PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania baseball team lost on the road to La Salle, 6-4, on Wednesday afternoon.

The Quakers (3-7) saw their two-game winning streak versus the Explorers (17-11) come to an end with the setback.

Most of the offense on the day came during the opening frame. Penn got things started in the top of the first with a pair of runs on two hits. With two outs and the bases loaded, Craig Larsen hit a ball to short and a throwing error resulted in Tommy Courtney and Andrew Hernandez coming around to score.

In the home half of the stanza, La Salle answered with four runs. The Explorers had four hits and worked four walks as they chased Quaker starter Sam Bennett after two-thirds of an inning.

In the third inning, La Salle added an insurance run to take a 5-2 advantage.

Penn would answer back quickly with two runs in the fourth courtesy of an RBI triple from Seth Werchan and a run-scoring single from Cole Palis.

The Explorers capped the scoring on the day with a run in the fifth.

In the top of the ninth, the Quakers threatened as Andrew Hernandez hit a two-out double to bring the tying run to the plate. La Salle reliever Colin Yablonski got out of it with a game-ending groundout.

NOTES
*Andrew Hernandez and Justin Carboni each had two hits apiece for Penn. Hernandez had his fifth multi-hit game of the spring, while Carboni had his first two-hit game of the spring (it was the second in his career).

*Owen Coady pitched four and a third innings of relief. He fanned four and scattered four hits.  

*Brendan Bean worked two and a third scoreless innings on the bump. In four appearances this year, he has tossed six innings without surrendering a run.  

*Seth DeVries pitched the final two-thirds of an inning for Penn. He retired two of the three batters he faced, including a strikeout.

*Seth Werchan hit his team-leading second triple of the year. He has three RBI over the last two games.

*Tommy Courtney had a hit for the seventh game in a row. He has recorded at least one hit in nine of Penn's 10 games this spring.