BEAUMONT, Texas – After 13 runs and 18 hits across the first two games against Lamar, the University of Pennsylvania baseball team was held to a single run on six hits Sunday in the series finale, falling by a score of 3-1.
QUAKER NOTEMEAL
* For the second straight Sunday, starting pitcher
Ryan Dromboski set career-highs with 4.2 innings pitched and seven strikeouts, all seven coming in the first three innings.
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Carson Ozmer threw two scoreless innings of relief, the fourth multi-inning scoreless appearance of his Penn career.
* Freshman
Ryan Taylor went 2-for-5 for the second straight game. He's hit safely in five of six games to start his Quaker career and leads the team with seven hits.
* After going 2-for-4 with a pair of extra-base hits on Saturday,
Calvin Brown went 1-for-4 on Sunday, maintaining team leads in batting average (.357), slugging percentage (.571) and OPS (.971).
HOW IT HAPPENED
Taylor doubled to right-center leading off the game, advancing to third on a groundout. After a two-out walk to
Ben Miller, Brown singled down the third-base line, scoring Taylor.
Dromboski was dominant in the early going, striking out the side in the first, adding two more in both the second and third innings; five of those seven strikeouts were swinging.
With two out and the bases empty in the bottom of the fifth, back-to-back singles and a walk loaded the bases for the Cardinals, who took advantage of a Penn throwing error to score a pair of unearned runs, grabbing a 2-1 lead. After Dromboski was pulled following a walk that re-loaded the bases,
Thomas Shurtleff escaped further trouble, including an inning-ending pop out.
In the Penn sixth, Miller singled with one out, advanced to second when
Cole McGonigal was hit by a pitch with two out, and both advanced when
Jarrett Pokrovsky followed McGonigal with a walk, knocking Lamar reliever Kole Tauzin out of the game. With the go-ahead run in scoring position, a groundout ended the threat for the Quakers.
Lamar added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth off a walk, a groundout, a wild pitch, and a sacrifice fly. Penn brought the tying run to the plate in the seventh and the ninth innings, but Lamar closed out the win as Penn was denied the series sweep.
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