PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania baseball team showed their offensive prowess in a 13-6 Game 1 win and
Ryan Dromboski put on a pitching performance for the ages in a 4-1 Game 2 win as Penn swept a doubleheader from Brown on Saturday, completing the series sweep for its 10th win in 11 games.
The sweep, paired with Cornell's doubleheader sweep of Harvard, moved Penn into sole possession of first place in the Ivy League
QUAKER NOTEMEAL
*After going a career-best 7.2 innings with a Penn-record 15 strikeouts last Monday, Dromboski tossed Penn's first complete game in more than three years, allowing just one run on three hits while not yielding a walk while striking out 12. Christian Scafidi was the last Penn hurler to go the distance, back on March 6, 2020 against FIU.
* Dromboski allowed a two-out single in the first, then retired 23 in a row before conceding a one-out base hit in the ninth.
* Eight Quakers starters had a hit and seven scored a run in Game 1, as Penn pounded out 14 hits, four going for extra bases.
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Cole Zaffiro picked up the win in Game 1, allowing just two hits and two walks in six scoreless innings while striking out four.
* Penn's 1-5 hitters (
Cole Palis,
Jackson Appel,
Ben Miller,
Davis Baker,
Wyatt Henseler) finished a combined 14-for-41 with 13 runs and 16 RBI between the two games.
* Henseler and Palis extended their hitting streaks to 14 and 13 games, respectively, with Henseler tying
Ben Miller for longest streak by a Quaker at any point this season. Henseler also went deep twice, putting him in sole possession of second in the Ivies with 11 round-trippers.
HOW IT HAPPENED – Game 1
Baker provided Zaffiro with some early run support, driving in Appel and Miller, both of whom walked, with a double in the first inning.
Jarrett Pokrovsky followed Baker with an opposite field triple, making it 3-0.
Seth Werchan singled to open the second, the first of four straight hitters to reach in the inning. Taylor followed Werchan with a single and Palis plated both with another triple. Appel made it 6-0 with a base hit to center. With the bases loaded and two out in the third,
Ben Miller made it 8-0 with a two-run single to left.
After yielding a lone walk through the first three innings, Zaffiro faced a bases-loaded, no-out situation in the fourth, but sandwiched a pair of strikeouts around an infield lineout, keeping Brown off the board.
After
Ryan Taylor singled, stole second, and scored when Appel reached on an error in the fifth, Henseler slugged his first home run of the day, a laser over the left field wall.
Penn's 11-0 lead held until the eighth when Brown closed the gap to 11-6 against a pair of Penn relievers.
The Quakers got a pair back in the top of the ninth on a Henseler single and Baker sacrifice fly and
Brian Zeldin worked his way around a pair of walks to close out the game.
HOW IT HAPPENED – Game 2
Penn again put a crooked number on the board in the first. Palis led off with an opposite field double, with Appel and Henseler both reaching on walks to load the bases with no one out. Miller stepped in next and was hit by a pitch forcing home Palis. After a strikeout, Taylor reached on a walk, forcing home Appel.
Henseler made it 3-0 with a towering home run to left in the third and Palis made it 4-0 with an opposite field shot in the seventh.
After a one-out Brown single was wiped out by a double play to end the first, Drombo silenced the Bears bats over the next seven innings. The reigning Ivy League Pitcher of the Week struck out the side in both the fifth and the eighth (all swinging) while the Bears mustered just three balls out of the infield.
After notching his 12th strikeout of the day to open the ninth, Dromboski allowed just his second base-runner of the day with a single. One hit batter and one single later, Brown had broken up the shutout and brought the tying run to the plate, but the sophomore induced a pair of fly outs to end the game.
Up Next
Penn heads to the Garden State for a midweek meet-up with Monmouth on Wednesday at 3 PM.
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