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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - Senior LHP Mike Reitcheck threw his first-career complete game shutout in a 8-0 series-clinching win over Fairfield Sunday. Reitcheck scattered just four hits over nine innings, while striking out seven, as a five-run second inning gave him all the run support he would need to get his first win of the season.

Fairfield 0, Penn 8
WP: Mike Reitcheck (1-0)
LP: Kyle Dube (0-1)

BY THE NUMBERS
*2 - The Quakers' five-run second inning sets a season-high, benefitting from four two-out RBIs.
*3 - Chris Adams' ninth inning solo home run marks the third in three games for Penn.
*5 - The lineup produced five two-out RBIs in the game, including four in the five-run second.
*8 - Top three batters in the order - Adams, Tim Graul and Sean Phelan - collected eight hits and combined for a .615 average (8-13) in the win.
*13 - Phelan's three-hit game pushes him to the team lead with 13 hits. Phelan also had two doubles Sunday to push his total to a team-high four.
*14 - Reitcheck retired 14 straight Stag hitters from the final out of the third inning until a one-out double in the eighth ended the streak. The senior finished his outing by retiring 18 of 20 from the start of the fourth inning.
*16.2 - Total shutout innings from Reitcheck in two starts at First Data Field in Port St. Lucie, Fla. this week. In those two starts, he's allowed just ten hits and one walk while striking out 12.

HOW IT HAPPENED
After stranding a runner on base in the opening inning Sunday, the Quakers wasted no time getting on the board in the bottom of the second, scoring five runs on five hits to break the game open early. Shortstop Matt Tola led off with a ground-rule double to left, then beat the throw to third on a sacrifice bunt attempt by Matt O'Neill. Matt McGeagh brought in Tola with a sacrifice fly to right to give the Quakers the lead, and Holden Morris doubled to left-center to set up another scoring opportunity.

The Stags (3-7) cut down O'Neill at the plate on a fielder's choice to put themselves in position to get out of the inning, but Chris Adams, Tim Graul and Sean Phelan produced three-straight two-out hits to extend the lead to five. Adams and Graul produced run-scoring singles while Phelan's double down the left field line brought in two to cap off a season-high five run inning. Graul (RBI Single) and Phelan (Sacrifice Fly) also drove in a run each in the fourth inning to give Penn a 6-0 lead.

Although Mike Reitcheck got all the run support he would need in the second inning, the senior was dominant for all nine innings in his second start of the season. After allowing three hits in the first three innings, Reitcheck retired 14 in a row from the last out of third inning through one out in the eighth, including a stretch of four-straight perfect innings. The senior only got stronger as the game went on, picking up five of his seven strikeouts in the final three innings. Through three appearances this season (two starts), Reitcheck has yet to allow a run in 18.1 innings pitched.

Graul and Phelan finished with a team-leading three hits apiece, and Adams hit his first career home run in the ninth inning - a solo shot to left - for the eighth run of the game.

WHAT'S NEXT
Penn (2-7) returns home from Florida and is scheduled to begin its home slate at Meiklejohn Stadium Wednesday against Big 5 rival Villanova before taking on Marist in doubleheaders both Saturday and Sunday. With threatening weather in the forecast for the week ahead, be sure to check www.pennathletics.com for possible schedule updates and changes.