SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The University of Pennsylvania baseball team dropped the finale of its four-game series with Wofford College Sunday afternoon, 5-4.
 
QUAKER NOTEMEAL
*Both Cole Palis and Ben Miller hit their first home runs as Quakers, with Palis and Calvin Brown each recording their first multi-hit games in a Penn uniform.
 
*Owen Coady tossed four scoreless frames of relief, running his scoreless innings streak to 16.2, dating back to the 2021 season. Coady has gone at least three innings in four appearances during that streak.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
The teams traded one big inning after another early on, as eight runs were scored over the first 2.5 innings.
 
A Wyatt Henseler single and two-run shot from Miller put Penn on top 2-0 four batters into the game, but Wofford got those runs right back on a two-run double in the bottom of the first. Another two-run double put the Terriers up 4-2 in the bottom of the second, but this time it was Penn who was quick to respond.
 
Andrew Hernandez reached on an error to open the third, then, with two out, Palis launched a full-count pitch over the wall to tie the game at four.
 
The early offensive fireworks gave way to a duel between the bullpens, as neither team got a runner past second base from the bottom of the third until the eighth inning, when a single, a balk, a groundout, and a passed ball with a man on third allowed the go-ahead run to score for Wofford.
 
Freshman Cole McGonigal delivered a pinch-hit double with two out in the ninth inning for his first collegiate hit, but the Terriers' stranded him there to take three of four in the series.

UP NEXT
The Quakers will have a travel day tomorrow before opening a two-game set with the College of Charleston on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m.