PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania baseball team continues its season with a trip to Diamond Nation in Flemington, N.J. on Tuesday to face Lafayette with first pitch coming at 3:30 p.m.
 
The Quakers return to the Mid-Atlantic from their spring break trip with a 4-4 record after securing series wins over Duke and Winthrop.
 
GAME 9: PENN (4-4, 0-0) vs. LAFAYETTE (3-9, 0-0)
March 12, 2019 | Diamond Nation – Flemington, N.J. | Live Stats
 
PROJECTED STARTERS
Josh Sidney (0-0, 5.63 ERA, 8.0 IP, 2 K) vs. Frank Craska (0-1, 13.50 ERA, 5.1 IP, 5 K)
 
THE MATCHUP
This will mark the 126th meeting between Penn and Lafayette, with the first meeting between the Pennsylvania rivals dating back to 1882. The Leopards won the first meeting, 10-6, but the Quakers hold the edge with a 75-49-1 head-to-head record. The two teams last met on March 28, 2017. Penn won the midweek game, 9-8, just days after a four-game weekend sweep of the Leopards.
 
NEWS AND NOTES: PENN
*Craig Larsen was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week and Big 5 Player of the Week after posting a .421/.522/.737 slash line in a pair of midweek games against Duke and a three-game series with Winthrop. In those games, he went 8-19 from the plate with six RBI, six runs scored, three doubles, and a home run.
 
*Fellow freshman Josh Hood is coming off a career day in game three against Winthrop. Hood went 5-6 from the plate with three RBI and was a home run shy of the cycle. His five hits are the most by a Penn player in a single game this season, and the most by a freshman since Eduardo Malinowski tallied five hits against Harvard on April 8, 2018.
 
*Larsen and Malinowski each lead Penn with six RBI each. Both players have posted a three-RBI game this year, with Larsen's coming against Winthrop (March 10) and Malinowski's against UNC Greensboro (March 4).
 
*Sean Phelan and Peter Matt pace the Quakers with 13 hits each. Phelan leads Penn with a .500 slugging percentage and leads all batters with 20 or more at-bats with a .382 batting average. Matt ranks second with a .325 batting average.
 
*Matt and Tommy Courtney are both riding eight-game hitting streaks—having notched at least one hit in each of Penn's games this season.
 
*Courtney and Phelan lead the Quakers with four doubles each.
 
*Kevin Thomas and Andrew Hernandez made their first appearances of the season in game three against Winthrop. Both players tallied an RBI, Thomas on a line drive to left field and Hernandez knocking one in on a foul out to right.
 
*Three Quakers have gone yard this season. Matt O'Neill—who is Penn's active home run leader with 16—hit the Quakers' first of the season against UNCG, while Matt McGeagh and Larsen each hit a dinger against Winthrop in game one and game three, respectively.
 
PENN BY THE NUMBERS
0.00 • ERA for senior reliever Grant Guillory and sophomore Robby Cerulle through three appearances and 7.1 innings each. Guillory is one of five NCAA pitchers with three or more appearances who is yet to allow a run.
 
2 • Freshman pitchers with a win in the column this season: Kevin Eaise and Seth DeVries
 
4 • Doubles for Courtney and Phelan this season. They lead the team in the category and rank second among all Ivy League athletes.
 
5 • Players with three-hit games this season: Chris Adams, Hood, Larsen, O'Neill, Phelan.
 
5 • Players with a batting average of .300 or better after 15 or more plate appearances: Phelan (.382), Adams (.353), Matt (.325), Courtney (.324), and Larsen (.300).
 
6 • RBI for Larsen and Malinowski this season which ranks second among all Ivy League players.
 
8 • Game active hitting streak for Matt and Courtney.
 
13 • Hits for Phelan and Matt this season, the leading number in the category.
 
14 • Strikeouts for John Alan Kendrick this season—the leading number in the category.
 
26 • Extra-base hits for Penn through eight games, the most by any school in the Ivy League.
 
42 • RBI for the Quakers in 2019, the most combined mark among all Ivy League teams.