Boxscore

Philadelphia - The Dartmouth women's soccer team traveled to Penn poised to stay tied atop the Ivy standings but the Quakers had other ideas, sending the Big Green home with a 5-1 loss.

There was plenty of buildup to the contest, which was rescheduled to this evening from Saturday evening due to excessive rain and snow in the Philadelphia area. The site of the game, Penn's grass Rhodes Field was not even determined until after noon today.

Dartmouth drops to an even 6-6 overall, 2-2 in Ivy play while Penn improves to 8-3-2, 2-2 Ivy.

Penn senior Jessica Fuccello proved why she is the Ivy League's leading scorer with a hat trick, tallying all three goals in the first half. It was first half offense for Penn, which led 4-1 at halftime, and second half defense, as goalkeeper Caroline Williams made six saves. Dartmouth did all it could in the second, peppering Penn with 14 second half shots but could not break through. Overall the Big Green held a 19-12 shot advantage.

The five goals allowed were the most by a Dartmouth team since the 2003 squad lost 5-0 to Florida State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Under head coach Angie Hind, since 2005, Dartmouth had allowed four goals in a game just once.

The Quakers used a first half flurry to take an early 2-0 lead less than 10 minutes into the game, with Fuccello scoring in the eighth and tenth minutes. The first came from 30 yards out off a free kick that bounced in off the post and the second a misplayed ball by keeper Colleen Hogan (Houston, Texas) after a Penn corner kick.

Dartmouth managed to slow the rush in the 17^th minute when senior Myra Sack (Wynnewood, Pa.) tallied her second goal of the season off a feed from classmate Ali Hubbard (Marshfield, Mass.) after a corner kick. The 2-1 deficit seemed much more manageable for the Big Green, but it would be short-lived as Penn's Yvonne Moyer scored off a thru ball from Fuccello in the 22^nd minute to go up 3-1.

Penn again capitalized off the restart, scoring its fourth goal just three minutes later, this time with Moyer assisting Fuccello to take the 4-1 lead.

The Big Green only got two more shots in the half, both from Kelsey Quick (Bernardsville, N.J.) while Dartmouth's Hogan made two saves down the stretch to keep the Quakers from adding to their lead. Penn held an 8-5 shot advantage in the first half.

Dartmouth pressured Penn from the start in the second half, getting three good looks in the first nine minutes including an attempt by Aly O'Dea (Irvine, Calif.) that was saved by Williams in the 54^th minute. The Big Green was relentless in its attack, but Williams continued to come up big, at one point making three saves in five minutes on offerings from Becky Poskin (Leawood, Kan.), Hubbard and Quick.

Penn took just its second shot of the half in the 72^nd minute, saved by Hogan. Dartmouth moved to an attacking formation in the final 15 minutes and Penn capitalized, scoring a fifth goal in the 81^st as Michelle Drugan scored off a long ball.

The Big Green kept shooting until the end with O'Dea taking two late shots and Williams making two more saves off Poskin and sophomore Erin Fleischli (San Mateo, Calif.) in the final two minutes.

Williams, Penn's traditional starter, and starting keeper Gina Winters, who did not make a save, combined for the win. Hogan made four stops for Dartmouth.

It's now a very tight turnaround for the Big Green, which returns home tonight and hosts Vermont this Tuesday night, Oct. 20 at 6 p.m.