PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania softball team (11-9, 3-3 Ivy) wraps up its home-stand at Penn Park on Wednesday with a midweek single against Rider (1-20). What was originally a doubleheader got moved to a single game. The Quakers have won four of their last five games and will look to keep the momentum going as they head on the road to play Dartmouth this weekend.
Previewing Penn
Penn is coming off of an exciting weekend at Penn Park. The Quakers came back after losing the opening game to Harvard on Saturday, to sweep the doubleheader on Sunday and steal the series.
In the first game of the doubleheader on Sunday, the Quakers bats exploded for 12 runs on 15 hits and then it was freshman
Julia Longo who threw her first career complete game in the circle, edging out a, 3-2, victory to take the series.
With her efforts in the circle, Longo was awarded the Ivy League's Pitcher and Co-Rookie of the Week. She is the third Quaker this season to be honored by the conference, joining
Tabitha Dyer and
Emma Nedley.
In the Harvard series, sophomore
Lucy Yang tallied a career-high five RBI. Her two and three-run doubles in the first and second inning helped jump the Quakers to a 6-0 lead in their, 12-2, win.
Penn vs. Rider – Wednesday, 3 p.m. (DH)
Series Information
All-Time series: Penn leads, 13-9
The Quakers have taken the last six games of the series against Rider. The last meeting came in 2017. Penn took the first game of that doubleheader, 6-0, before
Molly Oretsky hit a home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to walk-off in game two. The Broncos are 1-20 this season with their lone win coming against UC-Davis. Eight of their losses have ended before the seventh inning.
