PHILADELPHIA (Interstat) — Lehigh defeated Penn 20-7 on Saturday at Franklin Field in Philadelphia in an NCAA Football Championship Division game. The Mountain Hawks scored three points in the first quarter, 14 in the second quarter and three in the third quarter. Penn scored all seven of its points in the third quarter. Lehigh improved to 5-0, while Penn dropped to 1-1. Connor Poole made a 48-yard field goal with 1:47 remaining in the first quarter. He missed a 44-yard attempt with 5:01 remaining in the fourth quarter. Lehigh’s defense kept the Quakers off the scoreboard in the fourth quarter to preserve the win.

Penn quarterback Miles Teodecki, a 6-foot-3, 215-pound player from Austin, Texas, completed 18 of 37 passes for 133 yards. Lehigh quarterback Derek Morgan, a 6-foot-1, 190-pound player from Goddard, Kansas, completed 6 of 15 passes for 49 yards and a touchdown and ran seven times for 31 yards and another touchdown. Penn’s Joey Holliday recorded three tackles and two sacks. Penn running back Sean Williams Jr., a 5-foot-10, 195-pound player from Baltimore, Maryland, carried six times for 18 yards. Donte West, a 5-foot-11, 200-pound Penn running back from Forestville, Maryland, ran three times for five yards. Penn wide receiver Mason Page, a 6-foot-2, 190-pound player from Paola, Kansas, caught eight passes for 44 yards. Penn tight end Jack Donnelly, a 6-foot-2, 230-pound player from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, made three receptions for 28 yards. Simon Cofrancesco caught one pass for 16 yards for Penn. Luke Johnson, a 6-foot-3, 185-pound Penn wide receiver from Los Angeles, California, had one reception for four yards. Dante Barone added one catch for two yards for Penn.

Penn linebacker Zach Darche, a 6-foot-1, 220-pound player from Overland Park, Kansas, made 13 tackles. Cole Olsztyn, a 6-foot-1, 220-pound Penn linebacker from Rochester Hills, Michigan, had 11 tackles. Connor Martin recorded six tackles for Penn, while Brock Cornell, a 5-foot-10, 180-pound defensive back from McDonald, Pennsylvania, had six tackles. Ty Cortes, a 6-foot, 195-pound Penn defensive back from Poway, California, also made six tackles. Ethan Cohall, a 5-foot-10, 195-pound Penn defensive back from Westfield, New Jersey, recorded four tackles. Penn wide receiver Isaac Lee, a 6-foot, 175-pound player from Byron Center, Michigan, caught four passes for 39 yards. Devin Malloy, a 5-foot-11, 190-pound Penn defensive back from Fort Washington, Maryland, made three tackles. Luke McIlhon added two tackles for Penn. Jayden Drayton, a 5-foot-10, 170-pound Penn wide receiver from Brunswick, Georgia, returned three kickoffs for 33 yards, returned two punts for 19 yards and made two tackles. Cole Erickson, a 6-foot-4, 250-pound Penn defensive player from Lincoln, Nebraska, made two tackles. Duncan McPherson, a 6-foot-4, 285-pound Penn defensive player from Calgary, Canada, made two tackles.

Raashed Hall, a 6-foot-3, 240-pound Penn defensive player from Crofton, Maryland, recorded one tackle. Trevor Pajak had one tackle for Penn. Derek McCrum, a 6-foot-2, 205-pound Penn linebacker from Avon Lake, Ohio, made one tackle. Mack Long, Josh Narcisse, Liam Forster, Luca Lopez and Jack Sacchetti each had one tackle for Penn. Narcisse is a 6-foot, 190-pound defensive back from Peekskill, New York. Sacchetti is a 6-foot-4, 265-pound defensive player from Ball Ground, Georgia. Mason Walters did not record a statistic for Penn. Nate Kashey, a 6-foot-3, 190-pound Penn punter from Northfield, New Jersey, punted nine times for 302 yards.

For Lehigh, Aidan Williams made four tackles. Luke Yoder, a 5-foot-11, 195-pound running back from Palm Harbor, Florida, ran 19 times for 74 yards and caught one pass for three yards. Trey Tremba carried seven times for 32 yards. Aidan Mayfield, a 6-foot, 205-pound running back from Bensalem, Pennsylvania, ran 10 times for 30 yards. Aaron Crossley, a 5-foot-10, 205-pound running back from Exeter, Pennsylvania, ran twice for eight yards and caught one pass for 12 yards. Lehigh’s team statistics were not listed. Jamaire Harden, a 5-foot-10, 165-pound wide receiver from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, caught two passes for 25 yards, returned one punt for seven yards and scored a touchdown. Anthony Feaster, a 5-foot-11, 190-pound wide receiver from Pine Brook, New Jersey, caught one pass for 11 yards. Matt D’Avino, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound wide receiver from Montgomery, New Jersey, caught one pass for minus-2 yards.

William Parton, a 6-foot, 220-pound Lehigh linebacker from Alpharetta, Georgia, made eight tackles. Josh Lenart had seven tackles and one sack for Lehigh. DJ Brown, a 6-foot, 205-pound defensive back from Folsom, California, made five tackles. Nick Peltekian, a 6-foot, 195-pound defensive back from Mahwah, New Jersey, returned five punts for 44 yards and made four tackles. Cole Hughes made four tackles for Lehigh, and Ignatious Williams, a 5-foot-11, 175-pound defensive back from Laurel, Maryland, also had four tackles. Penn running back Tommy Lafayette, a 5-foot-11, 185-pound player from Suwanee, Georgia, ran 11 times for 41 yards and a touchdown. Luke Reilly made three tackles for Lehigh. Preston Davis had two tackles and one sack for Lehigh.

Lehigh has opened the season with wins against Holy Cross, Georgetown, William & Mary and Dartmouth. Penn began its season with a win at Bucknell. Lehigh will next host Fordham before road games at Cornell and Villanova. The Mountain Hawks also have home games against Bucknell and Colgate and road games at Richmond and Lafayette remaining. Penn will visit Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell and Princeton and will host Howard, Columbia, Yale and Harvard.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Penn 28, Lehigh 23. Interstat’s ELO system had projected Lehigh with a 68 percent probability to win. Penn had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -13.5. The total score of 27 went over the over/under line of 46.5.