PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania baseball team hosts Brown in an Ivy League matchup this weekend, looking to remain among the conference front-runners.

The Quakers have won all four of their Ivy League series thus far this season, taking took two of three from both Columbia and Dartmouth, sweeping a rain-shortened two-game set at Harvard, and sweeping a three-game series against Cornell last weekend.
 
Penn (23-9, 9-2) vs. Brown (8-19, 3-9)
Game 1 | Saturday, April 23 | 11:30 a.m. | WATCH | STATS
Game 2 | Saturday, April 23 | 3 p.m. | WATCH | STATS
Game 3 | Sunday, April 24 | 12 p.m. | WATCH | STATS

PROJECTED STARTERS
Game 1: Kevin Eaise (4-1, 3.74 ERA) vs. Bobby Olsen (0-2, 5.16 ERA)
Game 2: Joe Miller (5-2, 3.91 ERA) vs. Tobey McDonough (2-3, 3.38 ERA)
Game 3: TBD vs. TBD

The Series: Brown
Game one of the series will be the 161st meeting between Penn and Brown. The Quakers lead the all-time series against the Bears 80-75-5 record dating back to 1885, including a 9-5 mark under head coach John Yurkow.

NEWS AND NOTES: PENN
* Through four Ivy series, Penn leads the conference in on-base percentage (.442) and walks (73), and rank second in batting average (.338), home runs (21), extra-base hits (51), runs (121), and slugging percentage (.564).

* Individually, seven Quakers are hitting .340 or better in conference play, including Jackson Appel and Ben Miller, hitting .440 and .405, respectively, both with OPS' over 1.200.

* Appel is on a 14-game hitting streak, the longest by a Quaker this season, and has hit safely in 20 of his last 21 games overall.

* On the mound, Penn is first or second in ERA (4.13), strikeouts (121), hits allowed (86), and opponents' batting average (.233).

* David Shoemaker has been dominant out of the bullpen this season, allowing just a lone earned run in 13.2 innings, tossing 7.2 consecutive scoreless frames entering this weekend's series.
 
PENN BY THE NUMBERS
1 • Appel is the only Ivy League batter with an on-base percentage over .500 and a slugging percentage over .800 in conference play.

4 • Kevin Eaise is the only Ivy League pitcher to win all four of his conference starts this season.

5 • Penn has five of the top 10 players in RBI in conference play (Appel, T-1st; Miller T-1st; Tommy Courtney, T-8th; Appel T-8th; Craig Larsen T-8th)

105 • The Quakers' .338 batting average in conference games is 105 points higher than their opponents (.233).

Scouting Brown
The Bears have yet to win an Ivy series this season and currently sit in a tie for sixth in the conference standings.

Brown is currently last in the Ivies in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, and runs scored, with just two everyday players -- Ryan Marra and Derian Morphew – hitting over .300 in conference play.

On the mound, Zach Fogell is fourth in conference play with a 2.57 ERA and his .241 opponent batting average ranks fifth.