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13
Winner Pennsylvania PENN 14-6, 2-1 IVY
7
Columbia COL 7-12, 1-2 IVY
Winner
Pennsylvania PENN
14-6, 2-1 IVY
13
Final
7
Columbia COL
7-12, 1-2 IVY
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Pennsylvania PENN 3 4 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 13 18 0
Columbia COL 0 0 2 0 0 0 5 0 0 7 8 6

W: Coady, Owen (3-0) L: Black,Billy (0-4)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Takes Rubber Game From Columbia, 13-7, Behind 19-Hit Effort

PHILADELPHIA – Tommy Courtney launched a pair of home runs from the leadoff spot and Jackson Appel also went deep as the University of Pennsylvania baseball team recorded a season-high 19 hits in a 13-7 win over Columbia University, taking the rubber game of the teams' Ivy League-opening series Sunday afternoon in New York.   
 
Penn (14-6, 2-1) scored in each of the first five innings, opening a 9-0 lead after 2.5 innings and a 12-2 lead after six.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
Ben Miller put Penn up 2-0 early with a single to left field. Seth Werchan later plated Miller with a sacrifice fly.


 
Cole Zaffiro set down Columbia (7-12, 1-2) in order in the first, thanks in part to a strike-him-out, throw-him-out double play.


 
Courtney added to the lead in the second with a two-run shot to right field. Jackson Appel followed with a single, then came all the way around to score after a wild pitch and throwing error. Four batters later, Craig Larsen made it 7-0 with a double to left.




 
With two out and nobody on in the third, Courtney and Appel went back-to-back on consecutive pitches, putting the Quakers up 9-0.
 
The Lions put two on the board in the bottom of the third, but Seth Werchan got those runs right back in the fourth with an opposite field double, then drove in another with a single in the fifth.
 




Columbia halved the lead with five in the seventh, but drew no closer as Penn tacked on another run in the eighth and Owen Coady stranded three runners on base across the final two innings to close out the win.
 
QUAKER NOTEMEAL
*Penn set season-highs with 19 hits and eight extra-base hits; the Quakers have recorded 10 or more hits in five straight games and 10 times in the last 12 games after reaching the mark just two times in their first eight games.
 
*Courtney finished the day 3-for-6, wrapping the weekend 8-for-17 with four runs and six RBI, raising his season average to .341.
 
*Larsen also finished the day 3-for-6, wrapping the weekend 8-for-16 with four runs and three RBI, raising his season average over .300 for the first time since the season opener.
 
UP NEXT
Penn opens the Liberty Bell Classic on Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. against Lafayette.
 
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