist), Jordan Dowiak (one goal, one assist), Connor Fletcher (one goal, two assists), and Jonathan Donville (one goal, two assists) all posting multi-point games. Penn (5-4, 1-1 Ivy) was led by Simon Mathias with four goals and one assist, while Tyler Dunn chipped in three goals and one assist. Goalie Reed Junkin kept the Quakers in the game early, with five of his 10 saves coming in the first quarter, but the Big Red seemed to figure the junior netminder out as he made two saves in the second and third quarters, and just one save in the final stanza. Cornell held the significant advantage in shots (46-24), shots on goal (30-19) and ground balls (31-20), while Paul Rasimowicz had an outstanding outing, winning 21-of-36 face-offs (.583). Both teams were solid on the clear, with the Big Red going a perfect 10-of-10, while Penn was 9-of-10. Overall it was a clean game by both teams, with just six Cornell turnovers to 10 Quaker miscues. Cornell netted 2-of-3 man-up chances and its defense did not get called for a single penalty. Behind the defense Christian Knight made three saves in the first half before giving way to sophomore Caelahn Bullen, who also made three saves and allowed just three goals to earn his first career victory. Penn scored just one minute into the game, but three unanswered goals by the Big Red, including two long-range tallies by McCulloch, put the visitors up, 3-1. A goal by Mathias ended the Cornell run and the Quakers used the momentum to knot the game at 4-4 at the end of the first quarter. Teat opened the scoring in the second quarter and once again Cornell pushed its lead to two goals (7-5) on a tallt from Petterson at the 5:48 mark. Penn had the answer, with four straight goals to take its first lead (9-7) since the opening moments of the contest. The Big Red pulled within one-goal twice (9-8; 10-9) but each time the Quakers responded, taking an 11-9 lead with 9:02 to play in the third. The decisive run began just moments later with a great individual effort goal by Teat, who took the ball down the right alley, rolled back to his left, then quickly rolled back to his right and beat Junkin from close range. Cornell won the restart on a Penn violation and just over a minute later knotted the game at 11 when McCulloch picked up a loose ball on the crease and quickly converted. The visitors tacked on three more, including a shot-clock goal, to take the 14-11 lead into the final break. Penn stopped the 5-0 run with a goal early in the fourth quarter, but back-to-back man-up goals pushed Cornell's lead to 16-12, before the Quakers scored its final goal of the game with 5:20 to go in the contest. The visitors put an exclamation point on the victory with the final four goals of the contest, including the first goal of the season by sophomore defenseman Brandon Salvatore. NOTES TO KNOW * The 20 goals are the most for the Big Red this season. * The 20 goals scored were the most for Cornell against Penn since beating the Quakers, 21-11, during the 2009 season. * Today's game is just the third time Cornell has scored 20 goals vs. Penn (2007, 2009). * The seven-goal margin of victory is more than the combined margin of victory in the last four meetings between Penn and Cornell (6 goals). * Paul Rasimowicz won a career-high 21 faceoffs. * Cornell's man-down defense has held its last four opponents without a man-up goal. * The win is the first on an opponent's field this season, as Cornell is 2-1 on Schoellkopf and 1-0 at a neutral site. UP NEXT The Big Red returns to Ithaca for a mid-week game against Air Force on Tuesday, March 27 at 5 p.m. Cornell will square off with the Falcons for just the second time in program history. The only other meeting, a 9-6 Big Red victory, took place in the 1968 season-opener in Boca Raton, Fla.