PHILADELPHIA – On Easter Sunday,
Ryan Dromboski rose to the top of the University of Pennsylvania baseball record books, striking out a program single-game record 15 batters in a 5-2 victory over Princeton.
With the win, Penn took the Ivy League series and moved to 6-3 in conference play, taking sole possession of third, just one game back of Columbia and Harvard.
QUAKER NOTEMEAL
* Dromboski's 15 K's were tied for the second most by
any Division 1 pitcher this season, just two off the single-game season-high mark of 17.
* Dromboski moved into the team lead and took sole possession of second place among all Ancient Eight hurlers with 53 strikeouts.
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Wyatt Henseler finished 1-for-3 and
Cole Palis went 1-for-5 as the two extended their respective hitting streaks to 10 games and nine games, respectively. Henesler also scored twice and drove in a pair.
* The previous single-game strikeout mark was 14, most recently achieved by
Joe Miller back in May in the season's final regular season series against the Tigers.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Penn put together a two-out rally in the first inning thanks to some wild pitching from Princeton starter Matt Scannell.
After a groundout and a fly out,
Ben Miller singled and advanced to second on a wild pitch.
Davis Baker then singled him to third. Henseler followed with a walk to load the bases,
Ryan Taylor followed with another walk to force home Miller, and a third straight walk to
Jarrett Pokrovsky forced home Baker.
Seth Werchan tacked on to the lead after being hit by a pitch, putting Penn up 3-0.
Dromboski struck out one in the first, two in the second, and four in the third, giving him seven through three innings; Princeton took advantage of a dropped third strike to push two unearned runs across in third, cutting the Penn lead to one.
The sophomore right-hander remained dominant through the middle innings, striking out two more in both the fourth and fifth, then tied the previous single game record of 14 by striking out the side in the sixth.
Princeton lined out to right and grounded out twice in the seventh, delaying Dromboski's record moment, but only briefly, as he picked up #15 to open the eighth inning. One groundout later, Dromboski was pulled to a standing ovation from the Penn faithful, with the Columbus, N.J. native tipping his cap to the appreciative crowd.
Penn stranded 11 men on base between the second and seventh innings, including at least one in all six frames, but the Quakers finally pushed across some insurance runs in the eighth. After Baker drew a one-out walk, Henseler launched a 400+ foot moonshot to left, pushing Penn's lead back to three, 5-2.
With
Carson Ozmer on the mound, Baker made his second spectacular play in as many innings to open the ninth, helping Ozmer post a 1-2-3 inning to close out the game.
Up Next
The Quakers are back on the diamond Wednesday afternoon for a road game against Villanova, with a 3:00 p.m. scheduled first pitch.
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