PHILADELPHIA – For the second time this season, the University of Pennsylvania baseball team gears up for a midweek meeting with Villanova as the Quakers head out to Plymouth Meeting for a Wednesday 3:00 p.m. first pitch with the Wildcats.
 
Penn won 15-5 in seven innings back on March 15 in the team's first game at the newly renovated Tommy Lasorda Field at Meiklejohn Stadium.

Penn (16-11) vs. Villanova (6-24)
Wednesday, April 12 | 3 p.m. (WATCH ($) | Live Stats)

The Series: Villanova
Wednesday marks Penn's 107th time facing Villanova. The Philadelphia Big 5 rivals first met in 1905, with the Wildcats winning 3-2. Villanova holds the series advantage with a 62-44 record, with Penn's win on March 15 snapping a four-game Villanova winning streak dating back to 2019.

Previewing Penn
Penn went 3-1 last week including an Ivy League series win over Princeton, with several notable performers standing out. The most impressive performance came from Ryan Dromboski, who set a program single-game record with 15 strikeouts while allowing no earned runs in 7.2 innings in Sunday's series-clinching win over the Tigers. He was named Ivy League Pitcher of the Week on Monday. At the plate, Wyatt Henseler hit .500 during the week with two home runs and nine RBI, Ben Miller hit .471 with six RBI and five runs scored, and the duo of Cole Palis and Davis Baker each hit over .300 with a combined 11 runs and eight RBI. 

Scouting Villanova
The Wildcats have struggled this season, failing to win consecutive games thus far. They are coming into Wednesday on the heels of an 8-6, 10-inning win Saturday at Creighton, when they rallied from two late inning deficits. Nova went 29 innings without scoring a run between last Tuesday's game against Rider and Saturday's win over the Blue Jays.
 
The team is hitting just .221 with former Quaker Craig Larsen W'22 the only everyday player hitting over .250; he also leads the team with 22 RBI.
 
The staff enters Wednesday sporting a 7.72 ERA. Six pitchers have made at least 12 appearances this season and 10 non-weekend starters have made at least five, led by Zach Camp's 19 times on the bump, just ahead of Stephan Turzai's 17. All 10 hurlers with 5+ appearances are averaging fewer than two innings per appearance, and two are averaging less than one inning per outing.