PHILADELPHIA – The Lafayette men's basketball team ran into a complete unit at the Palestra on Tuesday evening as defending Ivy League champion Penn defeated the Leopards by a score of 91-61.

The Leopards hung tough through the opening half, coming back from an early deficit to tie the game at 19 with less than eight minutes to play. However, Penn closed the stanza on a 25-8 run to take a 44-27 lead into the break and never looked back, improving to 3-0 on the year and sending Lafayette to 1-2 in its early season.

Sophomore Dylan Hastings was a bright spot for the Maroon and White, scoring a career-high 12 points and adding three blocks with four rebounds as one of two double-figure scorers on the night. Junior Kyle Stout was the other, connecting on 3-of-4 from distance on his way to 13 points, now hitting three's at a 63.2 percent clip, tops in the Patriot League (12-of-19 through three games).

Penn featured four double-figure scorers, led by a game-high 16 points from Devon Goodman. The Leopards shot the ball well overall at 50.0 percent from the field (26-of-52), but committed 18 turnovers and ran into a Quakers side that connected on 35-of-61 from the floor overall (57.4%) and 13-of-29 from three-point range (44.8%).

The game started slowly from both sides as Goodman's triple at 16:38 sent the game to the first break with the home side in front, 5-2. Penn's 9-0 run at the 14-minute mark opened it up and forced a Lafayette timeout with the lead ballooning to 11, 17-6.

Lafayette stormed back and answered with an 11-0 run of its own to tie it at 17 and send the game into the under-eight media timeout knotted at 19-19. Another run from Penn was the response as 13 of the next 16 went to the Quakers with back-to-back triples from Jarrod Simmons and Goodman putting the lead at 10, 32-22, with 3:26 to play in the opening half. That momentum continued through the end of the period as the Quakers finished the final 1:58 with seven of the last nine to take a 44-27 lead into the intermission.

Penn came out of the locker room and picked right up where it left off, moving the advantage to 21 after three minutes, 51-30. The Leopard offense continued to struggle toward the midway point of the second stanza as Jaworski's three with 12:19 remaining put the deficit at 27, 65-38.

Lafayette finally put together a good stretch from the nine- to seven-minute marks, scoring nine straight and forcing a Penn timeout with the score at 72-49. That was the lone bright spot in a tough second half, though, as the Quakers finished it out with a final of 91-61.

With the three-game season-opening road trip coming to an end, Lafayette will finally open its home season at Kirby Sports Center in its next time out. The Leopards will host St. Francis Brooklyn on Sunday with tip-off slated for 2 p.m.