PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania baseball team enters the second week of Ivy League play as the Quakers welcome Brown to Meiklejohn Stadium this weekend for a three-game series. The series will start with a twinbill on Saturday with game one starting at 11:30 a.m. and will conclude on Sunday with the series finale starting at noon.
 
GAMES 19-21: PENN (11-7, 1-2 Ivy) vs. BROWN (4-15, 1-2 Ivy)
March 30-31 | Meiklejohn Stadium | Live Stats: Game 1, Game 2, Game 3 | Watch: Game 1, Game 2, Game 3
 
PROJECTED STARTERS
Game One: Christian Scafidi (2-1, 6.26 ERA, 23.0 IP, 19 K) vs. Garett Delano (1-3, 6.43 ERA, 28.0 IP, 16 K)
Game Two: Mitchell Holcomb (3-0, 5.01 ERA, 23.1 IP, 17 K) vs. Collin Garner (0-3, 5.60 ERA, 27.1 IP, 11 K)
Game Three: John Alan Kendrick (0-1, 4.50 ERA, 20.0 IP, 21 K) vs. Ryan Kuntz (0-1, 7.88 ERA, 16.0 IP, 10 K)
 
THE MATCHUP
Game one of the series will be the 158th meeting between Penn and Brown. The Quakers hold the series advantage with a 78-74-5 record against the Bears dating back to 1885. Brown has struggled so far this season, holding a 4-15 record, but are level with Penn after a 1-2 start to Ivy League play.
 
NEWS AND NOTES: PENN
*Penn ranks third in the nation in team batting average, with the Red and Blue batting .327 on the season. The Quakers tie Mississippi State for fourth in scoring (9.4 runs per game), and additionally rank fourth in slugging percentage (.513), second in on-base percentage (.435), and first in doubles per game (3.11).
 
*Craig Larsen ranks eighth in the nation in RBI per game (1.53). He leads the Quakers and the Ivy League with 26 this season. The freshman is on an 11-game hitting streak entering the series with Brown.
 
*Freshman Josh Hood was awarded with the D1 Baseball Golden Spikes Performance of the Week award after going 4-for-5 with two home runs, two doubles, and five RBI in game two against Harvard.
 
*Hood and Larsen lead the Quakers and the Ivy League with 10 doubles each this season. Larsen ranks fourth nationally with 0.59 doubles per game, while Hood ranks eighth with 0.56 per game.
 
*Sean Phelan has reached base in all 18 of Penn's games this season. He leads the Quakers with a .495 on-base percentage, and leads in hits (30), batting average (.400), and total bases (51).
 
*Seven of Penn's starting nine have a batting average greater than .300 through 17 games. Phelan leads the group (.400) followed by Larsen (.389), Hood (.360), Eduardo Malinowski (.325), Matt O'Neill (.323), Peter Matt (.317), and Jackson Petersen (.303).
 
*Through 18 games, eight Penn players have 20 or more hits. Phelan (30) leads the group, while Larsen (28), Hood (27), Matt (26), Malinowski (25), Matt McGeagh (22) O'Neill (21), and Tommy Courtney (21) follow.
 
*The Quakers have hit 56 doubles this season and rank first in the nation in doubles per game (3.11). Eleven Penn players have doubled this year, while six have five or more: Hood (10), Larsen (10), Phelan (9), Courtney (5), Malinowski (5), and O'Neill (5).
 
PENN BY THE NUMBERS
3 • Freshman pitchers with a win this season: Seth DeVries, Kevin Eaise, and Joe Miller.
 
3.11 • Doubles per game for Penn, the highest average in the nation.
 
4.46 • Team ERA for the Quakers, lowest in the Ivy League.
 
5 • Triples by Malinowski this season, tied for most in the nation. He is one of three players to triple five times this season.
 
5 • Players with four RBI in a single game this season: Hood, Larsen, Matt, McGeagh, and Phelan.
 
8 • Seems to be the magic number for Penn this season. The Quakers are 9-1 in games where they've scored eight or more runs.
 
9 • Players with three or more hits in a game this season: Chris Adams, Courtney, Hood, Larsen, Malinowski, Matt, McGeagh, O'Neill, Phelan.
 
10 • Doubles each for Hood and Larsen this season, the highest individual mark in the Ivy League.
 
26 • Strikeouts for Joe Miller this season, the leading number for Penn in the category.
 
23 • Runs scored by Matt this season, most by any Ivy Leaguer.
 
26 • RBI for Larsen this season, most in the Ivy League.
 
30 • Hits for Phelan this season, the team's leading number in the category.
 
82 • Extra-base hits for Penn through eight games, the most by any school in the Ivy League.
 
145 • Games played by Phelan, 16 shy of the most in program history.
 
147 • RBI for the Quakers in 2019, the most combined mark among all Ivy League teams and 25 more than the next-best (Yale, 122).
 
224 • Hits for the Quakers this season, most in the Ivy League.
 
.327 • Team batting average for Penn, third among all NCAA DI programs.