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Andy Mead
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Penn PENN 1-1
5
Winner Texas A&M TAMU 5-1
Penn PENN
1-1
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Final
5
Texas A&M TAMU
5-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Penn PENN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Texas A&M TAMU 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 X 5 8 0

W: DALLAS (2-0) L: Miller, Joe (0-1)

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Winner Penn PENN 2-1
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Texas A&M TAMU 5-2
Winner
Penn PENN
2-1
8
Final
5
Texas A&M TAMU
5-2
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Penn PENN 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 5 8 12 2
Texas A&M TAMU 0 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 5 6 0

W: Bean, Brendan (1-0) L: MENEFEE (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Five-Run Ninth Earns Baseball Doubleheader Split, Series Win at Texas A&M

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – After a quiet 5-0 game one loss, the University of Pennsylvania baseball team exploded for five runs in the top of the ninth inning of the second game of Sunday's doubleheader against Texas A&M for an 8-5 win after trailing 5-1 entering the seventh. With the win, Penn earned the series win to open their 2022 season.
 
QUAKER NOTEMEAL
*Penn's 2-1 start to the season marks the first such occurrence since the 2009 season.
 
*Penn had not won a game in which it trailed entering the 9th inning since an 8-7, 11-inning win over Dartmouth on April 1, 2018.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED: GAME 1
Tommy Courtney led off with a single to left field on the first pitch of the game, but would be stranded at first. In fact, a third inning walk to Seth Werchan was the only other baserunner the Aggies' Micah Dallas allowed in eight shutout innings.
 
The Aggies scored three in the bottom of the first, then added two more in the bottom of the fourth. With two runners in scoring position and nobody out in that inning, they were inches away from possibly adding on two more, but a highlight-reel catch by shortstop Craig Larsen kept both runners off the board.
 
After Dallas exited, Joseph Menefee came in for the ninth and closed out the win for the Aggies.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED: GAME 2
A two-out fielding error in the bottom of the second allowed the Aggies on the board first in the nightcap. With the score still 1-0 in the top of the fourth, Wyatt Henseler hit a fly ball down the right field line that was initially ruled foul, but overturned to a home run after a long replay review.
 
With two out and the bases loaded full of Aggies in the bottom of the fourth, Danny Heintz came on in relief of starter Brian Zeldin and induced an inning-ending fly out to Werchan to escape the threat unscathed.
 
Andrew Hernandez doubled to right-center with one out in the fifth, but the Quakers were unable to push him across with the go-ahead run.
 
In the A&M fifth, the Aggies drew five walks and drove in three of those runners via a sacrifice fly and two-run single. A&M tacked on another run in the bottom of the sixth to take a 5-1 lead.
 
Henseler led off the top of the seventh with a double to left-center, his third hit of the game. Ben Miller stepped up next and drove in Henseler with a single up the middle, pulling the Quakers within three.
 
Werchan started the eighth with a single to right. After Tommy Courtney moved him to second with a sacrifice bunt and Jackson Appel waked, Craig Larsen hit a ground ball to third base, but Werchan hustled to third, beating the attempted force out to load the bases with one out.
 
Next up stepped Henesler, who drew a four-pitch walk to force in a run, cutting the deficit to 5-3. A&M escaped further trouble with back-to-back strikeouts. A&M also left two runners in scoring position in the bottom half of the frame, as Brendan Bean induced a two-out groundout to Cole Palis, setting the stage for the culmination of Penn's comeback.
 
Nine men came to the plate in the ninth inning for Penn. Hernandez led off with a single, advanced to second on a wild pitch, and scored on Werchan's one-out single.
 
Courtney and Appel followed with back-to-back singles, loading the bases with one out.
 
After Alex Magers came in for Menefee, Larsen greeted him with a bases-clearing double into the right field corner, shooting Penn out in front, 7-5.
 
Next up stepped Henseler, who provided another insurance run with his second double of the game and fourth extra-base hit of the weekend.
 
Armed with the three-run lead, Bean went back out and struck out two in a scoreless ninth as the Quakers closed out the series win.

UP NEXT
The Quakers open a four-game series with Wofford at 6 p.m. next Friday, March 4, kicking off a nine-game, 10-day trip through South Carolina.
 
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