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Hunter Martin
9
Dartmouth DART 10-11, 3-3 Ivy
10
Winner Penn PENN 16-8, 4-2 Ivy
Dartmouth DART
10-11, 3-3 Ivy
9
Final
10
Penn PENN
16-8, 4-2 Ivy
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Dartmouth DART 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 3 1 9 10 2
Penn PENN 0 0 3 0 0 4 1 2 X 10 10 4

W: Heintz, Danny (1-1) L: Metzger, Jack (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Takes Ivy Series Rubber Game From Dartmouth, 10-9

PHILADELPHIA – In the latest contest between teams with no shortage of classics over the last few years, the University of Pennsylvania baseball team came out on top against Dartmouth in a back-and-forth battle Sunday afternoon, taking the rubber game of the Ivy League weekend series, 10-9 from Meiklejohn Stadium.
 
Sunday marked the fifth one-run game in the last 10 meetings between the teams dating back to 2017. Two of the other games in those last 10 include a 4-4 tie in 2018 and a 21-15, 21-inning marathon win in 2019.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
Dartmouth (10-11, 3-3 Ivy) put three on the board in the second, including two with two out. In the Penn (16-8, 4-2 Ivy) third, with two on and two out, Ben Miller plated Cole Palis and Jackson Appel with a single to center and Craig Larsen missed a go-ahead two-run homer by inches, settling for a double that scored Miller.
 
With two on and no one out in the Dartmouth fourth, Seth Werchan made a remarkable run-saving diving catch on a fast-sinking line drive. Dartmouth pushed one run across later in the inning to retake the lead, then tacked on another in the sixth.
 
With two out and no one on in the bottom of the sixth, a dropped third strike allowed Tommy Courtney to reach first and extend the inning. After Appel singled and Wyatt Henseler was hit by a pitch, Miller launched a go-ahead grand slam to dead-center.
 

In the top of the seventh, Courtney took away a sure-fire extra-base hit with a remarkable leaping catch at the base of the wall in center.
 

After the Quakers added another in the seventh, Dartmouth rallied for three runs to tie the game in the top of the eighth on a pair of Penn errors, but the tie would not last long. Four pitches into the bottom of the eighth, Appel launched an opposite field homer, putting Penn back on top.
 

Larsen plated Henseler with a sacrifice fly later in the inning, an insurance run that proved critical in the ninth after a pinch-hit homer pulled Dartmouth back within one, but Danny Heintz recorded all three outs in the inning via swinging strikeout to close out the game for his first win of the season.
 
QUAKER NOTEMEAL
*Appel's homer gave him three dingers and three RBI for the weekend after coming into the series with two homers and seven RBI in his first 17 games of the year.
 
*Miller's six RBI day marked the most by a Quaker in a game since Daniel Halevy drove in seven against Princeton in April of 2017.
 
*Bryce Mangene lowered his season ERA to 4.22 with two innings of scoreless, hitless relief, retiring six of the seven batters he faced.
 
UP NEXT
Penn will host Delaware State at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday at Meiklejohn Stadium.
 
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