PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania baseball team split a doubleheader with Harvard Sunday from Tommy Lasorda Field at Meiklejohn Stadium taking the first game 8-2 before dropping the rubber game of the Ivy League series, 7-3.

QUAKER NOTEMEAL
* Ryan Taylor finished the day 3-for-8 with all three hits going for extra bases, including his first two collegiate home runs.

* Ben Miller went 4-for-8 across both games with three-extra base hits, including a home run, and three RBI. Miller extended his hitting streak to 14 games, while recording multiple hits for the fifth straight game.

*Jackson Appel went 4-for-4 in Penn's 8-2 Game 1 win with three extra-base hits, including a home run, and three RBI.

*Cole Zaffiro struck out a career-high nine in Penn's 8-2 win, allowing just one run and five hits in six strong innings.

*Tommy Delany picked up his first career save with three innings of work, allowing an unearned run in three innings of work, striking out three while allowing just two base runners.

HOW IT HAPPENED – Game 1
After allowing a leadoff single, Zaffiro struck out the next two batters looking and got some help from the infield defense to end the inning.
 

Appel wasted no time putting Penn in front, hammering the first pitch he saw in the bottom of the first over the right field fence.
 

Following a 1-2-3 top of the second, a single by Wyatt Henseler and double by Taylor put two men in scoring position with no one out in the Penn second. Jarrett Pokrovky drove home Henseler with a sacrifice fly and, after a Seth Werchan walk loaded the bases, Appel drove in Taylor and Werchan with an opposite-field double.
 
 

Armed with a four-run lead, Zaffiro retired the side in order again in the third. The hard-throwing right hander ran into a little trouble in the fourth as Harvard pushed a run across and had two men in scoring position with one out, but back-to-back whiffs ended the Crimson threat.

With the score holding at 4-1 heading to the bottom of the sixth, Taylor made it 5-1 with a leadoff shot well beyond the wall in dead center.
 

Pokrovsky followed with a triple and a walk to Drew Rogers put runners on the corners with no one out. After a Seth Werchan sacrifice fly plated Pokrovsky, Rogers stole second, Appel walked, and Cole Palis was hit by a pitch, loading the bases. Next up stepped Miller, who made it 7-1 with an opposite field single.
 

Harvard got a run back off Delany in the seventh, but a Miller RBI triple in the eighth made it 8-2, and Delany shut down the Crimson bats, retiring the final five batters of the game.
 

HOW IT HAPPENED – Game 2
Harvard greeted Penn starter Ryan Dromboski with a solo home run two batters into the game, the first of three runs they'd put on the board in the first two innings.

Down 3-0 in the bottom of the second, Davis Baker led off with a single and stole second base. With one out, Taylor stepped in and launched his second homer of the day, cutting the deficit to 3-2.
 

Harvard added a run in the third inning and another in the sixth, while Penn left two men on in both the third and fourth innings, then grounded into double plays in both the fifth and sixth. The Quakers cut the margin to 5-3 in the bottom of the eighth on a home run by Miller.
 

The Crimson tacked on a pair of insurance runs in the top of the ninth and the Quakers went down in order to end the game and series.

Up Next
Penn opens the Liberty Bell Classic Tuesday afternoon on the road against Lafayette at 3:30 p.m.