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Baseball - Craig Larsen
Don Felice
5
Monmouth MON 7-8
11
Winner Penn PENN 8-5
Monmouth MON
7-8
5
Final
11
Penn PENN
8-5
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Monmouth MON 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 4 0
Penn PENN 0 0 0 1 0 7 0 3 X 11 12 0

W: Mangene, Bryce (1-0) L: Fraher, Jake (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Takes Home Opener, 11-5, With Late Inning Surge

PHILADELHIA – The University of Pennsylvania baseball team rallied from an early five-run deficit with to take its 2022 home opener 11-5 over Monmouth University Wednesday afternoon from Meiklejohn Stadium.
 
Penn (8-5) took the lead with seven in the sixth inning, then tacked on more than enough insurance with three in the eighth.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
Monmouth (7-8) jumped out to a 5-0 lead entering the bottom of the fourth, but Wyatt Henseler got the Quaker bats going with a home run, his third in the last four games.
 
After a scoreless fifth for both sides, Penn put together its biggest offensive inning of the season in the sixth. Walks to Tommy Cortney, Henseler, and Cole Palis loaded the bases with one out. Craig Larsen followed with a single to left, cutting Monmouth's lead to 5-3. Palis later scored on a passed ball, cutting the margin to 5-4.
 
Seth Werchan followed with a game-tying triple off the top of the wall in center field, and on the very next pitch, Nate Polo gave Penn the lead with a line drive single back up the middle. After Polo swiped second base, Asa Wilson drove him in with a base hit. After a wild pitch, a walk to Cole McGonigal, and a Henseler single loaded the bases once again, Ben Miller reached on an infield single, scoring Wilson.
 
Following a 1-2-3 seventh for both sides and a quiet top of the eighth for Monmouth, Calvin Brown got things going in the bottom of the eighth with a one-out single. After a walk to Courtney, Henseler singled home Brown. After a wild pitch moved both Courtney and Henseler up 90 feet, Larsen drove them both home with a base hit to left.
 
In the ninth, Danny Heintz sandwiched a pair of strikeouts around a two-out walk to close out the win.
 
QUAKER NOTEMEAL
*The Quakers' 11 runs established a new season-high, one more than the 10 they scored in the first and second games of their series against Winthrop.
 
*Penn's comeback from five runs down set a new season-high, eclipsing the four-run comeback against Texas A&M back on February 27.
 
*For just the second time in the last 10 games, Penn's pitching staff struck out more than 10 batters. Noah Millikan, Sam Bennett, and Heintz all struck out two batters in their respective one inning outings, and Cole Zaffiro struck out the side in the third to close out his 1.1 innings of work.
 
*Penn's 5-8 hitters (Larsen, Werchan, Polo, Wilson) all had at least one hit, one run, and one RBI, finishing a combined 7-for-18 with four runs scored and seven RBI.
 
UP NEXT
Penn and Wagner open a three-game set from Meiklejohn this weekend. Due to inclement weather in the forecast on Saturday, the series will now begin on Friday, with first pitch slated for 2:00 p.m.
 
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