PRINCETON, N.J. - The University of Pennsylvania baseball team picked up three wins in roughly seven hours on Sunday against Princeton, taking all three games of the final Ivy League series of the season.
 
Penn took Saturday's suspended first game 10-8, took the second 9-0 behind a masterful performance by Joe Miller, and took the finale 7-3. Penn wrapped the regular season without dropping a single conference series.
 
Penn's sweep, combined with Columbia losing two of three in its series with Dartmouth, gave Penn a share of the Ivy League title. By virtue of its series win over Columbia earlier this season, Penn will host the Ivy League Playoff Series.
 
How it Happened (Game 1)
Penn (31-13, 17-4) threw an early haymaker putting up five runs in the first on Saturday. After a leadoff walk and two errors put a run on the board without a hit, a four-pitch walk and an Andrew Hernandez three-run shot made it 4-0 Penn. Ben Miller followed Hernandez with a solo shot on the very next pitch.
 

Herny knew it??#QuakeShow pic.twitter.com/Dh5fRajgYG

— Penn Baseball (@PennBaseball) May 14, 2022

 

Lucky number 7 for Ben!#QuakeShow pic.twitter.com/QH8FIrWCSb

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The Quakers added on to the lead in the second. After Courtney reached on an error for the second time and Henesler was hit by a pitch, Hernandez lofted a sky-high double to right just inside the line and just beyond the diving effort of Princeton's right fielder, scoring Courtney.
 

An RBI double Andrew and he's driven in 4?? through 2 innings!

Quakers 6 - Tigers 0, Mid 2#QuakeShow pic.twitter.com/eNGSeFckjJ

— Penn Baseball (@PennBaseball) May 14, 2022

 
An otherwise quiet third for both sides was highlighted by a Superman-esque diving catch by Seth Werchan in left field.
 

Seth Werchan, take a bow??#QuakeShow pic.twitter.com/cAZEIDMmif

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Princeton (7-33, 3-18) got two runs back on a home run in the fourth. Penn responded with another run in the sixth and loaded the bases before play was suspended.
 
When play resumed Sunday, a sacrifice fly and a wild pitch put two more on the board for Penn two pitches into the game. Nate Polo followed with a single to left, scoring Henesler, who'd reached after being hit for the 17th time this season.
 
Princeton got a run back in the sixth and three back in the seventh, cutting Penn's lead to 10-7. The Tigers tacked on one more in the ninth, but David Shoemaker closed out his second save of the season for the win.
 
How it Happened (Game 2)
Neither side recorded a hit until the top of the third when Justin Carboni reached on an infield single. After Appel walked, Henseler singled in Carboni, and Hernandez followed Henseler with a double down the left field line, plating Appel.
 
Joe Miller cruised through the first four innings, allowing just one hit while striking out six.
 
In the fifth, Hernandez made it 3-0 with a pop fly double to center field, again scoring Appel. Princeton put together its first serious scoring threat in the fifth, putting two in scoring position with two out, but Miller escaped the threat with his seventh strikeout of the day. Cole Palis added to the lead in the Penn sixth with a double to left-center.
 
Appel launched the first pitch of the seventh over the left field fence, pushing Penn's lead to 5-0. Five straight Quakers followed with singles, resulting in four runs to break the game open: Henseler, Hernandez and Miller loaded the bases, Larsen drove in Henseler and Hernandez, and Nate Polo drove in Miller and Larsen.
 
Miller's brilliant day ended after eight innings and 14 strikeouts, both career-highs, while allowing just three hits. The 14 strikeouts marked the most by an Ivy League pitcher in any game this season.
 
How it Happened (Game 3)
A leadoff walk and an error put runners on second and third in the Penn first. After a fielder's choice RBI for Hernandez, a line drive single by Larsen made it 2-0.
 
Princeton got one of those runs back in its half of the first, but a Polo single, an Asa Wilson double and Werchan sacrifice fly put Penn back in front by two. Appel added to that lead with an RBI single in the fourth.
 
Princeton cut the deficit to one with a two-run homer in the bottom of the fourth.
 
Scoreless fifth and sixth innings followed; Princeton put the tying run on third with two out in the seventh, but Owen Coady got out of the jam with his fourth strikeout of the day in four innings of work.
 
In the Penn eighth, three walks, a Palis sacrifice fly and a two-run double off the bat of Polo gave Penn three critical insurance runs.
 
Sam Bennett worked a scoreless eighth and Danny Heintz closed out the win for Penn.
 
Quaker Notemeal
* Hernandez now has RBI extra-base hits in four of his last six games and five of his last eight.
 
* Penn's win in the first game was their 11th game this season with at least two home runs and 15th game scoring 10 or more runs.

* Henseler was hit by three more pitches during the day, bringing his season total to 18.
 
* Miller notched his third game with at least 10 strikeouts this season.
 
Up Next
Penn will host Columbia at Meiklejohn Stadium next weekend in the Ivy League Playoff Series starting Saturday.