PHILADELPHA – The University of Pennsylvania softball team earned its first series victory on Sunday with a 3-1 senior day win over Brown. Senior
Bella Fiorentino was perfect through the first six innings, retiring the first 18 batters in a row and scored the first of Penn's three runs. Penn used a two-RBI double and a sac fly to take the series finale.
Dana Anderson and
Alyssa Pope both had a multi-hit game with two hits each. Both of Pope's hits loaded the bases that followed with scoring plays.
Bella Fiorentino had a senior day to remember as she was perfect in the circle through the first six innings and finished allowing just one run on one hit with three strikeouts while at the plate herself, she drew two walks and scored the run of the game.
Prior to the game, Penn softball recognized its senior class for its contributions to the program over the past four years. Honored pregame were seniors
Bella Fiorentino,
Alyssa Pope,
Sarah Schneider, and tea manager Sarah Hayward.
FINAL: Penn 3, Brown 1
Bella Fiorentino shined in the circle for the Quakers as she sent down the first 18 Bears she faced on Sunday and came three outs short of the second perfect game in program history.
The infield was a wall for Fiorentino as 13 outs were ground outs.
Dana Anderson made a spectacular stop at first to easily step on the bag and end the top of the third.
After a scoreless first inning, the Quakers struck for two runs in the bottom of the second inning. After a walk to Fiorentino, Fenton and Pope loaded the bases with back-to-back base hits with no outs.
Madison Bauerle ripped a one-out two-RBI double down the third base line to score Fiorentino and Fenton to put the Quakers up 2-0.
Penn loaded the bases to open the bottom of the fourth inning on a walk, hit by pitch and a base hit.
Katie Reagan came on as a pinch hitter with no outs and the bases loaded, she hit a SAC fly to left that scored pinch runner
Dani Freer from third to give Penn a 3-0 lead.
Brown ended Fiorentino's bid at history in the top of the seventh with a lead off double to straight away center field. The runner would make her way home on a pair of ground outs, also ending Fiorentino's chance at a scoreless outing.
QUAKER NOTEMEAL
- Holding the opponent with no hits or base runners through six innings was a first for the Quakers this season.
- Dana Anderson closed out the week going 9-for-14 at the plate with four extra base hits, two doubles, a home run, three RBI, and a run scored.
- Alyssa Pope recorded two hits on senior day, both hits loaded the bases setting up both scoring plays for the home team.
- Sunday's victory marked the first Ivy League series victory for the Quakers this season and the first since Penn took two of three from Yale to end the 2022 season.
UP NEXT
The Red and Blue are at home for the final time in 2023 with a rescheduled game against Delaware State on Tuesday, April 25. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.
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