PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania baseball team opened the newly renovated Tommy Lasorda Field at Meiklejohn Stadium with a bang Wednesday afternoon, setting a season high in runs and matching its season high in hits during a 15-5, seven-inning win over Philly foe Villanova.

The Quakers lineup was top-to-bottom dominant, with all nine starters scoring at least once, eight of nine recording at least one hit, and eight of nine driving in at least one run.

QUAKER NOTEMEAL
* The 15 runs were the most in a game for the Quakers since a 27-4 win over Yale on April 29 of last year.

* As a team, Penn drew 13 walks, more than half its season total of 25 entering the game. Five players walked at least twice. Penn most recently drew 13 walks in a 27-6 win over Harvard on April 9 of last year.

* Jackson Appel finished 4-for-4 with four RBI and two runs scored. The senior also walked twice, reaching base six times.

* Ryan Taylor finished 3-for-3 with two doubles and a triple, the first Quaker this season with three extra-base hits in a game. Taylor, like Appel, also walked twice, reaching base five times.

* Ben Miller extended his hitting streak to seven games, finishing 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored.

* Tommy Delany turned in 1.2 innings of scoreless relief, picking up his first career win. Delany struck out five batters during his outing, including four in one inning.

* The 10-run win was Penn's largest over Villanova in 14 games, dating back to March 27, 2014.

HOW IT HAPPENED
Starting pitcher John Cerwinski worked through early trouble in the first inning, turning second and third with nobody out into a scoreless frame with a strikeout and two pop outs.
 

Villanova put a two-spot on the board in the second, but Penn came right back in the bottom half of the inning. After Calvin Brown walked and stole second and Asa Wilson was hit by a pitch, Taylor doubled to center field, scoring Brown. Seth Werchan followed with a game-tying RBI single.
 
 

The score remained 2-2 until the fifth, despite the teams combining to leave 12 runners on base through the first four innings.

Villanova put two more on the board in the fifth and added another un in the sixth, carrying a 5-2 lead into the bottom of the sixth, when the Penn offense kicked up several notches

Taylor tripled down the right field line to start the inning and came into score on a Werchan groundout. Appel followed with a double to center and came around to score on a Ben Miller single.
 

After a Wyatt Henseler single, and a Davis Baker walk, Brown walked, forcing home Miller with the tying run. After Villanova went to the bullpen, Jarrett Pokrovsky greeted the new pitcher with a tiebreaking two run single to right field. After a wild pitch moved Brown and Pokrovsky up 90 feet, Asa Wilson singled home Brown, putting Penn up 8-5.
 

Taylor followed with a double to right, scoring Pokrovsky, and Appel knocked in Wilson and Taylor with a single to right.
 

Baker's second walk of the inning, this time with the bases loaded, capped the 10-run frame, with 16 men coming to the plate.

Thanks to a two-strike wild pitch, Delany recorded four swinging strikeouts in the top of the seventh.
 

In the bottom of the seventh, Pokrovsky, Taylor, and Werchan all walked to load the bases. After Appel singled home Pokrovsky and Taylor, Werchan scampered home on a wild pitch, ending the game.

Up Next
Penn welcomes Massachusetts to University City for a three-game series starting Friday at 2:00 p.m.